A supermarket group has experienced operational problems during recent years, including a shortage of warehousing space due to increasing turnover and poor inventory management. The product portfolio has expanded considerably. Although this has led to increased sales volume, marketing and logistics costs have increased disproportionately. Non product-specific costs have also increased significantly.
Management is now considering using Direct Product Profitability (DPP).
Which of the following statements are valid in respect of the possible implementation of DPP within the supermarket group?
Select ALL that apply.
The Chief Executive of a large manufacturing company has made the following comment.
"All of our competitors are using both just-in-time(JIT) and Total Quality Management (TQM) whereas we have never used either. Consequently we are lagging behind our competitors because their levels of inventory and quality costs are significantly below ours. I want to see JIT fully implemented, both for purchasing and for production, in 4 weeks' time and TQM fully implemented 4 weeks after that."
Which of the following provide appropriate advice to the Chief Executive?
Select ALL that apply.
When considering a capital investment, relevant costs for decision making have which THREE of the following features?
The following information is available for four investment projects:
A discount rate of 12% is appropriate for all four projects. The organization is subject to capital rationing and wishes to prioritise the projects using the profitability index (PI).
Which project has the highest PI?
A company has just completed the production of the first 16 batches of a product. A learning curve has been observed throughout. The following table gives further details.
To the nearest whole percentage, what rate of learning is implied?
