Distribution centers capable of real-time data are critical to lean, demand-driven supply chains. There is 'buzz' that heightened concerns about supply chain resiliency are prompting tactics of 'regionalization' of the supply chain process, keeping inventory closer at hand, if not necessarily taking possession sooner. The result is making warehousing a key element in enterprise strategy much more so than just five years ago. The concept of renewed centrality of warehouses within supply chains may be a paradigm shift more about how new warehouse control systems are part of lean efficiency, than simply the new role of warehouses in strategic thinking.
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