distribution network
Goods delivery system
A distribution network is the system of facilities, routes, and intermediaries that move goods from producers to consumers.
This includes warehouses, transportation links, wholesalers, and retailers working together to deliver products: The company expanded its distribution network to reach rural areas.
The term also applies to utilities—electricity grids, water mains, gas pipelines—that deliver services to end users.
- pipelineLong-distance fluid transport tube
- warehouseBulk goods storage building
- supply depotFacility storing distributed goods
- distributorEntity channeling goods downstream
- supply chainProduct delivery infrastructure
transportation hub · wholesaler · logistics · carrier · supplier · storage facility · manufacturer · substation · inventory management · load balancing · order fulfillment · pumping station · retailer · transformer · aqueduct · routes · delivery route · scheduling
- utilitieselectricity, water supply, public utilities, water line, gas service
- supply chainsupply, supplier, delivering, suppliers, vendor
- irrigation systemscanal, aqueduct, headgate, sluice gate, flume
- power gridpower grid, power plant, transformers, power station, transmission lines
- pipelinespipeline, gas pipeline, oil pipeline, pipelines, natural gas line
- Traffickingdrug trafficking, trafficking, trafficker, drug smuggling, smuggling