Classify Each of the Following Cost Items of Ripon Printers

question 62

Essay

Classify each of the following cost items of Ripon Printers into one of the business functions of the value chain,either (1)R&D, (2)design, (3)production, (4)marketing, (5)distribution,or (6)customer service.
Item:
a.cost of customer order forms
b.cost of paper used in manufacture of books
c.cost of paper used in packing cartons to ship books
d.cost of paper used in display at national trade show
e.depreciation of trucks used to transport books to college bookstores
f.cost of the wood used to manufacture paper
g.salary of the scientists attempting to find another source of printing ink
h.cost of defining the book size so that a standard-sized box is filled to capacity

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Definitions:

Public Cloud

A computing service model where resources, such as servers and storage, are owned and operated by a third-party provider and delivered over the internet, making them available to the general public.

Google Drive

A cloud-based storage service provided by Google that allows users to save files online and access them from any smartphone, tablet, or computer.

Customer Manages

In a business context, it refers to situations where customers have control over certain decisions or aspects of service provision.

IaaS

Infrastructure as a Service, a cloud computing model that provides virtualized computing resources over the internet.