The relationship between the three business entities: Quality, Quantity and Price
Having a business empire is no joke and sometimes we are often faced with tough choices, among which is the number of people are goods are meant for, the quality of goods being produced to cover the amount of people, and the price range.
I was reading some business books over the past couple of days and I discovered something which caught my attention, it is the fact that all three factors:
- Quality
- Quantity
- Price
Cannot be all present if a business empire is to make it big.
In economics, we were made to understand that certain goods and services were manufactured for certain purposes among which, some are manufactured at a target class of consumers.
Those goods and services are difficult to manufacture and as such the quality has to be top notch, with the price compensating for the inability to mass produce.
Why mass production does not favor quality
Sounds ironic right? Everyone believes that a good that is mass produced should be as good as something that is of antique value.
The truth is if diamonds and ordinary beads went for the same price, what makes it special?
The quality of diamond, it's almost indestructibility, save for other diamonds and certain other things which more or less separates the diamond into little pieces, each piece still having a value of it's own, instead of rendering it totally useless.
Imagine if Ferrari's were mass produced, noting that the cost of production was about 25% or higher, do you know how many models will be recalled due to mechanical, electrical and other faults?
The reason is quite simple, during quality control for mass produced goods, sometimes certain faults are ignored in goods being shipped abroad and the cars are only recalled if the faults gets noticed by enough people.
A camry on the other hand, sells for far less and is produced for far less. Mass production costs far less as certain things are absent in the car.
Take for instance, Ford had to recall some of their vehicles sometime back due to an error resulting from transmission issues, this issue alone affect hundreds of thousands of their vehicles.
How does quality operate as an entity
Quality in the production line deals with how long, how strong and how favorable a good or service will be on the long run will be to it's consumers.
Quality is a generic term, as a product with little quality or less quality, also has quality but in reduced quantity.A good, product or service that has high quality has to be in a reduced quantity and a high price.
So for quality:
Quantity is low and price is high.
How quantity fits in
Quantity are inverses of each other, a product in large quantity is is simply a product of reduced quality.
So for quantity:
Quality is low and price is lower than that of quality
And price
Price is subject to either quantity or quality. An option for either quantity or quality affects the price.
So for price:
Quantity is lower price and quality is higher price.
Conclusion
In conclusion, understanding the relativity between those three factors, greatly affects the productivity positively. A business which values an increased or mass product output will need to favor a slightly declined quality end product so as to match the price target.
While a business which targets the line of being tagged quality, has to reduce the quantity and increase the price to compensate.
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These headline Why mass production does not favor quality
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thanks for sharing
Yeah but I also thing some companies are getting it right to do both. Or at least mass customization if not quality. Following you @tormiwah
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You guys inspire me. Awesome useful content as usual. Thanks for sharing :)
Agree with all these points! Business is really a balancing act.
I agree, but focus also important no?
Inspiring for the business oriented minds. well done on this piece @ehiboss
Bottom line, you can't eat your cake and have it, you have to lose something to gain something.
Nice post. I post similar posts sometimes under the mba tag. Following you. I hope you have a wonderful day.
this is a good explanation to the concept of econmics, thumbs up bro
You are very right in your summation.
However it will be interesting to know what needs to be done to improve the quality of products being imported into Nigeria while maintaining the quantity of Such products at a constant rate.
When a level of quality is required , there is a high price for it in lower quantity
When a level of quantity is required ,there is a lower price for it in lower quality
Thanks for the inspiration