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c/intlshipping·submitted 3 months ago by u/tove_ogunleye

help me understand packaging, I have read the wiki twice

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Slightly embarrassed to be asking this, but: help me understand packaging, I have read the wiki twice. 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…

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u/mikkel_correia18 points·3 months ago

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.

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u/yusuf_achebe4 points·3 months ago

Push back: comparing a July transit with a February one on the same lane is not a comparison.

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u/ismael_varga2 points·3 months ago

Not convinced by four data points. That is not a lane yet, it is an anecdote with a route attached.

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u/ferran_laurent2 points·3 months ago

Kept a spreadsheet of quoted versus actual across a year. The quote held; the variance was all in the last mile.

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u/tove_ogunleyeOP13 points·3 months ago

That is the quoted lead time, not the observed transit. Both belong in the report and they are different columns.

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