Cents per Box: The Gel Pack Line Item in a 12,000-Box Meal-Kit Week
A meal-kit company shipping 12,000 boxes a week from a single fulfilment centre asked us to quote SAP because its gel pack supplier had raised prices by 9 percent. When we modelled the actual pack cost, the SAP turned out to be 0.6 cents of a pack that costs 21 cents to make and 1.94 dollars to deli…