If a company is pursuing a strategy to produce branded footwear at a low total production cost relative to rival companies, then it should regularly review 

 the production cost benchmarking data on p. 6 of each issue of the Footwear Industry Report to help determine whether it should make maximum use of overtime at each of the company's production facilities to help lower total production costs per pair.the benchmarking data on p. 7 of the FIR to determine whether it has achieved the lowest possible total branded costs per pair sold in each geographic region.page 4 of the FIR to help determine whether to (1) invest in one or more production improvement options, (2) bid more aggressively to win private-label contracts to help lower total production costs, or (3) sell some of the new or refurbished equipment at one or more production facilities.the production cost benchmarking data on p. 6 of each issue of the Footwear Industry Report to determine whether it should close down whichever production facility that has the highest total production costs per branded pair.the production cost benchmarking data on p. 6 of each issue of the Footwear Industry Report to see if its efforts to achieve low total production costs per branded pair have been more/less successful than other companies pursuing much the same outcome.