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International Journal of Management (IJM), ISSN 0976 – 6502(Print), ISSN 0976 - 6510(Online),
Volume 4, Issue 4, July-August (2013)
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TARGET COSTING AND IT'S IN REDUCING THE COST COMPARISON
AT INDUSTRIAL COMPANIES
Mr. Emhemad Omar Abusef,
Libya
Dr. N.S. Rathi
Assistance Professor, Department of Commerce,
Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad
I. ABSTRACT
In this paper we data analysis from Libya constructing firm. In this analysis the costing and
reducing of cost in industrial companies together we provide substantial advantages to users of these
usage Such companies can accomplish decreases in new product development cycle time and cost
without compromising value and functionality. This paper boasts assistance to current publications
by adding empirical clues on the role of goal costing in the process of product development. Cost
decrease and Optimization for constructing and Industrial Companies wrappings all foremost cost
decrease localities, supplying very simple to read demonstrations and advice on steps to take. It
presents the roadmap for applying recommended actions with factual and endeavoured procedures by
taking a modern, all-inclusive gaze at manufacturing methods. This article benefits to costing in
alignment to test the relationship between the uses of product development firm perform and the
product’s development time and cost
Cost decline and Optimization for constructing and Industrial businesses wrappings all
foremost cost decline localities, providing very easy to read demonstrations and recommendations on
steps to take. It presents the roadmap for applying recommended activities with factual and
endeavoured methods by taking a modern, all-inclusive look at constructing procedures. Easy-to-
understand and easy-to-implement cost decrease notions coordinated into five general localities
work, material, conceive method, and overhead. The cost decrease locality and starts with the
groundwork line first by summarizing key points supplies verified methods for chopping charges
without a allotment of extraneous details and figures pursues a qualitative and design-oriented
approach.
Emphasizes fast implementation and discernable cost decline identifies who in the
association should do the work summaries hazards and suggested risk mitigation activities comprises
numerous benches, graphs, and images to display the notions described.
Index Terms: Target Costing, pursue, notions
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II. INTRODUCTION
A presentation association needs sustainable conceive investigation and method optimization
constructing and mining goods and services to decrease quality costs in industrial companies. Article
based on production of the link between sustainability and quality charges, presents the major
methods and methods to counter developed businesses and focuses on sustainable methods for
reducing value costs in developed societies. up to date methods but effective conceive (robust
conceive), constructing (Lean Six Sigma scheme, Lean Process values, Just-In-Time Production,
Total Quality administration) and post-sales activities endow the development of processes founded
on to blame use of resources by eradicating waste and move internal and external users of
dependable cost related to value and professionalism. Cost reduction is the method utilized by
businesses to decrease their costs and boost their earnings.
Depending on a company s services or merchandise, the strategies can alter. Every decision
in the product development method sways cost.
Focuses on rapid implementation of functional, real-world cost reduction solutions in today's
financial climate, the need to cut charges can be the distinction between achievement and failure.
Cost decrease and Optimization for constructing and Industrial Companies wrappings all foremost
cost decrease localities, supplying very simple to read demonstrations and advice on steps to take. It
presents the roadmap for applying recommended actions with factual and endeavored procedures by
taking a modern, all-inclusive gaze at manufacturing methods. Easy-to-understand and easy-to-
implement cost reduction notions coordinated into five general localities labor, material, design,
process, and overhead. The cost reduction locality and begins with the base line first by summarizing
key points Provides verified tactics for chopping charges without a lot of extraneous facts and figures
Follows a qualitative and design-oriented approach Emphasizes fast implementation and measurable
cost decrease recognizes who in the association should do the work Outlines dangers and proposed
risk mitigation actions comprises numerous benches, graphs, and photographs to show the notions
described
The Cost decrease and Optimization for constructing and developed Companies, It takes an
up to date, all-inclusive look at manufacturing methods but furthermore provides considerable
treatment of engineering components and output schemes. It pursues a more qualitative and design-
oriented approach than other texts in the market, assisting readers gain a better comprehending of
significant notions. They furthermore discover how micro-economic situation concern to the method
variables in a granted method as well as how to present constructing science and quantitative
engineering analysis of constructing. It has conceived an exclusive, practical and clear-cut approach
to cost decrease in manufacturing. This work provides valuable insights and solid methods, founded
on real-world experiences, to any constructing association undertaking change to place itself to
compete effectively in the global
Since price is market driven, the overall strategy of a company has become a cost reduction
strategy. Prices are set by markets, so in order to ensure a healthy profit margin, costs have to be
managed. Traditional cost reduction techniques try to reduce costs when the product enters the
manufacturing phase. Far too late, would be the reaction of a company that uses target costing.
