Bypass (logistics)

In logistics , one speaks of a bypass when a delivery goes directly from the supplier to the customer by past the warehouse or dealer .

The classic chain that a part goes through is as follows: from the supplier it comes to the dealer, there into the warehouse. When the customer orders, it is then delivered. In the case of bypass, the parts are ordered from the supplier by the dealer, but the delivery goes directly from there to the customer.

Alternatively, the goods can also be pulled over the dealer's transfer point. However, it is not stored here, but made available directly in the "bypass" for forwarding to the customer.

There can be a number of reasons for doing this. Here some examples:

• There is a backlog of the part (the dealer does not have enough in stock) but the customer needs the parts urgently.
• The supplier and customer are very close together.
• These are parts that are not kept in stock. For example, because they have to be personalized too much and you cannot keep your own part in stock for each customer.

literature

• Michael Hompel, Volker Heidenblut: Taschenlexikon Logistik: Abbreviations, definitions and explanations of the most important terms from material flow and logistics. Springer-Verlag, 2011, p. 43 ( online )
• Klaus Bichler, Ralf Krohn, Peter Philippi: Gabler Compact Lexicon Logistics. Springer-Verlag, 2012, p. 28 ( online )