The model stock plan

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Identifikator:: 1820833348

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

Document type:: Monograph

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 XIV. Helping producers eliminate waste

Collection:: Economics Books

200 THE MODEL STOCK PLAN customers; help him really to attain the factory economies of mass production as against small-lot, sporadic production. All these are definite savings of most important wastes. To all of these savings the Model Stock Plan leads, because it provides a simple, easy, and definite system that makes it possible for us to work closely with the producer and assist him in doing away with these wastes. It is such wastes that prevent his giving us the best types of merchandise at prices far lower than he has ever found possible before. For all merchants know that any losses which resources take must, if the resource is to continue in business, be passed along to the merchant and thus, in turn, to the consumer. In general, it is true that the larger the order the less per unit of output it costs the manufacturer to put the lot through his plant. Merchants have gone a long distance away from the old-fashioned practice of placing a whole season’s order at one time, perhaps months ahead of the delivery date. Hand-to-mouth buying has superseded it to an important degree; there is nothing in sight to warrant the belief that the old practice will ever come back, unless temporarily in a pronounced seller’s market. But if, through the complete stocks of staples and attrac- tive style goods at excellent price values made possible by the Model Stock Plan in our store, we succeed in increasing our sales volume largely and also concentrate our purchasing at only three price levels, so that each of our orders is several times as large as before, we permit the resource to approach mass-production methods in turning out our goods. Moreover, this gets us prompt deliveries. In many lines of manufacturing the producer is likely to hold any given small order until he can accumulate enough of them to make a profitable factory batch. But if our order, whether of staples or style goods, is large enough to permit the more important economies of mass production, it usually is placed ahead of the small orders. Group buying brings much the same results. In effect, in group buying the manufacturer gets the combined orders of a number of stores which, even if not large individually,

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