Operation Comparison | Starbucks Vs Greggs

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Operation comparison
Starbucks Vs Greggs
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Contents
Four Vs Analysis.............................................................................................................................1
Comparative performance objective analysis of Starbucks and Greggs.........................................2
Design analysis................................................................................................................................4
Reference.........................................................................................................................................6

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Four Vs Analysis
The Four Vs analysis of an organization is mainly considered with operation management,
around theses 4 V’s’ are an integral part of an organization in terms of process design
(smartturnaround, 2017). Four V’s’ are
I. Volume
II. Variety
III. Variation
IV. Visibility
The optimized compositions of the entire component named above majorly regulate the design
process of an organization in order to achieve maximum efficiency.
Volume: It concerns the amount of product produced by the organization. One of the examples
of a large quantity of production is Starbucks which operates over more than twenty-eight
thousand two hundred eighteen locations over the world, which corresponds to the high volume
of sale of coffee and related products. A report published by (Hafner, 2016) in USA Today
indicated that Starbuck sells over 4 million coffee every day only in America, which provides a
brief overview of the volume of sales that has been associated with the organization. The primary
characteristics associated with Starbuck coffee are the standardized making procedure and the
process of customer service at their outlet. The standardized procedure helps in providing similar
product over a repeated number of times, also the advantage of a large volume is the specified
division of task into small and simple steps. In comparison to Starbuck, Greggs has a total of
1,953 numbers of stores all over the United Kingdom (Luty, 2019). There the volume of sale
and processing for the Greggs is limited to the United Kingdom.
Variety: It corresponds to the flexibility in the organizational process, the primary variable
among the work process of Starbuck is the transportation and delivery of the goods to their
stores, which has earlier helped them to grow but it is also a weak link in the overall standardized