Operations Management Case Study ToysPlus‚ Inc. Murthy‚ vice president of manufacturing for ToysPlus‚ Inc.‚ finished reading the weekly production report for the week ended January 27‚ 2012. Inventories were up once again‚ and service levels were lower than expected. Murthy wondered why these problems could not be solved once and for all. Last year he had installed a new IBM production and inventory control system on the company’s mainframe computer. While the system drastically reduced inventories
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Activity-Based Costing ABC Company produces two products: Product A and Product B. Recently appointed management decided to change from a unit-based‚ traditional costing system to an activity-based costing system. The following data have been gathered‚ to assess the effect of the change: Product type Quantity Prime Costs Machine Hours Material Moves Setups Product A 60‚000 €150‚000 3‚500 6‚800 800 Product B 15‚000 € 30‚000 2‚750 1‚200 450 Expenditures (€) €180‚000 €120‚000
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Normal costing is used to value manufactured products with the actual materials costs‚ the actual direct labor costs‚ and manufacturing overhead based on a predetermined manufacturing overhead rate. These three costs are referred to as product costs and are used for the cost of goods sold and for inventory valuation. Standard costing values its manufactured products with a predetermined materials cost‚ a predetermined direct labor cost‚ and a predetermined manufacturing overhead cost. These standard
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MARKETING Session III: Pricing Policy Question I: Why is pricing policy so important in the marketing mix of a product ? What is pricing? Pricing is the process of determining what a compagny will receive in Exchange for its products. Pricing strategy is important for several aspects in the compagny wich are: Survival : short-term objectives are set in order to survive Profit :the objective is to maximise profits Return on investment : prices are set to attain a specified return on
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specialty retailers. MegaMart has offered to purchase 50‚000 units annually for a three-year period at 374 per unit. It cannot pay a higher price because it plans to retail the product at only 549. While costs are not expected to increase‚ an inflation clause will allow Elektra to pass on exogenous cost increases. After extensive negotiations‚ MegaMart has made a take-it-or-leave-it offer and threatened to explore other strategic partners in case Elektra does not accept its offer. Although MegaMarts
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149 Control w it h fairness in transfer pricing A transfer price is useless unless unit managers feel they are being treated fairly while top management retains control Robert G. Eccles It seems straightforward on the face of it: when a unit in a company sells a product to another unit‚ it ought to charge a fair price. That price may be based on what it cost to make the product‚ or on the market price of the product‚ or on some combination of these two. But as most managers
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[pic] King Saud University College of Administrative Sciences Strategic Management 597 BUS Case analysis Target Corporation Professor Dr. Nadia Ayoub Submit by Ghadeer Al- Mutawa Reem Abdul Jabbar 9‚ January 2007 Contents Introduction Vision Statement Mission Statement Strategy Analysis State 1: The Input Stage External
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7 Transfer Pricing LEARNING OBJECTIVES : After studying this chapter students will understand. * Purpose of transfer pricing * Responsibility of a division as responsibility centre * Conflicts between the divisions * Setting of transfer price where the profit of the organisation can be higher. 7.1 Introduction The whole organisation can be divided into a number of divisions‚ the performance of each division can be measured in terms of both the income earned and the
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Identification Costing Sheet I have a dish of grilled lamb chops with tomatoes and olives‚ honey lime carrots‚ and roasted red potatoes with garlic and rosemary. After costing out every item in the recipe I got a subtotal of $104.56. Once I introduced a Q-factor of 3% into the costing‚ I came up with a subtotal with Q-factor of $107.70. My yield of the dishes is 10 plates‚ so taking the subtotal with a Q-factor and dividing it by 10‚ makes it $10.77 per dish‚ then add in a dollar for extra cost makes it
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EXERCISE 3–1: Process Costing and Job-Order Costing [LO1] Which method of determining product costs‚ job-order costing or process costing‚ would be more appropriate in each of the following situations? * a. An Elmer’s glue factory. * b. A textbook publisher such as McGraw-Hill. * c. An Exxon oil refinery. * d. A facility that makes Minute Maid frozen orange juice. * e. A Scott paper mill. * f. A custom home builder. * g. A shop that customizes vans. * h. A
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