Stewart Box
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Stewart Box Company is a profitable company with a functional structure in place as well as identified responsibility centers. The company has well established strategic planning, cost estimates and costing procedures. In an industry where competition is tight due to capacity requirements in manufacturing plants, the company was able to tap the market for custom- made carton boxes. However, its market is still limited to within the 500mile radius of its manufacturing site, thus 15% of the time the company has to under cost to be able to fulfil the volume requirements for its operation, and 65% of the time they are priced higher than their competitors. Furthermore, cost estimates established based on the previous year’s data were used to cost custom-made jobs which do not accurately capture actual costs spent for the job orders. To address these issues, the company has to put in place measures to encourage its sales force to tap other markets and new......
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