Highest quality is lowest cost
- Highest quality is lowest cost
"Highest quality is lowest cost" is a Japanese manufacturing aphorism based on the premise that the highest quality manufacturer will earn a reputation that makes buyers prefer, price being reasonably similar, to buy its goods. This means that the manufacturer will produce more than its competitors, and thus will both have economies of scale and be able to accept a lower profit per unit—thus the highest quality goods will have a lower cost by driving other goods from the market. The production of higher quality goods can also reduce quality costs.
From the purchaser's point of view the highest quality goods will have the fewest problems, and the cost of dealing with a problem far outweighs the extra purchase cost.
ee also
*Cost of poor quality
*Gold in the mine
*Lemon law
*Quality costs
*The Market for Lemons
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