As Tesco is a huge company, employs thousands of people worldwide and makes billions of pounds a year, it is very important that the financial sector is ran well and correctly. Within Tesco the financial sector takes care of the company accounts, wages, stock evaluation, VAT returns etc.
Definition
Sales and Marketing deals with advertising of products, packaging and the selling of products. There are many different ways of getting a product to sell. The marketing side of the organisation would be displaying their product in many of different ways, such as on television, posters etc. There is a management process involved in the identifying, anticipating and satisfying consumer requirements, within the marketing department.
Tesco have many different ways of selling products, such as good advertisement and this would include things such as packaging and possibly promotional offers. Promotional offers are a big way for companies to sell their products through big chain supermarkets such as Tesco. The Tesco own brand goods would not get made/produced by Tesco, but by someone like Heinz would make Tesco’s banked beans for example. Tesco would produce a batch of labels they want on the product and send them to the Heinz factory to be put on the beans. Tesco have a dispatch section within the sale and marketing area. The dispatch department would include Tesco sending labels for example to Heinz.
- Administration Department
Definition
The administration departments main aim is to try to improve the efficiently of businesses. It also deals with admin which is not part of a functional department. Different types of communication, such as internal and external communication, are involved within the administration department.
The administration department within Tesco deals with the communication with other departments, so they can relay information between sectors. The external communication is the communication that takes place between the organisation and the outside world. Tesco has a help line that the general public can call if they need information about anything. Tesco have a couple of big call centres solely built for the purpose of taking the publics enquire. Most Tesco stores also have a couple of phone lines for the general public to call, but the staff receiving the call might direct you to the head office (main call centre), so they can deal with your enquirer. Other external communication includes E-mail, the Tesco web site and faxing. The internal communication deals with relaying information between staff, and any communication that takes place within Tesco. A tannoy is used in all Tesco stores so they staff can inform their customers and the staff about special offers or if they need more staff on the till information etc. Other forms of internal communication include the staff notice board, walkie-talkies and e-mails can be classed as internal as well as external communication. Tesco have a linked internal communication system, which is an internal network, a system for e-commerce and links with other businesses.
Definition
The production department involves lots of different areas that you might expect to find in the research and development department, but it is different. The personal department includes design, test, make, and investigation.
Tesco’s production department would design their products, like the Tesco own branded labels. Tesco’s production department would only make a few of the labels and then test them to see if they are what they are looking for. Then Tesco would carry out an investigation and they see how they can make the product better and weather or not they need to improve the quality. If Tesco does not like the product, they might send it to the research and development to get it redesigned, so both of these departments link together.
Definition
The main function of the research and development department is trying to develop the company as a whole. This includes researching into new products and redesigning existing products.
Tesco uses the research and development department to develop their company by investing into new products and redesigning products. This will help the growth and expansion of Tesco.