Principles of Business School Based Assessment On Production

Candidate Name: Regina Lianna Bell

School Registration #:

Centre #:

Territory: Jamaica

Date: February 11, 2016

Teacher: Ms.Mckay

Table of Contents

PagesAcknowledgement……………………………………………………………………. i

Introduction…………………………………………………………………………… ii

Profile One

Description of the Business…………………………………………………………… 1

Profile Two

Justification of Location………………………………………………………………. 2

Profile Three

Selection of Appropriate Labour……………………………………………………… 3

Profile Four

Sources of Fixed and Working Capital………………………………………………. 4

Profile Five

Role of the Entrepreneur……………………………………………………………… 5

Profile Six

Type of Production…………………………………………………………………… 6

Profile Seven

Levels of Production…………………………………………………………………. 7

Profile Eight

Quality Control Measures……………………………………………………………. 8

Profile Nine

Use of Technology…………………………………………………………………… 9

Profile Ten

Linkage……………………………………………………………………………….. 10

Profile Eleven

Potential for Growth…………………………………………………………………… 11

Profile Twelve

Government Regulations………………………………………………………………. 12

Profile Thirteen

Ethical Issues…………………………………………………………………………… 13

Bibliography………………………………………………………………

Acknowledgement

The researcher would like to thank God Almighty for giving her the health and strength she

needed to complete this Principles of Business School Based Assessment (S.B.A.). Also the

researcher would like to extend her gratitude to Ms.McKay for giving her this assignment and

for Ms.James who guided her along the path.

The researcher would love to say a big thank you to her mother and brother who encouraged

her along the way.

The researcher extends her gratitude to everyone who guided and assisted her throughout the

course of this assessment.

Thank you.

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Introduction

Inside this School Based Assessment (S.B.A) you will see the entrepreneur’s plans and

objectives for their prospective business Lia’s Bake Your Day Pastries. You will also find

information on the description of the business; location; how capital will be obtained; and

roles and functions of the entrepreneur. This project will help others who read it by allowing

them to know the necessary steps they should take, if they are interested in operating a

business of their own.

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Profile One

Description of the Business

This type of business will be a pastry business. This is a sole trader organization and will be

named Lia’s Bake Your Day Pastries. L.B.Y.D.P business is targeting the local market and is

for both kids and adults of all ages. The mission is to produce high quality cakes for all

occasions, cost effectively; in an environment that is safe, clean and friendly for our

employees and community members. The integrity of this business is based on the principles

of the cakes produced, that they are satisfying to the consumers, conscientious employees,

and our commitments to innovative growth and development. Lia’s Bake Your Day Pastries

will bring services to the neighbouring schools in its vicinity, also we will be catering for

weddings, birthday parties, cocktails and anniversary specials. The type of industry this

business will be involved in is linkage industry, because L.B.Y.D.P will be connected with

Janet’s Wholesale Supermarket located in the neighbouring vicinity of Southfield where both

businesses depends on each other to obtain their goods. This business is owned and operated

by Regina Bell. Our contacts are as follows: E-mail- regina.bell54@yahoo.com, Contact:-

965-2201-7

Opening Hours are: On Monday-Friday 9:00 to 4:30 and on Saturdays from 8:00-3:00

Sundays: Closed.

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Profile Two

Justification of Location

Lia’s Bake Your Day Pastries will be located in Lover’s Leap Saint Elizabeth neighbouring

the lighthouse. This location was chosen for three reasons:

For market pull for customers from a neighbouring Guest House and tourists

exploring the 1700 foot cliff overhanging the sea, and the area is always filled with

people from the adjoining communities.

Transport access, also this area was chosen because it is close to the shipping port,

‘Port Kaiser’, so this business can save money on transporting goods from a distance

to ship to other islands so it is cheaper for importing and exporting goods.

For linkage industries, there will be help in getting the raw materials from a nearby

business place in Southfield that sells goods by wholesale.

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Profile ThreeSelection of Appropriate Labour

Lia’s Bake Your Day Pastries will have approximately 10 workers. There will be 2 skilled

workers, 6 semi-skilled workers and 2 unskilled workers.

The skilled workers are as follows:

There will be 1 ingredient mixer whose importance in a bakery is to be accurate in the

amount of ingredients used into the batter and for creating a new taste for each pastry

and also to create new and different kinds of cakes.

1 baker whose importance in a bakery is to ensure that the correct time is set in order

to prevent burning of the cakes and bake the cakes in different shapes and sizes to

catch the eyes of the consumers.

The semi-skilled workers includes:

The truck operators, the business has 2 trucks with 3 workers each, one driving and

the other two is to load and unload. The importance of the truck operators are that

they transport the product and distributes it out to the consumers.

The unskilled are the 2 janitors who clean the building. Their importance towards this bakery

is to ensure that the building is kept clean and sanitized inside out because it is a business that

enrols food handling.

Reason or choosing this labour force is because it is one of the most suitable for this kind of

business.

