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Q1: What is the absolute maximum percentage of capacity you can achieve with plantutilization?
A: 200%
Q2: What are the five market segments in Capsim?
A: traditional, low end, high end, performance, size
Q3: What is the maximum you should spend on a segment's Sales Budget to avoid diminishing returns?
A: 3,000,000
Q4: What is the most direct way to decrease material costs?
A: Lower MTBF / Low End positioning
Q5: Does the Courier show you what other companies spent on promo and sales for theirproducts?
A: no
Q6: Which segment's product should you refrain from repositioning for the first few rounds?
A: low end
Q7: What's the single most important buying criteria for lowend customers
A: price
Q8: Which two market segments are least sensitive to price (care least about price)?
A: high end and size
Q9: What does investment in promotion budgets help to increase?
A: awareness
, Q10: How do you decrease your product's age?
A: reposition in R&D
Q11: How do you increase your product's age?
A: let time pass
Q12: Which budget, promotion or sales, affects the product segment as a whole instead of individual
products?
A: sales budget
Q13: How much and in which direction do price expectations change each round?
A: down 50 cents
Q14: Do all segments grow at the same rate?
A: no
Q15: should you aim to have zero inventory left over at the end of the year
A: small left over about one month
Q16: What is the customer survey forecasting formula?
A: score/total scores
Q17: How many years do you have before you must pay off long term debt?
A: 10 years
Q18: How does increasing the accounts payable time impact your company's finances?
A: cash up, supplier risk
Q19: What percentage of awareness and accessibility do you lose each round?
A: about 33%
Answers
Q1: What is the absolute maximum percentage of capacity you can achieve with plantutilization?
A: 200%
Q2: What are the five market segments in Capsim?
A: traditional, low end, high end, performance, size
Q3: What is the maximum you should spend on a segment's Sales Budget to avoid diminishing returns?
A: 3,000,000
Q4: What is the most direct way to decrease material costs?
A: Lower MTBF / Low End positioning
Q5: Does the Courier show you what other companies spent on promo and sales for theirproducts?
A: no
Q6: Which segment's product should you refrain from repositioning for the first few rounds?
A: low end
Q7: What's the single most important buying criteria for lowend customers
A: price
Q8: Which two market segments are least sensitive to price (care least about price)?
A: high end and size
Q9: What does investment in promotion budgets help to increase?
A: awareness
, Q10: How do you decrease your product's age?
A: reposition in R&D
Q11: How do you increase your product's age?
A: let time pass
Q12: Which budget, promotion or sales, affects the product segment as a whole instead of individual
products?
A: sales budget
Q13: How much and in which direction do price expectations change each round?
A: down 50 cents
Q14: Do all segments grow at the same rate?
A: no
Q15: should you aim to have zero inventory left over at the end of the year
A: small left over about one month
Q16: What is the customer survey forecasting formula?
A: score/total scores
Q17: How many years do you have before you must pay off long term debt?
A: 10 years
Q18: How does increasing the accounts payable time impact your company's finances?
A: cash up, supplier risk
Q19: What percentage of awareness and accessibility do you lose each round?
A: about 33%
