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Economics PIA - Team #2 - 3fi
Economics PIA - Team #2 - 3fi
Economics PIA - Team #2 - 3fi
Team number 2
Introduction 3
Conclusion 19
General conclusions 20
References 22
Annexes 26
Introduction
Land: materials like plastic, benzene, antler, spring pens, tungsten balls, and
other materials that are needed to manufacture the products, like machinery and
others.
Labor: First, the collection of the materials has to be made.Then, the
transportation of these to the factory, in order to start with the production: there will
be specialized machines to make the ink, and others to do the stamping, and
assembling of the pen. Finally, the packaging and shipping will be made to the
specified customer.
Capital: Billet press, shaping machine, heated steel die press, conveyor belt,
among others.
Human capital: employees and workers.
Entrepreneurship: As long as the production of pens increases, there will be
some changes that must be made, for example: the acquisition of more machinery,
new buildings and offices, more warehouses, hire more workers, just to mention a
few.
Short run and long run time frames
In the short run time frame, one input remains fixed while the others are
considered variable. In order to achieve more output, it is needed to increase the
level of production.
We have that 1 worker can produce approximately 10 pens per day, if we
want to produce more, we can increase the number of workers up to 2, so each one
will make 15 pens.
In the long run time frame, every factor can be variable, and there can be
expected more competition in this time. The decision making is crucial at this point.
If it's wanted to expand our production in the long run, the factors of production have
to be increased or changed in addition to the actual infrastructure and resources that
we have.
Economies of scale
It can benefit from the economies of scale, yes. The unit cost of the pen is
only $0.26 cents, by selling the pens at $1 dollar each, we are earning a profit of
$0.74 cents, and if we sell $1,000,000 pens we reach our maximization profit,
earning 656,700 dollars. That’s our peak point. Our highest demand.
If its decided to sell the pens at $1.8 dollars each, the profit would decrease to
$-83,300 and that would affect the production of the company. We can’t also sell the
pens for $0.5 dollars each; with that price, our profit would be $306,700, losing
$350,000 dollars.
In the end, the pens have to cost only $1 dollar to have a good profit and
earnings. Since our product is a very cheap one, in economies of scale the
production and the mass sell is easier because of the characteristics and the price of
the product, and that could affect in the future to the company, by going global or
maybe international.
2. The Cost structure
How many
pens can
Material
Raw Total of be Unitary
Cost needed for
material material produced cost
one pen
with the
weight
2 grams per
Plastic 1208 907 kilograms 453,500 0.0026
pen
0.45 1 anthler of 2
Anthler 11 225 0.05
kilograms grams
Total
unitary cost 0.253014 or 0.26 dollars per pen
On the other hand, it is important to consider fixed costs that are not related to
the productivity of the company, but to the functionality. As the major fixed cost from
the company, is the rent, the machinery and the wages from their workers.
For the rent, it's considered a terrain in San Nicolas, because the people
surveyed said that there could be the first physical store, and in consequence the
first industry where the pens are manufactured. However, San Nicolas is an
expensive place, so the other option was Escobedo, which is near San Nicolas,
Apodaca and Monterrey. The terrain is on privadas de anahuac, and has a rent of
17,000 dollars per month.
The other thing is the machinery to make a pen, first to make the body of
plastic, that is a machinery that cost around 17,000 dollars and the other to
assemble, at a rate of 2,700 pens per hour, cost 40,000 dollars,. Around 2
machineries are needed for the bodies of the pens and 5 for assembling the pens.
The total cost of those is going to be around 234,000 dollars, divided by payments of
19,500 dollars per month.
The wages from the workers are going to be at least 4 minimum wages that
the law established on the Ley Federal del Trabajo, and we are going to have at
least 40 workers. Thus, the total payroll is going to be around 42,000 on payroll per
month.
Other things that are considered, are fixed costs from the basic services.
Electricity, from companies that use more than 100 kilowatts, pays from bills of 2,250
dollars at minimum per month according to CFE. On water is around 1,300 dollars
according to Agua y Drenaje from the metropolitan zone of Monterrey. At last, gas,
according to Naturgy, has a fee of 625 dollars only per use, and in total it could be at
least 1,250 dollars.
As a consequence, the total fixed cost is around 83,300 dollars per month.
Considering that the company UseFull Pens could produce around 108,000
pens per day, working only 5 days a week, leading to 540,000 pens weekly and
around 2,160,000 pens per month. The objective of the company is to maximize its
profits, and the current price at which it sells the pen is 1 dollar and the company
sells around 1,000,000 pens at the month. However, an economist said that the
company UseFull Pens could sell the pens at a lower price, of 0.5 dollars, and the
sales increased to 1,625,000 pens at the month. In addition, the prices are applied
on the actual environment and the likeability of the people, because of a survey
made by the economist.
As a consequence, and to determine the Marginal Cost, Average Cost,
Average Fixed Cost and Average Variable Cost, we determine first the profit, with the
Total Revenue.
Total revenue = (price)(quantity)
Then, we calculate the total cost of doing the pens, with the fixed costs and
the cost of making all the pens.
The next step is to calculate the profit of the company, leading us to make
another calculation.
after 1 = a + b (1,000,000)
-(before 0.5 = a + b (1,625,000))
equals 0.5 = -625,000b
b= -0.0000008
P = 1.8 + (-0.0000008)q
Finally, with this information it could be set up a worksheet on excel with the
information required for the analysis of the change on the demand.
For a better visualization, click on the next link: ECONOMICS.xlsx
All this information exposes that the most suitable price for the pens is one
dollar, the first price at which it is priced by the company. With this, the company
generated a profit of 656,700 dollars after paying all their costs. Also that the
average costs increase while decreasing the price, something bad for the companies
that search for a big profitability.
