the packaging thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down
Thinking out loud about this: the packaging thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down.
Asked BCH which lines they hold regionally before ordering and got a straight list back. Changed what I ordered and when.
Clearance took three days and the carrier took nine. I had been blaming the wrong half for two years.
Posted my first lane report here without the month and got asked for it. Fair, and the table is better for the fussiness.
Not medical advice, obviously, and nothing here is approved for human use. One person with a spreadsheet.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Left up and added to the lane table. All four required fields were present, which is rarer than it should be.
Correction: that was clearance time, not carrier time. The lane table separates them for exactly this reason.
Median transit is the useful statistic. The minimum is a story about one shipment and the mean is dragged around by a single hold.
Split one order across two months on purpose to compare summer and winter. Four days apart, same carrier, same route.
That is a packaging observation, not a transit observation. Worth posting, worth separating.
That is a packaging observation, not a transit observation.
Agreed — and the decomposition matters. Most people are blaming the international leg for a last-mile problem.
Same lane, four orders, 16 to 6 days, all four within a couple of days of the quote. That consistency is the actual finding.
Same lane, four orders, 16 to 6 days, all four within a couple of days of the quote.
renzo_asante is right about regional stock. It changes the shape of the distribution, not just the mean.
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That is the quoted lead time, not the observed transit. Both belong in the report and they are different columns.
Flair set to Lane Report. Origin, destination, carrier and month are the required fields.
the median is more useful than the fastest anybody ever got
Was it shipped from a regional warehouse or from origin?
Disagree. That is a customs hold, not a carrier delay, and lumping them together makes the lane table wrong.
A lane is an origin, a destination, a carrier and a season. Change any one and the distribution changes, which is why supplier-level shipping averages are close to meaningless.
Yes — median rather than best case. The fastest anybody ever got is not a plan.
Yes — median rather than best case.
This is why the lane table is organised the way it is. The supplier is not the unit.
The rigid outer with no rattle in it was the thing that told me most about that supplier, before I had tested anything.
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