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7 Eleven

4. Seven-Eleven does not allow direct store delivery in Japan but has all products flow through its distribution center to reduce the number of vehicles required for daily delivery service to each store, even though the delivery frequency of each item was quite high. At the distribution center, delivery of like products from different suppliers was directed into a single temperature controlled truck. Each truck made deliveries to multiple retail stores. None of the distribution centers carried any inventory; they merely transferred inventory from supplier trucks to Seven-Eleven distribution trucks. This dramatically reduced delivery costs and enabled rapid deliver of a variety of fresh foods.

Direct store delivery is more appropriate when the store only purchases from a few manufacturers/suppliers, and when the items are high-value and low demand. (For instance, when the suppliers carry a variety of items that the store demands, and these items account for a significant portion......


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