Creating more profit opportunities by increasing marketing and promotion will encourage the dealerships to bring in and stock more of Company S’s product. This strategy is advantageous because it increases the opportunities for profit for not only the dealerships, but for Company S as well. If the dealerships sell more units, then Company S will make more money as well. This will create trust between Company S and it’s dealerships. A disadvantage of this strategy would be costly.
The data necessary for operations will be combined, organized, and maintained by the new ERP system. We will be able to merge each of the location’s key operations, including the distribution, human resources, customer relations, manufacturing, and financial departments into one system. This system will become the backbone and heart of our corporation’s operations. We will divide the new compliance system into three levels: detect, respond, and prevent. The coverage of these levels is intended to guarantee the entire business will be in complete agreement of all applicable regulations and laws also are own internal rules and principles.
A more difficult and time consuming effort Huffman could take to reduce exchange rate risk is to spin the rate to your advantage (Prinzel, 2013). This means when USD exchange rates are high, Huffman would need to ensure their customers are aware of the benefits they could be receiving in discounts. Relative to Huffman Trucking’s benefit with this approach, they could buy foreign exchanges when rates are low, similarly taking advantage of the same benefits their customers would
As Sainsbury's have a hierarchical structure they are most likely to lose a lot of money because for the marketing and research and development departments to carry out their functions they would need funding from the finance department. For this information to get to the finance department a lot of time would have been wasted and also for the finance department to reply to them, all this would cost them a lot of money. Advantages of Sainsbury's is that the power they have would be successful for the business as when work is being done the communication of the workers together when given commands from the manager and having to work better for the manager to impress them in order for more work to be done and at a more well-organized rate then if there was no pressure from the manager. Disadvantages would be that the workers would start to get stressed from having to complete the workload at too fast a pace for them to work at all times that they will start to work less and dislike there job and some days may not want to work as they are stressed to do work which is too much for them to cope as they are trying too hard to impress, this could lead to employees wanting to quit their job. Advantages are that when having to complete work set out by the manager to the employees it can be done efficiently so that the manager will be able to assess the employee and they could get a promotion to a higher part of their job.
Innovation impacts the cost of production as well. Even the innovation helps in lowering the cost of production and making economies more efficient – producing more outputs with the same number of inputs. Technology affects market structure. In today’s market world, technology advances more rapidly because individuals gain incentives, in the form of profits, to discover new and cheaper ways of doing things. Even the dynamic efficiency refers to a market’s ability to promote cost-reducing or product-enhancing technological change.
Without prior market penetration of an organization’s competetitors, the usefulness and effectiveness of properly marketing a new product or service can be quite burdensome. This is due to the fact that an organization runs a major risk of constantly striving to maintain its customer base, as the new type of product or service has not yet been introduced into the maintstream. Additionally, pricing may be an issue based upon: Should pricing be very low to attract new buyers?, or Should pricing be set high to offset initial entry into a new marketplace? These are the questions that an organization must face, but for the most part, being a
Task 1 Tesco For this task I chose to review’s Tesco organisations because I like how they are improving their growth in low economy percentage and demand. The image of business cycle: Growth Growth Define boom and recession Boom- The boom stage is when everyone feels good. At this stage demand increased, unemployment is very low, high competition at the job places. The business confidence is high so they invest more and expand themselves. The customers feel good.
In a highly competitive business world, on a firm’s priority list is the subject of increasing profit and reducing cost. One might than pose the question, has this put them out of business (mom and pop store)? The answer is absolutely not, but rather, they too benefit from cheaper prices as they continue to buy in bulk and continue to operate as the name suggest, convenient
As we know increase in retention rate in the customer segment has a significant positive effect on the CLV. Narrowing the target market will allow HubSpot to develop the expertise and opportunity to expand cater to various needs of the target market. Also, continuing with the current approach of wider net will add on to difficulties of Customer service department which may lead to substandard service and higher Churn rates. Owner Ollies or Market Marys Selection among Owner Ollies and Market Marys has its pros and cons discussed in Appendix E. For Owner Ollies, first, the high no. of businesses and ease of selling, provides a great expansion opportunity for HobSpot.
The main advantages are: * Economy of scale - Possibility of bulking the orders to get higher negotiation power and better prices * Less administrative work with regards to invoices and accounting * Better traceability of spending - Better control of what is really happening, who is purchasing what and from whom The main disadvantages are: * More bureaucracy with regards to the order cycle (one more step) * Employees might think that the company don’t trust them, Hard to keep local vendor relationship * Difficult to purchase High end products where deep product knowledge and understanding is required. Usage of e-sourcing tools, as opposed to face-to face has following advantages: * Increased transaction efficiency - Transactions occur faster. Easier to issue RFIs, ran eRAs, request sealed bids and compare the offers save time/cost (possibly less inventory since necessary products come faster) * Better transparency for offer comparison * Decreased price - As a result of reverse auction and more competitive bidding, final price might be better Disadvantages: * The competitive field is unknown to the participants (no ability to ask and no personal