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A company's distribution and warehouse expenses do NOT include which one following?

the wages. salaries. and bonuses paid to emplovees at each of the companv's distribution centers

Buyer demand for branded athletic footwear is proiected to arow

3-5 annually in North America and Europe-africa in years 16-20 and 7-9% in the Asia pacific region and latin America in the years 16-20

Buyer demand for private-label athletic footwear is projected to grow

11-13% annually worldwide during the Year 11-Year 15 period, declining to 9-11% during the Year 16-20 period.

Which of the following financial measures are used to determine a compan's credit rating?

Its interest coverage ratio, its debt-asset ratio. and its default risk ratio

Which one of the following is NOT a component of the total compensation package for production workers at your company's production facilities?

Perfect attendance bonuses at company-held best practices training sessions

The company's shipments of newly-produced branded and private-label footwear from its production facilities to its regional distribution centers are subject to

Prevailing peer pair shipping/freight charges, plus any applicable import tariffs and exchange rate adjustment on pairs shipping from a production facility in one region to distribution center/warehouse in different geographic region

Which one of the following is not one of the 5 competitive factors that impact both Internet Sales and Wholesale Sales of branded footwear?

Search engine advertising

Which one of the following is not one of the factors that affect the S/Q rating of a company's footwear

The annual number of innovative new pertormance teatures built into a company's branded models stvles.

Which of the following is the most important competitive factor in determining a company's ability to secure contracts to supply private-label footwear to chain retailers in a particular geographic region?

The company's price offer to supply chain retailers with private-label footwear.

Which of the following statements about the importance of each competitive factor in determining company-to-company differences in branded sales volumes and market shares in a particular geographic region Is Taise.

Tiny cross-company differences in competitive effort on a highly influential competitive factor (like S/Q ratings, the number of models/styles offered, and selling prices) nearly always have a far bigger impact on company sales/market share outcomes in a region than do large cross-company differences in competitive effort on less influential competitive factors.

The three competitive factors that impact only Internet sales and market share in a region include

expenditures for search engine advertising

The interest rate a company pays on 1-year, 5-year, and 10-year loans is a function of

its credit rating and the length of the term over which repayment is scheduled.

Which of the following statements about the impact of a company's competitive efforts in a region on its regional market share and number of branded pairs sold is false?

Companies whose delivery times are in a region are shorter than the all-company average have a competitive disadvantage in attracting footwear retailers to stock their brand.

Which of the following statements about the average wholesale price a company charges footwear retailers in a given geographic region is incorrect?

So long as a company has a big price-based competitive advantage in a region's Wholesale Segment, it has the ability to achieve an attractively-large sales volume and market share even if it suffers from perhaps sizable competitive disadvantages on most of the competitively-relevant Tactors.

Which of the following are the 5 measures on which a company's performance IS judged scored?

Stock price, EPS, credit rating, ROE, and image rating

Which of the following most accurately describes your company's production operations?

TQM/Six Sigma quality control programs and best practices training are a means increasing the S/Q ratings of both branded and private-label footwear produced at each production facility.

Which one of the following statements about the projected unit sales volumes per company in the table on 0.6 of the Player's Guide Is talse.

The projected unit sales volumes of private-label footwear per company in Europe-Africa ir Vears 11-13 are higher than in North America.

Which of the following is not among the factors that affect worker productivity

Whether the SQ rating of the branded private label footwear being produced by workers is above or below 5.0 stars

The factors that affect the reject rates at the company's footwear production facilities include

the size of the incentive payment per non-defective pair produced, expenditures for best practices training, spending for TQM/Six Sigma quality control efforts, and the number of models/styles comprising the company's product line.

At the beginning of Year 11. the company has production facilities to make athletic footwear in

Asia-Pacific and North America.