Bulk buying of parts reduces each division's material cost (about 60% of the cost of an RV) by up to 4%.
It said it had been struggling because of more competition, material cost increases and a drop in demand for its products.
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Besides the tragically high human and material cost, the latest deluge harbors another sad aspect: much of the losses could have been prevented.
Can adding 50% more labor cost and 20% more material cost actually increase sales of a stagnating product in a highly competitive luxury market space?
So a funny thing happened to the GeoSpring on the way from the cheap Chinese factory to the expensive Kentucky factory: The material cost went down.
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This bill of material cost, along with other factors such as the cut Nokia gives to its operator and retail partners makes up the retail price of the phone.
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Let me provide a look at how a car company tracks profitability of a product program: measured are material cost and labor, and these are deducted from the selling price.
Steel makers have been forced to take steps to protect themselves against painful raw material cost increases mainly due to surging demand from Asia's tiger economies, including China, to power their growth.
The prosecution's star witness, one-time oil industry executive Bill Allen, has testified that he sent people on his payroll to work on the Stevens renovation, and that he absorbed tens of thousands of dollars in labor and material cost.
In technical terms, the process starts with the transformation of organic material using cost effective, intermediate technologies, into a highly digestive diet for pigs, ducks and chicken.
They were crippled in their battle against the Scots by the simple fact that wine, their raw material, cost up to 20 times the price of barley.
With the help of advanced computer technology used to design fighter planes, he has been able to calculate structure, curvature, material and cost so accurately that forms impossible to create and build through traditional methods can now be brought in on budget and on time.
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Mr. DOUGLAS FAULKNER (Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Department of Energy): We think in six years, we can bring down the cost of ethanol from cellulosic material, to be cost competitive with gasoline.
China is now complaining that the EU has been responsible for dumping material at below cost.
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Asbestos has a lot of uses but I don't subscribe to the view that it is the only low-cost feasible material.
For high value manufacturing, product variety is the single biggest driver of cost as it dictates the material requirements and inventory, which is typically over 80 percent of the total cost.
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By contrast, the total cost of salaries and material expenses for the Dutch monarchy increased 4.5%, according to Mr. Matthijs' calculations.
However, with the demand for clothing picking up alongside the shortage of cotton, the cost of the raw material has soared.
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Derk Haank , the science division's Amsterdam-based boss, spends an hour at a blackboard showing the company's ScienceDirect has put so much material at scientists' fingertips that cost-per-page-view has more than halved in the last three years.
Derk Haank, the science division's Amsterdam-based boss, spends an hour at a blackboard proving that the company's Sciencedirect.com has put so much material at scientists' fingertips that the cost per page view has been cut by more than half in the past three years.
Citi's Benson believes the German company Wacker Chemie should be least affected by the feed-in tariffs because of its low-cost position in polysilicon, a material used to make solar panels.
Asian exporters face slower growth abroad, high raw-material prices, growing competition from China and diminishing returns from cost cutting.
In 2009, Esa funded a pilot project to examine the cost and practicality of establishing a European source of material for Radioactive Power Sources (RPS).
Add in the fuel saving, and the lifetime cost of an aluminium car from raw material and manufacturing to daily use and final disposal can be comparable to that of a conventional car.
That decreased the cost and increased the speed, efficiency and availability of print material.
Raw material costs have also risen from overseas and domestic sources, adding to labor cost pressures on the bottom line, survey respondents said.
And your collection mechanism has to cost you less than the additional value you get by having more material at the end of it.
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With the increasing availability of low cost technologies for both production and post-production, this training material will help to fulfil a vital need for the democratization of the non-print media.
Similarly, advertising faces some of the same pressures from the amafessionals, as low-cost programs give consumers an increasing ability to turn out professional-looking material at costs a fraction of what they were.
And the strength, lightness, high melting point and ability to resist corrosion of titanium make it an ideal material for building aircraft parts, supercars and medical implants but it can cost 50 times as much as steel.
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