Stick Pack Pricing Model
Full standing-cost build — every labor station priced time × rate, packaging sourced with freight-in, and ingredients costed per formula. Materials are cost-plus, value-add carries its own margin. Fields flagged ASSUMPTION are placeholders to overwrite.
AXN · Single-lane VFFS
Records
Run & Fill 01
Effective speedsticks/min
Sustained shift output, not peak.
Fill line rate$/hr
Loaded (operator + OH).
Overage%
Label-claim over-fill.
Net fill weightg/stick
Used in tolling mode.
Labor — Stations 02
General labor rate$/hr
Applies to receiving, setup, sieving, coding, casing, palletizing.
Receiving goodstotal hr
ASSUMPTION · Per order, fixed.
Setup / takedownhr each
Frequency
Per batch multiplies by the number of blend batches.
Palletizationtotal hr
ASSUMPTION · Per order, fixed.
Off
Sieving
Formulation & Blending 03
Required
Blending
Turn off for single-ingredient fills — no blend step charged.
Batch sizekg
60 kg blender for small lots.
Form/blend rate$/hr
ASSUMPTION
Formulate basehr / batch
ASSUMPTION · Dispense/charge.
+ per extra ingr.min
ASSUMPTION · Added per ingredient beyond 1.
Blend timehr / batch
ASSUMPTION · Charge + blend + discharge + clean + sample.
Boxing — Retail Carton 04
Timed / standalone
Box during run
Fixed / boxsec
ASSUMPTION · Erect + close + case.
Load / sticksec
ASSUMPTION
Boxing rate$/hr
ASSUMPTION · MEASURE THIS.
Coding & Casing 05
Lot code outer boxboxes/min
ASSUMPTION · Date/lot stamp each retail carton.
Off
Inner case
Off
Master case
Materials — Film & Cartons 06
Turnkey
Film
Printed film$/1,000
ASSUMPTION
Film freight-in$/1,000
ASSUMPTION
Turnkey
Cartons
Carton cost each ($)
6-pk
15-pk
20-pk
30-pk
Carton freight-in$/1,000 cartons
ASSUMPTION · Small cartons aren't proportionally cheaper.
Materials — Cases & Pallet 07
Off
Pallet out
Enable inner / master case in card 05 to cost case materials.
Ingredients 08
Brand
Source ingredients
Brand-supplied — ingredient cost excluded; fill weight uses the manual value.
QC & Margin 09
QC / lot$/order
ASSUMPTION · Fixed per lot — biggest driver of the volume break.
Pass at cost
QC handling
Value-add markup%
ASSUMPTION
Materials markup%
ASSUMPTION
One-Time 10
Film plate / SKU$
ASSUMPTION · Gravure can run far higher.
Carton die / size$
ASSUMPTION
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Volume \ Pack 6-pack15-pack20-pack30-pack
Labor = Σ(station hours × its rate): fill (qty÷speed), setup/takedown (×run or ×batches), formulate (base + extra-ingredient minutes, ×batches), blend (×batches), sieving, lot coding & casing (count ÷ per-minute rate), receiving & palletizing (fixed). Materials = ingredients + film + cartons + cases + pallet, each with freight-in. Price = labor ×(1+VA markup) + materials ×(1+materials markup) + QC. Brand-supplied components contribute $0.