A) In preparation for the selling event. My role was in operations I was in charge of stock development and product development; I was also in charge of balancing production, and demand while maintaining flexibility to cope with surges. I was also in charge of purchasing raw materials, maintaining equipment and stock levels.
I also had to research various products and prices to see what we would sell. I then had to show the rest of the company what I had researched. We as a company decided what products and the prices we would sell them for.
Operations is a very important part of the business as if there were no products being purchased or no research for the products the company would not be as successful, and perhaps would not even exist.
There were 3 members of operations, myself, Hayaat and Amina we were all given various tasks, and duties which we had to complete. I had to research how much Christmas ornaments and various mixed packets of sweets were. In order for our company to benefit we had to minimise the expenditure and so I had to find the products for the cheapest prices. After I had spent a few hours comparing prices I came to a conclusion and purchased 5 Christmas ornaments for £5, each priced at £1, and brought 5 variety packets of sweet's for £5, each bag contained 1kg of sweets and was priced at £1
B) I feel our company was fairly weak, we all had very different views and ideas for the company which often led to confrontation between different members of the groups some more then others. I feel most of the members of our company made an obvious attempt to make the business a success
There were various job roles and they each ...