reship — 19 things I got wrong before I got it right
reship — 19 things I got wrong before I got it right. Change my mind, genuinely — I have no stake in being right about this. 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. Where the time actually goes, which I got…
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.
This. A quoted lead time that holds is worth more than a fast one that does not.
Agreed on rigid packaging. It costs the shipper almost nothing and it predicts a lot about the rest of the operation.
the last mile is where most of the variance lives
Correction: that was clearance time, not carrier time. The lane table separates them for exactly this reason.
How many shipments does your figure cover?