Question 1: Which is more important to a distribution center, a good transportation system or a plentiful workforce?
Question 2: Is there a trade-off between the level of workforce and transportation technology? Are they mutually exclusive? Why...why not?
Question 3: On a related subject, as you will soon see, multimode distribution is rapidly becoming the thing in SCM. How many modes for distribution can you name? What are the challenges for a multimode depot or warehouse, for examples?