Aldi's Strategy and Business Plan

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Draft business plan
The current existing strategy of Aldi is to acquire goods from the suppliers at a low
cost to make sure that they could be sold at low prices which no other retailer can afford. This
is done by ensuring that production costs are minimised. The business plan revolves around
the pricing in which the retail store can sell. The operational plan involves efficient
production to keep production costs down. This is already proven to be a highly productive
plan for or the company as it has indeed helped them in ensuring the fact that they offer the
best price for a product 1. Keeping a first class relationship with the suppliers helps the
company in achieving this.
The business vision of the company involves creating a platform for the customers
where they can purchase the lowest priced products that no other retail store can offer them.
The business mission is to capture a market share of over 50% in the retail industry in
Australia. Business values include customer satisfaction and stakeholder relations. The
objective of this business is to remain at the top in the Australian retail industry.
The key stakeholders was to be communicated with this business plan involve the
management department, the shareholders and the board of directors along with the suppliers
of the company. The management department has to be aware of this plan as they are the
ones you have to strategize it properly execute it. The shareholders also need to know this
since they are the ones responsible for investing in the company and it is important to get
their support. The board of directors also need to know this because it is this board that
decides on the direction of the company and it is important for them to review this particular
direction. The suppliers need to be consulted as well since it is important to let them know no
1 "Supply Chain - ALDI Australia". 2019. Corporate.Aldi.Com.Au.
https://corporate.aldi.com.au/en/corporate-responsibility/supply-chain/.
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how actually they matter to the company, and how they could contribute to the company’s
success.
The retail store does not sell a specific product but in fact range of products that range
from furniture to grocery. This is the reason why there is no specific consumer profile for this
company. The only customer needs that have to be addressed is the fact that customers want
to find the product that usually need in abundance at a low price and this is something that the
company has already been achieving. Therefore this needs no reviewing.
The relevant stakeholders that have been identified in the previous section would want
that the company grows at a decent rate in the country. This is beneficial for the suppliers
because they get to produce and sell more to the retail, the shareholders get to have more
returns on their investment, the board of directors would be pleased that the company is
growing sustainably and the management department would succeed in achieving their
objectives. The sales of the company has already grown by 10% from the last financial year
as of 2nd of May 2019. The CEO of the company, Tom Daunt believes that the sales will keep
growing but doubts that it will be double figures again 2. Therefore the most realistic
objective at this stage which would be agreed upon by all of the relevant stakeholders would
be a 10% growth in sales in the year 2020.
The financial requirement at this stage is to retain the $9Bn to be able to expand
across the country to increase the sales. Every store across the country should have at least
hundred staffs working in it. As for the physical requirements, the classy wooden shelves and
spacious nature of the retail stores would have to be retained.
2 "Aldi Sales Rise 10 Per Cent To Top $9B". 2019. Australian Financial Review.
https://www.afr.com/business/retail/aldi-sales-rise-10-per-cent-to-top-9b-20190501-p51iwe.
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Monitoring performance
Overall performance can be monitored by reviewing the sales growth in each quarter
of the current financial year. Individual performances of the employees in the retail store
could be gathered by obliging the store managers to write performance reports on individual
employees including those who have been underperforming and those who have been
performing as per the organisational needs. This would be on the basis of how much can
employees able to help a customer while shopping, and how much they can persuade
customers into buying products from the store.
Training design
If a certain group of employees are underperforming in the stores, they could be given
a vocational training as well as practical sessions on managing customers and meeting their
needs. This could involve imparting proper knowledge on all of the range of products at the
store has and also lecturers involving purchase intentions and customer needs, in order to
help them better understand how they should act in certain situations and what would help
them in making sure that they can contribute to the sales of the stores.
Estimating that there would be at least 600 employees who be underperforming at the
end of the first quarter, and also the fact that every employee would need three sessions each
on the training, one could stratify these employees into sets of 10 for the training program,
which makes 60 sets. Each program would be of 4 days including all of the three sessions.
This sums up to 240 days of total training days. Estimating fooding costs, property cost and
also the fact that the employees would be unproductive for those 4 days, implies that nearly
$10 would be spent on each employee for the training program everyday. Therefore the cost
of the training program would be an estimated $240,000.
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The first stage involves the learning stage in which day employee learns about the
products and the selling propositions as well as consumer needs. The second is the practical
stage in which the employee gradually learn how to the how to deal with different situations.
The final stage is the expertise stage in which the employee can perfectly demonstrate his
abilities as desired by the company.
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Bibliography
"Aldi Sales Rise 10 Per Cent To Top $9B". 2019. Australian Financial Review.
https://www.afr.com/business/retail/aldi-sales-rise-10-per-cent-to-top-9b-20190501-p51iwe.
"Supply Chain - ALDI Australia". 2019. Corporate.Aldi.Com.Au.
https://corporate.aldi.com.au/en/corporate-responsibility/supply-chain/.
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