From the interview with a large 3PL company which
serves an international PC maker to distribute PCs from the
manufacturing plants to the customers, such a solution
based on dynamic warehouse location is not suitable. 3PL
companies seek long-term relationship with their clients
and usually build warehouses to exploit lower costs as
compared to leasing from public warehouses. As the 3PL
business grows, the number of warehouses and DCs will
become saturated, and can no longer afford to build more
simply to cater to changes, while leaving existing
warehouses underutilized.