Target costing already starts looking at the cost of a product in the product planning and concept
design phase. The product life cycle of nowadays products also tends to become shorter. For
traditional cost reduction techniques, a shorter product life cycle implies less time to find cost
reduction opportunities. As a consequence, target costing becomes more important.
Outsourcing might emerge to be a very simple response. In much business, contracting out
non-core enterprise functions such as human assets, billing, or payroll to third-party providers is
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Some enterprises have even outsourced components of their functioning procedures. But one
time an enterprise concludes to outsource, it furthermore reveals itself to new types of risk. For
demonstration, an inferior supplier of outsourced services can, overnight, enforce lasting impairment
on a company s attachment with its suppliers and customers. So anything route you take, you must
precede with caution and knowing counsel. We have considerable know-how in planning, applying
and evaluating cost decrease and cost containment programmed. We can render formal opinions on
business and asset standards for tax and accounting reasons, enterprise transactions, and junction
projects. And we can provide expert recommendations on
Capital structuring and cost of capital Downsizings and carves outs Employee advantages and
reimbursement programs financial function and IT effectiveness position are designing off shoring
and global provide string of links Outsourcing Taxes. Businesses normally launch new merchandise
without focusing too much on cost. Cost becomes more significant when competition increases and
cost becomes a differentiator in the market.
III. LITERATURE REVIEW
Target costing
Target costing is a charge procedure utilized by companies. It is characterized as "a cost
administration tool for decreasing the general cost of merchandise over its entire life-cycle with the
help of output, engineering, study and design. A target cost is the maximum allowance of cost that
can be acquired on a product and with it the firm can still profit framings from the needed profit
framings margin from that merchandise at a specific selling cost.
Target Costing should be examined as a broader concept that encompasses goal Costing as
well as other methods in cost administration that Target Costing can be part of a wider notion of
Product cost management, called target cost management. In contended that TC should be used in a
more strategic viewpoint and total cost command concept which is apparently a TC approach. These
are distinct names for like methods which can be examined as part of the same general approach.
Which are organized in three distinct ways? Foremost, the blend of products that are manufactured
and sold is firmly controlled by top level administration through the efforts of a multi-disciplinary
team. Secondly, the charges of new products are reduced through the methods of goal costing and
value technology. Eventually, the costs of living goods are reduced through the system.
eventually, it should be highlighted that these methods associated with TC are notion of continuous
enhancement. TC means relentless enhancement in merchandise development and conceive methods
and, which pursues TC procedures, means cost decreases in the manufacturing and delivery methods.
TC is a method for organizing product charges during the conceive stage. After setting the goal
charges, some coordination techniques
Principles of Target costing
Price-Led Costing
As market charges are the determinants of product and earnings designs, the goal costing
method needs an active market investigation.
Focus on Customers
Product characteristic and functions throughout product development take location to meet
customer anticipations, and customers are eager to pay for them which will at the end enhance
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Focus on Design
Target costing schemes boost all taking part purposes of the firm to analyze concepts which
enable to organize charges before they are incurred rather than afterward due to the detail that most
of production charges occur at the conceive stage.
Cross-Functional Involvement
Cost management activities throughout target costing process requires merchandise and
process groups with constituents representing conceive and constructing technology, output, sales
and trading, components procurement, cost accounting, service and support. One of the most
important participants in the cross-functional groups is the suppliers and many investigations study
the involvement of suppliers in goal costing process.
Life Cycle Orientation
Goal costing considers all the charges of owning a product over its entire life and from a
customer s viewpoint; life cycle focuses on reducing the charges of operating, utilizing, repairing
and disposing of the merchandise and from the producer s viewpoint; it focuses on minimizing the
charges of development, output, marketing, distribution, support, service and disposition costs.
Value-Chain engagement
All members of the worth string of links such as suppliers, dealers, vendors, and service
providers are engaged in the target costing method to execute an extended enterprise to conceive
clientele worth and minimize charges which are furthermore the centre aim of goal costing.
