Discuss Tools for Monitoring Supply Chain Performance and Calculate Key

question 43

Essay

Discuss tools for monitoring supply chain performance and calculate key performance indicators.

Understand the absorption costing approach to cost-plus pricing.

Calculate the required markup on absorption cost to achieve a desired rate of return on investment (ROI).

Understand the effect of sales volume changes on markup under absorption costing.

Apply cost-plus pricing methodology in manufacturing settings.

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Definitions:

Output

The total amount of goods or services produced by a company, industry, or economy.

Perfect Competitor

A hypothetical market structure in which no individual firm has any market power, allowing for an ideal level of competition where prices reflect actual costs.

Imperfect Competitor

A market participant who does not meet the conditions of perfect competition, often having some control over the price of its product or service.

MRP Schedule

A table showing the marginal revenue product (MRP) which is the additional revenue generated from using one more unit of a resource.