Dislocation
A dislocation or dislocation ( lat. Dislocāre , from dis “apart” and locus “place”) describes the spatial distribution of units and offices carried out by a military command over the available accommodations or when deployed in the field, taking into account the respective task.
The term is also used in military-like structures such as the police , aid organizations (e.g. fire brigade , THW ), but also in business ( branch networks ) or generally as a synonym for a subject's change of location .
The term deployment is also used in logistics. Here, deployment is understood to mean the spatial distribution of logistical units such as production facilities and storage facilities. The transport costs and the capacities of the existing infrastructure (traffic routes) play an important role. Depending on the degree of readiness for delivery , the centrality or decentralization of the units is then determined. With the advancing development of communication technologies, services or parts of industrial production are also displaced. Thanks to digital networking, it is no longer necessary for many companies to provide all services centrally at one location, but to distribute them spatially (geographically). The above-mentioned transport costs play a special role, but increasingly also access to specialist staff and proximity to business partners and customers.
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- ↑ cf. Gösta B. Ihde : Transport, traffic, logistics. 3rd edition, Munich 2001., pp. 278f.
