these questions pertains to my inventory management class
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Production Planning is scheduling the fabrication/ manufacture and or production of products needed to met your customer's demands or your own warehouse demands (stock).This could also include scheduling of labor or materials. Material management would be more warehouse/inventory related. Raw materials (for manufacturing), finished goods (for your customers), handling inbound and outbound freight, materials on hand etc.
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You have asked a huge question that cannot be answered succintly in a small forum such as this.\n\nTake a look at these slide shows to familiarize yourself with basic management principles:\n\nhttp://www.csupomona.edu/~wcweber/301/301slide/
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might want to ask this question in the business section.
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your question is not clear. describe positions of the objects.
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Which class is this for?
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demand for resource depends on the price of that resource... either the actual selling price (if the price was too high, consumers would be reluctant to buying it) or the opportunity costs in obtaining the resource (the difficulty in obtaining the resource.. or what you must give up in order to get that resource)\n\nim currently taking a microeconomics class too.
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1.) Ms. Jordan 275 / 2500 = 0.11 \n     0.11  x  100 = 11%\n\n2.) 900 students x 1.07 = 963 students .\n\n3.) Virus Scan  300 sec / 0.40 = 750 sec for 100%\n\n4.) Gasoline... 8882 / 0.85 = 10,449 BBLs per day.\n\n5.) Jerry's new salary is\n     18,500 x 1.105 = $ 20,442.50\n\n6.) Chen's Investment wound up being \n     6400 x 0.918 = $ 5875.20\n\nHave a nice day,\nZahbudar
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you are too vague for estimating, Are you going to manufacture? or buy from a wholesaler? or have someone else make it for you? How large a space do you need ? you will need office staff, warehouse staff, computer systems, software, Phone systemsforklifts, storage systems, Trucking companys need to be contacted and .....  Too many variables . You need a business plan
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best sales i been to have clothes sorted by size and other items like knick knacks,wall pictures ect.,organized.dont just throw everything on table for people to rummage through most wont bother. and signs are easy just write garage sale on it and post with address or arrows pointing in direction for people to find and be sure sign is large enough for motorist to see
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You don't say whether you are an undergraduate or graduate student, but I will assume you're an undergrad. One of the most difficult tasks in the "real world" of business is finding and retaining good "middle managers." Much has been written on the topic, but no one has emerged with a workable solution. That leaves it wide open for you to offer constructive suggestions, and you have a wide array of reference material. Good luck!
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this is an interesting idea. what exactly would you do though?...pick up supplies?
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A meaningful answer to your questions requires some additional information. What is the business? Is it manufacturing, service or governmental?  Inventory for a restaurant or auto manufacturer is much different than for a doctor's office.
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YOu need to first decide what market you are going to sell to (lower, middle, or upper class).  Are you going to make the handbags or buy them wholesale to resale.  What materials will you use (expensive leather, suedes and chenilles...or low cost polyesters and cottons)?  Do you require 1 extra employee or 4?  Will you want to have a physical store (which can cost more) or sell at flea markets and online auction sites(which will cost less and make your items visible to a variety of people)?  Do you prefer to make alot money from one item at once or make money from a few items over a period of time.  Decide on all of this and you should know where you want your numbers to fall
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Point of sale.\n\nTo some extent there has always been data collection at point of sale, but in the old days with simple cash registers it was difficult to track what individual items were being bought and sold making inventory a more complicated and repeated task.\n\nInitial point of sales didn't help inventory control very much since the amounts were being recorded automatically but not the items.\n\nThe real break through came with bar coding because the sale amount and the change of inventory were both recorded in real time.
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I use to work closely with Supply chain people, so I can answer your questions. \n\nAll consumer product manufacturers have supply chain people. Some of the big names in SC are Target, Walmart, Home Depot, Lowes, and Johnson & Johnson (where I used to work). \n\nAt the lowest levels, supply chain personnel live on the phone expediting orders and shipments. Where is our 500 lbs of resin? How quickly can we get 1 drum of flavor here? At higher levels, they plan production and ordering. They also manage inventory levels and try to manage risk. For example, hurrican season is starting and this is a very big deal to supply chain people. Somewhere there will be a storm and shipments can be lost or delayed. \n\nSome people really like it. It involves heavy phone work and can require occasional travel. The biggest downside is that you are always managing risk. When things are going great, someone is telling you to cut inventories. When things are going terrible, they criticise you for not having enough inventory.
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There are many, many point of sale programs out there that manage inventory for you. They give you an ideal inventory figured from your current inventory + purchases - sales. You can then take this ideal inventory and compare it to an actual physical count to find if you have any theft or waste. I suggest inventorying stock once a week. If there is theft or waste, you need to be able to pinpoint it to certain weeks.\n\nYou can also set the same system up in Microsoft Excel It requires a spreadsheet to track sales by item that also imports your cost of each item sold to create an ideal cost of goods sold. You can then have an inventory spreadsheet by which you count and value your existing inventory and purchase number to establish an actual cost of goods sold. By comparin the actual cost of goods sold to the ideal cost of goods sold, you get the same information the point of sale software gives you.\n\nI have spreadsheet systems that can be set up to track all this information and feed it into P&L spreadsheets along with labor numbers and purchase report numbers to create a preliminary P&L on a weekly basis to better manage your business. You can also find your needed gross profit per person (how much markup you need from every customer to pay your bills and profit) with the spreadsheet system.\n\nContact me through my website for more information.\n\nBrandon O'Dell\nO'Dell Consulting\nRestaurants/Retail/Bars\nhttp://www.bodellconsulting.com
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I use a company that takes all the orders and handles all the inventory for me.  They pay at a variety of levels depending on the products offered as you would be an affiliate.  Examples of products include: Health/Nutrition, Books/Magazines and Pet Care Products.  There are many others, so check it out if you are interested.