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The activity-based analysis showed how a combination of the customer s mix of products purchas and ordering habits determined customer profitability. The company concluded that these same factors should be considered when establishing a customer discount. To effect this change, PlumbCo provided each sales representative with a laptop computer and a simple spreadsheet to support the discount decision. This spreadsheet is shown in Figures 36.1,36.2, and 36.3. On the spreadsheet, the boxed and shaded areas are for input of customer data the balance of the spreadsheet calculates automatically. 

A certain power company gives a ly% discount if a customer pays the bill at least ten days before the due date. If Inez pays her 48.50 bill ten days early, how much money will she save, rounded to the nearest cent ... 

A discount retail store gives a 5% discount to senior citizens. If a customer who is a senior citizen wants to purchase an item that costs 45, what is the final cost after the discount is applied ... 

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Ashland Chemical Company, a division of Ashland Inc., was CSI s primary customer for purified hydroxylamine solutions. Ashland used the hydroxylamine solutions in residue cleaners for the semiconductor industry. Ashland planned to purchase 2 million pounds of 50% hydroxylamine from CSI. In exchange for discounted pricing of future deliveries of hydroxylamine solutions, Ashland provided CSI with financial support ( 350,000) to purchase production equipment. By February 1999, CSI had approximately twenty full-time employees, ten of whom were assigned to the new production facility. 

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Consider next some issues of motivation. An individual s preference can be inconsistent in various ways that do not imply any kind of split self. It is possible to make a person prefer A over and C over D, even if A is essentially the same option as D, and the same as C. For instance, Mr H. mows his own lawn. His neighbor s son would mow it for 8. He wouldn t mow his neighbor s same-sized lawn for 20 (Thaler 1980). The proposed explanation for this phenomenon is that people value out-of-pocket expenses differently from opportunity cost, thus creating a normatively unjustifiable presumption in favour of the status quo. Although this particular example may yield to another explanation (Section IX), many other cases certainly fit this distinction. Thus, credit card customers may be less deterred by a cash discount to non-users than by a surcharge to users, even if the two are substantively the same (Thaler 1980). If in such cases it is possible to induce preference reversal, it is not because two parts of the person have different preferences. Rather it is because the person reacts to the way in which the options are presented, and not simply to their substantive content. 

Nevertheless, in any market, there is a proper price to be paid for a quality program, and the field representative does not help his customer or his company by selling at too low a price or giving in to demands for excessive discounts merely to obtain the sale. Seldom are good quality goods and services available at a cheap price. 

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Transaction pricing How do you decide the exact price to assign each customer transaction - what base price, discounts, allowances, adjustments, and other incentives ... 

Two clauses seen occasionally in pharmacy contracts are the most favored nation clause and the allproducts clause. The most favored nation clause requires pharmacies to extend their lowest price or reimbursement rate to that third party. It is customary for third parties to require that the pharmacy charge the third party its U C price if it is lower than the third party s reimbursement formula price. However, having to give the third party the lowest reimbursement rate of all the other third-party rates is not customary The allproducts clause requires pharmacies to participate in all the third party s plans if it wants to participate in one plan. A pharmacy may want to choose only some of a third party s plans depending on the reimbursement rate and number of customers affected. Some states prohibit all-products clauses. These clauses became especially problematic with the advent of discount cards and more recently with the implementation of Medicare Part D. Discount cards are given or sold to people who do not have insurance coverage for prescription drugs. People who have a discount card pay a price that is determined by a reimbursement formula rather than the U C pharmacy price. As noted earlier, the reimbursement price usually is less than the pharmacy s U C price, so pharmacies receive less revenue. Some of the discount cards are administered by PBMs and other third parties, and pharmacies may prefer not to accept a third party s discount card even if they accept patients with insurance from that third party. Pharmacies... 

Employee data. Companies should not discount the value of the information that can be obtained from talking and listening to employees. Employees have first-hand experience with customers that may lead to improvements in the product or service delivery. Surveys, focus groups, and one-on-one interviews all can be used to collect data from employees. 

You may get many customer complaints that natural foods are too expensive. Depending on how much you mark up your prices from the wholesale cost, they may have a point. In order to keep your customers you may have to offer deep discounts periodically on certain items, but be sure you are not losing money by doing so. 

Allow customers to book multiple courses during tbe same transaction. Simplify online ordering process. Give discounts for bookings completed with a single transaction. 

However, there is no set fee that can be universally applied to a contractor s services. Remember, in most cases a contractor, unlike a regular manufacturer, has no product line. Whether or not it has business is entirely at the whim of its customers. The quantity of business available to the contractor is governed by how well a client s products are doing in the clinic or in the marketplace. The contractor can make a guess as to how much business it will do each year, but the uncertainty is great. Therefore, a contractor usually bases his fees on the costs associated with each batch to be produced, rather than the projected total output of its production each year. To gain discounts, clients must be prepared to offer reasonable guaranteed production requirements. 

For the purposes of this study, the revenue from the supply of heat to the customer is calculated assuming that the customer will pay a price equivalent to the cost of meeting the heat load by installing a new natural gas boiler, less the cost of installing any piping infrastructure to bring the heat from the CHP plant to the customer s premises, less a discount of 10%. It should be noted however that heat may be available at prices below that from a new natural gas boiler (e.g. existing heat networks in Scandinavia) this would depend tm the specific locatim. 

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