Based on 13th Edition of Marketing Management by Kotler and Keller
Annual Plan Control
Sales Analysis
Microsales analysis
Market Share Analysis
Marketing Expense to Sales Analysis
Financial Analysis
Profitability Control
Marketing Profitability Analysis
Determining Corrective Action
Direct Versus Full Costing
Efficiency Control
Efficiency control requires the evaluation of efficiency of sales methods and techniques. It requires answers to the questions; are there more efficient ways to manage the sales force, advertising, sales promotion, and distribution.
Is the name efficiency control appropriate? Designing effective and efficient methods is the responsibility of managers. Others can evaluate the design of managers and then suggest improvements. In that context efficiency control is appropriate.
To improve the channel efficiency, management needs to search for economies in inventory control, warehouse locations, and transportation modes. While short term decision models are developed as tradeoffs, in the long term all relevant costs and yields can be improved. This fact was brought out by Japanese companies strongly into management thinking.
Strategic Control
The Marketing Audit
A marketing audit is a comprehensive, systematic, independent, and periodic examination of a company's or business unit's marketing environment, objectives, strategies, and activities, with a view to determining problem areas and opportunities and recommending a plan of action to improve the company's marketing performance.
The Marketing Excellence Review
In Table 22.13 Kotler and Keller gave characteristics of Poor, Good and Excellent Marketing Management Practices in 15 dimensions. The company can self assess where it stands of each of these dimensions and move towards excellent practices.
Planned Revision schedule for marketing chapters is in February and March
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