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GCSE Business: Which Coffee Supplier for the Corner Cafe?

Students compare three coffee suppliers on price, quality and reliability, see just in time and just in case in practice, and recommend one supplier to a small cafe.

GCSE Business · AQA 8132, section 3.3.2 · Free PDF and Word · No sign up

Illustration of three sacks of coffee beans: Supplier X at £14.00 per kg, Supplier Y at £16.50 per kg and Supplier Z at £12.50 per kg — Illustration created with an AI image tool to show the situation. All figures are those used in the lesson.

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Student pages. 5 pages: the suppliers, the tasks, a pair task and space for working. No answers.

Student PDF Student Word

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Teacher guide. 3 pages: lesson plan, worked answers and indicative guidance for the written recommendation.

Teacher PDF Teacher Word

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The first student pages of Which Coffee Supplier for the Corner Cafe?

What students do

Match procurement, just in time and just in case to their meanings
Calculate how much coffee a cafe uses, the weekly cost and the cost per cup from three suppliers
Work out each supplier’s on-time percentage and what late deliveries would mean
Weigh just in time against just in case, rank price, quality and reliability in pairs and recommend one supplier

What the teacher gets

A lesson plan for about 55 minutes of tasks, with a shorter 45-minute version. Allow longer in the timetable for handing out and feedback
Worked answers for every calculation and question
Indicative guidance for the written recommendation. It is not an exam board mark scheme and carries no marks or grades
Editable Word versions of both files, so you can change the business or the figures

Specification

AQA GCSE Business (8132), section 3.3.2 The role of procurement: just in time and just in case, the factors affecting the choice of suppliers (price, quality and reliability) and the effects of procurement on a business. Checked against the AQA specification, Version 1.0, 19 August 2016. The cafe, the suppliers and every figure are fictional and the questions are original. This is not an AQA resource, and the lesson has not yet been tested in a classroom.

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