Four Leaf Airlines — Wk6
Due to the extending of flights through the International Asia Pacific region and the
planned expansion of freight deliveries, Four Leaf Airlines is currently planning to run
anew advertising program. To assist with the development of this a working party
has been set up to consider all information relevant for the marketing program. Also
the program is to better inform all of the Four Leaf Airlines employees of the current
and future operations. You have been appointed a working party member due to.
your role as an up and coming management accountant who is familiar with best
practice processing and new and innovative operations. The working party is
currently considering the current image of Four Leaf Airlines and how to improve this
image to reflect the expansion and alignment of operations with company's image
based on Four Leaf's vision and mission statement.
To assist with the development of the new advertising program and improvement in
operations, Four Leaf are seeking to clarify what they should view as the quality of
their services and compare this with the average customers’ views of the quality of
Four Leaf services. Focus will include consideration of areas for possible
improvement or continuous improvements. You have thought that the cost of quality
could be considered when looking to improve quality. You have some understanding
of how monies are currently being spent for providing quality services and the
guideline for how the split of monies should be spread for the purposes of providing
quality.
Also to better understand the whole of Four Leaf's operations the value chain has
been suggested as a means to consider the interrelationships within the company.
Two pictorial versions of the value chain has been presented at one of the working
party meetings but it was not able to be used as both images seemed to be prepared
for production based companies and not at all relevant to an airline
The two value change images presented are as follows:
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LOGISTICS | ATIONS | ogisTics | & SALES
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PRIMARY ACTIVITIESSupport services
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Looking at the pictures you can see their confusion and feel you can produce a new
value chain. Your chain you feel can combine the concepts of upstream flows,
primary operations and downstream flows together with materials coming into the
Spepany, the operations and the output of the operations and ongoing management
of customers and future customer management.
Required:
Prepare a report for presentation at the next working party meeting to discuss your
thoughts for what should be important considerations for quality and what Four Lost
Airlines should focus on with respect to total quality and total quality improvement.
Whilst you need more time to provide a report with costs spent on prevention, appraisal,
intemal failure and external failure, you feel you can make a general discussion for
these concepts. Add this discussion to your discussion regarding quality. (300-500
words).
Further produce a diagram for a Four Leaf Airlines value chain and provide some
explanation for each portion of the chain and how each portion of the chan is linked.
200-400 words),