The warehouse facility which holds inventory from manufacturing pending distribution to the appropriate stores. Distribution Channel: One or more companies or individuals who participate in the flow of goods and services from the manufacturer to the final user or consumer. Distribution Channel Management: The organizational and pipeline strategy for getting products to customers. Direct channels involve company sales forces, facilities, and/or direct shipments to customers; indirect channels involve the use of wholesalers, distributors, and/or other parties to supply the products to customers. Many companies use both strategies, depending on markets and effectiveness.
A facility that stores inventory and ships finished goods orders to customers for a specific geographic area. Its stock is replenished on a periodic basis by manufacturing plants or other distribution centers, and it may process customer returns but does not have production capabilities.
A warehouse used to receive, store and ship products to retailers.
Distribution centers store and sort goods using warehouse space so that full truckloads of merchandise can be sent to a single destination or to multiple destinations along a specific route.
The customer's facility from which vendor orders are received and then distributed to the appropriate stores.
a city or area in the United States that regularly receives wholesale quantities of drugs from a domestic source and supplies wholesale or midlevel quantities to markets in and out of state
A post production warehouse for finished goods held for distribution.
A location where products are received and then shipped to a trading partner.
A warehouse with finished goods and/or service items. A company, for example, might have a manufacturing facility in Philadelphia and distribution centers in Atlanta, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Chicago. Distribution center is synonymous with the term branch warehouse, although the former has become more commonly used recently. When a warehouse serves a group of satellite warehouses, it is usually called a regional distribution center. Syn: branch warehouse, field warehouse.
A substation designation used by ComEd for the distribution system. Distribution centers convert or “step down†(decrease) 34,000-volt power lines or cables to 12,000 or 4,000 volts.
Intermediate warehouse where products from different sources are assembled for shipment and distribution to specific customer locations.
A warehouse from which product is shipped to retail stores or to the end users of the product.
A warehouse that receives merchandise from multiple vendors and distributes it to multiple stores.
A warehouse with an emphasis on quick turnaroundt, such as is needed in supporting marketing efforts.
Entity receiving, stocking and shipping products on their way from suppliers to customer.
The centrally located warehouse where goods shipped long distances by rail is loaded onto trucks for short-haul delivery to receivers, or vice versa. Also called a reload center, it combines the economies of rail with the flexibility of truck pickup and delivery.
A distribution center for a set of products is a warehouse or other specialized building with refrigeration or air conditioning which is stocked with products to be re-distributed to retailers or wholesalers.