A major gas company that provides natural gas to all of us who use it to heat our homes is about ten minutes away from my house. Furthermore, and quite surprisingly for our small town, we’re just about 20 miles from one of the nation’s largest distribution centres for one of the nation’s largest box stores. Both of these facilities are suitable for today’s lesson since one is a good example of a local distribution company and the other is a good example of a material distribution centre. Let’s break down the distinctions between a local distribution company and a material distribution centre with this in mind.

We’ll start with distribution companies in your region. A local distribution company is a legal economic body that is responsible for supplying services, primarily gas, to customers in a particular region. In other words, a local distribution company is a legal entity that provides essential services to modern society. It’s not a group of people trying to heat their homes by secretly tapping into pipelines