Chicago has always been business friendly as it sits at the crossroads of the U.S, both in terms of air travel (newly expanded O’hare Airport) and the train freight year). Now, its central location lead to its being named 4th best place to locate a distribution warehouse in teh United States, according to Chicago Consulting. The consultancy, which helps companies design and engineer their supply chains, has released its 12th annual 10 Best Warehouse Networks for 2009.
The study lists the best towns and cities in the U.S. for locating DCs, outlining ten hypothetical networks—a single DC location, and so on, with the last network consisting of 10 DCs. It details the best location for each DC within each network—purely in terms of distance to population. It does not take into account things like transportation infrastructure; real estate costs; local and state taxes; available labor and other factors that play an important role in deciding where to locate a DC.
“There’s fundamentally only one criteria—which is distance—which translates into the amount of time it takes to get to customers,” explains Terry Harris, managing partner at Chicago Consulting. “We use a very sophisticated optimizing tool that we use in our routine consulting work which we have applied in this generic sense to the U.S. population.”
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