Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Procurement Cycle
PUSH PROCESSES PULL PROCESSES
Customer
Order Arrives
Customer Customer
Pull Pull
Amazon Retail Store
Publisher Publisher
Customer Customer
Supermarket
Online Grocer
Warehouse (?)
Manufacturer Manufacturer
$20
$18
$16
Cost ($ million)
Avg.
# of
WH 3 14 25
- High margin product - Low margin product
- Service not important (or - Service very important
easy to ship express) - Outbound transportation
- Inventory expensive expensive relative to inbound
relative to transportation