Cost Analysis Of Pepsi 3b1c1l

Introduction & History of Organization

Pepsi Co PepsiCo, Incorporated is a global American beverage and snack company. The company manufactures, markets and sells a variety of carbonated and non-carbonated beverages, as well as salty, sweet and grain-based snacks, and other foods. Besides the Pepsi-Cola brands (including Mountain Dew), the company manufactures Quaker Oats, Gatorade, Frito-Lay, SoBe, and Tropicana. The company formed for distribution and bottling is The Pepsi Bottling Group . PepsiCo is a SIC 2080 (beverage) company.

PEPSI Pepsi Cola is a non-alcoholic carbonated beverage produced and manufactured by PepsiCo. It is sold in stores, restaurants and from vending machines. The drink was first made in the 1890s by pharmacist Caleb Bradham in New Bern, North Carolina. The brand was trademarked on June 16, 1903. There have been many Pepsi variants produced over the years, including Diet Pepsi, Crystal Pepsi, Pepsi Twist, Pepsi Max, Pepsi Samba, Pepsi Blue, Pepsi Gold, Pepsi Holiday Spice, Pepsi Jazz, Pepsi X (available in Finland and Brazil), Pepsi Next (available in Japan and South Korea), and Pepsi Ice Cucumber (available in Japan as of June 12, 2007).

Rise in popularity During the Great Depression, Pepsi gained popularity following the introduction in 1929 of a 10-ounce bottle. Initially priced at 10 cents, sales were slow, but when the price was slashed to 5 cents, sales increased substantially. With twelve ounces a bottle instead of the six ounces CocaCola sold, Pepsi turned the price difference to its advantage with a radio advertising campaign, featuring the jingle "Pepsi cola hits the spot / Twelve full ounces, that's a lot / Twice as much for a nickel, too / Pepsi-Cola is the

drink for you," encouraging price-watching consumers to switch to Pepsi, while obliquely referring to the Coca-Cola standard of six ounces a bottle for the price of five cents (a nickel), instead of the twelve ounces Pepsi sold at the same price. Coming at a time of economic crisis, the campaign succeeded in boosting Pepsi's status. In 1936 alone five-hundred-million bottles of Pepsi were consumed. From 1936 to 1938, Pepsi Cola's profits doubled. Pepsi's success under Guth came while the Loft Candy business was faltering. Since he had initially used Loft's finances and facilities to establish the new Pepsi success, the near-bankrupt Loft Company sued Guth for possession of the Pepsi Cola company. A long legal battle then ensued, with Guth losing. Loft now owned Pepsi, and the two companies did a merger, then immediately spun off the Loft company.

Marketing A large ment made to resemble a Pepsi cup at the Mall of America. The first of many new designs of Pepsi cans were released in 2007. In 1975, Pepsi introduced the Pepsi Challenge marketing campaign where PepsiCo set up a blind tasting between Pepsi-Cola and rival Coca-Cola. During these blind taste tests the majority of participants picked Pepsi as the better tasting of the two soft drinks. PepsiCo took great advantage of the campaign with television commercials reporting the test results to the public.. In 1996, PepsiCo launched the highly successful Pepsi Stuff marketing strategy. By 2002, the strategy was cited by Promo Magazine as one of 16 "Ageless Wonders" that "helped redefine promotion marketing."

In 2007, PepsiCo redesigned their cans for the fourteenth time, and for the first time, included more than thirty different backgrounds on each can, introducing a new background every three weeks.

Economy of Pepsi A soda bottling plant may seem like a strange place to do economics, but come along with me and take a look at what is seen. Here's what a typical plant might look like. The first thing you notice is the size. It's an enormous room—it feels like a football field with a big roof. At one end of this enormous room are rows and rows of finished soda in liters and cans, on pallets, stacked to the roof, ready to be loaded onto trucks. Then there are rows and rows of empties ready to be filled. And there is a massive roller coaster-ride structure that takes the empties into the filling room and back out to be assembled into six packs and cases. The filling room is walled off in glass from the rest of the facility. The empty cans enter through a gap in the glass and are loaded onto a giant roulette wheel-like structure with a diameter of maybe ten feet. The empties ride along the edge of this wheel and over 100 nozzles come down and fill them with soda. Then they're spun off the wheel to be pushed into six packs. Here's how well it runs. A state-of-the-art facility with two filling lines working can fill over 1.5 billion cans of soda in a year. Yes, 1.5 billion. How many people are necessary to produce those billion and a half cans? Maybe 10 or 20 people, depending on the facility and whom you count as production workers. Twenty people can take over one billion empty cans and get them filled and put on a pallet, ready for shipping. Imagine taking everything out of the factory so it's just a shell. Take the ten smartest people in the world. Tell them they have total freedom. What is the best way to fill and package cans of soda? Tell them they can use as many workers as they want. They can design and build any machine they want, as long as it fits in the space. Then tell them that whatever the cost of the machinery and the people they hire, it's got to come out of the revenue they receive from selling the soda at say $3 a six-pack. Of course, that's the retail price. They'd really have to get by on maybe $1.50. They couldn't do it. It would take them a millennium just to design and build the machinery, and even then, they wouldn't get it right.

