In past NAPB sessions, we have covered recent changes OEMs made to their network on an individual story basis – e.g., collecting all recent openings, closings, moves, and having those OEMs share their individual examples. This year, we’d like to benchmark this process. When an OEM needs to open a new warehouse, how does this process work? We’d like to understand everything from project inception (how do you know it’s time?), to post-launch lessons learned (how do you assess the success of the project and improve for next time?). We’ll cover many decisions made in the process – greenfield vs. brownfield, insource vs. 3PL, union vs. non-union, automation or no, location analysis, and more.