Creating And pricing products Flashcards
What two groups are products in?
Consumer and Buisness
What is a product?
Everything one receives an exchange, including all tangible and intangible attributes and expected benefits
What is a consumer product
A product purchased to satisfy personal and family needs
What is a business product
A product brought for resale, making other products or for use in the firms operations
What is a convenience product
A inexpensive frequently purchased item for which buyers want to exert only little effort (cereal, gas, water)
Shopping product ?
Item which buyers are willing to expend considerable effort on planning and making purchase (computers, furniture)
Speciality product
Posses one or more unique characteristics for which a group of buyers is willing to expended considerably purchasing effort (luxury car, gifts in relationship )
What is b2b? B2c?
Business to business
Business to consumer
What is a raw material ?
A material that becomes apart of a physical product
Major equipment?
Includes large tools and machines for production use
What is an accessory equipment
Standardize equipment used in affirms production or office activities
What is a component part
An item that becomes part of a physical product and is either finished item ready for assembly or product that needs a little more processing
Process material
Material that is used directly in the production of another product but is not readily identifiable in the finished product
Supply
An item that facilitates production and operations but does not become part of the finished product
Business service
Intangible product that an organization uses and it’s operate
Product lifecycle
A series of stages in which products sales revenue and profit increase reach peak and then decline
A company must be able to launch modify and delete products
Stages of the lifecycle
Introduction
Growth
Maturity
Decline
What is a product line
Group of similar products that differ only in relatively minor characteristics
Product mix
All products the firm offers for sale
How to define product mix
Width of the mix is the number of product lines it contains
The depths of the mix in the average number of individual products within each line
What are product modification
Changing one of more of the product characteristics
Quality modification
Changes that can relate to a product dependability and durability and are usually achieved by altercations in the materials