The Company portrayed by the benchmark is a wholesale supplier with a number of geographically distributed sales districts and associated warehouses. As the Company's business expands, new warehouses and associated sales districts are created. Each regional warehouse covers 10 districts. Each district serves 3,000 customers. All warehouses maintain stocks for the 100,000 items sold by the Company. The following diagram illustrat es the warehouse, district, and customer hierarchy of TPC-C's business environment.