Managing Strategy

Running head: MANAGING STRATEGY
MANAGING STRATEGY
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Table of Contents
Executive summary.........................................................................................................................2
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Issue Identification...........................................................................................................................3
Operating Environment...................................................................................................................3
Root Cause Analysis........................................................................................................................4
Alternatives or Options....................................................................................................................4
Recommendations............................................................................................................................5
Implementation Plan........................................................................................................................5
Monitor and Control........................................................................................................................6
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
References........................................................................................................................................7

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Executive summary
The purpose of this report is to focus on the strategic leadership of the business, it
demonstrate a brief understanding of the company’s strategy. It identifies the issues and
challenges faced by the business. It analyses the problems, and determines the root cause of the
challenges and issues faced by the business, it analyzes the alternatives and options to the
problems and recommends solutions to overcome the problems. It describes the implementation
plan for the organization and monitor and control the activities of the business to overcome the
issues faced by the organization.

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Introduction
The inventory management of every organization must highly focus on the items such as
frequently reviewing of the stocks, lowering the stocks levels, higher scale parameter and other.
It requires continuous monitoring of the stocks and analyzing the results. The inventory must be
managed from the considered from the perspective of the management’s strategy. The purpose of
this report is the identify the issues faced by A1 Cash and Carry, identify the root cause of the
issues that are faced by the company and recommend alternate options to overcome the issues
that are faced by the company, provide recommendations to counter the challenges faced by the
company. It provides description of the implementation plan for the company and monitor and
control the rising challenges and issues faced by the business organization.
 Issue Identification
The main issues that are faced by the business organization, is inventory issue, they face
difficulty is balancing the inventory of the company and meeting the demands and requirements
of the customers. Balancing the inventory with the customer demand without shorting the
products and supplies is one of the major difficulties that are faced by many organization, the
manufacturers continually face challenges in determining the amount of supply to manufacture.
Similarly the A1 Cash and Carry faced this issue. Failing to meet the demand with the supply
affects the entire manufacturing team in the organization (AO Dos Santos, Svensson & Padin,
2014). This issue might lead to several consequences such as increase in production costs, slow
moving stocks, inventory shortages and other issues. They face the problem of investments on
ERP to connect all the departments and monitor the inventory of the organization. The
organizations have failed to capture the input signals which are required to implement CPFR (A1
Cash and Carry. 2019). They face challenge managing the cash flow of the business and