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The following are true statements about quality systems except: a. The FDA’s quality systems regulations are highly prescriptive and subject to limited interpretation b. Senior executives have ultimate legal responsibility for the effectiveness of the company’s quality system c. Companies can implement their quality systems in a progressive manner, focusing on those elements most relevant to their stage of growth d. Quality systems can be a source of competitive advantage for a company

Cannibalization Analysis The "Bare Bone" model has a list price of $2.99. UVC is $1.50 and projected sales for the year is 2,000,000. "Bill" retails for $3.99 with a UVC of $1.79 and has a sales forecast of 500,000. Projected first year sales of "Bodacious Bill" is 1,000,000 units. Fixed costs to enable insertion of audio sound effects for "Bodacious Bill" will be $2M for the first year. The "Bodacious Bill" will have a 50% markup on the breakeven price. Unit cost (breakeven price) = unit variable cost + (fixed cost/# of products produced). List (markup) price = unit cost * (1+ desired % markup on the retail price). Unit variable cost, including technical parts, add up to $4.99 What would be the list price on Bodacious Bill to break even? 50% of first year sales would be incremental. Of the remaining volume, 80% will be cannibalized from "Bill" sales and 20% would be offset with "Bare Bone" volume.

does the 2015 revision include a Quality Manual as recommended? Select one: Only for large organisations. Yes. No.

1. Given the desire of most employees to protect themselves from high healthcarecosts, is there any way for Quality Auto Parts to continue to attract the bestemployees while containing health benefit costs? Why or why not?2. On the basis of what you know about Quality Auto Parts, which of the fourspecific proposals would you be likely to recommend? Can the company adoptsome combination of the three options? What do you recommend and why     DeCarlo came away from the conference with a greater appreciation of the complexityof the problem of increasing employee health insurance costs and a greaterdetermination to do something about it. However, he wasn’t sure about his next steps.He viewed his company as a “preferred employer” because it had always paid abovethe market wage rates and its benefits were always more liberal than those of otherU.S. companies and particularly those of foreign competitors. DeCarlo did not want todo anything to jeopardize his company’s advantage in attracting…

What exactly is CRM? List some instances of the many CRM applications.

Standardisation is " Setting of basic limits in the forms of specifications to which manufactured goods must confirm". Discuss .

Identify where each of the following products likely lie on a traditional Product Life Cycle. Justify each of your answers with the most current data and research you find on the Internet (e.g. sales, product development, competition, consumer feedback, etc.)   d) Smart Phone (iPhone, Samsung, LG, etc.)