Dell Computer incurs the following costs:

i. Utility costs for the plant assembling the Latitude computer line of products

ii. Distribution costs for shipping the Latitude line of products to a retail chain

iii. Payment to David Newbury Designs for design of the XPS 2-in-1 laptop

iv. Salary of computer scientist working on the next generation of servers

v. Cost of Dell employees' visit to a major customer to demonstrate Dell's ability to interconnect with other computers

vi. Purchase of competitors' products for testing against potential Dell products

vii. Payment to business magazine for running Dell advertisements

viii. Cost of cartridges purchased from outside supplier to be used with Dell printers

Requirement

Classify each of the cost items (i-viii) into one of the business functions of the value chain.