The model stock plan

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Identifikator:: 1820833348

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-210730

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Author:: Filene, Edward A. http://d-nb.info/gnd/123562244

Title:: The model stock plan

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: McGraw-Hill Book Company

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: xiv, 253 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter XIII. More profits for producers and distributors

Collection:: Economics Books

186 THE MODEL STOCK PLAN 2. His dealers get, under his model stock plan, the immense advantage already shown that comes through standardiza- tion and simplification of prices. Through this price standardization his dealers’ choice of goods is limited to style and material, with the question of price removed from the problem. Thus the manufacturer finds selling to his customers much easier. 3. The manufacturer attains the benefits of mass produc- tion and mass distribution of his products. These, coupled with other savings, such as decreased selling cost due to more surely keeping the dealers he has and getting new dealers more easily, assure the manufacturer more continuous profits and greater total profits. None of these manufacturers’ plans in use conforms exactly to the specifications of the Model Stock Plan. Such manufacturers’ plans cannot conform exactly, for the Model Stock Plan that we have been examining all the way through this book is built up from its basic principles into a whole that fits the entire store. The store’s Model Stock is, therefore, made up of Model Stocks in each department of the store. Naturally, the total result must fall far short of this when the store merely adopts, for instance, a hosiery manufacturer’s limited plan that is designed for and directly applied only to the hosiery departments in the store. In fact, the manufacturer will greatly improve his own model stock plan and increase its total profit possibilities when he modifies it to conform with the Model Stock Plan of this book and to fit exactly into a store where the Model Stock Plan is in use. The problem upon which a good many manufacturers concentrated was: What size and assortment of retail stock of our products will move most easily, steadily, and profit- ably, so that we can then supply the goods in small quantities immediately as they are sold, thereby improving the dealer’s rate of turnover? If the manufacturer could find some satisfactory answer, both the producer and the retailer would make more money. The well-balanced retail stocks of live, salable merchandise would increase the dealer’s sales and

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