HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE THAT ASDA USE4.HOW DOES ASDA OPERATE5.ASDA AND THERE SALES

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CONTENTS

.INTRODUCTION

2.GANT CHART

3.PROJECT DIARY

3.WHAT ASDA IS

4.HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE THAT ASDA USE

4.HOW DOES ASDA OPERATE

5.ASDA AND THERE SALES

6. FINANCE

7.PURCHASING

8.TOPOLOGIES

9.HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE

INTRODUCTION

This project will be looking at how a business functions. Business is split into four main categories they are operations, finance, sales and purchasing. I will be discussing each of these categories. I will be also going to further detail. I will also be discussing the different computers they use. , I will also make a gant chart and a project diary which will show what things I have completed on what date there will also be some evidence which I will do by using print screen. The company that I will be focusing on is asda

Project diary

9th may 11th may

In the first lesson of this project after I completed my

I completed the front-page gant chart, contents

And introduction I

Started to research on

Thomas Telford.

13th may

Then I started to some research on the company I chose.

6th may

This is when I started writing about what type of computers and other hardware asda uses.

18th may

I studied how asda

Operates.

9th may

I was unable to do my coursework on computer due to year11 exams.

20th may

I carried on writing about how asda operates

23rd May

I carried on writing about how asda operates.

25TH MAY

In this lesson I used my research do write it down in my findings part of the report.

26th may

I wrote about asdas finance and about there credit control

27th May

In this lesson I wrote about asdas marketing strategies.

6th- 13th June

In this lesson I wrote about how asda purchase their goods.

5th June

I started researching writing about topologies.

ASDA

ASDA is a chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom offering food clothing and general merchandise products. It is currently the second largest chain in the UK, after Tesco. ASDA is also very good at employing people ASDA mainly employs 50,000 people a year. They also have to look at their sales, finance, purchasing and organisations. I am going to Asda special products, these are:

* Food

* Clothes

* Cakes

Findings

Operations

Every organisation has a main reason for existing. This is called the organisation's core business.

The Operations section of an organisation is the section that carries out the core business.

Organisation Title and Logo

Core Business

Operations Section

ASDA Supermarket

Local Supermarket

Marketing Department

The core business for ASDA is Local Super Market as its Operations Section is marketing department.

Sales

Many organisations need to sell the goods and/or services they provide.

The Sales section of an organisation is the section that involves processing sales transactions.

Organisation Title and Logo

Sales Section(s)

ASDA Supermarket

Goods sold here to customers. Example toys, drinks, magazines and etc.

Sometimes sales are processed with an 'immediate' transaction by using Credit Card, Cash or Electronic Fund Transfer.

Sometimes sales are agreed and then payment follows the issue of an invoice.

Sometimes sales are agreed via a loan agreement or contract over a fixed period of time.

Finance

Keeping track of the flow of money in and out of an organisation is nearly always vital.

The Finance section of an Organisation is involved In managing the flow of money.

Organisation Title and Logo

Finance Section (similar in all organisations)

ASDA

Sufficient profit must be made to satisfy shareholders. Product/Service prices must be set and human costs (salaries) agreed to fall within a budget to reach projected profits.

It is the job of the Finance Section to:

* Ensure that all financial transactions are properly recorded so that details can be checked externally by auditors

* Produce reports of cash flow for managers

* Manage the payroll (payment of staff)

Any outstanding debts must also be 'chased' and resolved.

The largest costs for most organisations are their human costs (salaries).

Purchasing

Many organisations need to buy goods or services so that they can operate effectively.

The Purchasing section of an organisation is involved in processing purchasing transactions.

Organisation Title and Logo

Purchasing Section(s)

ASDA

Goods must be purchased to market them.

TYPE OF COMPUTERS THAT ASDA USE

Because ASDA is a big chain super market they use many computers such as MAIN FRAME and LAN (LOCAL AREA NETWORK).

Main Frame: Used by large companies these will take up a whole room and may not need people in the room.

Main Frame is very useful to ASDA because they use the main frame to make sure everything is going on fine such as looking after the super market the way they use the main frame is because ASDA is a big super market so that's why they have to make sure that there products don't get stolen.

LAN (Local area net work): A number of computers connected to a server, which holds all the software. Usually in one building room. LAN'S are very useful to ASDA because the tills they use are connected to a computer so it is easier to use all of them because of the LAN; the LAN connects to server to control all the computers. In 19998 asda shipped computers to all there 219 stores to sell to customers.

HOW ASDA OPERATES

On 8 April 1999, the Director General of Fair Trading (DGFT) referred to this Commission for investigation and report under the monopoly provisions of the Fair Trading Act 1973 (FTA) the supply in Great Britain of groceries from multiple stores, that is, supermarkets with 600 sq metres or more of grocery sales area, where the space devoted to the retail sale of food and non-alcoholic drinks exceeds 300 sq metres and which are controlled by a person who controls ten or more such stores. We use the term 'reference stores' to mean stores, which meet these conditions. In our terms of reference 'groceries' includes food and drink, cleaning products, toiletries and household goods. We were asked to report within a period of one year. Subsequently the scope of the inquiry was extended to the UK and the inquiry period was extended until 31 July 2000. Our terms of reference are set out in Appendix 1.1.

The origins of the reference lay, first, in a public perception that the price of groceries in the UK tended to be higher than in other comparable EC countries and the USA; secondly, in an apparent disparity between farm-gate and retail prices, which was seen as evidence by some that grocery multiples were profiting from the crisis in the farming industry; and thirdly, continuing concern that large out-of-town supermarkets were contributing to the decay of the high street in many towns. The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) conducted an initial investigation in 1998/99 which identified several further areas of concern including barriers to entry limiting competition, the level of supermarket operators' profitability, the price of land impacting adversely on the costs of stores, concerns about the intensity of price competition between the supermarket operators and about the relationship between the supermarket operators and their suppliers. The breadth of these concerns was reflected in over 200 submissions that we received in the early stages of our inquiry.

Identified 24 multiple grocery retailers who supplied groceries from reference stores; they are: Aldi Stores Ltd (Aldi); Anglia Regional Co-operative Society Ltd; ASDA Group Ltd (Asda); Budgens Stores Ltd (Budgens); Colchester and East Essex Co-operative Society Ltd; CRS Ltd; CWS Ltd (CWS); E H Booth & Co Ltd (Booth); Iceland Frozen Foods plc (Iceland); Lidl UK GmbH (Lidl); Marks & Spencer plc (M&S); Midlands Co-operative Society Ltd; Netto Foodstores Ltd (Netto); Oxford, Swindon and Gloucester Co-operative Society Ltd; Plymouth and South Devon Co-operative Society Ltd; Safeway plc (Safeway); Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd and Savacentre Ltd (Sainsbury); Scottish Midland Co-operative Society Ltd; Somerfield plc (Somerfield); Tesco plc (Tesco); United Norwest Co-operatives; Waitrose Ltd (Waitrose); Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc (Morrison); and Yorkshire Co-operatives Ltd. We refer to these companies as the 'main parties'.

During our inquiry we looked at certain pricing practices, and at a range of practices in relation to suppliers, which were brought to our attention (see paragraphs 1.5 to 1.12). In addition, we examined a substantial number of other relevant features of the industry, summarized in subparagraphs (a) to (h) below. Our conclusions on all these matters are detailed in Chapter 2. Factual support is to be found in Chapters 3 to 15 and their accompanying appendices. In summary:
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Examined price trends in the industry, and found an overall decline (of 9.4 per cent) in the real price of food from 1989 to 1998.

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