Cost Control
成本控制
A: Seeing as the economy is the way it is right now, it’s been agreed that we need to do what we can to cut costs.
A:鉴于当前的经济形势,我们一致赞成要竭尽所能削减成本。
B: Perhaps we could look at what we’ve already done to cut costs in the last few years and then go from there.
B:或许可以先看一下最近几年为削减成本已经采取了什么措施,然后再讨论接下去还能做什么。
A: Good idea. Would you like to start?
A:好主意。您先说可以吗?
B: Sure. We’ve already cut resourcing by restructuring the company as a global company. This means that we only need one Marketing Director for the entire company instead of a Marketing Director for each local team,
B:当然。通过重组公司为全球性企业,我们已经削减了人力资源成本。这意味着公司不需要给每个地方团队都配营销主管,整个公司有一位即可。
A: How about unit costs?
A:产品单位成本呢?
C: We’ve managed to reduce the unit costs by increasing the number of units that we produce. We’ve been able to do that by creating fewer localized products and more global products.
C:通过提高单位产品产量,我们已经成功降低了单位成本。我们之所以能做到,是因为减少了生产本地化产品,增加了全球性产品。
A: How about marketing costs?
A:营销成本如何?
D: Again, we’ve created a website for the marketing teams so that they share their marketing and brand assets.
D:同样,我们为销售团队创建了网站,以便他们共享营销和品牌资产。
A: Have you done anything about the number of samples we give away?
A:你们对派发样品的数量采取什么措施了吗?
D: Yes, we’ve also put many of our samples online. This has cut our costs dramatically.
D:有,我们还将很多样品发布到网上,极大地削减了成本。