University Report: An Analysis of Sainsbury's Business Functions

This report analyzes the business functions of Sainsbury's, a major UK retail chain, addressing the importance of marketing, finance, human resources, and production within the organization. The report defines the roles of each function and emphasizes their collaborative impact on achieving business goals. Marketing is highlighted for its role in creating customer awareness and promoting sales. Finance is discussed in terms of its role in regulating financial activities and determining profit and loss. Human resources are presented as essential for managing employee effectiveness and maintaining a positive work environment. Production is examined in the context of ensuring product quality and efficient production processes, including design, labeling, and packaging. The report concludes that the integration of these functions is crucial for Sainsbury's success.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Functions of Business in the organisation...................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Business functions refers to the different activities that prevail in the organisation and
that leads to certain achievement of goals and objectives. In this report Sainsbury company is the
biggest retail chain that establish in the UK and deal various goods and services and also
overtook the market leader. Different business activities were responsible for the operational
functions such as marketing, Finance, Human resources were combines and integrated many
other operational functions and that comes to the positive result to the organisation.
MAIN BODY
Functions of Business in the organisation
Marketing functions- In the business organisation, there are many departments that
contribute to the achievement and fulfilling of goals and helps in accomplishment of task
effectively. In the Sainsbury company, Marketing helps in creating the awareness in the
customer and promote the sales activities in the company (Brien, 2019). This also support in
making strategies for marketing tactics and increasing the sales and profitability in concerned
firm. This function play important role in achieving the necessary objectives.
Finance & Accounting- This department concern with fulfilling the goals regarding the
finance and accountants business activities and functions. In the concern with Sainsbury, this
business function will lead to many benefits to the organisation as this regulate and monitor all
financial activities and determines the profit and loss for the organisation. This department helps
in fulfilling the main objectives regarding the maintenance of financial statements and ensure
that company do not face any uncertainty related to the money.
Human resources- This department concern with fulfilling the objectives of the human
resources and deals in maintaining and regulating the efficiency in term of managing all
personnel in the organisation. In the context of Sainsbury, this department plays essential role in
leading and maintaining the effectiveness of the employees who were working in the
organisation. This department helps in maintaining the better working condition of employees
and ensure that they were fulfilling all major task and objectives.
Production- This department concern with the fulfilling the major development of the
products and lead to certain activities. In this context of Sainsbury, this is responsible for the
production process of the goods and ensure that they attain best quality of products. They deal

with many functions like design, labelling and packaging of product and enable smooth
functioning of production process in the business.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it is concluded that Business activities are many in the
organisation and that also deals in fulfilling the desired task and objectives of the organisation. In
the context of selected organisation it is been analysed that there are many departments are
working in the business and integrated into one direction. Some functions are Production
department, Human resources, Accountant and Finance and Marketing are responsible to make
necessary changes in the organisation and that will lead to certain achievement of goals and
objectives.

REFERENCES
Books and journal
Brien, D., 2019. LDC Graduation: Challenges and Opportunities for Vanuatu (No. WP/19/04).
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).

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