Gourmet Manufacturing Plant Manager Interview Essay Example

Gourmet Manufacturing Plant Manager Interview Essay Example Gourmet Manufacturing Plant Manager Interview Essay Gourmet Manufacturing Plant Manager Interview Essay THE UNIVERSITY OF FAISALABAD INDUSTRIAL TOUR TO GOURMET BEVERAGES MANUFACTURING PLANT. Plant Project Manager: Mr. Nassir Mahmoud. Faculty Members: Sir Waseem, Sir Shehzad. Student: Mohammad Nasir (0322-6679733) Mr. Nassir told the students the beverage plant covers about 30acres of total area. It is a prototype program and once the prototype is created it can be copied anywhere. The plant completion is still in progress and is expected to be completed within one year. All the workers are working hard and quick. Meanwhile, Mr. Nassir and his team make sure the work is done according to plan. The equipment’s that are used in the plant are manufactured by ‘Crones’ company, having the production capacity of water 25000/hour and juice 15000/ hour. Later he answered the questions of the students, which are as follows: WHY DID GOURMET LAUNCH ITSELF IN FAISALABAD AFTER THEIR SUCCESS IN LAHORE? Mr. Nassir Mahmoud answered that it was like a test to check what the response is if gourmet is brought out of Lahore and launched in another city. For this Faisalabad was decided because of the ease of access for all type of support for example motorway access, material can be brought within 2 hours of time and the other good reason is the culture of food taste of Lahore and Faisalabad is quiet similar. Currently 100% of products are manufactured here in Faisalabad. WHY DID GOURMET CHOOSE FAISALABAD FOR THEIR PLANT? It would give huge benefits to gourmet in the future like when the Multan motorway will be constructed it will benefit gourmet in reducing its expense if they plan to launch in gourmet there too. : One reason to choose fsd is that in future benefits are here, because of the ease in access to motorway. ARE THE GOURMET DRINKS DISTRIBUTED IN OTHER CITIES OF PAKISTAN? The gourmet Drinks are distributed allover Pakistan except not in Baluchistan etc. In Punjab almost all main cities are covered. Distribution is mostly given to the one who has more market exposure. FUTURE PRODUCTS OF GOURMET? Upcoming product of gourmet is juice. Moreover the glass bottles for gourmet cola would be introduced within 2 months. Juices would be in PET bottle, PET bottle is chosen as it has minimum chances of bacteria to be born in it and Cola will be in glass water, when the consumer returns the bottle back, gourmet will be able to save up to 17/18rs per bottle. GOURMET FUTURE PLANS FOR BRANCHES IN FAISALABAD? Production is a huge hassle reasonable branches would be there in any city gourmet shifts to. Gourmet would shift to longer shelf life. In Lahore it has 104 branches but the branches wouldnt be as many as in Lahore, currently Gourmet has 9 branches in Faisalabad and 10 or 12 more branches would be launched. So the total number of branches would probably be 20 or might exceed 20. IS THERE ANY NEED OF HOME DELIVERY SERVICE OF GOURMET PRODUCTS IN FAISALABAD? Gourmet doesn’t Emphasis on it. Branches are near to you, they bring branches to your home. Gourmet produces too many products, probably 1700, they are factory produced are kept in the branch, home delivery service suits more on restaurants or fast good places like pizza, kfc etc. , HOW DO YOU SEE DAUSAY AS A COMPETITOR OF GOURMET IN LAHORE? Competition is always positive for consumer owner. For consumer in a sense that theyll have better quality in future. Dausay would have affected the sales of gourmet in Lahore. It increases the competition and now gourmet will focus to make improve its products and reduce price and make even better presentation. Gourmet rates are still better. We make quality products, and it’s 100% sure says Mr. Nassir. One should have trust in Allah, even if 100 companies come for competition in the market, rizk is written, we will have it anyway. NIRALA HAS ORDERING ONLINE DELIVERY, WHY NOT GOURMET? Nirala has less branches, we have many, the branches are at your home, delivery is not really required, for that packaging must be different, and many other things, a new industry would have to be developed in order to make such a packaging that could be taken out of country. WHY DOESNT GOURMET ADVERTISE AS MUCH AS PEPSI COKE? Gourmet doesnt want to spend on advertisement. Gourmet cola is the reason why Pepsi brought its price down; Gourmet still sells its cola in bare minimum margin this doesnt allow them to spend on advertisement. They leave the advertise expense to the consumer and don’t waste it on advertisement i. e. spending on the dancers and the other models for the advertisement. Gourmet has direct link to the customer, Pepsi coke doesnt have the link direct to its consumers, there is a number on every gourmet bottle any customer can call and contact gourmet. WHY COKE IS SOLD ON GOURMET? Gourmet is the biggest seller of coca cola. They have a preferential trade agreement with coca cola, reason why gourmet didn’t choose Pepsi is because they believe coca cola has better quality and Pepsi is produced in Pak. TURNOVER IS TOO MUCH? Basic salesmen have such turnover anywhere in the world. Basic salesman is not a profession, any person who doesnt get a good job works as a basic salesman. Any of them who get a better job somewhere else he quickly shifts. This is not a long-term profession. Gourmet is highlighted this much because they have a huge setup, this is happening everywhere but they aren’t highlighted as they have small setup. Mr. Nassir believes the retention has been reduced after the introducing the software. DOUSAY HAS GOURMET EMPLOYEEs, WHY? Fact is that half of them come back to gourmet. Dousay has 100% our ex-employees. Because they need experienced trained employees. INCENTIVES FOR MOTIVATION OF EMPLOYEES: Work has no link to cash. Work is linked to commitment. Gourmet gives 3 time food to its employees other than his salary. They are sure that each and every rack is safe right now; it is because if racks inventory is reduced the amount is deducted from his pay if he keeps it safe hes given 50rs as reward, this concept is introduced by Mr. Nassir it has reduced the theft in the branches. Moreover when employee puts right inventory, hes given a share of profit, i. e. 100rs/day. HOW DO THE OWNERS STAY IN TOUCH WITH ALL KIND OF NECESSARY INFORMATION? Gourmet has their own software designers, within few months the ERP software would be developed. This is for the ease of the owners they can access the data anywhere. In Faisalabad, every gourmet branch is linked to the main. Data flows all the time to the head office. All reporting regarding expense, purchases, salaries, sales etc. re reported live. This live reporting is done only is Faisalabad because in Lahore the owners themselves sit and run. THE GOOD ADVICE TO STUDENTS: Keep money on your back not in front of you, if you do this money will come behind you, if you keep it in front of yourself you will never catch it, if you keep it behind you, it will come running behind you. Mr. Nassir gives an open challenge to anyone, offer any managerial employees to leave gourmet and shift to some other bakery, the employee won’t!