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I'm hoping someone can help me possibly use Excel solver to solve this or give me a direction in how to go about it. I'm

I'm hoping someone can help me possibly use Excel solver to solve this or give me a direction in how to go about it. I'm trying to figure out what are the best box sizes to purchase in order to suit our warehouse. I've analyzed all of my products and come up with 4 ranges for avg. quantity/order, volume/product, and weight/product. Does anyone know of a way to set this up in solver?? We ship roughly 27k units a day with 74% of orders have 11 units or more. Warehouse is 189,000 square feet

This table breaks out the product box sizes by volume ranges. Ex. Group 1 products have a box volume of 5in cubed, group 2 products have a box volume between 6-36 in cubed.

Volume
Group 1 5 in3
Group 2 6 in3 - 36 in3
Group 3 37 in3 - 96 in3
Group 4 97 in3 - 200 in3

This table breaks out product types by average weight ranges. So group 1 consists of products that have an average weight up to 0.25lbs. Group 2 has product weights between 0.25 lbs and 0.50 lbs.

Weight
Group 1 0.25 lbs
Group 2 0.25 - 0.50 lbs
Group 3 0.50 - 1.00 lbs
Group 4 1.00 - 3.00 lbs

This is essentially the daily order volumes split out by units/order. So 73.74% of orders shipped per day are over 11 units/order.

Quantities/Order Avg. Ranges % weight
Group 1 1 unit/order 3.12% of total orders
Group 2 2-5 units/order 11.27% of total orders
Group 3 6-10 units/order 11.88% of total orders
Group 4 11-20 units/order 73.74% of total orders

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