| | Instructor Explanation: | Since a change in costs to produce the product is a supply factor, an increase in costs would be expected to decrease bicycle supply. Remember that supply is a schedule of how many units suppliers are willing to offer at different prices. When costs rise, the supply curve decreases or shifts to the left. Since changes in producer costs is not a demand factor, there would be no impact on demand. | | | | Points Received: | 10 of 10 | | Comments: | Good, JP | | | 2.
One is that the amount of over stock is lowered which means a reduction in the storage space required which saves rent and the costs associated with insuring the additional stock. Additional stocks of items are only obtained when they are needed which means that less working capital is tied up in an excess of stock. There is also less likelihood that if the stock would be perishable that it would become obsolete or out of date. JIT also helps to avoid the buildup in stock should there be sudden changes required for the product or is the change in demand decreases. Finally, by employing the JIT manufacturing process this will require less time spent on checking or reworking the product because the JIT process emphasizes getting the work done right the first time.
For instance, they may be able to start up with a new idea. | During recession, Innocent’s confidence will get low as people aren’t demanding for their products as they demanded before. This leads Innocent to cut down on production because they no longer need to make many goods as they used to. Because people are not buying as many products so their sales will decrease. By this time, Innocent might struggle to pay wages so they need cut down staffs as they no longer need them.
Do you think this ruling benefited the people of Michigan? Explain. I believe at first it will benefit the employees of the plant, but eventually it will not be beneficial because then General Motors will not feel like they can invest in other plants, or may not want to invest in it if it will be a problem with them closing the plants down when they want to, especially if they don’t make enough money. Chapter 7: 5. Explain why perfect personalized pricing is typically more profitable than menu pricing.
New innovations will be considered and implemented, but the company will have to decide if they are working. Going forward, a successful innovation will be defined as a new product or system that saves the company resources or increases sales. The innovation will have to be cost-effective because spending more than the company saves will not result in success. Each store will have clear goals and expectations. Any stores who show growth over last year will be rated as successful.
Currently Competition Bikes purchases inventory for production the month before it goes to the production line. To ensure that inventory is being used in a smart way, the company should negotiate terms with fewer manufacturers to purchase materials on consignment. This would allow the materials to be stored at the manufacturing facility to be available on demand without the necessity of carrying that inventory in the books. The inventory would then be purchased and paid for at the time of use. This reduces the carrying costs of the inventory that is ordered as well as insuring that unused items are not held from month to month.
Mantkelow (2014) explains lean manufacturing as based on "finding inefficiencies and removing wasteful steps that don't add value to the end product." Lean operations helps to reduce waste in production by using resources to only produce what the customer is demanding. A company that is using lean operations has measurable throughput. “Every minute that a product is not sold the cost accumulates and the competitive advantage is lost, this is the manufacturing cycle time” (Heizer and Render, 2010) this analysis could have been used to scale down production in the third and fourth quarter when it became obvious there was excess inventory. For starters, there is no value in holding 60 days' worth of inventory, to adopting lean principles would immediately help us to commit to inventory reduction and better alignment between production and demand.
The decline has cause many smaller companies to push their company less and not worry of about effectiveness and stock prices because there is less push from takeovers. This can be bad for investors. In the end I don't think takeovers are such a bad thing because it can force businesses to really push to achieve higher stock prices but sometimes these takeovers can lead to putting employees and the smaller company at high risk. When Executive Turns Buyout Adviser, Alarm Bell Go
Since the Walton Work Wear line is in the production stage, its accumulated development costs should be capitalized. The Carroway Cool Top has not started it commercial production which would allow the development costs not to be amortized yet. Also interest costs on loans to generate financing for the R&D activates of a product can be capitalized rather than expensed. The capitalization of interest would allow CCL to reduce taxable income in the future when it is more profitable. I would recommend that CCL make the above changes immediately so that the financail statements are not incorrect.
This is because if the government decides to increase taxes then the general public would have less money to spend on the electronic equipment. This would then affect on my profit margins as I will have to keep reduce the prices of the products so that I don’t lose any customers of my