Warehousing
Storing inventories is inevitable for many companies because of uncertainty of demand for products and inability of instant deliveries on all customer orders. Companies try to store inventories in such a way as to reduce their overall logistics costs and to reach higher levels of customer service through better alignment between supply and demand. Warehousing and product storage mainly take place at nodal points of a supply network. Therefore, warehousing is an important part of logistics systems for a long time.