01-22-2015, 07:35 PM
Hello!
At the moment I have roundabout a dozen brands and each of them has 5 - 15 models. The number of brands and models increase continously. Brands differ in type and region of production.
For example I have the brand "Azul" which produces family cars in South America.
Company "Blue" produces family cars in North America and Company "Blau" produces family cars in Europe.
I i.e. have also "green" brands, which produce pick-ups and vans.
Originally I planed to sell the cars only in the region of production, but then I decided to sell them worldwide. Quite beautiful idea, because all factories are working now on full throttle and profit increases. But transport costs increased also drastically. For cheap models this can mean, that it does not make anymore sense to sell them.
I.e. a car is produced for 150 sold for 450 worldwide. This means a difference of 300, which is good if production and sales facility is on the same continent. But if you ship from Europe to Australia cost may be easily up to 1000 for shipping. So my cost is 1150 (+other) and I make a loss with this modell.
I can of course start to sell the cars on the market by choosing the "Sell in Region" in the mega menu. This would mean 6 times for each model. Since I have sometimes 3 new models per Turn this would mean a huge amount of time.
My main issue are for example Japan or Singapore. Both are in Asia, where the majority of countries are quite poor. But these two countries would be able to afford cars which are more expensive, so they would buy the European cars, while the Philipines would only buy the local cars, since they can not afford the European ones due to their more expensive base price and the high transport costs.
Would it be possible to make the following:
Make a menu "sell everywhere", where you can insert the net sales price and the computer adds the transport cost automatically?
By this it will be of course much harder to sell the cars in those areas, which are far away, but the market would regulate itself.
At the moment I have roundabout a dozen brands and each of them has 5 - 15 models. The number of brands and models increase continously. Brands differ in type and region of production.
For example I have the brand "Azul" which produces family cars in South America.
Company "Blue" produces family cars in North America and Company "Blau" produces family cars in Europe.
I i.e. have also "green" brands, which produce pick-ups and vans.
Originally I planed to sell the cars only in the region of production, but then I decided to sell them worldwide. Quite beautiful idea, because all factories are working now on full throttle and profit increases. But transport costs increased also drastically. For cheap models this can mean, that it does not make anymore sense to sell them.
I.e. a car is produced for 150 sold for 450 worldwide. This means a difference of 300, which is good if production and sales facility is on the same continent. But if you ship from Europe to Australia cost may be easily up to 1000 for shipping. So my cost is 1150 (+other) and I make a loss with this modell.
I can of course start to sell the cars on the market by choosing the "Sell in Region" in the mega menu. This would mean 6 times for each model. Since I have sometimes 3 new models per Turn this would mean a huge amount of time.
My main issue are for example Japan or Singapore. Both are in Asia, where the majority of countries are quite poor. But these two countries would be able to afford cars which are more expensive, so they would buy the European cars, while the Philipines would only buy the local cars, since they can not afford the European ones due to their more expensive base price and the high transport costs.
Would it be possible to make the following:
Make a menu "sell everywhere", where you can insert the net sales price and the computer adds the transport cost automatically?
By this it will be of course much harder to sell the cars in those areas, which are far away, but the market would regulate itself.
