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These solutions can cut expense costs, and make more profit, because you aim for the peak period with specials, and with raised prices. 3 Evaluating alternatives- they can try each alternatives to see what works best, and to try to see which one brings expenses down. Also, it’s used to see what fits for that business, and once you find something that works you know have an advantage, and you can always look for room to improve your alternative. Lastly, if they just stop full time running operations, open later than mornings, add specials, and cut some employees off, raise prices their operating
If a new business opens and has one or both of these products in stock, we would likely lose potential customers. If they follow a similar marketing plan, we could lose our client referrals to a business with more diverse products. We’ve seen tremendous growth this year, going from taking a $4000 loss in the first year, to a $30,000 profit this year. These risks are most likely not detrimental to our business, but could prevent a profit decrease due to
When the sales are increased for his division, bonuses could be paid to the managers. Frank Campbell reviewed the purchase orders received from November and December. He wanted to determine if any shipments to the customers before December 31 may increase their sales. The alternative way to report sales was to increase sales by sending out two shipments to customers. Although the customers only needed the shipment the following year, this would be a way to exceed the targeted budget.
The consumers will benefit by obtaining the quality goods Kudler provides as well as customized promotions based on personal shopping patterns. Tracking the shopping patterns of the customers will help develop a marketing strategy for Kudler. This strategy will allow Kudler to offer certain products at times when an increase in demand has been determined by shopping trends. Kudler will also benefit from this program with an increase in revenue and a more stream lined business process. This program will keep track of individual customers purchasing behaviors, which will allow Kudler to know how much of a certain product to stock.
In order for Kudler Fine Foods to develop a functioning frequent shopper program, it must track and monitor consumers shopping behavior. The drive of market research is to collect data on consumers and prospective consumers. The collected statistics support business decision making, which therefore diminishes the risks involved in making these conclusions. This type of research would also benefit the consumer by lowering the cost on items bought most, while giving them personalized incentives to return. As a result, legal matters concerning privacy of the consumer has risen and established far more attention.
The major quality that Wal-Mart possesses is its ability to adapt and change according to the needs of its customers while striving to keep prices of goods and services low. With annual sales of about $300 billion, around 68% of the sales come from Wal-Mart Stores, 19% from its international operations, and 13% from its Sam’s Club. Wal-Mart’s annual profits are about $10 billion and they have a market value of over $250 with assets worth over $105 billion (Mujtaba & Maxwell, 2011). This success has hurt many competitors in the process but their success is an example that many manufacturers and businesses should use as a case study to perfect their own inventorial
Operating efficiency was improved using just-in-time and lean operations techniques. I used sales predictions to estimate how many units a sales person would be able to sell each day. This number determined how many units were to be produced each day. Therefore, limiting the number of inventory left over at the end of the quarter, and in turn eliminating waste. I also used marketing surveys to determine what customers wanted in the products RIE Tech was producing.
• It was recommended to Will, by his friend Elsa that he increases the price of his product to allow for additional funds for advertising. • It is recommended that Will increase the price of the lapsed copyright books to $13 and increase the copyright books to $18. • Will could look into the option of renting these digitized books, which could increase profit because he would incur only the initial cost for producing the product and every time is rented out after that initial time, would be mainly
This coupled with a change in my taste as a consumer, in particular a renewed dedication to fitness, were factors, which led to a decrease in demand from my household for gas. As prices increased for basic goods in the summer of 2011 due to the global instability within the worldwide market, I was forced to make decisions regarding resources. With the price of gas risen almost a dollar in the 12-month period from 2010 to 2011 I was forced to anticipate how the fluctuation of gas prices would affect my ability to obtain all needed resources. (http://gasbuddy.com/gb_retail_price_chart.aspx). With the price of goods such as milk on the rise, decisions were required as to how to best allocate my resources.