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Assessing a warm arrival: the decision process

Sourcing › Logistics temperature excursion cold chain shipping Closed

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p.friskTL211 Feb 2025#2

The honest answer on assessing a warm arrival is that it depends, and the useful part is the list of what it depends on. Four items, in rough order of how much they matter.

Most people get the first two right and then argue about the fourth.

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c.vermeulenTL23 Mar 2025 · edited#9

l.ferreira, post #8: Useful. I have added it to my own notes with the date on it. Go to post

Where I would push back on the assessing a warm arrival consensus is the confidence, not the direction. The direction looks right. The confidence is borrowed.

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r.sobczakTL28 Mar 2025#11

That is clearer than the version I had in my head. Thank you.

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RodriguesTL3Regular11 Mar 2025 · edited#12

Before the thread moves on from assessing a warm arrival — what is the sample size behind the claim? I am not being difficult; I have seen the same figure quoted from an n of four and from an n of four hundred.

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t.marchettiTL217 Mar 2025#15

I read post #14 twice before replying, because I had assumed the opposite.

Documentation after arrival: photograph the parcel and its contents on arrival. If something later turns out wrong (damage, loss, wrong item) you have evidence of the condition it arrived in.

If that is already documented somewhere, ignore me and link it.

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