In: Operations Management
6 Food AND Beverage
As you learned in your Reading, procurement or purchasing is the precursor to the rest of the foodservice management system. In this Journal assignment, you will decide both a purchasing method and process based on your understanding of the readings. Read the scenario and address the checklist items in a thorough response. Scenario: You are the new Beverage Manager at a new large hotel that has banquets and has several restaurants. You are tasked with deciding on the purchasing method and process for purchasing all the alcoholic beverages at the hotel. Checklist: Identify and explain the purchasing method will you use and why. Provide the purchasing process will you use and explain why.
250 word minimum
As a Beverage Manager at a large hotel that has banquets and has several restaurants and to maintain stock of beverages I will focus and integrate three purchasing methods i.e. bulk purchasing,scheduled purchasing,purchasing by requirement. Before making decision for purchasing beverages I'll analyse the need and requirement for
purchase and tries to match my estimated budget with the hotel's allotted budget and suppliers demanded price.If price offered by supplier doesn't meet my estimated cost then I will look for more alternatives of supplier to crack the best deal to gain profit.As manager it is my duty to maintain good level of inventory to look that stock do not get deplenish at the time of need. For this identification of beverages that need to be purchased is a major part by keeping in mind the fact that I have to arrange the stock for the beverage at lower cost and which has on time delivery.
After analyzing the need I'll integrate the bulk purchasing method with the scheduled purchasing and purchasing by requirement. Under purchasing by requirement method the purchasing of only those beverages has been done that are frequently consumed by customers. Frequently consumed beverages show that customer likeness towards the beverage and thus I will maintain the stock of that frequently consumed beverage in bulk in addition to other beverages that have a good level of consumption.Whereas scheduled purchasing will act as my backup plan for maintaining the level of stock by notifying the supplier to provide timely delivery of beverages in future when I ask for it.