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Re: Quoting strategy

The business has seasonality to it so clients understand that the
discounted prices are temporary. We agree that margins could erode if
precedents are set but since they have recently tapped into a new
market (after becoming qualified in a special field) they can choose
higher "profit velocity" jobs to quote. So they have begun to segment
their market.

They ARE beginning a promotional campaign and results are starting to
happen. The biggest change has been away from "waiting for the phone
to ring" to promoting and quoting aggressively to increase
throughput.

Bryan



Wed Feb 6, 2008 11:48 am

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I have a metal fab shop client who, after grasping the throughput accounting concept and dumping the "cost plus method" now has (on his own) come up with a...
Bryan McNamara
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Feb 6, 2008
12:59 am

Good, well thought out response, Justin. Mark Woeppel President Pinnacle Strategies =|JRM: Thank you Mark. Who said sales guys don't understand operations...
mark woeppel
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Feb 6, 2008
4:25 am

The business has seasonality to it so clients understand that the discounted prices are temporary. We agree that margins could erode if precedents are set but...
Bryan McNamara
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Feb 6, 2008
12:26 pm

Bryan, As with Justin, I believe that you have to be very careful utilizing pricing to modulate capacity (actually I don't think one should do it). Customers...
Bill Rhind
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Feb 7, 2008
8:04 am

The work that this refers to is for govenment RFQ's. There is a set delivery time and the lowest bid gets it assuming certain qualifications. We have been...
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Feb 10, 2008
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