Fulfilment company storage space question - confused with m³

[ams_uk]

I am in talks with a fulfilment company, they have given me the price per m³. I am correct in assuming that is 1m x 1m x 1m (l x w x h)
I have been trying to work out how much I can store within that space. They calculate the products dimensions then work out how much of a m³ uses.

This website tells me that 1m³ is almost 25 pallets! www . translatorscafe.co m/cafe/EN/units-converter/volume-lumber/10-1/pallet-cubic_meter/

This website tells me that 100 of my items measuring 15x15x4(cm) will only use up 0.09 cubic meters.
www. westernlogistics.co m/cube.php

How much is a m³?! I am very confused as looking at it, I would assume that 100 items with those measurements above would take up about a meter cubed.

 

[ams_uk]

If anyone uses a fulfilment company I would be very grateful, I was expecting to be paying £100-£300 at almost £11m³ for my 700 items which range in size from tiny (a few cm) to slightly larger boxes sized at around 35x35x14cm. The majority of them are around 15x15x4cm or 19x19x4cm or average around this.

 

[Raw Rob]

This website tells me that 1m³ is almost 25 pallets! www . translatorscafe.co m/cafe/EN/units-converter/volume-lumber/10-1/pallet-cubic_meter/

Clearly not in the way you are thinking about it. Possibly the total amount of wood required to make 25 pallets would fit in 1m3, but not relevant to what you want to know!

 

[silvermusic]

If my CSE maths is correct there's 1 million cubic cm's in a cubic metre, if that's any help?

 

[ams_uk]

Clearly not in the way you are thinking about it. Possibly the total amount of wood required to make 25 pallets would fit in 1m3, but not relevant to what you want to know!

Thanks for your information, I see what you mean. The director I had a meeting with told me that they measure the products then work out the charge for storage that way. Do you know how many products of 15x15x4cm you may fit within that m³? Is there a good calculation tool to find this out.
It can't be just over 1,000 of them, surely?

 

[ams_uk]

If my CSE maths is correct there's 1 million cubic cm's in a cubic metre, if that's any help?

I found that too, so 15x15x4 = 900
1 million / 900 = 1,111

I just can't see 1,111 products of that size fitting into a m³. If that's so, storage for my items will only be about £11 or £22 a month, sounds wrong to me.

 

[silvermusic]

Sounds wrong to me too, but then maths was never my strong point, hence i employ the services of an accountant.

I think we're out by a decimal place somewhere, trying to physically picture this in my head and 111 sounds realistic?

 

[silvermusic]

900 I'm reliably informed is correct. 6.6 per side well you can't have part products so round down to 6, 6 rows x 6 rows = 36 per layer, 4cm high means 25 layers of 36 = 900.

In old money that's a pint you owe me.

 

[ams_uk]

900 I'm reliably informed is correct. 6.6 per side well you can't have part products so round down to 6, 6 rows x 6 rows = 36 per layer, 4cm high means 25 layers of 36 = 900.

In old money that's a pint you owe me.

Thank you so much. I would definitely buy you a pint as it took me so long to get my head around this Wow, I see what you mean. So 900 products stored at £11 per month, that's amazing. I suppose I shouldn't expect to be paying more than maybe £33pm then when I account for the larger items too. I guess they're going to be making the money on picking/packing then.

 

[silvermusic]

If it's wrong blame my better half, she's the clever one with figures, I'm just the sales guy..... so she says. ;-)

 

[ams_uk]

If it's wrong blame my better half, she's the clever one with figures, I'm just the sales guy..... so she says. ;-)

No worries thanks! I have done a viability check (of the fulfilment) using a guesstimated figure of around £250, so if it's only 30 quid pm, or anything lower than £250 for that matter, it'll be a nice surprise

 

[beasty]

6x6x25
0.9m cubed

So you can get 900 units *assuming they are vertically tight on your single pallet

Storage should be around 10 to 15 per month per pallet

250 quid should allow you to store up to 22500 units *at 10 per pallet per month

Mental arithmetic is my friend

 

[paulears]

Don't forget the pallet sizes change too - 800x1200mm, or 1000x1200mm, or smaller ones, half those sizes. The maths part is simple if you make sure your units are all in the same type, i.e. mm, cm, or m. The usual mistake is mixing size. So if you are doing centimetres, then your cubic metre is million sugar lumps. As the maths involves 3 dimensions the quantities can appear huge. There are indeed over 1000 of your small packages in the cubic metre, but double each dimension rapidly reduces the answer to only 138 - but actually fitting them onto the palette, which of course takes up some of the space itself reduces it even further.

If you work in cm, then you have a space containing a million cubic centimetres. Simply multiple length by width by height - and the take a million, and divide by your volume of your product. It does work.