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How can Management use the principles of costing to price their product more accurately to achieve profitability?

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Question added by dabwitso sailota
Date Posted: 2016/09/24
Duncan Robertson
by Duncan Robertson , Strategy Consultant , Duncan Robertson Consultancy

I always worry when I see "price" and "cost" in the same sentence.  This is because there is no connection between the price of something and it's cost.

I'll say that again, because it's important.  There is no connection between the price of something and it's cost.  (Yes of course there are exceptions, such as 'Cost plus contracts'.)

The price of something is how much the owner thinks they can sell it for.  The word 'cost' does not appear in that definition. 

After the sale, if you want, you can subtract the cost from the achieved selling price to work out the profit. 

Mohammed Asim Nehal
by Mohammed Asim Nehal , M Asim Nehal & Co , Chartered Accountants

Traditionally, PCM has been performed by cost engineering experts, or by Value Analysis/Value Engineering (VAVE) team members who specialize in cost reduction and/or support core business functions. These resources typically have strong manufacturing backgrounds and may have worked as a supplier quote estimator. Their expertise is unique and their domain knowledge builds over time, but it is extremely difficult to duplicate and scale across products in a large organization.

Effective PCM requires a set of systematic activities, processes, and tools for use throughout the enterprise to guide the above decisions to the lowest possible costs. This enables manufacturing organizations to attack cost at the point of origin and yield the greatest impact on product cost reduction.

Core Cost Management Activities

There are a number of core activities involved in PCM. Some of the most effective include:

  • Studying the cost tradeoffs of different concept designs in the R&D stage
  • Evaluating multiple design alternatives for lowest cost during NPI
  • Evaluating the cost of proposed solutions to an engineering change order
  • Evaluating multiple manufacturing and tooling alternatives for lowest cost, including make vs. buy analysis
  • Generating a detailed "should cost" to validate supplier quotes and ensure lowest pricing
  • Batch analyzing current prices of entire commodity groups to find over-cost outliers
  • Evaluating multiple cost-down ideas on current products in real-time to identify the highest potential reduction in the shortest amount of time

Stefanos Sampatakakis
by Stefanos Sampatakakis , Head of Health Sector Coordination , General Secretarial of Governmental Coordination

Costing is a part of managerial accounting, which provides significant help towards the successful and accurate costing of a product. This final cost includes the cost of the raw material used, fixed costs of the installations and variable costs in general (including salaries of personnel, electricity etc.), allocated proportionally to each product separately, hence included in the final price. Add your desired profit there and you get the final selling price of your product.

Mind the competition however, you don't want to be very higher than them when it comes to price.

 

I hope I was helpful. 

ahmad haidar ahmad
by ahmad haidar ahmad , Technical Manager , Al Massela Engineering and construction

they can count the direct cost plus the indirect cost plus the percentage of profit

Md Fazlur Rahman
by Md Fazlur Rahman , Procurement Specialist , Engineering and Planning Consultants Ltd

A manufacturer shall continue to produce goods and services as along as marginal cost is less that marginal revenue (considering that there is no resource constraints)

Then,at the cut off point, find the total quantity of goods produced and the amount of labor, capital, raw materials and overhead cost at this stage of production.

Now work backward to see how the cost components could be reduced with more scientific approach or use of technology  so that profitability would increase.

 

 

Ashraf E. Mahmoud (PhD)
by Ashraf E. Mahmoud (PhD) , University Lecturer, Freelancer Consultant and Trainer for Int'l Business & Banking TF. , FreeLancer

Thanks for invitation;

Agree with the answer of Mr. Mohammed Asim Nahel

Emmanuel Wamweta
by Emmanuel Wamweta , production supervisor , Tembo Steel Rolling

I fuly agree with the experts' submissions here.

Thanx for the invitation

osama faitor
by osama faitor , مدير فرع , المصرف الزراعي

Attention to raw materials and resources

And the search for alternative materials is always

 

And choose the right time to buy them

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