Sunday, February 23, 2014

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MC DONALD JIT SYSTEM STRATEGY

Mc Donalds is one of the most popular fast food chains with a worldwide presence . It can be found in 119 countries and has about 31000 restaurants. It employs about 1.5 million people and is one of the largest fast food provider . It’s main line of business is the hamburger and others menu such as french fries soft drink and ice creams are the overhead menu. For this all of variety of product, Mc Donald must have an efficient and effective of suply chain management and a good manage on inventory to keeps the source and material are organize well. Mc Donald have implement the JIT system for the company in a worldwide . The just in time applied helped in reducing down on inventory levels and wastages.

 

Before this, Mc Donald’s strategy was to pre cook all the burger and place them under the lamps to keeps them hot . For example, we can saw this all the time before the fully implementation of JIT occur. Nowadays, the strategy wa totally to Just in Time approach. This method had been hired to quickly prepare all the menu and the employeers must had a good training. The strategy called “Made for You” . This approach to ensure to the first complete kitchen changeover, smooter, faster, amd more flexible kicthen system .

 

There are lots of advantages for the implementation of “Made for You” system . Firstly, improving the quality of the outputs which is the product. For example, the traditional approach just make keeps the burger under the lamps but the “Made for You” approach  make the burger condition are prepared freshly . This would increased the satisfaction of their customer with the good quality of product . The approach also make the product been in quality improvement compaired as before the implemantation of the “Made for You” method which is the meals arrive hotter, fresher and better every time to customer .


Another advantages of the new approach is increased the customer service relationship . Mc Donald company want to ensure the customer satisfaction is on a good level and miximize it to the higher level wheter as we know the Mc Donalds company had been a good fast food service provider and its have its own brand loyalty on the customer mind . The method has upgrade the product (meals) for the Mc Donald so more of the customer would choose Mc Donald for the fast food while rejected the other fast food provider. Cost Reduction occur which is reducing the wastages as uncooked materials has a higher shelf life because they can store the material in a good quality before order are make from customer.

  




Now we go on how the “Made for You”  works from the order are placed until the order are receive . First when you place an order, your food choice get transferred right away from the computer to the kitchen and the “Made for You” system begin . The order have been receive in a kitchen through the KITCHEN VIDEO SYSTEM (KVS) . The meals started to be process or cooked. For example, the buns of hamburger was place in a Vertical Rapid Toaster or Rapid Steamer. After the activities done, its send to the next trained professional in the chain .

Took an order



Vertical Rapid Toaster


The next station will place the bun on the heated prep table and add a quality ingredient and after its has been done they would put it on the heated landing zone . For the last stages, the burger collected from the heated landing zone and gather it with the drinks or other item that required from the customer .The lean production system of “Made for You” targeted under the 90 second from order to delivery to the customer . The “Made for You” system as as a tecnueqe that required the good technoloy , rapid respond and the good management of the production line that must ensure the product are deliver to customer as targeted . Nowadays, they have completed the system only on 4000 restaurants. 


Adding Ingredient



Collecting food








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