Results are presented with colorful Excel-like charts or with graphs. This optional module provides a set of graphs on market and company results. It also provides a built-in portfolio analysis tool and additional tools using regression analysis. This module of the Team software serves as the interface with the course instructor, mainly to exchange data files or request loans or budget increases. This module of the Instructor software is used to exchange data files with teams, to print team reports, to grant loans and budget increases, to run the simulation and to customize the amount of information available to teams.
Specifications encompass the physical characteristics of future products and the target unit cost.
Alternatively, teams can decide to upgrade existing brands. A number of more tactical decisions must be made for each marketed brand. Teams must plan production batches carefully in order to avoid stock-out while minimizing inventories. Prices must be set according to the expectations of target segments. Finally, communication budgets must be allocated to marketed brands according to their position in the product life cycle, to their sales potential, etc.