Calculate plate investment using a store's actual use and cost records, not a general savings percentage.
Collect cost items
Record plate and rack purchase, freezer electricity, labour, maintenance, damage or loss and invoices for alternative coolant.
Link use to the store. Track plate set, store, route and frequency of use. Allocate shared equipment costs with a consistent method.
Use the same period and trip basis for alternatives; show missing-data assumptions separately rather than hiding estimates.
Calculate comparable costs
Work out cost per store or delivery. Explain the source for labour, energy and loss items.
Do not infer reduced product waste from invoices alone; compare acceptance, returns and route measurements too.
When the per-store figure becomes a quotation, plate count and freezing arrangement are worked out together; that is the job of the GEBHARDT distributor for Türkiye.
The result applies to a defined store network, period and use pattern; it does not transfer automatically to another site.
