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benchmarking is too expansive. I disagree with this fact because benchmarking gains are well worth the investment you can do. Indeed benchmarking is a very powerful tool which gives you many data and information for your company. People think benchmarking costs are not justified, and the results aren’t enough. Moreover many of them find benchmarking an extremely and complex process. Besides the fact that benchmarking is associated with giving away more information than you can receive is not true, it is a

them to the emerging world. Besides, wage costs are not the only consideration in transfering production back home, for example from China back to America. Cheasepeak Bay Candle used to ship its scented candles for the American market from China , and then from Vietnam when America raised import tariffs on Chinese-made candles. In June 2011 the company opened a highly automated factory near its base in Maryland, partly because of rising labour costs in Asia, and increased shipment charges, but

cost $200,000 or more in the US, for example, goes for $10,000 in India--and that includes a round-trip airfare and a brief vacation package. Similarly, a metal-free dental bridge worth $5,500 in the US costs $500 in India and a knee replacement in Thailand with six days of physical therapy costs about one-fifth of what it would in the States. Cosmetic surgery savings are even greater: a full facelift that would cost $20,000 in the US runs about $1,250 in South Africa. Furthermore, since some interventions

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………………………………………………………………….13 3.6.1 Classes and prices….……………………………………………………………………………………………..13 3.6.2 Method of Payment: 13 3.6.3 Break-even-point on courses………………………………………………………………………………...14 3.6.4 Office interior 15 3.6.5 Wages, Fixed and Variable Costs 15 3.6.6 Loan ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………16 3.7. SWOT analysis……………………………………………………………………………………………………..17 4. Bibliography…………………………………………………………………………………………………....18 5. Appendix…………………………………………………………………………………………………………19

profit. As for Milton Friedman this approach was unbusinesslike. He thought that it’s corporate executive’s responsibility to conduct the business and make as much money as possible according to the company’s code of ethic. In order to reduce the costs many companies hire less-qualified, long-term unemployed workforce or people from ethnic minority. On the word M. Friedman this is very unprofitable and this means the waste of stockholders’ money because stockholders prefer to get more dividends and

Model 1: "hub-and-spoke": reducing operating costs through automation and regional hubs Bank of America is moving to a "regional hub" model * BoA a fermé 300+ agencies aux US (~8%) * Conversion en 2011 de certaines agences en « speciality stores » où des experts peuvent conseiller les clients sur tous les aspects de la banque * Ouverture en 2013-2014 d’une douzaine de Flagship (« that will offer customers more space, more specialized bankers and ­financial advisers, and the latest gadgets”

product on e-marketplace as well as you would do it face to face with a customer or a supplier. The problem is that you begin a transaction with a customer (or a supplier) on the e-marketplace in order to increase the number of contracts and reduce the costs but, then, you have to come back on this customer to make him buy more products or services. Phillips had to manage between having more suppliers/customers on internet and keep a good and healthy relationship with its collaborators. They are

materials, the drying up of the credit which threatens henceforth the whole chain, crisis of confidence of the consumers which has the effect of lowering the request, without forgetting the new ecological standards which pull an increase of production costs. These constraints weigh on sales and margins, and oblige the actors to restructure. PSA, as all the car manufacturers is forced to restrict its production and to revise its traditional strategic axes to be known for PSA: the offensive in products

something like a Canban system. This means, when one product reaches a minimum inventory level a special card with all important product information will be transmitted to the dispatcher by an employee responsible for the stocks. To save carriage costs, however, the dispatcher orders only, as soon as 3 orders are ready. The minimum inventory level was calculated so that the transport time can be bridged + 20% of the transport time. Those 20% should cover the possibility of some troubles in delivery