Wright, Inc. is a popular Food Truck operation in the Southwest. Their cuisine is best represented by award-winning hamburgers, and hot-dogs, in the Phoenix market. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr. Chris Wright also provides consulting (for a small fee) to entrepreneurs who are interested in starting a Food Truck operation of their own. Recently, Wright, Inc. has started consulting for partners in both Europe and China, where American favorites are in high demand. They are considering purchasing a warehouse to store condiments, buns, etc. However, the plans have not yet been finalized. Imagine that you have just finished attending a week-long business retreat about Operations Management. The conferences you enjoyed focused on:
-the need for location decision -strategic importance of location -objectives of location decision -supply chain considerations -Facilicating factors in global locations -The benefits of global locations (markets cost savings legal and regulatroy, financial, other) -Disadvantages (tranportation, security, unskilled labor, import restrivtions, criticisms) -Risks (political,terrorism, economic, legal, ethical, cultural, quality) -General procedure for making location decisions -identifying a country /region -Quality management -service quality -product quality -determinants of quality -costs of quality -quality certifications -quality and the supply chain -TQM -obstacles to TQM
Your employer’s CEO invites you into their office and asks you to share your primary takeaways from the seminar that would help the business become more successful. Create an essay of at least 500, but not more than 750 words, responding to the CEO’s inquiry. Be sure to reference specific applications, to Wright, Inc., as you write