Cost commitment through the life cycle
Low profit margins, no more first mover-advantages, low customer loyalty, high customer
demands. These are all characteristics of today s markets where our companies have to compete in
with each other. Those intense competitive pressures no longer make it possible for a company to
survive by focusing on technical differentiation alone. The emergence of global markets has shunted
aside such an old-fashioned strategy as initially introducing new products to technophiles at high
prices and then subsequently scaling up volume and lowering price to satisfy the demands of the
more conventional customer. Also the existence of lean competitors means that copycat, me-too
product versions can be out on the market in a matter of months. Companies understand that
products must be innovative, have high quality and low costs right from their initial launching.
Otherwise lean imitators will swoop in and introduce their low-cost copycats. How can a company
retain its competitiveness in a market with that kind of characteristics? Of course, the solutions are
not as simple as driving out costs from the companies production, marketing, and distribution
activities. Why not? Today, the majority of the companies have already squeezed out the fat of the
production system, via their ongoing just in time (JIT) and total quality management (TQM)
initiatives. Moreover, the cost gains from achieving marketing and distribution efficiencies are
substantially smaller than the cost gains achieved through better product planning and design.
Several authors argue that up to 80 percent of the product costs are committed at the design stage.
Sakurai (1992, 3-2) even states that 100 percent of the product cost are determined at planning and
design stages. Figure 1 shows the typical relationship between life-cycle costs and committed and
incurred costs. In the design stage important decisions are made concerning material selection,
production method, make or buy decision. All those decisions have a great impact on the costs of a
product. However, figure 1 show that most of the costs incur after the design stage, i.e. when the
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Figure 1 Life Cycle Cost
There are time lags between designs about product design and their eventual impact on the
recurring (operating) costs. Cost causes and cost occurrences are separated in time. Therefore, a
company cannot focus only on cost reduction techniques that take the product design as given. The
company has to be „cost conscious in every stage of the product s life cycle.
Any company cannot ignore 80%; the product development stage is a real treasure island for
cost reduction opportunities (Kato, 1993, 35). Fisher (1995, 50) explains why such a high percentage
of the costs are committed in the design and development stage. He says: “Given a high level of
automation, most production costs are determined in the product planning and design stages, so
reducing product costs dramatically in the production is difficult”.
Automation has changed the cost structure of many companies, causing more costs to be
fixed in the short run.
Cost impact on Quality
A procedure for quantifying the value mentions to the measurement of quality charges, or
non-quality charges, a assess showing how much it costs every year to supply quality administration
activities and industrial company, the goods and services and associated activities.
Actions that require reducing quality costs
As cost decrease, utilizing of prevention(training quality, design method, removing the origin
of failure, change process, quality audit, upkeep and ecological review) as well as notions evaluation
(tests, measurements, evaluations, difficulty investigation, examination, verification), which begun
swapping in the underlying developed companies
Elements of direct or indirect impact on quality
Nearly all the costs of value generators have direct or digressive influence on the natural
environment and humanity. recognize in this consider internal defects (scrap, repair, unscheduled
service undertakings, removing defects, lost output time, use more assets, waste processing
technologies, scrap and other waste) but external obvious errors (returned goods, customer
complaints due to decreases in billing, recall goods within warranty expenses, lawful charges,
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Quality Measures imposed to reduce costs
The life cycle of a product from conceive to implementation, use and recycling, developed
companies should be to blame to correct, mitigate or eliminate the losses initiated. Other ways in
which quality associated charges can be decreased: utilizing calculations at the preliminary
investigations or by a conclusion taken by the leaders of the industrial company
Method and Manufacturing Techniques and for industrial companies
up to date constructing systems known as thin Six Sigma offer a variety of procedures and
procedures to counter industrial businesses, aimed at to blame use of resources: thin Six Sigma
scheme, thin Process values, Just-In-Time output, and Total value Management.
Modern techniques but effective techniques but effective manufacturing (Lean Six Sigma
System, Lean Process Principles, Just-In-Time Production,
Total Quality Management) it is envisaged that modern, flexible, able to lead to outstanding
performance by eliminating waste and reducing costs representing the safe way to excellence.
