Access the Gartner® Report: “Evaluate These Factors in Distribution Center Site Selection"
Make better distribution center site selections to optimize supply chain functions, cut costs and improve customer satisfaction.
What you need to know from the Gartner® report.
The location and role of distribution and warehousing sites impact operating costs, service levels and business risks. Use this research to assess and rank locations based on operating environment, organizational objectives, transportation and storage costs.
Key findings:
Considerations about how a new facility will support business objectives now and in the future are overlooked when cost is the sole focus, resulting in suboptimal location choice.
Selecting a location based on land or rent prices alone leads to a decision made on short-term capital expenditure requirements and not long-term cost optimization.
Overlooking the impact of the local operating environment on network resilience and the ability to execute can lead to inefficient facilities.
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Gartner, Evaluate These Factors in Distribution Center Site Selection Refreshed 6 January 2023, Published 7 September 2021