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Cost Reduction Systems: Target Costing and Kaizen Costing by Yasuhiro Monden β€” book cover

Cost Reduction Systems: Target Costing and Kaizen Costing

by Yasuhiro Monden
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Learn how to integrate the two important cost reduction systems that have revolutionized manufacturing. Target costing is used during the development and design stage of new products. It focuses on profit realization by planning quality products in the design and review stage. Kaizen costing helps you decrease production costs for existing products. Combining the target and kaizen methods leads to a complete cost reduction system that can be applied from product inception to completion.

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A volume on cost management that integrates two cost reduction systems that have revolutionized Japanese manufacturing management: target costing and kaizen costing. Target costing is used during the development and design stage of new products, and focuses on profit realization by planning quality products in the design and review stage. Kaizen costing focuses on cost reduction activities for existing products throughout their life cycles. Used together, they form a complete cost reduction system that can be applied from the product's conception to the end of its life cycle. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Book Details

Published
January 1, 1995
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Pages
399
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9781563270680

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