Study: Delivery Strategy at MoonChem Annual cost of existing strategy Considering different delivery options Impact of the proposed recommendation on consignment inventory Chapter 11 Case Study: Managing Inventories at Alko Inc. Annual costs Savings associated with NDC and recommendations Recommendation and evaluation of other distribution systems Chapter 10 Case Study: Delivery Strategy at MoonChem MoonChem is a manufacturer
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Analysis The annual maintenance coast of machine shop is P 69‚994. If the cost of making a forging is P 56 per unit and its selling price is P 135 per forged unit‚ find the number of unit to be forged to break-even. Solution: Let: x = number of units to be forged to break-even Income = 135x Expenses = 69‚994 + 56x To break-even: Income = Expenses 135x = 69‚994 + 56x 79x =69‚994 x = 886 units Steel drum manufacturer incurs a yearly fixed operating cost of $ 200
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l’inventaire Solution pour l’étude de cas “MoonChem” 1. What is the annual cost of MoonChem’s strategy of sending full truckloads to each customer in the Peoria region to replenish consignment inventory? MoonChem’s customer profile appears in Table 10-4 and is reproduced below: Customer Type Number of Consumption Customers (Pounds per Month) Small Medium Large 12 6 2 1‚000 5‚000 12‚000 Each truck has a fixed capacity of 40‚000 pounds and costs MoonChem $400 per delivery. The Small customers use
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Equivalent annual cost From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia In finance the equivalent annual cost (EAC) is the cost per year of owning and operating an asset over its entire lifespan. EAC is often used as a decision making tool in capital budgeting when comparing investment projects of unequal lifespans. For example if project A has an expected lifetime of 7 years‚ and project B has an expected lifetime of 11 years it would be improper to simply compare the net present values (NPVs) of the
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One of the SKUs has the following characteristics. Demand (D) = 20‚000 units/year Ordering cost (S) = $40/order Holding cost (H) = $2/unit/year Lead time (L) = 2weeks Cycle-service level = 95% Demand is normally distributed with a standard deviation of weekly demand of 100 units. Current on-hand inventory is 1.040 units with no scheduled receipts and no backorders. 1. Calculate the item’s EOQ. What is the average time‚ in weeks between orders? EOQ = (2DS)/H EOQ = (2*20000*40)/2 EOQ = 800000
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GENERIC STRATEGIES: A firm positions itself by leveraging its strengths. Michael Porter has argued that a firm’s strength usually falls into one of two headings: • Cost advantage • Differentiation By applying these strengths in either a broad or narrow or narrow scope‚ three generic strategies result: • Cost leadership • Differentiation • Focus These strategies are applied at business unit level. They are called generic strategies because they are not firm or industry dependant. Cost Leadership:
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Definition: A firm pursuing a cost-leadership strategy attempts to gain a competitive advantage primarily by reducing its economic costs below its competitors. If cost-leadership strategies can be implemented by numerous firms in an industry‚ or if no firms face a cost disadvantage in imitating a cost-leadership strategy‚ then being a cost leader does not generate a sustained competitive advantage for a firm. The ability of a valuable cost-leadership competitive strategy to generate a sustained competitive
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Sending women to Virginia (1622) Early Virginia lacked one essential element of English society – stable family life. Given the demand for male servants to work in the tobacco fields‚ for most of the seventeenth century‚ men in the Chesapeake outnumbered women by four or five to one. The Virginia company avidly promoted the immigration of women‚ sending “tobacco brides” to the colony in 1620 and 1621 for arranged marriages (so-called because the husband was ordered to give a payment in tobacco to
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Low cost strategy is one of the three generic marketing strategies. Companies use this strategy to offer low price in its products/services by focusing on various points in its value chain activities. In order to be a successful low-cost competitor in a competitive environment‚ companies focus on several issues; which all pass from the ways of margin improvement (in terms of increasing revenue and reducing cost) and asset effectiveness (in the sense of minimizing working capital and maximizing
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Director Kiddy Toy Company (KTC) Re: Cost Leadership Strategy Date: As postmark We refer to the recent intent shown by US retail chain in Boston to buy Panda toys with appropriate adaptations for the American culture. The Kiddy Toy been supplying range of toys in the China market and is looking to expand in US market should follow the Cost Leadership strategy‚ below are our points to support this strategy: 1. Kiddy Toy can offer their product at a low cost to the broadest possible market.
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