help me understand carrier, I have read the wiki twice
help me understand carrier, I have read the wiki twice. I would rather ask a basic question now than get this wrong quietly for two months. Clearance took three days and the carrier took nine. I had been blaming the wrong half for two years. Posted my first lane report here without the month and got asked for it.…
Same lane in a different season for comparison?
Same. ERP quoted 14 days on my lane and it landed at 8, which is exactly what you want from a quote.
That is the quoted lead time, not the observed transit. Both belong in the report and they are different columns.
Where the time actually goes, which I got wrong for two years.
Total transit is first mile, international leg, customs clearance and last mile. I had been attributing everything to the international leg because that is the part with the exotic-sounding name.
When I finally logged the stages separately, the international leg was the most consistent part of the whole journey. The variance was in clearance and in the domestic delivery at my end — neither of which the supplier controls. That reframed how I read every lane report on this board, and it is why the table separates the stages.
regional stock changes everything about transit
This. A quoted lead time that holds is worth more than a fast one that does not.
the last mile is where most of the variance lives
Small fix — shipped from the regional warehouse, not from origin, which is why the number looks unusual.
Disagree. That is a customs hold, not a carrier delay, and lumping them together makes the lane table wrong.
ask which lines are actually held in the regional warehouse
ask which lines are actually held in the regional warehouse
Agreed — and the decomposition matters. Most people are blaming the international leg for a last-mile problem.