Increased ability to lower expenditures for shipping/freight costs from the company's production operations to distribution centers in the various regions is the advantage of having production facilities to manufacture athletic footwear in all four geographic regions.
This is the process in which goods are created and involves the processing of raw materials into finished products through the use of labor and other forms of technology thereby making it easier.
Having production facilities in the four geographic regions means that it needs to ship fewer pairs of footwear from production facilities in one region to distribution centers in a different region from time to time. This is because running out of stock in one location will require appropriate distribution of the footwear to those areas.
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