business factors
Part 5
| Fill in the blanks highighted in yellow below | |||||||||
| Option1: Distibution from the East Coast Factory | Option 2: Building a W/H at West Coast for finished goods | Option 3: Building a manufacturing factory & W/H at the West Coast | |||||||
| Space per truck = 4000ft cubic | Space per truck = 4000ft cubic | Space per truck = 4000ft cubic | |||||||
| Cooler unit size = 2ft cubic | Cooler unit size = 2ft cubic | Cooler unit size = 2ft cubic | |||||||
| total cooler unit capacity = 2000pcs | total cooler unit capacity = 2000pcs | total cooler unit capacity = 2000pcs | |||||||
| Half capacity truck | |||||||||
| Units delivered per trip | |||||||||
| Charged to customer as freight cost per trip | |||||||||
| Freight Charge from East to West Coast | |||||||||
| Half truck load | $0 | Cost of transporting A | |||||||
| Cost of transporting B | |||||||||
| Cost of transporting C | |||||||||
| Units transported per freight | Total Raw Materials freight/ cooler | $ - 0 | |||||||
| Units purchased weekly | Opportunity cost of transporting raw materials per full truck load | $0.00 | |||||||
| Customer shipping charges | $0 | ||||||||
| Units purchased weekly | Number of Trips taken to fill W/H | $0.00 | |||||||
| transported per freight | 0 | ||||||||
| Number of trips made | ERROR:#DIV/0! | ERROR:#DIV/0! | Total spent on transport | $0.00 | |||||
| Total cost for transport | ERROR:#DIV/0! | Units delivered per trip to the customer | 0 | ||||||
| Charged to customer as freight cost per trip | $0 | ||||||||
| Freight Charge from East to West Coast | $0 | Total transport | ERROR:#DIV/0! | ||||||
| Spent on transport | $0 | ||||||||
| Relief totals for all trips | ERROR:#DIV/0! | ||||||||
| Total spent on transport | ERROR:#DIV/0! |
For the weekly supply of 10,000 units, how many trips to the West Coast are needed?
The distribution of these units would require full truck capacity transport to fill a warehouse in anticipation of demand and a warehouse management system
Since the finished goods are now manufactured on the West Coast. No Finished goods transportation is to be added. However, now the raw materials transportation needs to be accounted for.