IntRetail Theory11
IntRetail Theory11
IntRetail Theory11
Economics of Commercial
and Service Companies
S. 9.
MEASURING THE
PERFORMANCE IN
RETAIL
EFFECTIVENESS, EFFICIENCY
1. Qualitative
2. Causal
3. Time Series
4. Simulation
1. PLAN
PRODUCT PRICING
Depending how price is used, it will tend to maximize either
revenue or gross profit.
Relationship of Cost Structure to Pricing
Relationship of flexibility to vary the size of its workforce
and productive capacity and the cost of carrying inventory.
Their aim is to maximize gross profit in peak demand periods
and generate revenue to cover costs during low demand
periods.
1. PLAN
INVENTORY MANAGEMENT
(PLAN)
Cycle Inventory
Economic Order Quantity
Seasonal Inventory
Safety Inventory
2. SOURCE
PROCUREMENT
1. Purchasing
2. Consumption Management
3. Vendor Selection
4. Contract Negotiation
5. Contract Management
2. SOURCE
CREDIT AND COLLECTIONS
1. Set Credit Policy
2. Implement Credit and Collections Practices
3. Manage Credit Risk
PROCESS OF ANALYSIS
1. Planning and carrying out data collection
Enterprise information systems
External data sources
2. Data validation, data systematisation, clustering, comparability testing
Comprehensive
Reliable, accurate
Can be broken down into homogeneous groups
3. Hypothesis generation
4. Data analysis
Charts, tables
Visualisation
5. Validation or rejection of hypotheses, textual analysis
METRICS FOR
MEASURING RETAIL
PERFORMANCE
MARKET QUADRANT
MEASURING PEFORMANCE
1. Customer Service
2. Internal Efficiency
3. Demand Flexibility
4. Product Development
1. CUSTOMER SERVICE METRICS
Metrics for a build to stock situation are:
Complete Order Fill Rate and Order Line Item Fill Rate
On-Time Delivery Rate
Value of Total Backorders and Number of Backorders
Frequency and Duration of Backorders
Line Item Return Rate
Turnover of stocks
Turnover of equity
Wage cost ratio (%)
Fixed asset efficiency (%)
Inventory efficiency (%)
Material efficiency (%)
Wage efficiency (%)
Efficiency of results (%)
Capital efficiency (%)
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ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY
value of expenses / value of profit achieved
comparison of two options
= value or surplus (result) / input
= output / input
= product (output) / resource used
measured in output or money
the objective is to maximise the difference between returns and inputs
that can be measured in monetary terms
Relative
the efficiency of management
PRODUCTIVITY
the ratio of output to expenditure
can be expressed in volume and value
volume increases if the company achieves higher output for the
same input
output * sales price
depends on
the factors of production
market conditions - demand, supply
interest rates, exchange rates, etc.
PRODUCTIVITY
INFLUENCING FACTORS FOR
INPUTS OUTPUTS
• Total area of the shop • Sales
• Number of business units • Loyal customers,
• Number of point of sale customer retention
machines
• Wages – cost
• Hours worked
FACTORS INFLUENCING
PRODUCTIVITY
Management effectiveness
Workforce skills
Competitiveness of the market
Government regulations
IT development, IT systems
Capital investment
Real estate prices
Availability and utilisation of retail space
Price gap
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PROFITABILITY
Measuring business performance
To compare different companies or departments
Profitability = income
A firm is profitable if the price of its products is greater than the
cost of production
A large market share does not necessarily mean profitability
PROFITABILITY INDICATORS