Merloni Elettrodomestici is a leading Italian manufacturer of household appliances. In 1986, the exhibition is scheduled for clients Merloni in the warehouse Milano regional. In the two months prior to the event, when the stock should not be stored, the company holds the "staging" experiment. Every day, a truck with products from a central warehouse of the company went to Milan, where he was immediately transferred to smaller trucks for local delivery. At the conclusion of the experiment, the company is considering replacing its 17 regional warehouses with transit points. Students were asked to evaluate the proposal and recommended configurations for distribution networks in Merloni. Issues to be considered when analyzing the case included the effect of various network configurations for customer service and inventory, labor, operating and transportation costs. "Hide
by Janice H. Hammond, Maura Kelly Source: Harvard Business School 19 pages. Publication Date: February 22, 1990. Prod. #: 690003-PDF-ENG
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