Functional Area Interrelationships

Functional Area Interrelationships: Kudler Fine Foods

BUS/475

April 7, 2014

Functional Area Interrelationships: Kudler Fine Foods

Kudler Fine Foods (Kudler) is a neighborhood market that specializes in domestic and imported foods founded by Kathy Kudler. Kudler has three locations La Jolla, Del Mar, and Encinitas, which are in San Diego. The stores makeup about 8,000 square feet in stylish shopping centers. The selection includes the finest foods, like meats, cheese, wine, pastry products, and fresh produce. Kudler has a unique approach to collaboration in different ways of management, operations, and their business concept. Because of the customer demands, Kudler developed a powerful mission, collective methods, and administrative structure to create functional area interrelationships in the business.

Kudler Fine Foods’ “mission is to providing our customers with the finest selection of the very best foods and wines so that your culinary visions can come true” (Kudler Fine Foods, 2013, pg. 1). Kudler’s vision is to “be the premiere gourmet grocery store for those savvy shoppers who are searching for the finest meats, produce, cheeses, and wine (Kudler Fine Foods, 2013, pg. 1). The values in the business are to let the customers know that the products sold at the store are the same as what Kathy Kudler uses in her own home. The company goal is to provide excellent customer service by searching worldwide for the best products and give an excellent experience in shopping as they offer attentive customer service.

According to Pearce and Robinson, organizational structure refers to the formalized arrangements of interaction between responsibility for the tasks, people, and resources in an organization (Pearce & Robinson, 2009). Organizational structure is deciding the best way to organize people that will effectively accomplish the goals of the company’s strategic plan. Kudler uses a functional organizational structure of the...