INVENTORY CONTROL AND PLANNING OF RAW MATERIAL BASED ON MANAGEMENT FUNCTION AT PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT OF TIRTAMAS MEGAH LTD. KEDIRI – EAST JAVA (part 2

Chapter 1

INTRODUCTION


1.1. Background of the Apprenticeship

The writer is very interested with tours and travel agent business as the commodity of it is tours and travel organizing service, tours and travel scope is wide and interesting to be observed


The owner of Rusa Satria Wisata tours and travel agent realizes to resurgence in tours and travel service business has got to implement the best ever management, especially in order to save the cost, partnership management is the best solution to solve the finance problem on one hand and on the other hand to remake up the ruin situation.




As mentioned above Rusa Satria wisata tours and travel agent hand in hand work hard to gain a lot of profit together with the management institution, named I travels management. And here the writer will describe how it works in details systematically.


1.2. Statement of the problems

Based on the background of apprenticeship, therefore the writer figure out then conclude that the problems are;
1. How does Rusa Satria Wisata tours and travel agent implement management in running tours and travel business.
2. Exploring the partnership management run at Rusa Satria Wisata.
3. How does Rusa Satria Wisata evaluate, improve and keep the management up to standard.


1.3. Purpose of apprenticeship
1. To know the implementation of management in running business at Rusa Satria Wisata Tours and Travel agent.
2. To understand the essence of the real meaning of partnership management.
3. To find out the process of evaluation, improvement and maintenance for the management up to standard.


1.4. significance of apprenticeship

There are some significances taken from the script for;
1. Input for Rusa Satria Wisata tours and travel agent to determine business plan based on conclusion of the script concluded from the gradual observation written on this script.
2. For the writer and the other English business students, this script may widen the horizon of business, motivate student to find the similar or even much better management to run business.
3. To participate in giving more knowledge for business management science.
4. The Conclusion of this script in future can give information or stimulate the writer and anyone to study further about the partnership management in order to develop or invent the best management to apply on tours and travel business.


1.5. Definition of key terms

Tourism is a general concept that has definition keeps changing successively. Basically tourism industry is not common industry like factory produce concrete goods can be directly consumed by the costumer, however tourism is a complex combination between product and service.


Here are the lists of tourism definition from domestic and international experts;
1. Prof. Hunziger and Prof Krapf define
Tourism is a whole web and related symptoms to stranger’s home in one place, in one condition they do not live there to work permanently or temporarily. ( Richard Sihite, 2000 : 58 )
2. Dr. Salah Wahab defines
Tourism is a kind of industry stimulates economic growth rapidly to provide job vacancy, to increase income, to increase living standard also to stimulate the other productivity sectors. Next, as the complex sector, Tourism also covers the real classic industries, like handcraft, souvenirs, inn and transportation economically also acknowledged as a part of tourism industry.


Based on both definitions above, can be concluded that tourism is an activity that gives profit economically in permanent or temporary either for the businessmen or for the society where this industry is a very complex sector and each variable has mutualism connection one to another in cycle activity.


While in the point of Leiper’s view to tourism, has 3 elements consist of Tourists’ activities, geographic and the supporting supplier industry. This is a sketch of the system.

Tourism System (LEIPER)
Environmental (Physic, Social and culture, politic)


Tourists visit

Tourists return





Source : pengetahuan kepariwisataan,1998


From the simple sketch above, we can indentify tourism is series from individuals, company, organization and link to a tour activity. Tourism is multi dimension thing with activities involve many kinds of life and economic activity which links each other as system linkage can not separate between one variable to another in this industry.


The following detail explanations of 3 elements of tourism are;
1. Tourists
Tourist is a key player in this system. As tour is a very pleased human’s experience in order to relieve tourists from stress and bored hectic routine.
2. Geographic
In this session the are 3 main zones ;
a. Tourists’ origin place
This is a place of origin for tourists, the place where motivate tourist to travel to tourists’ attraction in the other place, a place where tourist gather any related information to their tours.
b. Tourists’ destination
Destination is a goal in tours, here tourist can implement the plan and the main purpose of the trip.
c. Transit place
Temporary tourist stop before proceeding to final destination, but there might be a chance to stay longer or even make it be the final destination as there are some reasons not to allow tourist go further to reach the final destination.
3. Tourism industry


This part seems like a company and organization activity relates to tourism product. While Tourism industry is the industry links to Tours organizing to serve tourists starting from the origin to destination such as ; travel agents, hotels, transportation, souvenir shops, etcetera.


Those there elements explained above, interacting each other, not just the tour product bearer but also in transaction and the tourist attraction it self.


Here we will study about the system in tours and travel agent business, as part of tourism industry, somehow in crisis situation requires a new idea to solve the finance problem, survive and win in such a tight competition. Nor just to create a unique tour package or giving a special discount.


The best formula is to implement the partnership management in order to save the operation. And to win the competition we must attract customer as many as possible, therefore service is number one, however it is ancient key, now days service quality is no longer something new, everybody has already known. No matter how effective and efficient service, because there are hundreds travel give the best service ever in the same place.


So now we got to find the way what is even more than just a flawless service, that is to know what costumer wants, as how flawless service we can provide but that is not the service costumer want!!, useless, so to make it more effective and worth it, We can do something more brilliant like to involve the costumer to provide service it is called market driven company.


To understand carefully and proper meaning in this script, so writers feel the need to stress the meaning each terminology in explanation so that make the script easier to understand and let readers interpret ate just in the same way a writer expects.


Here are the terminologies used;
• Implement: put the plan into practice in order to reach a goal of the company.
• Partnership: one of two or more persons or organizations contractually associated as joint principals in a business.
• Management: is a way to achieve the objects or goals of the organization effectively and efficiently through plans, organization, leadership and resources control.
• Business: affair or concern motivates people to make a plan to accomplish the goal, which is in product and service trade the ultimate goal is profit.
• Tours and travel agent : organization is doing business in organizing the tours and travel arrangement service for the tourists