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Jefferson Inc. is planning to launch a healthy chocolate product with less sugar content and different...

Jefferson Inc. is planning to launch a healthy chocolate product with less sugar content and different fruit flavours to customers in the United States next year. Suppose you are the operations manager of this corporation. Develop a plan of operations control to ensure the success of this product.

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Below is the plan of operations control to ensure the success of this product:

1. Ensure adequate availability: The comymuat ensure that the product is adequately available to the customers and there is no shortage of product. Also the company could expect increase in demand due to launch of new product in market and hence must take steps to cater to the increased demand.

2. Resolve distribution challenges: The product must be available to the customers belonging to different regions and localities and hence the company must ensure that it ties up with local marketplace and distributors in different regions so as to ensure that distribution challenges are resolved.

3. Logistics issues must be resolved: The costs associated with logistics must also be kept to a minimum and there must be no challenges in the supply chain of the product. The company must ensure that no logistics issues arise with the availability of product to the customers.

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