Eliminate tariffs on LA |
Build a plant in LA and expand as needed |
Striving for low labor costs |
Labor costs per pairs produced to the industry low for employee compensation and pairs produced |
Industry low, average, and high cost benchmarks |
Are worth scrutiny because they tell what degree benchmarks cost for the benchmark cost categories and are competitive with rival companies |
NOT a good indication your companies costs are too high |
operating profits in all four regions are below industry high values |
Most essential results |
Market Snapshot-prices, SQ rating, models available etc etc |
NOT for private label footwear |
Proportion of marketing expenses where private label are sold |
When branding footwear from brands of rivals DONOT |
Achieve a lower reject rate per pairs of shoes than almost all other rivals |
If co adds new plant capacity of 30 Mill then annual depreciation cost will rise by |
5 % or 1,500,000 |
Benchmarking cost data |
provide evidence to the degree of which various costs at plants are competitive to rival companies |
Social responsibility and Corporate Leadership |
Positive impact on image rating and social responsibility |
Boost stock price? |
Increase earnings per share each yr, raise companys dividend each yr, and repurchase shares of common stock |
Improve SQ rating of branded shoes |
Increase: Styling features, TQM/6 Sigma, Superior materials, best practices training, not increase number styles/models produced |
In instituting sizes of companys margins over direct costs |
how many sold in each pair of shoes that could be 1-allocated to paying administration expenses or interest costs 2-boost pretax profits |
Under what circumstance should a company give serious consideration to provide private label to chain retailers |
excess production capacity that would be idle |
Lower production costs per pair |
Increasing spending for enhanced styling and features |