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Distribution & inventory management, fixed or variable cost?
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It depends!
Your hourly laborers would be variable. Your Inventory Management system would be fixed. Rent = fixed. Trucks, if purchased are fixed. Trucks, if rented/leased are variable.
Fixed means the costs do not change when the # of procuts (i.e. goods processed) increases.
Variables costs do change for each incremental unit produced/processed/served.
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