Assignment Task BSBMGT517 Task e-Commerce strategy The BBQfun Board of Directors and the CEO have decided to implement an e-commerce strategy to maintain or increase market share and revenue and satisfy customer needs in line with company strategic directions. You have been hired as an external consultant

Assignment Task: BSBMGT517 Task: e-Commerce strategy The BBQfun Board of Directors and the CEO have decided to implement an e-commerce strategy to maintain or increase market share and revenue and satisfy customer needs in line with company strategic directions. You have been hired as an external consultant to manage operational planning activities for BBQfun’s e-commerce strategy. Under the strategy, BBQfun would offer all products in an online store. Stock could be stored at no extra cost at existing stores. Customers would cover delivery costs.  Currently, BBQfun has a website, but this website lacks e-commerce functionality. The website would need to be redeveloped to incorporate this functionality in line with relevant technical specifications. Existing infrastructure, such as office and store configurations, would need to be adapted to the new strategy. Additionally, assets, such as delivery vehicles would need to be acquired. New staff would need to be recruited and existing staff retrained or informed of the e-commerce strategy and associated operational and performance targets. All resourcing must be acquired and operations are undertaken in accordance with relevant internal and external standards – legislation and codes of practice; intellectual property (IP) rights and responsibilities; and organisational policies and procedures. Preliminary approval has been given to amend the existing budget and operational planning to incorporate this strategy. It is now 30 June 2013 and e-commerce operations are expected to be underway in one year and three months, by 1 October 2014. As the external consultant, you will need to determine the physical and human resourcing requirements. Review organisational documentation and undertake preliminary research on e-commerce. Consult with the following personnel to determine resourcing needs:

• Sales and Marketing Manager
• technology consultant.

You will then need to plan physical and human resourcing and establish associated performance measures and targets. You may consider the Management Team of BBQfun, including team leaders in warehouses, to be resources for the implementation. Use the description of their roles in operational planning when assigning responsibilities. Finally, you will need to propose resourcing and associated operational changes to the Operations General Manager, who will, in consultation with the CEO and Board of Directors, provide approval.

Resourcing and budget: e-Commerce strategy

After consulting with the management team at BBQfun, you determine:

• eight online sales and customer service people will be needed to manage increased online customers
• since stores are overstaffed, four of the required customer service staff could be sourced from existing employees at the two stores
• no current staff have any online customer service skills
• management would like to develop people through re-training rather than hire new staff to handle online sales
• six delivery trucks needed to enable distribution
• the e-commerce website will take 50 days to develop
• three forklifts are needed
• four additional warehouse workers are needed
• six additional drivers are needed
• office space will need to be reconfigured.