Consider a retail chain that has eight stores in a given region supplied from four supply sources (i. e., as many different products). The vice president of supply chain is considering multiple options for designing and selecting a transportation network, one of which is to set up ‘milk runs’ from individual suppliers to four retail stores on each truck. If the anticipated annual sales for each product at each retail store are 840,000 units, given some other operational constraints listed below, what would be the total annual trucking cost for this milk-run network? Trucks have a capacity of 40,000 units and cost $1,000 per load plus $100 per delivery The cost of holding one unit in inventory at each retail store for a year is $0.20 Assume that only full truckloads will be shipped from suppliers to retail stores.

A. economic resources to be used or turned into cash within one year. b. reports assets, liabilities, and stockholders' equity. c. decrease assets; increase liabilities and stockholders' equity. d. increase assets; decrease liabilities and stockholders' equity. e. an exchange or event that has a direct and measurable financial effect. f. accounts for a business separate from its owners. g. the principle that assets should be recorded at their original cost to the company. h. a standardized format used to accumulate data about each item reported on financial statements. i. the basic accounting equation. j. the two equalities in accounting that aid in providing accuracy. k. the account credited when money is borrowed from a bank using a promissory note. l. cumulative earnings of a company that have not yet been distributed to the owners. m. every transaction has at least two effects. n. amounts presently owed by the business. transaction, separate entity assumption, balance sheet, liabilities, assets, current assets, notes payable, duality of effects, retained earnings, debit.