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Question answered in Quora - What is the difference between distribution center and warehouse?


Technically they both are the same. However, Warehouses are typically meant for storage, where as Distribution Center happens to be much bigger, in the US people call them distribution centers because they do a lot of distribution of products with a lot of high tech equipment with many people executing all kinds of processes, sometimes DCs also provide value added services like Kitting, building Promotional Display Vehicles, Assortments etc.

Also Distribution centers tend to support multiple channels Retail, Ecommerce, Wholesale etc, all these require different Proceses and different systems.

Also DCs tend to be the hubs of Supply Chain, so it is very important the throughput is maintained to its highest and the product moves very fast. The operation is huge with size ranging from 200K SQFT to million plus.

If there are any other specific questions will be happy to answer those.


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Puga Sankara is the co-founder of Smart Gladiator LLC. Smart Gladiator designs, builds, and delivers market-leading mobile technology consisting of Smart Gladiator Wearable Scanguns, Tablets, Mobile Tech & Apps for retailers, distributors, and 3PL service providers. So far, Smart Gladiator Wearables have been used to ship, receive, and scan more than 100 million boxes. Users love them for the lightweight, easy-to-use soft overlay keyboard, texting&video chatting ability, data collection ability etc. Puga is a supply chain technology professional with more than 17 years of experience in deploying capabilities in the logistics and supply chain domain. His prior roles involved managing complicated mission-critical programs driving revenue numbers, rolling out a multitude of capabilities involving more than a dozen systems, and managing a team of 30 to 50 personnel across multiple disciplines and departments in large corporations such as Hewlett Packard. He has deployed WMS for more than 30 distribution centers in his role as a senior manager with Manhattan Associates. He has also performed process analysis walk-throughs for more than 50 distribution centers for WMS process design and performance analysis review, optimizing processes for better productivity and visibility through the supply chain. Size of these DCs varied from 150,000 to 1.2 million SQFT. Puga Sankara has an MBA from Georgia Tech. He can be reached at puga@smartgladiator.com or visit the company at www.smartgladiator.com. Also follow him at www.pugasankara.com

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