physical distribution
The different customers of the goods can be placed in a column, where the criteria are existence of distribution(network) and place/distance near the consumers. At the top of this enumeration is the largest distance and the biggest extent.

• WAREHOUSE - Central stock where different locations get supplied. Distribution and responsibility till the customer is totally in hands of the managers of such a magazine.
• CENTRAL MAGAZINE - Under management and responsibility of the manufacturer the goods are transported to such a magazine, from where they can be transported to customers.
• WHOLESALER - this person or office takes care about the distribution of the goods under the consumers.
• DEALER - This distributionpoint is the closest point to the market, and in the context of this book the definitive endpoint of the physical distribution.

Depended on the kind of material there is a conditioned transport and stockplace necessary. Responsibilities in this situations are also described in the standardcontracts of FENEX. In general the critical goods, like vegetables, meat milk etc. must be stocked as close as possible to the market. Also other goods with a short retentiontime or with dangerous materials, who needs a specific treatment and/or different conditions for stocking. Sometimes there is a possibility that somewhere in the distributionflow are one or more points for ordering new products, by dealers or wholesalers, so it starts up a documentflow. Take care about calculate safetymargins in the stocklevel in this situations, because of the floweffect. If this orderpoint is far away from the factory, the chance can be there that there is an overcalculation in the level if every orderpoint includes his own safetylevel!. The traject of these documentflow can be steered trough the component DELIVERY, who is passing this information at the SALESORDERcontrol. This method is also recommanded with delivery under rembours. In this way all the documentation about delivery and sales is collected at ONE point. Till so far some notices about transport. If you have some more interesse in this subject, like automatic orderpicking, automatic stocksystems etc., there is a company you can reach by E-mail address kingpin@stt-ctt.nl from the firm KINGPIN PROJECT BUREAU in Rotterdam. These people are specialized in the area of every kind of intern- and extern transport and recommended by the Dutch Economic Ministry.

 
 
 
 
 
 

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