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Which of the following is not one of the factors that affect the S/Q rating of a company’s footwear? |
How much is spent to inspect newly-produced pairs and avoid shipping defective shoes |
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Which of the following are the 5 measures on which a company’s performance is judged/scored? |
Earnings per share, ROE, stock price, credit rating, and image rating |
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Which of the following currencies are involved in affecting the operations of your company’s athletic footwear business? |
Singapore dollars, euros, U.S. dollars, and Brazilian reals |
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Which of the following is not an accurate characteristic of your company’s plant operations? |
The company makes most all of its footwear materials and components in-house, uses 100-person assembly lines to make branded shoes at the rate of 500 pairs per day, and outsources private-label footwear from contract manufacturers in the Asia-Pacific. |
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The interest rate a company pays on loans outstanding depends on |
its credit rating. |
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The company’s shipments of newly-produced branded and private-label footwear from its plants to its regional distribution centers are subject to |
any applicable import tariffs and exchange rate adjustments. |
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The factors that affect worker productivity include |
Whether plant upgrade option D has been installed, the size of incentive payments per non-defective pair, base pay increases, how favorably a company’s compensation package compares with the industry-average compensation package, and expenditures for best practices training. |
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Which of the following are components of the compensation package for production workers at your company’s plants? |
Base wages, incentive payments per non defective pair produced, and overtime pay |
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Which the following are the four geographic regions in which the company sells branded and private-label athletic footwear? |
North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, and Europe-Africa, |
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The company currently has production facilities to make athletic footwear in |
North America and Asia-Pacific. |
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Which of the following is the most important factor in determining a company’s unit sales and market share of private-label footwear in a particular geographic region? |
The company’s bid price |
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Which one of the following is not a factor in determining a company’s unit sales and market share of branded footwear in a particular geographic region? |
Footwear features and footwear durability |
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The company’s present production capability (as of Year 10) is: |
6 million pairs without the use of overtime and 7.2 million pairs with the use of overtime. |
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Which the following are factors in determining a company’s credit rating? |
Its default risk ratio, debt-asset ratio, and interest coverage ratio |
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Which of the following best describes the materials the company uses to make its footwear? |
Standard and superior materials |
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In Year 11, footwear companies can expect to sell |
an average of 4.84 million branded pairs and an average of 800,000 private-label pairs, although sales at some companies may run higher or lower than the averages due to differing levels of competitive effort. |
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The market for private-label athletic footwear is projected to grow |
10% annually in all four geographic regions during the Year 11-Year 15 period and 8.5% annually in all four regions during the Year 16-Year 20 period. |
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The market for branded athletic footwear is projected to grow |
9-11% annually in Latin America and the Asia-Pacific during the Year 11-Year 15 period and 7-9% annually in these regions during the Year 16-Year 20 period. |
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The reject rates at the company’s footwear plants are a function of |
the size of the incentive payment per non-defective pair produced, spending for best practices training, spending for TQM/Six Sigma quality control, the number of models/styles comprising the company’s product line, and the installation of plant upgrade option A. |
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