Individual Assignment: Two Different Types of Business Transactions
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Individual Assignment: Two Different Types of Business Transactions
A business transaction is a commercial activity involving an exchange of either goods or services for money or commodities between a business and its customers. Consequently, depending on the nature of the transaction, two or more people may be involved. Therefore, understanding various types of operations, including service and product, allows ventures to create a sustainable basis for making future decisions.
Considering the type of the service transaction, it entails the exchange of services for money. For instance, the tourism industry in the United
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For example, Apex Mills is renowned for quality textiles; it attributes to the Application Driven Model, which involves employing a team of professionals to innovate solutions to different customer needs ("Apex Mills," 2018). Specifically, the production team assesses particular needs and crafts custom fabrics to suit those requirements. Furthermore, the custom-made technology is used to mass-produce fabrics, which have varying prices depending on the production cost incurred. Hence, the manufacture of goods is a combination of technologies, skilled personnel, high-quality raw materials, a developed production blueprint, and the analyzed target …show more content…
In fact, both necessitate the understanding of the input requirements and the target market, and each transaction type emphasizes customer satisfaction. However, service provision, especially in the tourism industry, underlines on intangible goods; the customer pays for gratification, such as bird watching, visiting favorite places, and skydiving. Moreover, tourism focuses on the daily events including conference setting, travel planning, registering tourists, and computing travel expenses; hence, it is labor-intensive. Conversely, manufacturing is a capital-intensive venture; capital is necessary for hiring skilled personnel, purchasing production machinery and raw materials, and conducting marketing studies. Furthermore, the commodities produced from textile and fabric are tangible and can be customized to suit customer needs. As a result of the differences and resemblances, measures designed using the logic model show to what extent transactions may differ. Also, it helps as a guiding principle or framework for the activities that are requisite for business success. In essence, the interests of the clientele are major driving forces for both
Velocity, the business novel by Dee Jacob, Suzan Bergland and Jeff Cox offers the reader many key theories and technics to which they can apply to their manufacturing facilities in real life. The authors pairs these real life manufacturing techniques with a fictional setting in order to convey their ideologies to the reader. The book provides the backgrounds for each of the characters and business involved and then slows to the technical practices of the manufacturing ideologies in the latter chapters. Paradigm shifts play a major role as new ideas are presented throughout the book.
M2 In this assignment I will be analysing the marketing opportunities and challenges faced by Tesco when using Internet marketing. Individualised communication/Building Relationship Tesco use direct marketing for example emails to build and maintain a good relationships with their existing customers or new customers. The emails are to update their customers on new products or services that Tesco are offering. They, offer deals and promotions to existing customers to increase repeat purchases.
I. Strengths of TARGET Corporation Target Corporation is one of the largest and oldest public discount retailing company operate in the United States. The company founded in 1902’s by George Dayton (as also known as Dayton Dry Goods in 1962’s). Target store has a huge store footprint and enjoys considerable brand recognition. Target’s portfolio of owned and exclusive brands is also its strength, which allow retailer to a valuable differentiating lover in high competitive retail environment.
“CHECKOUTS” ESSAY There are numerous ways that the story “Checkouts” By Cynthia Rylant, title refers to the storyline. The story “Checkouts” is about a girl and a guy that fancy each other when they meet at a grocery store checkout.. Some of the ways “Checkouts” title refers to the storyline is how during the short story, the characters checkout each other, how the girl checkouts of the world and just gets to relax in the grocery store and how she checks out of her old town. The author hints that the title of “Checkouts” refers to these reasons when she describes someone coming on and off of a bus. The quote states, “Some months later the bag boy and the girl with the orange bow again crossed paths, standing in line with their dates at a movie theater, and, glancing toward the other, each smiled slightly, then looked away, as strangers on public buses often do, when one is moving off the bus and the other is going on“ (Rylant 28).
Evaluating validity to examine the effectiveness in and throughout the process. This process involves the factuality of information, project design, data applications, data, model and the results from an event or occurrence. Accountability will include checks and balance, performance evaluations, assessment and customer satisfaction. Measurement tools will then be considered in the light of the industry’s exclusive realities and considerations. Over time, accountability impact and cost must be evaluated.
They offers only five star and four star room and the company is able to charge its customers at premium level. Place The goods and services provided by the hotel made available to the customers at a place where they can conveniently make purchase. It refers to the channel or the route through which goods and services move from the source to the final user. Place could be the intermediaries, distributors, wholesalers and
This was the medium constant development of high quality apparel, with attributes of customers’ feedback, to refine the clothing standard. 4.1.2 Product
Artificial intelligence is widely applied in different fields, such as medicine, engineering and design. Fashion industry is one of the industries that artificial intelligence applications are used in production processes. There are four operation processes of the fashion industry: fashion design, manufacturing, retailing, and supply chain management. The fashion industry, or called apparel industry, is the industry engaged in manufacturing garments and accessories and it is one of the most significant economic sectors in the world. Design, manufacturing and retailing are the three compulsory processes for a fashion item from designers and sold to customers.
In order to explicitly analysis the clothing industry, emphasis must be laid on Textile
People define a service that refers to the people who can directly contact with the customer such as staff. One of the crucial part in selling a product is the staff and its service before buying a product. The employees in coca cola’s company have a standard uniform. The company specially focuses on friendly and prompt service to its customers from their employees. Process
Coordinate with customer relationship management to identify customer articulated needs 2. Select materials and suppliers in conjunction with procurement 3. Develop production technology in manufacturing flow to manufacture and integrate in to the best supply chain flow for the product/market combination G. Manufacturing Flow Management The manufacturing process produces and supplies products to the distribution channels based on past forecasts. The production process has to be flexible to respond to market changes and Mass Customization must absorb.
On the other hand the fact that Zara produces the remaining 40% internally, is a strong asset, providing better control, and short lead-times. Finally the fact that Zara owns 450 workshops were garments are to be sewed is a major asset ensuring quality. Another important asset in terms of production, is the technologies involved, for instance the cutting machines, to minimize waste (Ferdows & co. 2014 p9), used in combination with the last-final hand-made sewing. The ease of the connection between the production center and the distribution center is also an important time-saver element, and therefore
To be sucessful in this industry we need a lot of and loyal customers. The loyal customers will keep coming back to the same place if they satisfied through the place they have visited. Customer loyalty give the most important impact towards hospitality and tourism industry. “Hospitality refers
Tourism can be considered one of the most significant economic and social phenomena of the twentieth and twenty-first century. The evolving of the tourist’s behavior has triggered a series of changes in the way of operating the tourism businesses. From traditional travel agencies, hotels and airlines up to the online tour operators. All tour operators have had to adapt to the changes of the individual as a traveler and this has led to continuous development of strategies by the agents.