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To: GST who wrote (36990)	1/26/1999 9:39:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 164684

Who composes their VW do you know? Ideally, you would want the publishers and shipping hubs + any B&N owned distribution centers. The technology would then take the order and evaluate the cheapest source based on some criterion. I honestly dont think anybody is managing transportation costs right now (shipping etc). B&N might have a VM with their suppliers + their own distr. centers though, thats one heads up for them. Otoh, if they have too many distribution centers to support their millions of stores, thats not good either - we saw that with Dell, these retail outlets are a boat anchor - too much inventory everywhere in your system.