Manufacturing, Production, and Business Strategy Insights
Product Development and Manufacturing Specifications
Specifications, selection of manufacturing methods, production costs, product color, and packaging are determined during the Product Development stage.
Depreciation and Residual Value
The method of increasing digits, also known as sum-of-the-years’ digits depreciation, determines the portion of the initial value of equipment that must be amortized. This is calculated as follows: Residual Value.
Equipment Diagram
An equipment diagram is a diagram of activities.
Land Compatibility
The compatibility of land is greater the lower its moment of inertia.
Global Strategy
The strategy of centralizing most activities in the country of origin is a Global Strategy.
Commercial Experimentation
In commercial experimentation, variability due to uncontrollable factors is reflected by the calculation of the residual dispersion.
Product Life Cycle: Growth Stage
At the growth stage of the product life cycle, extending into new distribution channels, costs, and advertising promotion remain high but are reduced relative to the size of sales compared to the past.
Internationalization Strategies
The following is not an internationalization strategy: The multidimensional strategy.
Working Capital Ratio
The fund maneuver of a company divided by its own resources is the working capital ratio.
Job Description
The document specifying synthetic job objectives, the work performed, responsibilities, required training, and working conditions is the job description.
Production Programming
In production programming, each distribution possibility of resources is called a productive program.
Financial Resource Distribution
The distribution of resources between a company’s own finances and others, according to the ownership criterion, is ownership.
Production Capacity
Decisions relating to the use of overtime impact production capacity.
Wage Structure
The relationship of posts and the payment corresponding to each is reflected in the wage structure.
Distribution Channel Power
Regarding distribution channels, what is based on power and assisting premiums? Noncoercive power.
Sales Force Allocation
In the allocation of sales force, the moment of inertia measures the degree of compatibility of a territory.
Cultural Leadership
What is the basic element considered in the construction of culture from the dimension of cultural irruption, a fundamental element in the success of companies? Leadership.
Training Programs
If a training program is aimed at middle management, it should emphasize human subjects, conceptual, and problem analysis.
Operations Diagram Symbol
The symbol in an operations diagram that represents storage or waiting is a storage means or expected symbol.
Primary Data Source in Marketing
In marketing, the main source of primary data outside the U.S. is the market.
Commercial Experimentation and Variable Control
The empirical analysis of the effect of a trade variable, which controls another variable that cannot be directly controlled and depends on the first, is commercial experimentation.
Financial Returns and Economic Profitability
Financial returns before taxes of a debtor company are higher than its economic profitability.
Multidomestic Strategy
An internationalization strategy in which all company activities are decentralized, with little coordination or centralized control, is the multidomestic strategy.
Process Flow Analysis
In the analysis of process flows, overwhelming attention tends to focus on the elimination of delays and storage.
Debt and Financial Returns
When the expected return of assets exceeds the cost of debt, debt increases the expected financial return.
Federation of American Workers
The Federation of American Workers issued resolutions condemning Taylorist methods.