Empty Car Distribution and Fleet Management
The Empty Car Distribution process primarily relates to the strategic repositioning of empty equipment, and the determination of how much car inventory will be held in each location to satisfy anticipated demand. Although there is some overlap with the revenue management and booking process, typically customer demands are satifisfied out of a pool of equipment held locally for that purpose. By contrast, the empty car distribution process is more focused on the development of "flow orders" to reposition empty equipment in anticipation of actual demand.
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