It appears to the eye that ten people produce a billion cans of soda in a year. That is what is seen. What is unseen is the labor that goes into the machinery that helps those ten workers get the job done. Think about the machine that fills the can or the one that checks if it's full. Someone had to think of it and design it and build it and improve it. It's more than one person. It's an army of people. And that's only one tiny part of what produces the can of soda you drink for a mere 50 cents. Imagine what a soda would cost if you didn't have that technology. Simple answer: a lot more. Imagine how many people would be working in bottling plants if we didn't have that technology. Simple answer: a lot more.

Products & Brands There are following brands of Pepsi:          

Pepsi Diet Pepsi Caffeine free Pepsi One Pepsi Wild Cherry Diet Pepsi Vanilla Jazz by Diet Pepsi Pepsi Lime Diet Pepsi Max Pepsi Twist

Competitors Competitors of Pepsi are:  Coca Cola. It is the biggest competitor of Pepsi.  R.C. Cola (or Royal Crown Cola) is a cola soft drink developed in 1905 by Columbus, Georgia pharmacist Claude A. Hatcher.

Cost Analysis, Types of Costs, Principles

Types of Costs Fixed Cost: does not vary with the amount of service provided in the short run. Variable Costs: change with the amount of service provided. Average Cost: total cost (fixed and variable) divided by output i.e., cost per platform hour. Marginal cost: the change in total cost for each unit of output.

Principles of Cost Analysis The purpose of the analysis dictates the way you analyze costs. Analysis of the costs of a service change: use the incremental, marginal cost -- which costs are affected by the change? Need to decide term of analysis next year? 5 years? Analysis of a new system: look at total costs, set up of istration, vehicle purchase, facilities, hiring, training and operations. Allocation of deficit, revenue: take costs and allocate them to individual routes. What is their share of revenue, deficit? Service changes are incremental -- you save money by cutting pieces of work -- value of one to seven hours of saving is zero. The

extra cost of using vehicles in off peaks is likely only a portion of the per mile cost, i.e. extra fuel and maintenance costs. Key is what you use it for -- compare the world with it versus the world without it. Look at incremental cost change -- with addition or deletion of services use a total allocation system. Cost Model for Transit Planning Use a variety of approaches depending on the situation. From sketch planning, to detailed budget analysis. Simple extreme Average system cost per unit of service, i.e. total cost/hour or total cost per mile, used for quick calculation, analysis of a new system. This method will tend to overestimate potential savings of a service cut or costs of a service expansion since it includes fixed as well as variable costs. Complex extreme Reschedule the whole system to look at the effect of a change, run cutting, used to implement services and for budgeting for next system change. Intermediate Cost models with a limited number of variables – per hour, per mile, and per vehicle. Cost Allocation Methods To calculate the costs of transit service, all costs of the system need to be allocated to given categories for example. Cost = .44 * VM = 12 * VH + 15,000 * Veh. VM = vehicle miles VH = vehicle hours Veh. = number of vehicles Need to go through your expenses and allocate each to miles, hours, and vehicles. 1• per hour costs – driver wages and fringe. 2• per mile costs – maintenance wages and fringe, parts, fuel, tires, accidents (insurance?) 3• per vehicle – management, advertising, legal fees, office supplies, training, overhead items, utilities, etc. (Some expenses could fall into multiple categories.) Note that a few items (driver wages and benefits, fuel, maintenance wages and benefits) are the bulk of the costs.

Fully allocated model takes fixed costs and attempts to make them variable, especially the per vehicle portion, i.e., if you added 10% to your vehicle fleet istrative costs wouldn't rise by 10%. Think about how the change will take place. Cost Determination: Cost determination is the process of identifying the total cost of providing the service. The goal of this process is to produce a statement of the revenue and expenses for the paratransit service for a particular period. The basic source of information for this cost determination is the accrual ing system that will result in a listing of expenses such as that shown in the following table. Though the example expense listing in the table is for a twelve month period, performance evaluations also use monthly, quarterly, or semiannual information. The accrual ing system, as contrasted to a cash ing system, records revenue and expenses when they are due or incurred, rather than received or paid. An accurate performance evaluation requires that the accrual system be used so that revenue and expenses can be properly associated with the services provided and consumed. For example, if the accrual system is not used, an annual vehicle insurance bill paid in one month will overstate expenses and the related financial performance measures for the month when the bill is paid. Likewise, counting revenue in the period when it is received, rather than when it is earned, will improperly represent the true revenue per enger, or overall cost recovery of the system. In addition to the operating revenue and expense data provided by the accrual ing system, the system manager may, depending upon the purpose of the evaluation, need to make adjustments to the expense data. The need for such adjustments often arises when the evaluation involves comparing the performance of a privately operated system with that of a nonprofit or public agency-operated system. For this type of comparison, in addition to basic operating expenses, special treatment of costs may be required for costs incurred by the private operator but not by the public on nonprofit agency such as depreciation, profit, and certain taxes. Sample Chart of s Used for Cost Allocation Expense Object Class Annual Expense TRANSPORTATION EXPENSE Driver Wages and Salaries $195,000 Driver Fringe Benefits 42,900 Fuel and Oil 42,500

