Zero Base Pricing: Achieving World Class Competitiveness Through Reduced All-In-Costs

by David K. Burt, Warren E. Norquist, Jimmy Anklesaria

America's most successful companies have begun to redirect their product pricing and cost-cutting efforts from merely trying to get the best price from their suppliers to a more rigorous and all-emcompassing new concept called Zero Based Pricing. This new approach, based on the all-in-costs approach to purchasing management, addresses all the phases of a product's manufacturing process, including it's design, the procurement of raw materials and/or the component parts or sub-assemblies, the labor and production equipment and plant used to manufacture it and its quality. The breadth of Zero Based Pricing even extends to the firm's relationships with it's unions and outside suppliers, the goal of which is to create a partnership to produce the best product at the lowest possible price.

445 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 1990

Reviews

[Effendy Yahaya · Rating 4 out of 5]

My reference in supply chain as it good for manufacturing industry. management accounting needs to have it in a realistic cost management on how to more cost saving and effective in benefits of spending money. certain fields in procurement is to identify the cost and benefits analysis. certain circumstances can be apply accordingly. negotiation is one of the pillar on cost justification. lower and zero the cost of pricing is crucial in business.