Similarities And Differences Of Warehouse versus Distribution Centre ( Customer Focus )

While a warehouse is focused on the most efficient and cost-effective methods of storing products within its walls, a distribution center's sole mission is to provide outstanding service to its customers. Some distribution centers are built with specific conditions set to store specific items including fish, ice cream and furits and vegetables. Traditional warehouses have no such facilities to store items with specific conditions.















Tropical Fish Distribution Center with necessary specific conditions.


A distribution center for a set of products is a warehouse or other specialized building, often with refrigeration or air conditioning, which is stocked with products (goods) to be re-distributed to retailers, wholesalers or directly to consumers. A distribution center is a principle part, the "order processing" element, of the entire "order fulfillment" process. Distribution centers are usually thought of as being "demand driven'.

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A worker in a distribution center handling ice cream products in a low temperature setting.