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Profile FourSources of Fixed and Working Capital

The fixed capitals that will be involved in this business are: The building, the machinery

other equipment such as the commercial ovens, refrigerators etc. along with the company’s

trucks.

The building will be used to facilitate the machinery and the workers to produce the goods.

The machinery will be used in helping to create a finished product (cakes). And other

equipment will be used for storage.

The trucks will be used to transport or to make a delivery of the products from the bakery for

sale island wide. In order to create this business, the entrepreneur will be using her personal

savings of JMD$2.5million for starting.

Working capital is the capital of a business which is used in its day to day operations. For

E.g. money, sugar, flour, etc. Also, a soft loan will be borrowed in order to keep the business

financially stable and for the day to day operations of the business.

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Profile FiveRole of the Entrepreneur

Lia’s Bake Your Day Pastries is owned by Regina Bell. The entrepreneur is commonly seen

as the business leader and innovator of ideas and the business processed.

Roles of this personnel includes:

To bear all risks and to supervise the operations of the business.

Organizes the factors of production to create the cakes and provide special services

for consumers.

Ensure that everything such as all the equipment and machinery are all in place for the

operation of the business each day.

Developing proposals for the future activities of the business.

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Profile 6Type of Production

Lia’s Bake Your Day Pastries will be involved in the Secondary Production, where this

involves the conversion of the raw materials such as wheat extracted from the earth and

processed into flour and also sugarcane for example, reaped and converted into sugar for the

making of the cakes, where the sugar is the sweetener and the flour is a major part of the

batter.

L.B.Y.D.P will be involved in this type of production because the raw materials needed for

this business operation will be obtained from other Janet’s Wholesale Supermarket in

neighbouring vicinity of Southfield in order to create delicious cakes. Therefore this business

will be involved in Secondary Production.

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Profile Seven

Levels of Production

Lia’s Bake Your Day Pastries will be a part of the Domestic level of Production.

This is where the cakes produced, will be of great services in the community for special

parties and be sold to the neighbouring restaurants to satisfy domestic wants.

This bakery will be producing cakes locally, so therefore, L.B.Y.D.P will be at the domestic

level.

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Profile Eight

Quality Control Measures

Lia’s Bake Your Day Pastries will produce desserts low on calories. Two most important

quality control measures will be adhered to are:

To bring in health specialists to check the machines to make sure they are properly

cleaned and in good working state for baking of cakes.

And also, a pastry test will be done, where a specialist tastes the cakes after it has

been through the production process to ensure consistency.

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Profile Nine

Use of Technology

The two types of technologies that will be used in this business are:

The commercial ovens that will be used to bake the cakes. These ovens operates faster

than the usual stove ovens. These ovens are operated by the skilled workers after the

batter is mixed where they will be placed in the oven in order to meet the desire of a

finished product.

Also, the electrical machine mixers used by the ingredient mixer to mix the batter in

order for it to be poured into a container to be put into the commercial ovens for

baking.

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Profile TenLinkage

Lia’s Bake Your Day Pastries will be involved in the backward linkage. L.B.Y.D.P will be

using sugar and other raw materials needed for baking from Janet’s Wholesale Supermarket

into the bakery.

The benefit being gained from backward linkage is that by using the sugar for e.g. as a

sweetener for our cakes so that they will be rich in taste in order to satisfy the consumers.

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Profile ElevenPotential Growth

Lia’s Bake Your Day Pastries, grows both internally and externally.

L.B.Y.D.P will grow internally by upgrading the business with new and improved

technological machines and will be able to afford more skilled and semi-skilled workers for

the operation of these newly equipped machines.

To expand externally, L.B.Y.D.P have small branches throughout the island in rural areas.

Also, will the business merge with a much larger and well known industry in which profits

are increasing and so are the customers.

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Profile TwelveGovernment Regulations

Lia’s Bake Your Day Pastries will be legally licensed to operate and also this consists of

being passed by a legal Health Inspector. The Health Inspector has to check both the hygiene

of the environment and the employees.

This will have a huge impact on the business because in order to work with food, you need a

healthy environment in which to operate.

Also, the business will pay its taxes in order to contribute to the operating of the country.

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Profile ThirteenEthical Issues

Ethical issues which relates to production in the business are transactions between the

organization and the environment that leads to pollution and the diminishing of natural

resources.

This will affect the business positively, it helps us to stay in line with how we deal with our

waste.

L.B.Y.D.P will be disposing of their waste in a proper many. There will be a waste collecting

truck assigned specially with the business to be collecting its wastes. This waste will be

transported to the Mud Lake Dumpsite located in ALPART Saint Elizabeth. The way in

which this disposal will be made will leave a positive effect on the persons living nearby the

bakery, especially those with health issues, they won’t have any sort of problems arising from

the waste from this bakery.

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Bibliography

Wilson, Mark. Bowen, Patrice. Rogers, Anthony. Caribbean Business for CSEC Principles of Business. London, England: Oxford University Press 2010

Robinson, Karlene. Carlong Principles of Business for CSEC. Kingston, Jamaica: Carlong Publisher2011

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