A Detailed Report on Sainsbury's Business Functions and Collaboration

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the organizational functions within Sainsbury's, a prominent British supermarket chain. It begins with an introduction to the core business functions, including marketing, finance, operations/production, and human resources, highlighting their individual roles and contributions to the company's success. The report then emphasizes the crucial importance of these functions working collaboratively, illustrating how departments like HR, finance, and production are interconnected and mutually supportive in achieving Sainsbury's objectives. The analysis underscores the significance of effective interdepartmental relationships for operational efficiency and overall organizational success, referencing relevant academic sources to support the findings.

Business Report

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Role of different organisational functions...................................................................................3
Importance of functions working together..................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Organisational functions are those activities that are important to be carried out for the
purpose of operating a business organisation. This report will contextualise Sainsbury’s, British
supermarket chain. This report will discuss about business functions and importance of functions
working together.
MAIN BODY
Role of different organisational functions
Marketing
Marketing plays a very important role in success of organisation by undertaking market research.
Market research allows helps in understanding customer requirements and changing demands of
the customers (Magunduni, 2019). Other than this, marketing also involve advertisement and
promotions, this is concerned with communicating and influencing potential customers. Success
of this function contributes in increased customers and markets share for Sainsbury’s.
Finance
This function involves management of finance of the company. Finance functions carry out
several activities that are accounting, budgeting for different departments as well as for complete
organisation and allocation of budget for different activities.
Operations/Production
This is concerned with the process through which input are converted into output. Production
department along with production carry out activities such as identifying input and scheduling
production. Production function involves identifying ways through which cost of Sainsbury’s can
be reduced and also ensuring quality of the product. Production department plays important role
in ensuring customers are satisfied with the quality of the products of Sainsbury’s.
Human Resource

HR function in Sainsbury’s is concerned with fulfilling employee requirements of the
organisation. HR function involves recruitment, selection, training and development, payroll
management (Chen and Wang, 2017). HR function identifies requirements of different
departments in terms of manpower and on the basis of that resource Sainsbury’s.
Importance of functions working together
Different functions are carried out in organisation in order to achieve and fulfil their
individual objectives. But in order to achieve organisational objectives it is important that these
functional departments work together are linked with each other.
HR department is linked with every other organisational function and it is important as it fulfils
manpower related requirements of every function in organisation and also undertakes training
and development of employees of different functions of Sainsbury’s.
Importance of working together with finance department of the Sainsbury’s with other functions
is to fulfil financial requirements of HR, production and marketing functions. This involves
activities like budgeting, allocation of budget, determination and profitability and ROI of these
functions.
Production department is also linked with HR, finance and marketing. This means that
production activities are carried out on the basis of input received from marketing and budget
and financial resources are received from finance department of Sainsbury’s (Hudson, 2018).
Other than this, all HR related requirements of production functions is fulfilled by HR
departments.
This discussion outlines that in order to achieve objectives of Sainsbury’s effectively and
efficiently its different functions are working together and each of the function of supportive for
other function of Sainsbury’s.
CONCLUSION
On the basis of above discussion, it be concluded that for effective operations of
Sainsbury’s it require effective completion of different organisational functions. Interrelation of
different functions play important role in attainment of organisational objectives.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Chen, S. and Wang, Y., 2017. Sponsorship Versus Mandate: Different Role of Functional
Departments and.
Hudson, M.L., 2018. Basket pitch 90: An integrative marketing and finance simulation. Journal
of Management Education. 42(5). pp.576-593.
Magunduni, J., 2019. Justifications for the Implementation of Shadow IT Solutions by Functional
Departments in an Organisation (Doctoral dissertation, Faculty of Commerce).