Tires and tubes Vehicle Insurance Vehicle Lease Purchased Transportation Other TOTAL TRANSPORTATION EXPENSE MAINTENANCE EXPENSE Mechanic Wages and Salaries Mechanic Fringe Benefits Materials and Supplies Contracted Maintenance Facility Rental Utilities Contracted Services Other TOTAL MAINTENANCE EXPENSE CALL TAKING AND DISPATCHING EXPENSE Dispatcher Wages and Salaries Dispatcher Fringe Benefits Telephone Expenses Computer Expenses Rent Other TOTAL CALL TAKING AND DISPATCHING EXPENSE ISTRATIVE EXPENSE istrative Salaries istrative Fringe Benefits Materials and Supplies Nonvehicle Insurance Professional Services Travel Office Rental Utilities Equipment Rental/Service Other TOTAL ISTRATIVE EXPENSE TOTAL OPERATING EXPENSE TOTAL VEHICLES TOTAL VEHICLE MILES TOTAL VEHICLE HOURS

6,500 39,500 6,500 46,900 3,460 $379,760 $23,000 4,830 14,600 26,800 6,000 4,000 8,900 3,350 $91,480 $31,500 6,500 6,600 4,200 3,600 5,400 $57,800 $69,500 15,500 4,500 2,200 6,500 3,000 6,000 3,600 5,400 3,300 $119,500 $648,540 14 399,000 28,500

Cost Allocation Models Nearly all performance evaluation studies require that total operating expenses such as those listed in the cost allocation table be allocated so that the cost of providing a particular type of service can be determined. The cost allocation process involves distributing each cost element among the service components. For example, to determine the cost of operating a particular vehicle or group of vehicles in a particular service sector, total operating costs must be apportioned among all vehicles and/or services. Individual vehicle or service cost estimates are useful not only to evaluate the operating and financial performance of the service component, but also, such disaggregation of expenses is necessary to evaluate the desirability of private versus public provision of service. The model can be described as follows: Annual Total Expense = (Vehicle Hour-Related Expenses * Vehicle Hours) + (Vehicle Mile-Related Expenses * Vehicle Miles) + (Fixed Expenses/Vehicle * Vehicles) (1) The unit cost model is applied by completing three steps. 1. Assembly of the data required to produce the line-item expense data shown in the chart of s given earlier for a transit system. The table lists the operating data required in addition to the financial data. To apply the model, total vehicle miles, vehicle hours, and vehicles must be known. Also, the quantity of these variables associated with sub-service components must also be known. For example, for the sample data shown in the table, the system operated 14 vehicles a total of 28,500 vehicle hours and 399,000 vehicle miles. This operating data can be obtained using the procedures described in chapter 3. The most important factors to concerning this first step are that the expense data and the operating data must represent the same service and for the same time period. That is, the operating expense listing should include all of the costs associated with operating the 14 vehicles for the number of miles and hours listed for the period included with these statistics. 2. Assignment of each expense line item to one of the unit cost variables (vehicle hours, vehicle miles, or number of vehicles). The line items are assigned to the unit cost variables based upon the service variable that most closely controls or determines the expenses for the line item. For example, driver salaries, wages, and fringe benefit expenses are most closely related to the number of vehicle hours of service provided. Likewise, fuel, maintenance, and tire expenses are most

closely linked to the number of miles operated. Finally, many costs, including most istrative expenses, are fixed, and therefore are arbitrarily allocated based on the number of vehicles associated with a service. (An alternative approach to asg fixed costs is discussed later in this section.) The table on the next page presents a suggested assignment of the line items to the unit cost variables. 3. Calculation of the average unit costs and application of the model to sub-service cost estimations. Unit costs are calculated by summing the expense items assigned to each of the three cost variables and then dividing the total expenses for each category by the service variable. For example, the total cost due to driver hours is $288,260, and the number of vehicle hours is 28,500 so that the vehicle hour-related expense is $10.11 ($288,260/28,500). The unit cost table lists the expense data by category and shows the calculation of each unit cost. Applying these unit costs to the annual cost model results in the following equation, which can be used to estimate the cost associated with each portion of the sample system's operation. Annual Total Expense = ($10.11 * Vehicle Hours) + ($.30 * Vehicle Miles) + ($17,075 * Vehicles) (2)