Answer:
1. The major issue in the process is the lack of communication between different parties. The process being manually driven, might affect the customer satisfaction and lead to lost sales. The changes which need to be made is to make available the price information of different items at once, when the customer comes in to place an order. This can be made possible by asking the suppliers to send the updated sheet every morning before the day's business begins. It will be better if the entire uncatalogued as well as the price sheet is in electronic form, which can be updated immediately, as soon as the information is received from supplier in the morning. One better alternative is to connect the suppliers through an ERP so that their price might reflect at the company's end as soon as it is updated, It will reduce much hassle and mistakes that might creep in due to manual process.
2. a. The number of customers leaving per day / week to competitors due to inefficiency.
b. Total average delay in customer's order.
c. Customer satisfaction rating of the process as this will give the overall picture of customer's opinion about the company.
3. The information system might enable the suppliers to update their information each day which can then be used by the company reps to find out the right price of an item and enable him /her to provide the estimate immediately, leading to greater customer satisfaction, reducing the lost sales and eliminating the chances of a wrong quote being given.
Answer:
Price lowers and becomes negative or -5.37 dollars
Explanation:
Market risk premium's formula could be written as dividends/price + dividend's growth rate. Therefore, we dividend growth rate according to the current price and dividend level equal to market risk premium - dividends/price or 0.15 - 1/15.43 = 0.086 or 8.6%. If the dividend growth rate rises by 25% than new one is 33.6%. Price is equal to dividends/market risk premium - dividend growth rate or in this case 1/0.15-0.336 or 1/-0.186 or -5.37 dollars. If the price is negative that would mean that any future selling of the stock would mean that ABC would have to pay in order to sell it.
Answer:
<u>Predatory pricing</u>
Explanation:
A "predator" refers to an animal who survives by "preying" on other animals.
Predatory pricing in a similar sense refers to that form of excessively low pricing which in a way consumes other firms by taking away their share of industry revenues. Such form of pricing is considered illegal and is against healthy competition.
Such pricing eliminates competitors from the market and gradually leads to emergence of a monopoly i.e supremacy of a single firm in the whole industry and thus considered an illegal practice.
In the given case, the retail chain can be alleged to have followed predatory pricing which is substantiated by the fact that it cuts it's prices excessively i.e even below cost , thereby forcing smaller companies to exit the industry.
Answer:
unenforceable;
preexisting duty
Explanation:
Preexisting Duty Doctrine
This is simply regarded as when an individual is already under an obligation to do something. It simply states that the rules and guidelines under contract law that shows that if a party to a contract is under a pre-existing duty to perform, then no second thought (consideration) is taken for the modification of the contract. Modification is then voidable.
3 Types of Legal Duties
1. Public Legal Duties such ad the duty of a police officer to protect lives and properties.
2. Contractual Legal Duties such as unperformed, preexisting contractual promises etc.
3. Private Legal Duties such as the duty to follow the law.
Unenforceable Contracts
This is regarded as a contract that cannot be enforced/given consideration or effect by the court of law etc unless they are settled and corrected according to law.
Kinds of unenforceable contracts
1.) Those entered into in the name of another by one without, or acting in excess of rights or authority;
2.) Those that do not comply with the Statute of Frauds etc.
COMPLETE QUESTION:
When customers have their groceries scanned at the supermarket checkout counter, data regarding product sales and coupon redemptions are collected and processed by tracking services such as IRI's InfoScan. Consumer product firms such as Procter & Gamble use data collected by IRI to allocate scarce marketing resources. Which of the following data are NOT collected at retail checkout counters?
Answer: household demographics
Explanation:
Consumer product firms such as Procter & Gamble that uses data collected by IRI to allocate scarce marketing resources don't collect consumer's data that includes household demographs because in allocating scarce marketing resources household demographs are not important data.
