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c/intlshipping·posted 2 years ago by u/sock_puppet_spotter

reading transit time threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly

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Posting this as a discussion rather than a claim: reading transit time threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly.

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.

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

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 matters more than the carrier question.

Ask me anything specific. Anything general I will probably get wrong.

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u/rohan_steiner238 points·2 years ago

A lane is an origin, a destination, a carrier and a season. Change any one and the distribution changes, which is why supplier-level shipping averages are close to meaningless.

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u/lane_map_larryMOD127 points·2 years ago

Left up and added to the lane table. All four required fields were present, which is rarer than it should be.

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u/ireland_drugs_pay153 points·2 years ago

Split one order across two months on purpose to compare summer and winter. Four days apart, same carrier, same route.

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u/honest_syringe1964 points·2 years ago

The regional stock question, and why it is the first thing I ask now.

If a supplier holds the line you want in a warehouse in your own region, your order is a domestic shipment. No international leg, no clearance, a shorter cold exposure and a lead time in days rather than weeks. If they do not, it is an international shipment however it is described at checkout.

So the question is not "how fast do you ship" but "which lines do you hold in regional stock, and is the one I want among them". It is one email, the answer is usually a list, and it changes what to order and when — especially in summer.

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u/samir_falk31 points·2 years ago

a quoted lead time you can hold them to is worth more than a fast one you cannot

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u/karim_hartmann17 points·2 years ago

two identical orders a week apart is the cheapest experiment available

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u/mariam_cabrera17 points·2 years ago

Same lane in a different season for comparison?

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