Answer to Question #213269 in Management for abiy

Question

Pick a company with which you are familiar

Introduction - Give a brief overview of the company including its product or services,

location, history.

2. Product - Describe the product or product mix or service in more detail.

a. What created the opportunity for your product or service?

b. Do you make or buy your product or service? (yes, services can be purchased -

think temporaries, independent truck drivers, etc.) Explain.

c. What issues are involved in the design of your product or service? Environmental

issues, robust design, value analysis, modular, manufacturability, etc.

d. Where is the product or service in its life cycle?

3. Process - If your process is very complex, give an overview.

a. Is your process product focus, repetitive, process focus or something else. Explain.

b. Discuss any environmental issues involved in your process

c. Discuss any issues that pertain to capacity. What determines capacity for your

process? How do you deal with uneven?

Answer 1

1. Coca-Cola Company is an American company founded in 1892. It engaged primarily in the manufacture and sale of syrup and concentrate for Coca-Cola, a sweetened carbonated beverage that is a cultural institution in the United States and a global symbol of American tastes. The company also produces and sells other soft drinks and citrus beverages.
2. Products

• Coke
• Sprite.
• Fanta.
• Schweppes.
• Appletiser.
• Fresca.
• Barq's

a. What created the opportunity for your product or service

A significant part of Coca-Cola's success is its emphasis on brand over product. Coke doesn't sell a drink in a bottle, it sells “happiness” in a bottle. ... Instead, Coke aims to sell consumers the experience and lifestyle associated with its brand.

b. Yes, Coca-Cola company manufactures its products.

The production flow of Coca-Cola involves passing sub-assemblies/parts from one stage of production to another in a regular flow. Each stage adds to the products, this is typical among bottling plants.

c. What issues are involved in the design of your product or service? Environmental

• Competition from Pepsi
• The cocaine challenge- being a drug it became a problem using it and was replaced with caffeine 
• Sugar challenge- due to people who are diabetic, it leads to the introduction of non-sugar coke.

d. Where is the product or service in its life cycle?

Coke is at the Maturity stage

3. Process - If your process is very complex, give an overview.

These include water, carbon dioxide (with which the water is carbonated), sugar, corn (which is utilized for high fructose corn syrup), and phosphate rock (used for phosphoric acid).

a. Is your process product focus, repetitive, process focus, or something else. Explain.

Is product-focused. The Coca-Cola process is product-focused because it ensures that there is a drink for everyone.

b. Discuss any environmental issues involved in your process

• cleaning up marine debris,
• improving access to recycling in public places,
• and developing innovative solutions to recycling plastic waste.

c. Discuss any issues that pertain to capacity. What determines the capacity for your

process? How do you deal with unevenness?

Under normal circumstances, the Coca-cola company does not have an issue with capacity. Millions of bottles of drinks are produced in a day in order to be delivered all over the world. Capacity is determined by no shortages in the distribution of the drinks.