_______ Types of inventory * By stages of production and value added * Raw materials (RM) * Work-in-progress (WIP) * Finished goods (FG) * They’re not equally costly * Finished goods are more valuable * They need to be managed differently * By function * Cycle stock (working stock): amount of inventory that you expect to sell * Safety stock (buffer stock): amount of inventory that you don’t expect to sell * Seasonal stock (anticipation
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introduced an instant hot-tea can by the name of Brooke Bond’s PG Tips. Kai Shii is about to be launched in the US market. The following study evaluates various market segmentation strategies, potential consumer target segments, and factors to forecast demand that were used or could have been used by these two companies. The main reference for this report was Chapter 3 of the textbook ‘Principles of Marketing’ by Kotler et al. The main results of the analysis are as follows: • Both companies’ SWOT
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used. KEY CONCEPTS IN NUTSHELL: MARKET : It refers to a place where the buyers and sellers meet each other for sale and purchase of the commodity. CUSTOMER : Customers refers to the people or organization that seek satisfaction of their needs and wants. SELLER OR MARKETEER : The sellers or marketers offer a variety of entities to customers. MARKETING : Marketing makes goods and services more useful to the society by creating place,
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Group | | | | 4/13/2013 | 56130 Model leader: Riccardo Mogre | Student number: 201100320 Word count: 2,662 Contents 1. Introduction 2 2. Section 1: Demand forecast 2 2.1. Moving average 2 2.2. Simple Exponential Smoothing 3 2.3. Holt’s Model 4 2.4. Winter’s Model 5 2.5. Demand forecast for XYZ 8 3. Section 2: Aggregate planning 9 3.1. Aggregate planning Question 1 10 3.2. Aggregate planning Question 2 11 4. Section 4: Pricing and revenue management
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1) Derived demand is used in economics to describe the demand that is placed on goods or a good or service as a consequence of changes in the price for some other related good or service. It is a demand for some physical or intangible item where a market exists for both related goods and services in question. The derived demand can have a significant impact on the derived good's market price. The concept of derived demand helps to control the demand for labor through one product needing the use of
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that a perfectly competitive firm does not have any control over the market. A large number of small firms that produce identical products have a large number of perfect substitutes that exist for the output produced by any given firm. This means the demand curve for a perfectly competitive firm's output is perfectly elastic. Freedom of entry into and exit out of the industry means that capital and other resources are perfectly mobile and that it is not possible to erect barriers to entry. Perfect competition
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has four perspectives, Customer perspective, internal business perspective, Innovation and learning perspective, and financial perspectives. By using balanced scorecards, BIOCO knows what the customers needed is. It helps BIOCO to fulfill customers’ need better. For internal business perspective part, BIOCO can clear the corporate vision and strategy. BIOCO can adjust the strategy according to the pervious balanced scorecards. Also the balanced scorecards link everyone in the company and enhance the
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to identify and satisfy needs and wants of the buyer. The customer is king. This contrast to the production orientation/concept which focuses on how to make the product at low cost, and the selling concept/orientation which focuses on promoting what you want to sell. In the production and selling orientations the company makes what it wants to make and tries to get the consumer to buy it. With the marketing orientation the company first figures out what people want to buy, then makes it, and
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to identify and satisfy needs and wants of the buyer. The customer is king. This contrast to the production orientation/concept which focuses on how to make the product at low cost, and the selling concept/orientation which focuses on promoting what you want to sell. In the production and selling orientations the company makes what it wants to make and tries to get the consumer to buy it. With the marketing orientation the company first figures out what people want to buy, then makes it, and
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and vacation travelers, but for the business travelers, AirBnB need to focus on those who attend big festivals or large conferences and trade fairs. Because the selling point of AirBnB is reasonable price and multiple options, those vacation travelers might have limited budget, AirBnB will be a good choice for them to save money and experience the local family culture at the same time. Otherwise, for those business travelers who need to attend big events/festivals/ trade fairs, the hotel rooms are
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