{"id":1512,"date":"2017-12-24T15:51:55","date_gmt":"2017-12-24T15:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/?p=1512"},"modified":"2020-04-27T13:24:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T20:24:30","slug":"managers-lack-reliable-planning-tools-and-comprehensive-data-to-increase-the-profitability-of-products-and-processes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/managers-lack-reliable-planning-tools-and-comprehensive-data-to-increase-the-profitability-of-products-and-processes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ineffective cost control and high overhead of manufacturing operations: Managers lack reliable planning tools and comprehensive data to increase the profitability of products and processes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In the conference room are meeting: Christian (CFO), Irene (IT Manager), Paul (Purchasing Manager),<br \/>\nPeter (Production Manager), and Enrique (Engineering Manager)<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Agenda title:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ineffective-cost-control-high-overhead-manufacturing-operations-6.png\" alt=\"Ineffective cost control and high overhead of manufacturing operations\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although it varies from company to company, you might want to examine the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How do you plan for improving the margins on your products? Has the trend been toward better margins? What would you say the reasons for that are?<\/li>\n<li>How do you accommodate sudden, unforeseen market changes in your manufacturing and financial planning, without taking a loss?<\/li>\n<li>How do you respond to imminent shortages?<\/li>\n<li>Can you quickly issue purchase orders or manufacturing orders, and avoid taking a hit to productiveness and profitability?<\/li>\n<li>Can you plan cost-effective promotions and sales that are profitable as well?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the conference room are meeting: Christian (CFO), Irene (IT Manager), Paul (Purchasing Manager), Peter (Production Manager), and Enrique (Engineering Manager) The Agenda title: Although it varies from company to company, you might want to examine the following:&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1512"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2271,"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions\/2271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}