[Question] is 98.0% actually fine or am I being sold a rounding error
is 98.0% actually fine or am I being sold a rounding error. That is the headline. The document, the batch and the service are below so you can argue with the method rather than with me. Numbers, in the order they matter: 98.0%. Kept a spreadsheet of quoted versus actual lead time across 12 orders. The quoted number…
Lead time and minimum quantity are the two facts people forget to ask for and then argue about later. Both are answerable in one email before you commit.
Flairing this Vendor rather than Discussion, since it names an operation and reports an order.
Which lane, and what was the quoted lead time at checkout?
Six orders across two years from KP. Same packaging, same paperwork, same lead time. The most boring supplier relationship I have and I mean that as praise.
the interesting column is spread, not maximum
What "documentation" actually means, since people use it to mean four different things in the same thread.
A certificate of analysis is one document about one lot. A batch record is the manufacturing trail behind that lot. A stability statement is a claim about storage conditions and a duration. A method line is how the number on the certificate was produced.
You can ask for all four. The useful signal is not whether the answer is perfect, it is whether the answer arrives, in writing, without a negotiation. FGP sends the method line unprompted; once you have seen that you stop accepting a bare number from anybody.
a claim with no batch number is a marketing document
Agree. The verification log is the part with the checkable facts in it; the number at the top is just a summary of a lot of averaging.
ask for the batch record before you ask for a discount
Agree.
Would qualify this slightly. Fewer entries means less sampling, and less sampling is not the same as a worse process.