Chapter 13:
Price Determination
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Contents
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The Purchasing Decision and Purchasing Professional
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Price
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Discounts
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Pricing Methods
Cost
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Learning Curves
Cost Structure Analysis
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Terminology
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The Breakeven Analysis
The Negotiation Process
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Price of a Product or Service
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Usually based on a variation of cost and cover
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Production
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Promotion
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Distribution
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A reasonable profit
Purchasing professional
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Responsible for determining price
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Must be aware of market conditions and prices associated with
quality levels
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Must become an expert in the item being purchased
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Price Setting Strategies (Economics)
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The formula for setting prices
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Differ between firm and industry
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General approaches:
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Costbased approach
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Market approach
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E.g., chemical industry and computer industry
The most popular approach for competitive environments
Target pricing
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The price set by the buying firm that fits its competitive cost
Price Setting Strategies (Psychological)
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Power
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The major psychological influence in a buyer–supplier
relationship
A powerful buyer:
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Could force a supplier to eliminate its overhead from the ultimate
price
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Could drive the supplier out of business and reduce competition
in the supply market
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General Sources of Price Information
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Published price lists
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Quotations
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Other buyers in the market
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Trade journals
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Negotiations
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Competitive
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Bidding
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Distribution
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Discounts
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Popular discount types:
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Cash Discounts
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When payments for goods and services are promptly remitted
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Example: Cash discount of 3/10, net 30
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Trade Discounts
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If the buyer pays within 10 days of the shipment date of the invoice, it
may deduct a 3 percent from the invoice price
Buying firm splits the middlemen profit margin and buys directly
Quantity Discounts
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Granted to the buyer for buying larger quantities
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The Robinson–Patman Act
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Pricing Methods (cont.)
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Competitive bidding
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Must begin with an assessment of the suppliers’ pricing strategies
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Takes from four to eight weeks for most industrial firms
Conditions for competitive bidding:
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The dollar value of the spend must be large enough to justify
the expense of the competitive bidding process
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The specifications of the product or service must be precise
enough for both the buying and selling firms to accurately
estimate
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There are enough selling firms in the market
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Competitive Bidding
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A probabilistic bidding strategy
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Buying strategy for competitive bidding process
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Based on the profitmaximization strategy
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Assumes that the buying firm will select the firm with the lowest
bid
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Used by the most wellmanaged selling firms that use the
competitive bidding
An estimate of a reasonable bid amount
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Based on:
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The dollar value of previous bids
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Costs
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Cost components:
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Direct costs
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Costs are not incurred if the unit is not produced
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E.g., direct labor, direct materials costs
Indirect costs
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Non–manufacturingrelated costs
E.g., insurance, managerial salaries, property taxes, and
depreciation expenses
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Learning Curves
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A method for predicting the efficiencies of
increasing outputs
Reflects a systematic improvement of labor per
unit as a function of cumulative units produced
80 % learning
curve
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Learning Curves (cont.)
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Characteristics:
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Exponential
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A constant percentage reduction of labor as a function of
cumulative units produced
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Especially important in various assembly operations
Uses:
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Cost estimating
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Pricing
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Negotiating contracts
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Cost Structure Terminology
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Definitions:
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Gross margin
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Includes overhead and profit
Net margin
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The difference between the price of the job and the costs to build
a job
Refers to profit alone
Markup
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A job costs times a factor that covers direct costs, overhead
cost, and profit
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Margin versus Markup Conversion Chart
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Contents
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Cost Structure Analysis
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Terminology
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The Breakeven Analysis
The Negotiation Process
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Price/Cost Analysis
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The Negotiation Process
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The negotiation process is a learned behavior
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Winwin for both buyer and the seller
Each and every aspect of a business transaction is
negotiable
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There exists a possibility for negotiation of pegged costs
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Use price/cost analysis
Excellent candidates for negotiations
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Direct labor, overhead, and administrative costs
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Price/Cost Analysis
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A buying firm must:
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Consider the price variation in order to understand:
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Various design specifications
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Associated costs
Obtain reasonable cost comparisons based on:
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Historical data of similar equipment
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Experience with conditions in the specific industry
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Questions?
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