1) a. Sheen should stock the optimal stocking quantity in this situation, which is 584 newspapers. The expected profit at this stocking quantity is $331.44. b. Q= µ+Φ-1(Cu/(Cu+C0))δ Q=500+ Φ-1(.8/(.2+.8))100 Q=500+(..7881)(100) Q=579 This is off by 5 newspapers from the model given in the spreadsheet, which results in a $.03 difference in profits. 2) a. With the opportunity cost of her time per hour being equal to $10, Sheen should invest 4 hours daily into the creation of the profile section. This would raise here optimal stocking quantity to 685 newspapers and would increase her expected daily profit to $371.33. b. Sheen’s choice of effort level, h, to be 4 hours was chosen because, in order to maximize profit, she would need an effort …show more content…
f. Armentrout’s should stock 409 copies of the Express. g. The optimal order quantity is lower in this situation because there is now a profitable alternative to running out of stock and therefore, less profit risked in the case of a stock out. h. If Armentrout were to implement the real estate costing plan, there would be an additional cost to stocking each newspaper. Therefore, the stocking level would probably be lower, because there would be an additional cost for holding newspaper and thus an additional cost associated with overstocking. 4) a- By offering to buy back any leftover newspapers, Armentrout has significantly less risk in overstocking. This means that he will be willing to purchase more, because if the stocking quantity exceeds demand, it will not be as much of a loss on the leftovers. To maximize channel profit the optimal price would be $.75. This would result in a channel profit of $369.79. Under this scenario of a buyback price of $.75, Armentrout would buy 659 newspapers.
b- The ideal combination to maximize the channel profit, according to the spreadsheet designed by Sheen, would be a transfer price of $.99 with a buyback price of $.988. This is just a little bit more profit than we optimized in the vertically integrated channel of question 2, although not really by a significant amount. c- If Sheen were to be paid a franchising fee by Armentrout each day, it
3- As we can see the company would loss 0.52 cent per 1 kg if it decides to sell at 6.85 price and allocates the fixed expenses at 1.20 per 1 kg.
Breakeven Analysis for Product Tylenol Approach 1 - Same price as Tylenol Approach 2a - Cheaper than Tylenol Approach 2b - Cheaper w/lowered trade cost $ $ $ $ Unit Cost (Variable Cost) 0.60 0.60 0.60 0.60 Trade Cost (Selling Price to Retailers) $ 1.69 $ 1.69 $ 1.05 $ 0.70 Fixed Cost (Advertising) 2,000,000 6,000,000 6,000,000 6,000,000 Break-Even Quantity [Fixed Cost/(Trade Cost-Unit Cost)] 1,834,862 5,504,587 13,333,333 60,000,000 Contribution Margin (Unit) 64% 64% 43% 14%
Imagine that you have decided to open a small ice cream stand on campus called "Ice-Campusades." You are very excited because you love ice cream (delicious!) and this is a fun way for you to apply your business and economics skills! Here is the first month's scenario--you order the same number (and the same variety) of ice creams each day from the ice cream suppliers, and your ice creams are always marked at $1.50 each. However, you notice that there are days when ice creams remain unsold but other days when there are not enough ice creams for the number of customers.
Although the shelves are selling well, the total profit of the company is a concern. An engineer suggested that the current production of model S should be cut back because Model S shelves are sold for $1800 per unit but their costs are $1839. Therefore, company is losing money on each one. But
The most suitable costing method Yeltin should adopt is the practical capacity in order to remove the factor of uncertain budgeted sales figure. For this approach and the practical capacity of 65000-22000 units, then the revised overhead costs come out to be $30. With the inclusion of material and labor costs, the cost of the cartridge stand at $52 and the additional royalty expense of $10 raises the overall per unit cost to $62. The selling price of the cartridge is fixed at $150. With this selling price, the gross margin is equal to $88. The gross margin percentage is equal to 59%. In comparison to the budgeted volume, the gross margin has increased by 14%. See below
4. a. The optimal stocking quantity is 409 according to the spreadsheet in the simulation, which is a decrease from 516 in problem #3 because in the event that the Express stocks out, Ralph still makes a profit from 40% of customers who will buy the Private. Therefore, because he makes more profit off of the Private, his risk decreases because of cost of understocking of the Express.
One of specialty’s managers felt that the profit potential was so great that the order quantity should have a 70% chance of meeting demand and only a 30% chance of any stock-outs. What quantity would be ordered under this policy, and what is the projected profit under the three sales scenarios?
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.
II.|Connie has an investment portfolio in excess of $450,000. She pays Chris $350 to do an analysis of her investments and make recommendations on restructuring the portfolio.|
Ravenport believes that as long as they are not ruining their prices by accepting a lower priced order they should sell excess capacity at any price that is equal to or greater than variable costs. He argues that idle capacity is worse since it has no contribution to overheads whereas a lower price above variable costs would have some positive contribution to the fixed costs and therefore improve profitability for the division. He believes a price of $40 is insufficient to cover the total costs and that the
In our second assumption, instead of using the cost of goods per cases in 1986, we try to use the percentage it counts in the total expenses which is 50.4% and to find the sales needed to break-even. The detail of the calculation is shown in the answer for questions d. The result is that 95,635, a little bit higher than the estimated sales of 90,000.
1. The local Mastermind store sells innovative educational toys. Part of their service is giving advice to customers about the best toys for a particular age group, which requires having more customer service representatives in the store. During the month long Christmas buying season, it makes half of its $500,000 yearly sales. Its contribution margin on average is 40% and its fixed costs for the year are about $150,000. The owner believes that she could make even higher sales, if she had more customer service representatives on the floor during the peak season. She plans on hiring four more people for 200 hours each at $20 per hour. How much additional revenue does she have earn to the nearest dollar
* Use the profit maximization rule MR = MC to determine your optimal price and optimal output level now that you have market power. Compare these values with the values you generated in Assignment 1. Determine whether your price higher is or lower.)
The stocking quantity and expected profits are higher in the second scenario because of the extra time spent to improve the quality of profile section. By spending the extra time to improve the profile section, Anna Sheen increased the overall quality of her newspaper, which will, most likely, lead to an increased probability of demand for her newspaper around the area. This increased demand will raise Anna Sheen’s stocking quantity and the daily expected profits that are associated with that individual stocking quantity.
Price protection (cost caused by changing value of the inventory held by HP’s channel partners)