MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS
INTRODUCTION:
The organisation I chose for this assignment is called J Sainsbury plc. J Sainsbury plc is one of the world's leading retailers, playing a part in the lives of 15 million customers a week. John James and Mary established Sainsbury Supermarkets in 1869. Sainsbury's Supermarkets employs over 138,000 people. Of these 70 per cent are part time and 30 per cent are full time. 58 percent of colleagues are women. A large Sainsbury's Supermarket offers over 23,000 products - 40% of these are Sainsbury's own brand. Sainsbury's serve nearly 10 million customers at 432 stores throughout the UK each week. Of these stores, 17 are in Scotland, nine in Wales and seven in Northern Ireland. Nearly 60 percent of
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Sainsbury's loyalty clubs and magazines are another way they offer customers information, advice and special offers on items they know customers care about. During the year Sainsbury's added the Drinks Club to their successful 0-5s Club and Pet Club. Their bright new branding and Making Life Taste Better strapline has given a fresh and consistent look to all their communications.
PUTTING A SMILE ON COLLEAGUES' FACES
Sainsbury's continued their programme of change aimed at releasing the talents of their colleagues, helping them to focus on the customer, and restoring their pride in working for Sainsbury's. It's clear to them that new and exciting working environments add to this pride. This will grow as they increase the pace of their programme of developing and extending stores. It is also why they're keen to tell everybody about their acknowledged successes, such as organics and ready meals, their record in protecting the environment and supporting farmers, and new initiatives, such as their innovations in e-commerce.
SAINSBURY'S BANK
Sainsbury's rapidly expending product portfolio, Internet site and increasing in-store presence, are all part of their commitment to provide a comprehensive range of easy-to-use financial service. To complement their Bank Information Points in supermarkets and free phone lines, they are testing 12
In the following report we will be going over our analysis and findings during the process of our study of Sainsbury’s internal and external environment.
Sainsbury’s also attends universities career fairs to promote the business and attract young and professional students to serve the company. It offers wide range of graduate schemes to students major Finance, Information Technology, Retail and other fields. It also provides decent
S: The social factor that affects Lidl is the change in people’s lifestyles over the past few years. The change in customer’s lifestyle has come in they way that people are living a lot healthier over the last number of years; they are doing this by watching diets and looking after themselves. This will affect Lidl as it can increase sales in areas such as fruit and vegetables and all fresh products. This will also give Asda the opportunity to come up with an innovative idea to target customers to come in and shop at Lidl.’’ ‘’http://www.deloitte.com/view/en_BE/be/industries/consumer-‘business/9438452413144310VgnVCM3000001c56f00aRCRD.htm’’
Sainsbury’s have a long term goal to deliver their products and keep their customers happy. One of their objectives is to make life easier for their customers by offering products with good quality and service with a fair price. This also makes the customers happy and makes them want to shop
The aims at Tesco PLC is to be a leading retail supermarket and that excellent quality services are provided whilst products such as food and clothes are of a low cost. By also having cheaper prices than competitors such as ASDA. The objectives in doing this is to increase profits by increasing sales to the maximum. This is done by providing a better service of care so that the current customers stay and attracting more customers from the competitors such as ASDA. Therefore, profit will increase due to the cause of an increase in sales. This objective is measurable due to being Tesco PLC can keep track of the volume of sales. Another objective is to minimise the prices of products of food and clothes. Tesco PLC aim for householders to have a cheaper trip by Tesco PLC offering more deals so then customers can take advantage of, so their shopping will be cheaper. Furthermore, this aim can be achieved. An extra objective is to sell more healthier food related products so that more customers will be attracted of whom are interested in a healthier lifestyle. Also, the objective of developing an online site so this will attract more customers and increase in profit due to people who may not have the time to physically go to Tesco PLC will be to shop some way. As online shopping is more convenient for some customers. Final objective for this
Such as, one of Sainsbury’s aims is to deliver excellent quality shopping experience their consumers at a reasonable price. Sainsbury’s organisations structure aids them to accomplish by ensuring workers are trained by the human resource department and manage by the right personnel to deliver a high quality working
Customers- Customers want the company to improve and give them better value for every product they buy. They want the company to produce high quality products for them. Customers are one of the main stakeholders of private sectors such as Sainsbury’s because without them Sainsbury’s wouldn’t achieve their aim.
This report will demonstrate, apply and evaluate knowledge and understanding of key managerial disciplines of the chosen high street retailer, Marks and Spencer, in different real-world global contexts. According to the report by Deloitte, the retail industry is undergoing immense changes and faces a tough competitive
J Sainsbury plc (Sainsbury) is a retail chain based in the UK. Sainsbury is engaged in grocery retailing through its supermarkets and convenience stores principally in the UK. The company operates its business through three divisions, namely, Retailing, Financial Services and Property Investment. Sainsbury serves its customers through a chain of 537 supermarkets and 335 convenience stores under the brand Sainsburys, and financial services via Sainsburys Bank. Sainsbury offers around 30,000 food and non-food products and services. The company is headquartered in London, the UK J Sainsbury plc Key Recent Developments Mar 11, 2010: Sainsbury launches first bakery college in the UK Mar 08, 2010: Sainsbury to add
The UK supermarket industry is a very competitive and profitable industry. It is made up of four main players with significant share of the market, and then various smaller companies who focus on smaller niches in the market such as the bottom of the market discounters and the top of the line speciality stores. It is an interesting market and this report evaluates the attractiveness of the industry using Porter’s five forces model with an insight into how market nicher Waitrose sustains a competitive advantage. Next this report looks at how major player Sainsbury’s successfully competes against its rivals using differentiation strategies, and analyses current consumer trends and problems can effect this industry.
In this report I will be comparing methods used by two different retailers on how they distribute two chosen products, of my choice, in two different retailing sectors. Seeing as the food and clothing sector both have very different styles of how they meet their product requirements, I will compare Tesco and JD; The products from these two companies itself that I’m going to compare is ‘Tesco Value Bread’ and Nike hoodies.
In this report the business I have chosen to evaluate is Tesco’s. Tesco’s is one of the largest supermarket stores around the world; it has 330,000 staff working in 3,146 stores, there are stores located in China, Turkey and Japan. Research shows that they have stores in 9 other different countries and 27 million people outside of the UK own their own club card to receive offers and discounts from Tesco’s. They sell a range of different products to suit customer’s needs. The products range from food and groceries, their own clothing brand F&F, their own mobile phone network, and also have personal banking. Tesco’s are all
Within this report, diligent focus will be shown to the financial year of 2010 and the final year of
This report will show how Sainsburys have used performance management to increase their ability to provide a quality service and gain a competitive advantage, it will also show how systems have been implemented to achieve this and what Sainsburys have changed in recent years to achieve the competitive advantage it was looking for, The main area Sainsburys have changed is there Supply chain which had a cost gap of around £60 million. It will also look at how the operations functions carried out by Sainsburys can be linked in with other areas of the business like Finance, Human Resource Management and Marketing. The main contents of this report will
This report provides a view on operations of SAINSBURY’S , the third largest supermarket chain across United Kingdom. SAINSBURY’S , in spite of being the longest standing retail chain has been facing stiff competition from rivals like TESCO , MORRISONS. The competitors seemed to have developed at a faster pace since SAINSBURY’S has been through a difficult time in recent years and TESCO is now twice the size in terms of turnover.