Truckload Of Products

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Q1: How many truckloads of product are actually required to carry $10 million of product? Show your calculations. Only 18.6% of one truckload is required to carry $10 million of product. Below are the calculations and logic behind this answer. First: We need to calculate the dimensions and spaces of trucks and their capacities to be filled with the Wellbutrin XL. We will need to calculate spaces and volumes with unified units of measurements. Tablets are transported in 64-gallon drums, 1 gallon = 3.7854 liters → 1 liter ≈ 1,000 cm3. So, the volume of a drum in cubic centimeters is: * Space of a 64-gallon drum = 64 * 3.7854 * 1,000 = 242,265.6 cm3 Given truck’s dimensions are 17m, 4.5m and 2.5m. The space of a truck in cubic centimeters is: * Space of a truck = 1,700cm * 450cm * 250cm = 191,250,000 cm3 Each 300mg tablet needs a space of: * 300mg Tablet = 0.5cm3 (actual tablet) + 1cm3 (space around tablet) = 1.5 cm3 To find out how many 64-gallon drums each truck can accommodate, we need to divide: * Truckload of 64-gallon drums = space of a truck / space of 64-gallon drum = 191,250,000 /…show more content…
SEC needs to know the nature of such activity in such time and needed to know if it is normal in Biovail business. Some companies, deliberately, try to sell more at the end of financial periods and get rid of inventory in order to inflate reported revenues. This action has a big effect on reported revenues, especially when the agreement structure is FOB Shipping Point. This behavior creates a “channel stuffing” which simply means that large quantities of the product are pushed to through the supply chain leaving distributors with quantities larger than what they can sell. As stated in the case, many companies behave in such manner without a disclosure and blame it on seasonal nature of demand for their

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