why does nobody talk about lane
Slightly embarrassed to be asking this, but: why does nobody talk about lane. Posted my first lane report here without the month and got asked for it. Fair, and the table is better for the fussiness. The regional stock question, and why it is the first thing I ask now. If a supplier holds the line you want in a…
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 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.
Same lane, four orders, 5 to 7 days, all four within a couple of days of the quote. That consistency is the actual finding.
Ordered from the warehouse in Denmark instead of origin and the whole customs question disappeared. 14 days, door to door.
Median transit is the useful statistic. The minimum is a story about one shipment and the mean is dragged around by a single hold.
Correction: that was clearance time, not carrier time. The lane table separates them for exactly this reason.
ask which lines are actually held in the regional warehouse
Push back: comparing a July transit with a February one on the same lane is not a comparison.