Question

Can you Identify KFC operational problems and Can you give suggest whether any of the operation managemengt techniques or concepts to solve the problem?

Answer 1

Operational issue

KFC is witnessing chicken shortage in many parts of the UK. Because of this about two third of its restaurants closed on the part of delivery challenges. The chain is not ready to compromise on the quality of the chicken so because of this many of the restaurants closed and others are operating on a limited menu or shortened hours. The problems lie with the delivery system of the KFC, DHL. DHL found their are some operational issues which makes things in trouble.

Chicken is a perishable thing which is extremely touchy to bacterial development. Consequently it requires an abnormal state of temperature administration. Chicken is solidified at - 18° to - 20% which is viewed as a protected temperature and transported to different areas at a similar temperature. On the off chance that this temperature increments to - 10° because of different giving issues, bacterial populace builds 10 times with each back to back issue (increment in temperature). This is on the grounds that, once the number of inhabitants in microorganisms builds, this won't diminish notwithstanding when the temperature is taken back to - 20°. With this poor administration of temperature, chicken ends up risky for utilization.

Solution- solution to this problem is just to rectify the delivery mechanism of the DHL. KFC will never compromise on the quality of the food, so it is better advisable to take care on the logistic part. Travel times from creation place to utility importantly affects quality and freshness of perishable things. The selection of courses is subject to the time span of usability of the items so as to forestall misfortunes. So as to make transportations exercises of such sort of system powerful and effective, it is required to choose the ideal courses, calendars of conveyance and number vehicles to be utilized for conveyance. To make a solid nearness and be focused in the worldwide market with higher client benefit and to lessen the working cost, it is important to incorporate their store network tasks administration. To help this, administration of inventory network must need to manage material and data stream inside and between provider, producer and wholesalers.