It's unclear why would I build warehouses. Can't goods just travel from factory to factory directly?
What's the point of warehouses?
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My question to you first, why warehouses exist in real-life and where they are used at?
A warehouse is a commercial building for storage of goods. Warehouses are used by manufacturers, importers, exporters and others.
A warehouse enables a business to stockpile goods, to build up a full load prior to transport, or hold unloaded goods before further distribution.
A warehouse enables a business to stockpile goods, to build up a full load prior to transport, or hold unloaded goods before further distribution.
The producers have limited storage space. When they fill up they must send it out. This doesn't always sync up with the buildings that need that resource. Now think, would it be useful to have a place you can store some of each resource so it is assured to be available when the next step in the chain needs it?
I find this question interesting, to be honest.
Because it clearly indicates the change of times.
In earlier days, nobody would have seriously asked this question!
The need and the use of warehouses were obvious and self-explanatory.
Now we have this "on demand" thingy going on and warehouses and their (expensive) buffer capabilities actually are undesirable and production chains try to avoid it.
Until, of course, something happens and an unplanned event screws with the well planned delivery chains ...
Because it clearly indicates the change of times.
In earlier days, nobody would have seriously asked this question!
The need and the use of warehouses were obvious and self-explanatory.
Now we have this "on demand" thingy going on and warehouses and their (expensive) buffer capabilities actually are undesirable and production chains try to avoid it.
Until, of course, something happens and an unplanned event screws with the well planned delivery chains ...
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the other reason is to direct the flow of traffic somewhat, as warehouses don't have be in (or near) industrial zones
Why there could be "hiccups" in the supply chain? The factories don't stop working in C:S.
What do you mean "doesn't always sync up with the buildings that need that resource"? Could you help with some examples?
To be assured that each resource is available when the next step in the chain needs it, it should be enough to have the industry that produces that resource (of course in numbers that correspond to consumers of resource).
The production buildings send out trucks when they need to. The consumption buildings order raw material when they need it. These two events are NOT synchronized. Without city-based storage all raw material orders would come from outside the city, where there is an unlimited store of all goods and materials, all the time. But you pay more for importing goods plus it takes longer to arrive during time which your building sits idle.
Warehouses serve a few purposes but mostly from a logistics standpoint. Not all companies or orgs have their own distribution capability. Logistic companies can do this for them but simply loading on to trucks from factory to final destination is not practical. You want to fill maximum capacity of transportation with maximum efficiency in routing. Logistic divisions or companies use warehouses to accomplish this...
But delivery vehicles stop driving because something is in their way from time to time.
when all your trucks suddenly feel like driving off the map to export crops and you don't have any alvailable?
Put a cargo train terminal with an outside connection near them. Problem solved.
sadly it is not always
for me the trucks seem to prefer the outside road conection instead of the outside train connection
i have a cargo station, with direct route to the edge, in every industrial zone, but almost all trucks drive to the edge instead oft the train station
imports similar, as in only very few imports via train
and it cant be oversaturation since i only have 3 industrial zones and <50k population atm
Yeah I noticed that about the new industries... They really seem to favor road connections instead of rail connections which can suck if your trying to keep all these new trucks from clogging your roadways
I set up a train near every industry area all with access to the outside connection. They use it but you are right not as much as they should.