how much of what we believe about transit time actually comes from reship threads
Trying to get a straight answer on this: how much of what we believe about transit time actually comes from reship threads. 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…
Total transit decomposes into first mile, international leg, clearance and last mile. Only the first two are meaningfully under the shipper’s control and most reported variance sits in the last two.
the median is more useful than the fastest anybody ever got
Careful — the supplier does not control the last mile and most of your variance is in it.
Clearance took three days and the carrier took nine. I had been blaming the wrong half for two years.
Correction: that was clearance time, not carrier time. The lane table separates them for exactly this reason.
What lead time were you quoted at checkout?
Small fix — shipped from the regional warehouse, not from origin, which is why the number looks unusual.