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Marketing Consultant Global Instrument Systems Inc.
The situation in which the profits of the firm are falling even though the overall sales volumes have been increasing may be a signal of poor marketing policy and product strategy of the firm and must be taken care of as the increasing sales costs due to increased sales volumes will not be offset by the profit. In order to develop the strategy for profit maximization, a precise and detailed analysis of the available firm operational history must be implemented.
The first vital step would be to carry Cost Driver Analysis and Activity-Based Cost Accounting, which are "tools" for gathering data on your costs of doing business: costs to serve your customers, costs to purchase, carry, and sell your vendors' products and services, and your costs to engage in various "activities" (ordering products, receiving products, selling products,...
Fixed company costs may have increased during the last years and this has had negative influence on marginal profit received from selling extra unit and overall company profit. As the subject company is a manufacturing company, the costs for all the inputs must be taken into account as this will affect the end cost of the product produced. Ways to minimize the raw materials costs in terms of finding better suppliers or estimating the optimal purchasing volumes and discount rates that may be generating by doing so is another step in the cost driver analysis. The next perfection step is to improve delivery prices of raw materials to the company…
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Delphi Study: Influence of Environmental Sustainability Initiatives on Information Systems Table of Contents (first draft) Green IT Current Methods and Solutions Green IT and energy costs Green It and Email Systems Green IT and ICT Green IT and ESS Green IT and TPS Green IT and DSS Green IT and other support systems Green IT and GHG reduction Green IT and the Government Sector Green IT and the Corporate Sector Future Prospects of Green IT in the software industry The paper focuses on how the
According to Brech, these trends do not leave much time -- or money -- available for dining at full-service restaurants. In this study, the respondents "reported their families ate at cafeterias, family or chain restaurants, or fine dining restaurants only once or less each week" (Brech 1998: 21). This is not to say, though, that the number of full-service restaurants in countries such as the United States has declined
Ayers (2000, p. 4) describes a supply chain as "Life cycle processes supporting physical, information, financial, and knowledge flows for moving products and services from suppliers to end-users." A supply chain can be short, as in the case of a cottage industry, or quite long and complex as in the manufacture, distribution, and sales of automobiles. In fact, the automobile supply chain has its origin in the mining of the
Adoption Of Social Media by Small Business and Entrepreneurs in the Gulf Region The internet technology has revolutionized the communication landscape among businesses in both developed and emerging economies because of the unprecedented growth of the social media. Social media is an interactive technology system that business and people use to collaborate, connect, and create personal and business profiles. A growing consensus among marketing professionals, business and academic communities shows