[Data] packaging quality by vendor, scored on five things, 60 shipments
Something I keep coming back to: packaging quality by vendor, scored on five things, 60 shipments. 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…
Asked MKM which lines they hold regionally before ordering and got a straight list back. Changed what I ordered and when.
Same lane, four orders, 6 to 11 days, all four within a couple of days of the quote. That consistency is the actual finding.
two identical orders a week apart is the cheapest experiment available
Same. SSA quoted 19 days on my lane and it landed at 8, which is exactly what you want from a quote.
Four observations is not a distribution. The lane tables here only became predictive once individual routes had a dozen or more reports behind them.
origin, destination, carrier, month — post all four or the report is noise
Agreed. Reporting by lane rather than by supplier is what made the tables here actually predictive.
That is the quoted lead time, not the observed transit. Both belong in the report and they are different columns.
a quoted lead time you can hold them to is worth more than a fast one you cannot
Origin, destination, carrier and month?
regional stock changes everything about transit
The rigid outer with no rattle in it was the thing that told me most about that supplier, before I had tested anything.
Correction: that was clearance time, not carrier time. The lane table separates them for exactly this reason.
Correction: that was clearance time, not carrier time.
Disagreeing with this bit: a single slow shipment does not move a lane, it joins the distribution.
Split one order across two months on purpose to compare summer and winter. Four days apart, same carrier, same route.