Production Management: Concepts, Efficiency, and Planning
Production Concept
From an economic viewpoint, production is creating products from basic resources, intended for purchase or consumption. Technically, it’s combining labor, materials, and energy through set procedures to produce goods or services, adding value in the process.
Production Factors
- Natural Resources/Land: Raw materials, energy, and supplies.
- Labor: Manpower and time spent by workers.
- Capital: Financial resources and capital goods like machinery and facilities.
Technology
A set of procedures
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The Business Idea
Ideas are the embryo of any business project. Most often, you can identify an unmet need or a better way to satisfy existing ones. Even if a product or service already exists, it may be possible to offer it differently.
The definition of a business idea is broad. A structured approach involves these four concepts:
- Core Product: The main title or definition encompassing the business idea.
- Increased Output: Each good or service associated with the business idea.
- Value Added: Differentiators
Effective Marketing Strategies: Product, Price, Promotion, and Distribution
Marketing Fundamentals
Marketing encompasses the activities a company undertakes to meet consumer needs and desires profitably.
- Activities: Marketing involves a set of interconnected actions, not just isolated tasks.
- Business Development: Businesses apply research and market strategies to grow.
- Consumer Needs: Marketing identifies and satisfies consumer needs and desires.
- Profitability: The ultimate goal of marketing is to achieve profits.
The Marketing Mix
The core elements of marketing are product, price,
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Advertising and Economic Dimension
What is Economics?
Economics is the social science that studies the production, distribution, marketing, and consumption of goods and services. It examines the quality and quantity of economic assets and exchanges, focusing on how societies address economic problems.
Marketing’s Role in the Economy
Marketing organizes voluntary and competitive exchanges to efficiently match product and service supply and demand. This involves:
- Organizing the physical flow of goods from
Central Bank Functions: Monetary Policy, Financial Stability, and Inflation
Central Banks: Guardians of Economic Stability
Central banks are responsible for two essential elements: financial stability and price stability. Financial institutions play a crucial role in circulating money, acting as intermediaries between savers and borrowers. These entities must be robust, and the public must have confidence in them due to the mismatch between their assets and liabilities. Fear of bank failure can trigger deposit withdrawals, causing liquidity problems even for solvent institutions.
Inventory Management: Optimizing Stock Levels and Costs
Inventory Management: A Comprehensive Overview
Procurement
The procurement function is responsible for buying the necessary materials for the company’s activity (production or sales), storing them, and managing different inventories. The production department needs materials (raw materials, spare parts, packaging, etc.) for manufacturing, and the sales department needs products for marketing.
- The procurement function purchases products required by the production and sales departments.
- The supply stores