reship — 8 things I got wrong before I got it right
reship — 8 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. Regional stock replaces an international lane…
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.
the lane is the unit of analysis, not the supplier
Correction: that was clearance time, not carrier time. The lane table separates them for exactly this reason.
a quoted lead time you can hold them to is worth more than a fast one you cannot
Cosigning the seasonality point. February and August on the same lane are different animals.