MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL 1) Causes of Management -Lack of Direction -Motivational Problems -Personal Limitation 2) Avoidance -Activity elimination : Eliminate what is not working properly -Automation -Centralization -Risk Sharing Chapter 2 SECTION II 3) Result Control : Preventive type Control Helps Mgr to address strategy‚ org‚ employees are performing - Steps : 1. Define Performance dimension 2. Measure Performance 3. Setting Target 4. Provide Reward Requirement for Effective Result control : - Knowledge
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consequences for specific activities. © 2013 3 The Strategic alignment • Purchasing strategy supports the Business Strategy • And higher strategies • And other Functional Strategies • Strategic alignment occurs when all the strategies in an organisation support each other and work coherently together to achieve the overall mission. © 2013 4 Translating Objectives to Goals • Be a low cost operator – Reduce purchasing costs • Reduce material costs by 15% next year – Reduce administrative
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Product costing systems in modern manufacturing organisations Product costing refers to the process of assigning shared direct and indirect costs to individual products‚ customers‚ branches or other cost items. (USAID‚ 2007) Product costing is also referred to as assigning costs to inventory and production based on the expenses that go into producing or buying inventory. It is an important process for manufacturers that helps improves management information on products and helps managers and the
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Marketing and product objectives Þ Team Octoberfest¡¦s marketing intent is to attract as many college students to College Night as possible. We want to want to offer a diverse amount of students a place to gather and make new friendships. Also a place to promote art awareness to society. Þ Current Market: Our current market is a large group of college students from all over Boston. These students typically tend to be underclassmen at their respected undergraduate institutions. Þ New Markets:
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pizza lovers . Benefits being delivery‚ speed‚ and good quality. 2. Mind share- Mind share or the development of consumer awareness or popularity‚ is one of the main objectives of advertising and promotion. When people think of examples of a product type or category‚ they usually think of a limited number of brand names. Examples- a) The term googling describing the act of online searching. b) Very few people realize that "Band-Aid" is a specific brand of first-aid adhesive bandage
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Individual Project: Calbee Potato Chips (FMCG) (a) Define Category: Category for Calbee potato chip would be Product Category and the product falls under potato chip snack industry. This report will be specifically be looking at only the potato chip snack industry and will be observing other competing products with same features. Additionally‚ no other snack industries will be discussed in this report; such as‚ apples‚ pies and cakes etc. When observing the snack market‚ potato chips can form
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Brand Positioning Submitted by: Rishi Dewan PGDM-Marketing (DCP) IMT Ghaziabad Contents Introduction 2 Process of Positioning 3 Strategies of Positioning 5 Positioning by Product attributes 5 Positioning by Quality 5 Positioning by Price 6 Positioning by User Category 7 Positioning by Use 8 Positioning by Competitor 9 Positioning by Celebration 10 Positioning Errors: 11 1. Under-positioning 11 2. Over Positioning 11 3. Confused positioning 12 4
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factors of green purchasing practices of Chinese Green purchasing is a key strategy for enterprises to reduce waste and improve efficiency and enhance competitiveness. Based on the survey of 144 companies‚ five Principal components of green purchasing practices were extracted through factor analysis using SPSS statistic software. And then‚ regression analysis were conducted to verify the hypothesis‚ it drawed a conclusion on leaders’ support will boost the green purchasing practices and cost
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essay I will look at the advantages and disadvantages of using a product lifecycle‚ as well as evaluating the usefulness of such a model to a firm. The Product Lifecycle is a part of the portfolio analysis‚ in which a firm can analyse the stages in a products life. It is a model used to aid with decision making in a firm‚ and part of the marketing planning process. The shape and length of the lifecycle varies with the different products‚ as each one is unique. The different stages are launch‚ growth
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Development of an ERP System BSA/400 SR-rm-003 Development of an ERP System Riordan Manufacturing Inc. is a global plastics manufacturer that was founded in 1991 and employs 550 people. They have since expanded to three locations in the U.S. and one in China. Due to these expansions the company is now experiencing communication and processing issues. Each system needs to be connected to the others in order to improve the tracking and productivity as well as communication between systems. We have been
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