Re: General Trend for Parts Vendors (NOT MMY specific).
Posted by HH56 On 2015/3/9 12:06:31
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We would warehouse the parts until they we were order when and how to ship the part (Computers parts are 24/7/365 business, Walmart can not survive without their computers). This way the big companies HP, Dell, Cisco does not have to warehouse parts a cost savings to them. They do not have to man a warehouse and ship small parts. They only deal in Truck and Rail car loads.
And not only computer parts. Medical too. By the time I retired, the company I worked for was heavily dependent on the logistics as was described above. In our case, parts were allotted and stocked where concentrations of a particular model were in place so parts were more likely to be available within a few hours time -- sometimes overnight or next flight out but more often driven to a site by courier delivery. Another criteria was a warehouse was tried to be located at one of the major shipping hubs. All too frequently though we were likely to get parts delivered from a warehouse far far away because no matter how hard you try, it is impossible to predict how many of what part will break down. You can stock ten items close by but the 11th has to come from somewhere else.
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