A milk run, in logistics, is a round trip that facilitates either distribution or collection.
Milk run
The terms are defined by the customer or by the service providers. Here, the exact number of suppliers, each of which defines the available volume and weight, and the time window for collection from the respective suppliers and the time window for delivery to the customer.[1] With consistent planning, capacity increases to an average of 90% can be achieved.[2]
On the round trips are either goods collected from several suppliers and transported to one customer, or goods collected from one supplier and transported to several customers. In contrast to the groupage traffic, there is no handling, except to transport the goods