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c/intlshipping·submitted 1 year ago by u/mikkel_correia

[Meta] proposal — a flair for shipping posts

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Putting this to the board: proposal — a flair for shipping posts. A quoted lead time is a commitment you can evaluate. Measuring quoted against actual across several orders tells you more about an operation than the raw speed does. The regional stock question, and why it is the first thing I ask now. If a supplier…

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u/swirl_dont_shakereconstitution192 points·1 year ago

reship policy in writing before you order

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u/mikkel_correiaOP225 points·1 year ago

reship policy in writing before you order

This is why the lane table is organised the way it is. The supplier is not the unit.

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[deleted]81 points·1 year ago

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u/hedda_adeyemi50 points·1 year ago

Median transit is the useful statistic. The minimum is a story about one shipment and the mean is dragged around by a single hold.

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u/samir_falk40 points·1 year ago

Careful — the supplier does not control the last mile and most of your variance is in it.

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u/hedda_adeyemi58 points·1 year ago

Same lane, four orders, 16 to 6 days, all four within a couple of days of the quote. That consistency is the actual finding.

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u/swirl_dont_shakereconstitution14 points·1 year ago

Packaging is assessable on arrival with no equipment: rigid outer, no movement inside, the cold element sized to the transit rather than to the box.

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