Management and Operations - Assignment Example

For this reason, Platz business center will engage in proper logistics and supply chain management that will ensure that our products and services remain competitive in the market. Logistics management involves the process of making a product or a service valuable to the customers and suppliers. For this purpose, time and place utility are very important. Logistics management within the supply chain must therefore be a process adding value to the product or service (Larson Pg 18). We will therefore ensure that all our products are available in the market at all times.

We also intend to engage in E-commerce. We shall establish a 24/7 business website that will engage in selling our products and service online. This will be assisted by the strong internet advertisement strategies that are already in place. The emergence of e-commerce has allowed logistic management to place many firms strategically in order to exploit the potential chances available within the internet. However, despite the simplicity that logistic management provides to e-commerce, there is still a fact that Platz Nail salon and Spa goods and services must be transported from place to another.

Our products are both necessity and luxurious and fulfilling customers’ needs and demands are our major motive (Blanchard Pg 43). Logistics management is the process involving the flow of goods, information, and other resources such as people, energy from the point where a product or a service is raw material to the final or end user with the aim of the end user paying the least cost possible. Logistics management has a functional role of improving the cost of a product and a service. Our consumers will be willing to spend more for products and services with higher quality and value.

For this reason, the process of logistic management plays a big role in adding value to our products and goods. This may be in the form of processing and manufacturing of the product or the service. It is argued out that logistics costs come second after the cost of goods or services. Our business will employ a minimum of 50 employees. Amongst the important positions are human resource manager, sales and marketing manager, head of technical services, and other related employees. Staff and employees must be licenced as professionals who can safely work in Nail salon and Spa.

The staff must renew their licences every year to ensure professionalism is maintained. However, regular training and evaluations will be provided in order to keep the staff updated with the latest skills. Payment will be according to qualifications and as per the recommendations by the government and labour laws. Our salon will have external advisors who will be paid depending on their work. A contract will be provided to Price Water Coopers Company who will be responsible for auditing the firm performance and providing both legal and accounting advice.

In addition to this, the business will hire a team of business lawyers who will be providing legal advice and representing the business in business related legal issues. In addition to this, Allianz Australia insurance company will insure Platz Nail Salon and Spa employees under life insurance policy cover. This is mandatory for every employee that works at the centre and must have a pension scheme as required by the government. Workers compensation is mandatory from the salon. The insurance company