Advanced Resource Management Report: Strategies for Zume Pizza Success

This report analyzes the resource management strategies of Zume Pizza, focusing on its purchasing methods and stakeholder communication. The company primarily uses contract purchasing for its materials, prioritizing timely and quality deliveries. The report outlines a detailed action plan to improve production, human resource management, and risk assessment, including specific goals, owners, costs, and measures. The implementation of the plan involves the active participation of key managers and emphasizes employee training and development. The expected outcomes include increased production, improved risk handling, and enhanced employee efficiency. The report suggests modifications such as providing incentives to motivate employees. The paper also details the resources required for the organization to achieve its business objectives and provides a plan for resource allocation to maximize efficiency and minimize risks.

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Advanced Resource Management
Name of the Student
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The paper is focused in the elaboration of the advantages and disadvantages of the
purchasing method along with the specification regarding the mode of the communication
with the relevant stakeholders. The paper also assesses the nature and the level of the
resources that are required for the organization to achieve the business objectives and along
with that the paper provides a plan for the allocation of the resources in order to maximise the
efficiency along with minimize the risks. Apart from this, the procedure for the
implementation of the plan with a precise focus on the efficient usage of the resources and the
monitoring of the budgets for them is portrayed in the paper. The success factors for the plan
is also formed for the effective understanding of the achievement of the various aspects of the
plan. The chosen organization for the paper is Zume Pizza.
Discussion:
The views of the company regarding the disadvantages or advantages of the
purchasing methods is seen to be pretty evident. The organization operates through the
contract purchasing for the wide range of materials that it sources from the suppliers for the
production of the pizza and the salads (Zumepizza.com, 2019). It is seen that the organization
is notably focused in the mentioned form of purchasing due to the reasons such as the formal
delivery of the products, on time delivery, accurate delivery in terms of the quantity and
appropriate delivery of the products in terms of the quality (Feng et al., 2014). However it is
seen that many of the other purchasing methods are not followed by the organization for the
fact that the creation of uncertainty in the market through the market purchasing is not the
appropriate option for the company. Along with that, purchasing by requirement will be
difficult as the organization is seen to face notable amount of difficulty in measuring the total
requirements. Adding to this, the scheduled purchasing is also not a viable option as the
organization is not that effective in calculating the demand in a country like Australia where
the demand of the customers for the pizzas is rapidly increasing. Apart from this, it is seen

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that the organisation chose the mentioned purchasing strategy to make sure that they be
immune to the varying and increasing price rates of the market for the sourcing of the
products in near future.
The consultation with the relevant stakeholders is in need to be conducted through a
wide range of methods. The consultation with the shareholders of the organization is in need
to be conducted through the formal business reports. On the other hand, the consultation with
the employees is in need to be conducted through group meetings and the sessions. In
addition to this, the consultation with the suppliers of the organization is in need to be
conducted through the formal mails in order to make sure that the communications is speedy
enough to acknowledge the urgency of the quick supply. Along with that, the customers of
the organization are in need to be consulted through the websites and the increasing
marketing communication to make sure that they be well aware of the new products and the
services of the organization and the modification in the previous operations.
The determination of the nature and the level of the resources that are required for the
achievement of the business objectives, is in need to be carried out through the effective
consultation with the operators and the line managers of the organization. As it is pretty
evident that the effective communication regarding the business objectives of the
organization is achieved, the consultation with the managers for the required resources and
the nature of the required resources will be significantly important and effective as well as
they are concerned persons to have the best idea of the required resources that will be
sufficient to achieve the objectives of the organization.

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Action Plan:
Goal / Aim Owner Required
resources
Cost $ 6 Months
(Measure)
1 Year
(Measure)
Increment in
the
production.
Production
Manager
Increased
number of
employees and
increased
supply of the
raw materials.
30000
Australian
Dollars
Evaluation of
the number of
units
manufactured.
Evaluation of
the business
reports of the
organization
to find out the
number of
units
manufactured
over a year.
Increment in
the number of
employees
for a
particular
department
Human
Resource
Managers
Increased
number of
employees and
the conduction
of increased
training and
developmental
activities.
40000
Australian
Dollars
Number of
employees
recruited into
a particular
department
over the three
months.
Number of
employees
recruited into
a particular
department
over a span of
one year.

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Improvement
in the
application of
the risk
management
techniques.
Head of the
Risk
Management
Department
Improvement
in the quality
of the
employees for
effective
identification
of the
hazardous
parts and the
assessment of
the risk. The
required
financial
supports for
the usage of
the improved
techniques and
tools for the
better
management
of the risk.
35000
Australian
Dollars
Evaluation of
the gathered
knowledge of
the employees
from the
training and
the
developmental
activities.
Evaluation of
enhancement
of the skills
and the
competencies
of the
employees of
the
organization
along with
assessing the
usage of the
improved
skills and the
competencies
in managing
the adverse
situations.
(Action Plan Courtesy: Designed by the author)

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Implementation:
The implementation of the plan will be achieved with the active participation of the
human resource manager, production manager along with the head of the Risk Management
department. Apart from this, the training and the developmental activities, that are in need to
be conducted for the improvement of the skills and the competencies of the employees for the
effective management of the risk, will be carried out within the organization in order to use
the resources of the organization in an efficient manner. Adding to this, the step will also be
significant in the efficient management of the budget of the organization that is allocated for
the effective implementation of the plan. In addition to this, the mentioned managers of the
organization are in need to have a detailed assessment of the existing resources of the
organization to make sure that the strategies like the recruitment of new employees
incorporate a viable need for it. Along with that, the assessment of the existing resources
while implementing the plan will be significantly helpful for the organization in avoiding
purchases of the resources which actually exists in the organization.
Expected Level of Performances and the modifications:
The expected level of the performances that are to be achieved, are detailed below:
Effective increment in the number of units produced.
Increment in the operational hours for the increment in the manufacturing.
Improved handling of the risks along with the effective usage of the developed skills and the
competencies of the employees.
Deployment of increased number of employees in a particular task to improve the efficiency.

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Modifications:
The much required modification for the plan is observed to be production of the
monetary and non-monetary benefits to the employees to motivate them in implementing the
developed skills of managing the risk associated with the processing of the pizzas and the
salads.

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References:
Feng, Y., Mu, Y., Hu, B., & Kumar, A. (2014). Commodity options purchasing and credit
financing under capital constraint. International Journal of Production Economics,
153, 230-237.
Zumepizza.com (2019). Order Delicious Pizza and Have it Delivered Zume Fast. Retrieved
from https://zumepizza.com/