A restaurant Soup4u uses 60 bags of tomatoes each month. The tomatoes are purchased from a supplier for a price of $80 per bag and an ordering cost of $20 per order. Soup4u's annual inventory holding cost percentage is 40%. Soup4u always uses economic order quantity for deciding how many tomato bags it should order. Which of the following will reduce their inventory to 1/3 of its current value without increasing their cost? a) Reduction in ordering cost to 1/9 of it current value
b) Increasing holding cost to 9 times its current value
c) Reduction in ordering cost to 1/3 of it current value
d) Increasing holding cost to 3 times its current value

If you were running a company, what are at least two things you could do to improve its productivity.

Bcorporation, a merchandising company, reported the following results for october: sales $ 490,000 cost of goods sold (all variable) $ 169,700 total variable selling expense $ 24,200 total fixed selling expense $ 21,700 total variable administrative expense $ 13,200 total fixed administrative expense $ 33,600 the contribution margin for october is:

You work as the sales manager for a company that sells office supplies to businesses of all sizes. because the profit margins are razor-thin, you need to ensure that you are getting the very best prices on paper, pencils, pens, post-it notes, and other office supplies from the manufacturers. when reviewing the quarterly profit statement, you realize that your costs are higher than they should be, and you trace the higher costs back to an employee who has been lax about getting competitive bids to ensure the lowest prices. when you conduct your research to determine the reason for the higher costs, and take action to bring those costs back down, in which of the key management processes are you taking part?