James is the new distribution manager for the company Barry's Best Batteries in Birmingham, wholesaler in portable energy solutions for consumers and industry. The product range is very broad with everything from extremely small power cells to large diesel power generators. Apart from selling, the company also collects old batteries from their customers so that they can recycle or recondition them. The company regard the Eastern European as fragmented. To cover as many customers as possible during their 48 hour delivery window, moving to consolidated shipments is considered. This means that a full-length truck could be loaded in Birmingham, driven to a distribution centre where the products are split into several shipments that are distributed individually. James is new on the job and now he must give a presentation for the company management team regarding the distribution system and its status. He remembers some things from when he studied logistics but he needs your help in remembering a few things. Help James with his script for the presentation! Select al alternatives that are correct staterments. Consolidation will perhaps increase our total lead time, but it will definitely lower our distribution costs. Consolidation is our best bet to shorten lead time. When applying a milk-run distribution, we need to make sure that we always maximise the distance between the stops. Otherwise, we will be very inefficient. When our customers are clustered in a tight geographical region, we can use milk-runs to manage distribution and pickup. When choosing milk-runs, we cannot have any outliers. All customers must fit into the schedule. James is the new distribution manager for the company Barry's Best Batteries in Birmingham, wholesaler in portable energy solutions for consumers and industry. The product range is very broad with everything from extremely small power cells to large diesel power generators. Apart from selling, the company also collects old batteries from their customers so that they can recycle or recondition them. The company regard the Eastern European as fragmented. To cover as many customers as possible during their 48 hour delivery window, moving to consolidated shipments is considered. This means that a full-length truck could be loaded in Birmingham, driven to a distribution centre where the products are split into several shipments that are distributed individually. James is new on the job and now he must give a presentation for the company management team regarding the distribution system and its status. He remembers some things from when he studied logistics but he needs your help in remembering a few things. Help James with his script for the presentation! Select al alternatives that are correct staterments. Consolidation will perhaps increase our total lead time, but it will definitely lower our distribution costs. Consolidation is our best bet to shorten lead time. When applying a milk-run distribution, we need to make sure that we always maximise the distance between the stops. Otherwise, we will be very inefficient. When our customers are clustered in a tight geographical region, we can use milk-runs to manage distribution and pickup. When choosing milk-runs, we cannot have any outliers. All customers must fit into the schedule. James is the new distribution manager for the company Barry's Best Batteries in Birmingham, wholesaler in portable energy solutions for consumers and industry. The product range is very broad with everything from extremely small power cells to large diesel power generators. Apart from selling, the company also collects old batteries from their customers so that they can recycle or recondition them. The company regard the Eastern European as fragmented. To cover as many customers as possible during their 48 hour delivery window, moving to consolidated shipments is considered. This means that a full-length truck could be loaded in Birmingham, driven to a distribution centre where the products are split into several shipments that are distributed individually. James is new on the job and now he must give a presentation for the company management team regarding the distribution system and its status. He remembers some things from when he studied logistics but he needs your help in remembering a few things. Help James with his script for the presentation! Select al alternatives that are correct staterments. Consolidation will perhaps increase our total lead time, but it will definitely lower our distribution costs. Consolidation is our best bet to shorten lead time. When applying a milk-run distribution, we need to make sure that we always maximise the distance between the stops. Otherwise, we will be very inefficient. When our customers are clustered in a tight geographical region, we can use milk-runs to manage distribution and pickup. When choosing milk-runs, we cannot have any outliers. All customers must fit into the schedule. James is the new distribution manager for the company Barry's Best Batteries in Birmingham, wholesaler in portable energy solutions for consumers and industry. The product range is very broad with everything from extremely small power cells to large diesel power generators. Apart from selling, the company also collects old batteries from their customers so that they can recycle or recondition them. The company regard the Eastern European as fragmented. To cover as many customers as possible during their 48 hour delivery window, moving to consolidated shipments is considered. This means that a full-length truck could be loaded in Birmingham, driven to a distribution centre where the products are split into several shipments that are distributed individually. James is new on the job and now he must give a presentation for the company management team regarding the distribution system and its status. He remembers some things from when he studied logistics but he needs your help in remembering a few things. Help James with his script for the presentation! Select al alternatives that are correct staterments. Consolidation will perhaps increase our total lead time, but it will definitely lower our distribution costs. Consolidation is our best bet to shorten lead time. When applying a milk-run distribution, we need to make sure that we always maximise the distance between the stops. Otherwise, we will be very inefficient. When our customers are clustered in a tight geographical region, we can use milk-runs to manage distribution and pickup. When choosing milk-runs, we cannot have any outliers. All customers must fit into the schedule. James is the new distribution manager for the company Barry's Best Batteries in Birmingham, wholesaler in portable energy solutions for consumers and industry. The product range is very broad with everything from extremely small power cells to large diesel power generators. Apart from selling, the company also collects old batteries from their customers so that they can recycle or recondition them. The company regard the Eastern European as fragmented. To cover as many customers as possible during their 48 hour delivery window, moving to consolidated shipments is considered. This means that a full-length truck could be loaded in Birmingham, driven to a distribution centre where the products are split into several shipments that are distributed individually. James is new on the job and now he must give a presentation for the company management team regarding the distribution system and its status. He remembers some things from when he studied logistics but he needs your help in remembering a few things. Help James with his script for the presentation! Select al alternatives that are correct staterments. Consolidation will perhaps increase our total lead time, but it will definitely lower our distribution costs. Consolidation is our best bet to shorten lead time. When applying a milk-run distribution, we need to make sure that we always maximise the distance between the stops. Otherwise, we will be very inefficient. When our customers are clustered in a tight geographical region, we can use milk-runs to manage distribution and pickup. When choosing milk-runs, we cannot have any outliers. All customers must fit into the schedule.