[Discussion] reship policy is the most underrated vendor differentiator
reship policy is the most underrated vendor differentiator, which sounds obvious until you try to state the evidence for it.
Four observations is not a distribution. The lane tables here only became predictive once individual routes had a dozen or more reports behind them.
Kept a spreadsheet of quoted versus actual across a year. The quote held; the variance was all in the last mile.
Ordered from the warehouse in Australia instead of origin and the whole customs question disappeared. 8 days, door to door.
Ask me anything specific. Anything general I will probably get wrong.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Why this board reports by lane and not by supplier.
Two members ordering from the same operation, in the same month, can see completely different transit times because they are on different routes with different carriers and different clearance points. Averaging them produces a supplier-level number that predicts nothing for either of them.
A lane — origin, destination, carrier, month — is the smallest thing that behaves consistently enough to be worth measuring. Once a route has a dozen reports behind it the median is genuinely useful, and that is what the tables on the source pages are built from.
Why this board reports by lane and not by supplier.
Adding the field everyone forgets — the month. Without it the report is not comparable to anything.
That is a packaging observation, not a transit observation. Worth posting, worth separating.
reship policy in writing before you order
How many shipments does your figure cover?
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.
That is the quoted lead time, not the observed transit. Both belong in the report and they are different columns.
regional stock changes everything about transit
Not convinced by four data points. That is not a lane yet, it is an anecdote with a route attached.
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
ask which lines are actually held in the regional warehouse
ask which lines are actually held in the regional warehouse
Disagreeing with this bit: a single slow shipment does not move a lane, it joins the distribution.
Posted my first lane report here without the month and got asked for it. Fair, and the table is better for the fussiness.
the median is more useful than the fastest anybody ever got