Logistics fees

The SEP was defined by the regulations as a composite of the manufacturer s exit price, plus the distribution or logistics fee and a 14% value... 

Entry strategies for the individual geographies, however, need to be differentiated, since logistics, distribution, and market development largely depend on local conditions. In China, for example, the on-site business model is the key to seizing growth opportunities, as the cylinder business will be difficult to develop profitably due to the absence of a rental fee model and the dominance of local... 

Consider a donor with available funds R that it is considering allocating between two NGOs based on their relative performance. Assume that performance is measured by the quickness of an NGO s delivery of supplies to the disaster site. Assume that the ith NGO achieves a delivery time of ti for a unit standard load, charges the donor a fee a, per unit dollar of funds received, and incurs a logistics cost of, per unit standard load, per unit time. Assume that donor s utility from the relief operations is inversely proportional to the delivery time. 

The Minister of Health appointed a pricing committee with representation from the Departments of Trade and Industry and Finance and the Competition Commission. The committee had pharmacists, lawyers, health economists, pharmaco-economists, academics and consumer representatives, but no industry representation. Their mandate was to establish a new regime of total transparency in the pricing structure of all prescription medicines and over-the-counter products. The committee would also set up regulations for logistics and dispensing fees, international benchmarking of pharmaceuticals and pharmaco-economic evaluation of medicines. 

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