Shared warehouse

A logistics arrangement set up by two or more manufacturers to optimise their transport costs by consolidating, on a single site, the stock intended for the same customers. This consolidation lets manufacturers pool their transport, reducing synchronisation constraints while maintaining high delivery frequencies. They share the property and running costs of the site and improve the productivity of logistics activities by operating pooled replenishment. This pooled control of flows is what distinguishes a shared warehouse from a multi-customer warehouse, where the activities of two or more manufacturers are carried out separately even if transport is pooled.