Implementation of standards these methods proved to be a program that works and can be adopted
not only production but also in services. Customer requirements are for an existing industrial
essential. If we look at society and the environment as final customers of any organization, it makes
sense and optimization efforts in terms of sustainability. The company may record the following
types of costs: the cost of pollution, waste, accidents, interruptions of transportation or
communication paths, and if they are identified early design phase could be minimized
The Lean Six Sigma System
Lean Six Sigma is improving quality and efficiency of processes based on a strong project
and quantitative approach with clear target setting. For long-term success and sustainability of
excellence in operations, techniques must be supported by an organizational philosophy that
complete context of transactions.
When these pieces are in location, thin Six Sigma s relentless pursuit of product value and
method speed leads to corporate achievement and to individual achievement for the persons who
contribute to that journey
Figure 2 Lean Process Principles
Lean production is a production philosophy that reduces the time between customer order and
manufacturing, delivering the required product by eliminating waste. Lean production uses less of
everything compared with mass production or mass, half the manufacturing space, half the
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Mentions to a new dynamic process of evolution of production, which covers all facets of
developed procedures (product development, manufacturing, association and human resources,
clientele service).
Is focused strictly on clientele-supplier systems, systemic process driven by a set of values,
methods and practices.
Just in Time Method (JIT)
Just in Time (JIT) is based on the idea that production activity must be calculated and
designed with great precision so that inventories are minimized. It is a process oriented and applied
primarily to manufacturing firms, should occur only what sells and just in time. Reduction or
elimination of stokes minimum raw materials, parts, subassemblies, finished products lead to lower
overall costs, regardless of production volume
Location rational organizational links in order to reduce costs of operations that do not create value
Total Quality Management (TQM)
TQM is a complex process that causes a continuous quality improvement of product services
to meet customer requirements in the context of increasing labor productivity and profit industrial
organization replacing the periodic verification of product quality preventive control. Quality should
be provided and certified the rules recognized/valid international ISO
Fig. 3 The total quality management in industrial companies
Post-sale activities
Proposing sales and service answer entire and integrated modern methods output set,
permitting sales department to competently manage the entire cycle of instructions, and all
undertakings post-sale, supplying thus delivering orders on time and effective administration of all
feminine dogs circulation. Therefore, we get reduce operational costs, acceleration, stimulation
productivity and boost sales, finance improvements in approval customers. Applications include a
broad range of clientele oriented methods - the distribution and sale of goods and professional
services administration requirements for service, warranty and comes back, production and
procedures administration, in production administration, boasts task case investigations and
financial. For cost reduction measures to attach, businesses should clarify the cost drivers of the
business and use that knowledge to create a heritage of cost consciousness, in both awful times and
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IV. CONCLUSION AND AREAS FOR
FUTURE RESEARCH
Target Costing Approach, is considered as one of the modern procedures to reduce strategic
costing that enables the directed it developed company get comparable benefit that could overwhelm
its competitors in the market. This can be finished by strengthening the developed companies costing
centre; then accomplish relentless growth advantage and stay in the competitive market.
The centered notion is the enterprise organizational sustainable in which the corporation is
construction in joint venture with stakeholder methods and mutual relations. Up to date methods but
productive methods but productive constructing (Lean Six Sigma scheme, thin method values Just-
In-Time Production, Total Quality Management) it is envisaged that modern, flexible, able to lead to
outstanding presentation by eliminating waste and decreasing costs comprising the safe way to
excellence. Implementation of measures these procedures verified to be a program that works and
can be taken up not only output but furthermore in services. Clientele obligations are for an existing
developed essential. If we look at society and the environment as last customers of any association, it
makes sense and optimization efforts in terms of sustainability. The company may record the
following types of costs: the cost of pollution, waste, misfortunes, interruptions of transport or
connection routes, and if they are recognized early design phase could be minimized.
The obvious and most interesting thing the application of architectural value concept in the
industrial companies generates many ideas and real opportunities for cost reduction of products. All
those applicable opportunities should be exploited practically from economic perspective.
Consideration, the firms should pay necessary concerns to the internal and external variables of its
competitive situation so that the strategies adopted is succeeded and to ensure its continuity and
existence in the market. Furthermore, the industrial firms are able to apply Target Costing Approach
strategy to achieve the competitive price via supporting the senior administration. Since such
strategies are disciplined by the senior administration to itself. And the responsibility of using Target
Costing Approach does not limited to the senior administrations but the other administrative levels
such as the medium administrations, supervisors and personnel have their considerable role for
successful application of the costing target.
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