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  2. Bulk purchasing - Wikipedia

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    The wholesaler will accept a slightly lower sales price for each unit, if the retailer will agree to purchase a much greater quantity of units, so the wholesaler can maximize profit. A wholesaler usually represents a factory where goods are produced. The factory owners can use economy of scale to increase profit as the quantity sold increases. [1]

  3. Supply and demand - Wikipedia

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    Supply chain as connected supply and demand curves. In microeconomics, supply and demand is an economic model of price determination in a market.It postulates that, holding all else equal, the unit price for a particular good or other traded item in a perfectly competitive market, will vary until it settles at the market-clearing price, where the quantity demanded equals the quantity supplied ...

  4. Business model - Wikipedia

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    The following examples provide an overview for various business model types that have been in discussion since the invention of term business model: Bricks and clicks business model Business model by which a company integrates both offline and online presences. One example of the bricks-and-clicks model is when a chain of stores allows the user ...

  5. Vendor-managed inventory - Wikipedia

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    As a symbiotic business relationship, VMI makes it less likely that a business will unintentionally run out of stock of a good and reduces inventory in the supply chain. Furthermore, vendor (supplier) representatives in a store benefit the vendor by ensuring the product is properly displayed and store staff are familiar with the features of the ...

  6. Glossary of economics - Wikipedia

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    Also called resource cost advantage. The ability of a party (whether an individual, firm, or country) to produce a greater quantity of a good, product, or service than competitors using the same amount of resources. absorption The total demand for all final marketed goods and services by all economic agents resident in an economy, regardless of the origin of the goods and services themselves ...

  7. Total revenue - Wikipedia

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    It can be written as , which is the price of the goods multiplied by the quantity of the sold goods. A monopolist's total revenue can be graphed as in Figure 1, in which Price (P) is the height of the box, and Quantity (Q) is the width. , (i.e., total revenue) equals the area of the box.

  8. Inventory - Wikipedia

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    To say that they have a key role to play is an understatement. Finance is connected to most, if not all, of the key business processes within the organization. It should be steering the stewardship and accountability systems that ensure that the organization is conducting its business in an appropriate, ethical manner.

  9. Profit maximization - Wikipedia

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    The optimum quantity is the same as the optimum quantity in the first diagram. If the firm is a monopolist , the marginal revenue curve would have a negative slope as shown in the next graph, because it would be based on the downward-sloping market demand curve.