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My boss at the consumer goods corporation in the Philippines where I worked a long time ago told me the company didn’t need warehouses in the provinces.  A central warehouse in the national capital, Manila, would be enough. The field salespeople in the provinces disagreed.  Having provincial depots assured on-hand inventories of finished products forContinue reading “Central vs. Depots:  A Case of a Seemingly Straightforward Solution to a Seemingly Straightforward Problem”