Operations

Elephant Central

A. Your Location Requirements: We are renting a place in the 9th grade

center that was an empty room.
B. Timeline: August 17, 2015 Organization of the store
September 1, 2015 Requested purchase order
September 28, 2015 Purchase came in
October 1, 2015 Grand Opening
October 22, 15 Mobile cart
C. Customer Fulfillment/Production Plan: We do direct selling right now.
When we sell shirts, our customers put in an order request for what they
want and then they come back the next day and receive their product.
D. Customer Capacity: We able to show great service to all of our
customers which would include about 600 freshman, 100 upper-classman
and around 40 facility members.
E. Rent/Utilities: We do not pay rent or utilities for the location of our store.
F. Leasehold Investment Requirement: We didnt need anything
because the fixtures were already there.
G. Equipment Investment Requirement: We need an ice-cream freezer
and a drink cooler. They wont cost us anything.
H. Inventory Investment Requirement: We have to put in an inventory
request form. After our order is approved we make purchase with the
vender. it takes up to 2 or 3 days for our products to get here.
I. Order Fulfillment: We do direct selling at the moment but when we start
working on shirts and customized items the customers are going to have
to put in an order request. They may come back the next day for their
product.
J. Visionary Statement: Our store is heading the right way. We hope that
we may get more products and services to provide for our customers. We
hope to show growth in number of customers that visit the school store
and profit. We hope that we get a better location.
K. Expected growth: Our store in 5 years will be going great. We will have
a better location and more customers will know about us. We will have a
variety of products and services that we will offer to our customers. In 10
years I see the store doing better than it was going 5 years ago.
L. Administration Support: Mr. Smith gave us permission to have a school
store in the 9th grade center. Mrs. Freeman approves our order request.
Mrs. Crumley put in our purchase orders for our inventory. She gives us
new ideas for our store.

M. Risk Management Chart: Our potential business risks are limited

customers, competition out doing us, and our location. To minimize the
limited customers problem, we got our self a mobile cart to carry
products in. we still havent minimized the risk of our competition out
doing us because we dont have as much products like they do. They offer
more than what we can at the moment. Our location is a risk that we
probably wont be able to minimize until next year or so. We hope to
move our store into the room that is in front of the lunchroom.
N. Service Vendors: Our vendors are Mayfield Dairy , Country Meats ,
Pierce wholesale , and Cooperative Purchasing.