From a logistics perspective, does it make the most sense to put factories on the outskirts of major cities? Nabisco built a big factory in my hometown a few years ago, but we're like 2.5 hours from a major city. So I'm wondering why they didn't just build outside Atlanta or Nashville or Charlotte.Inside city limits you have to deal with a lot of traffic, but right outside the city you can still get trucks around. Though maybe they built in my city because we have freight rail.
>>2029449Many industrial and manufacturing facilities are set up to supply multiple states if not the nation with their products, so being close to a particular city isn't a good reason to be located next to one. Exceptions would be places like Amazon warehouses that have a local coverage area. Whether they serve a city or the country, they will require good highway access, preferably expressway access. Another factor to consider when locating a facility is labor, it will be more expensive in urban areas than outside of them.
>>2029518Speaking of labor and too lightly counter your reply, some industries need their factories close enough by cities to acquire talent for the top of a faculty meanwhile maintaining a steady supply of low skilled laborers without burning though the whole city and nearby cities. There's real world cases like these, like some Amazon centers in the middle of nowhere has burned out the local population of laborers for a few cities over
>>2029449Freight rail doesn't really work in most factories anymore. For food related it really only works in importing/exporting bulk products: wheat (beer, REALLY big bakeries, further processing), sugar (snacks, ice cream), and rice (rice processing/bagging).
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>>2029518>so being close to a particular city isn't a good reason to be located next to one.Your workers still need to commute to your factory. Building a factory 3 trillion km away from the nearest urban center isn't a good way of finding workers.
>>2029546People live in rural areas. And since there are comparatively fewer jobs, wages will usually be lower.
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>>2029546This. Put the factories on the outskirts of major urban areas so the noise/pollution doesn't bother anyone, but you still have access to labor and distribution centers and customers.Neighborhoods far from the urban core are more affordable anyway, so if you put them near the outskirts, the employees can live there.
>>2029692That is true for some local distribution centers, but generally factories that supply regionally or nationwide don't benefit from being close to a single city.
>>2029449>why they didn't just build outside Atlanta or Nashville or CharlotteMight be balancing costs of moving raw materials in vs cost of moving finished goods out. That tends to mean factories moving closer to the farms that supply them, as the finished goods are easier to ship (per dollar of sales).
>>2029693>That is true for some local distribution centers, but generally factories that supply regionally or nationwide don't benefit from being close to a single city.Even modern distribution centers can service everything within a four hour radius, plus some. New industrial development is on the outskirts of town because they need lots of land. In-city, you mostly find legacy operations that have been operating for decades.>>2029700Factories are usually multi-step processing, so for agricultural products, you'll have one plant that does the initial processing (collecting all the grain/fruit/whatever) and shipping them to other warehouses/further processing. A bag of American supermarket bagged rice goes from farm to mill, then train to process into small bags and processing for other factories, then trucks to the distribution center, then distribution center to stores.In general, logistics depends more on operations than location.
