Key success factors and obstacles to pooling logistics warehouses

Les facteurs clés de succès et les freins à la mutualisation des entrepôts logistiques

Mourad Makaci (), Paul Reaidy (), Karine Evrard-Samuel (), Valérie Botta-Genoulaz () and Thibaud Monteiro ()
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Mourad Makaci: LEGO - Laboratoire d'Economie et de Gestion de l'Ouest - UBS - Université de Bretagne Sud - UBO - Université de Brest - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] - IBSHS - Institut Brestois des Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société - UBO - Université de Brest - UBL - Université Bretagne Loire - IMT Atlantique - IMT Atlantique - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris]
Paul Reaidy: CERAG - Centre d'études et de recherches appliquées à la gestion - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes
Karine Evrard-Samuel: CERAG - Centre d'études et de recherches appliquées à la gestion - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes
Valérie Botta-Genoulaz: DISP - Décision et Information pour les Systèmes de Production - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - UCBL - Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 - Université de Lyon - INSA Lyon - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon - Université de Lyon - INSA - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées
Thibaud Monteiro: DISP - Décision et Information pour les Systèmes de Production - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - UCBL - Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 - Université de Lyon - INSA Lyon - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon - Université de Lyon - INSA - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées

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Abstract: The main aim of this study is to identify the key success factors and obstacles to warehouse pooling. To ensure the best possible integration or successful implementation of a shared warehouse, a qualitative study based on seven cases in France is being carried out. It is based on semi-directive interviews with 22 companies involved in warehouse pooling projects. From this analysis, we identify the key success factors: the choice of partners, the willingness of managers, the presence of a trusted third party, and the sharing of information, knowledge, decisions, resources and benefits. On the other hand, management commitment, significant investment, flow and product compatibility, organizational complexity, time and partner maturity are identified as the main obstacles to implementing these projects. Thus, setting up a shared warehouse requires close collaboration between all the players involved, in order to meet the constraints and dynamics created by such pooling.

Keywords: Logistics pooling; shared warehouse; key success factors; obstacles. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-06-20
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Published in 7th International Conference on Projects & Logistics (PROLOG 2023), Jun 2023, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

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