Opportunity cost
We don’t have a clear opportunity cost right now. Our company can only
operate on one kind of pen and the demand of our product is only sustainable to the
quantity that we put into making the ballpoint pen. The plan is to expand in the future
into adding more kinds of different pens to our market and aim for a different
demand, but for the moment, we are only making a single design and we are sticking
to that one.
However, one of the opportunity costs that could be in the future, when the
company grows in the world, is the development of other products related to the
pens, like notebooks or different kinds of pens. The income that won’t receive from
that kind of products will be the future opportunity cost of the corporation.
We are aware that our demand can increase if we add more designs to our
company, but unfortunately we don’t have the necessary resources to do it right now.
The company is still small, of course, with this we are losing the opportunity to make
more profit, and have more acknowledgement by our customers.
3. The Demand Curve
The elaboration of the total and marginal utility exposes that the people that
bought the product have a good receivement of the product, and it's expected
because a pen is a product that could be found with other brands and presentations,
but at the end with the same purpose, write something. Also, the highest point of
utility is when the people bought 60 pens, but the highest marginal utility is
generated on the previous quantity, with 50 pens. This means that it is preferable to
sell that quantity of pens, because it's when it has the biggest marginal utility, leading
to a better experience with the product.
Price Elasticity of Demand
The results obtained shows that the pen is complementary with the
notebooks, showing a strong relationship between them and the income elasticity
shows that the pens are inferior goods that tend to be purchased less once the
income increases.
Different factors that can affect or cause a shift of the Demand Curve.
The principal factors that could affect the demand shift on the demand curve
are the ones that are in the tables made previously in the document, like the price,
income, the utility or taste and if it is complementary or substitute good.
Nevertheless, there are other factors that could lead a shift on the Demand Curve,
such as the future expectation of the conditions and prices and the change in
population, factors that are more difficult to calculate than the others ones.
Nonetheless, analyzing those factors could lead to a better understanding on
the behavior of the market, making any possible change to accomplish the goal of
the company, that is commonly to have the best profit around other companies. In
addition, those factors are fundamental not only for the profitability of the corporation,
but for the innovation and improvement of the company, having better ideas and
discharging the ones that are no longer popular.
4. The Market Structure
The profit maximizing price in our product is when the price of the product is
1.0 dlls and we sell 1,000,000 pens there is the maximizing price because we take a
profit of 656,700 dollars and there is the point when our product can have a better
profit in the market, and the Shutdown point is when we sell the product in 0.5 dollars
here the price is cheaper but we create around 1,625,000 pens to sell but we only
take a profit of 306,700 dollars but we spend 505,800 dollars to create all that pens
and in our profit maximizing we only use 343,300 to create 1,000,000 of pens with a
profit of 656,700 dollars here we can see when our product can be a better in the
market.
Range of operations
The principal places where our product operate is in the Metropolitan Area of
Monterrey but in Nuevo Leon we have our factory where we can create and deliver
to the near companies that focus on sell our type of product where is ubicated in
Escobedo, Privadas de Anahuac, and here we can send to all the cities in Nuevo
Leon like, San Nicolás de los Garza, Monterrey and Guadalupe
If in our product have a big demand in the country or in the continent we can
know that we have a better and more sells and we increase our income we can
consider to expand the company to other places around the country or even expand
to a new continent, depending on the sales of the product and the profit we can take
and not only in that we can consider the total cost we spend to create the pens. We
need to get the most out of the income we have in the company in order to try to
create more products at the same price or even in more economical way, having the
same quality that our feathers have had, so we will know if we can expand more to
continue growing and be one of the best companies selling these product of a very
good quality.
Conclusion
UseFull Pens just focused on selling one kind of product, the UseFull Pen,
this because we considered that it would be better for the company, and also, if we
get loses we could’ve been recovering much faster and easier. Another main reason
why we stay with the idea of selling just one product is because pens are highly
demanded because of its need in almost every activity, job, or situation.
And as we want to expand and globalize the company, applying the
economies of scale and having low prices, we can make a high volume production
and selling.
To know the price at which we can sell our pen we make some calculations
taking into account the resources and material that we need to manufacture the
product, we calculate the variable costs, fixed costs and the total cost. We also think
about the place where we will be located for production, and as it is another expense
needed in the process, which needs to be added to the calculations, as well as the
cost for the equipment required for production, wages and services; these to obtain
the total unitary cost. After finding these metrics we can start the process of
calculating the marginal revenue and then join all those results to obtain the
maximization of profit, which allows us to know the best pricing for the product. And
as we mentioned before, now we are a low volume production company, but to
create an opportunity cost we want to expand in the future, because once we have
the resources needed for a high volume production we could have the opportunity to
make higher profit. Another advantage of using economics in this kind of situation is
that, when knowing the price elasticity the company can tell if a change in it could be
helpful to execute the processes in the company in a greater way.
Working on this paper, we saw the importance of using economics when
making decisions, by using the formulas and functions to analyze every aspect.
Thanks to that forecast, companies can ensure if it is going to be a good idea to
implement what they have in mind or if it’s better to make some changes, it could be
in prices, materials, locations or equipment. Without the help of economics in this
situation we could have been in trouble either for an economic loss due to the bad
pricing or for having some missing costs. It gives us a vision of the company in the
short or long term, and with this we can start planning what to do and what we could
change to ensure the success of the business.
General conclusions
Gabriel Arredondo: Well in this final project we can see the sections that a
product or services cand divided to be a good improve in the market and here we
analysis how to take the cost and the profit maximizing, and the curve demand, we
can see that our product have goods numbers in the market and not only produce 1
type of style of a pen, we have more types but the most sells in the market are the
common one’s, we take the materials we need to buy to create a pen, and the
unitary costs of each material.
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Annexes