transit time — 12 things I got wrong before I got it right
transit time — 12 things I got wrong before I got it right. Making the case below, and I expect to lose some of it in the comments. Regional stock replaces an international lane with a domestic one. That is a structural change to the distribution, not a marginal improvement, and it is why the warehouse question…
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.
a lane with four reports is not yet a lane
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.
Do they publish a reship policy, and did you read it before ordering?
Disagree. That is a customs hold, not a carrier delay, and lumping them together makes the lane table wrong.
reship policy in writing before you order
That is the quoted lead time, not the observed transit. Both belong in the report and they are different columns.