Case 2 Bell Jeans Berhad Bell Jeans Berhad was founded in the mid-sixties. The firm survived several lean years and economic recessions largely as the result of the market durability of its dominant product—blue denim jeans. Bell Jeans had been a market leader with "wash-and-wear," bell-bottom and flare jeans, and modern casual pants. By 2009 it was one of Malaysia’s largest clothing manufacturers. It offered a wide variety of dress and fashion jeans for both men and boys and a complete line of pants for women. It enjoyed a reputation for reasonably priced, quality pants. The company sold 40 million pairs of pants last year. Production In each of the last 30 years, Bell Jeans sold virtually all its production and often had to begin to …show more content…
"The plant budgeting begins with me and my staff determining what a plant's quota (in pairs of pants) for each month should be for one year ahead of time. We look at the plant's past performance and add a little to this because we expect people to improve around here. These yearly budgets are updated at the end of each month in light of the previous month's production. If a plant manager beats this budget figure, we feel he has done a good job. If he cannot meet the quota, his people have not been working at what the engineers feel is a very reasonable level of speed and efficiency. Or possibly absenteeism or worker turnover, big problems in our plants, have been excessively high. When the quota has not been reached, we want to know why and want the problem corrected as quickly as we can. "Given the number of pants that a plant actually produces in a month, we can determine the number of standard labour hours allowed for that month. We compare this figure against the 3 actual labour hours to determine how a plant manager performed as an expense centre. I phone every plant manager each month to give prompt feedback on either satisfactory or unsatisfactory performance. "We also look for other things in evaluating a plant manager. Have his community relations been good? Are his employees happy? The owners of this company are very concerned about these factors." An annual bonus constituted the core of Bell Jeans'
This strategy helps us cover the revenue shortfall. Based on the spreadsheet the compensation categories, including salaries and wages, account for 60% of the spending reductions. As a matter of fact, we hired 10,000 employees in 2015 with the high salary, which caused the revenue shortfall. Now, we need to reduce our employees number to 9000 to cover the revenue shortfall. We know how difficult this news may be, but we know that we have to act under cost savings in the coming months and years. I believe that this budget is a vital and responsible action in the short time to manage the immediate required budget shortfall as well as enable us to prepare for the uncertainties of the
Outputs – At the end of the program the output to the homeowner will be based on their inputs from the questions in the season module. If the homeowner’s total efficiency is less than 3% the out put will display that they need to work on their home maintenance. If the homeowners total efficiency is ir over percentage is above 4% it will display that the estimated savings they will be saving on every energy bill.
specific milestones in which to reach over the next month a baseline of production can
sure to control for seasonality (e.g., compute the same quarter to same quarter change in these
Do continual calculations (14) such as unit costs, how much can you sell, plant efficiency.
* From 9/1~12/15, RP1 Process requires 27 or 53 workers per week according to the amount of berries
In order to maximize the total profit, the monthly production plan should be 1900 unit/month for Model S and 650 unit/month
PESTEL analysis template would be the first thing that a manager could use to measure recent
Plans, Actual Results and Forecasts that depends on management’s needs; some daily some only once per year.
Q.1) Compute the following quantities for the current production process as well as for Mike’s and Ike’s plans, assuming the plans are implemented as described in the case.
Quarterly observe whether the trigger event occurs on the observation date. There are four trigger levels (100%, 98%, 96%, 94%) set on each of observation date. If the trigger event occurs on the any of observation dates, the product is expired and the final return is the maximum possible return, 6.5%. Otherwise, the trigger event never occurs on the any of observation dates, the product is expired at the maturity date and the final return is the minimum possible return, 0.5%.
1. Tyler’s total sales forecast for the nursery’s first full year of operations is 228,000 plants at an average sales price of $5 per plant. As a first approximation, assume that 30 percent of the firm’s customers will pay 10 days after the sale, 55 percent will pay on the 30th day, and 15 percent will pay on the 60th day.
The following sections will discuss the specific production schedule, the ranges in which the results apply, and how results may
These visits are extremely significant since plant managers have an opportunity to explain their situations and controllers can be more familiarized with the rationale behind the numbers. As a result, a more accurate and detailed budget report can be produced.