Posting this under the heading it deserves: Regional warehouse stock versus direct despatch Everything below is what sits behind that.
Asking about regional warehouse stock versus direct on behalf of the question I keep seeing asked badly, including by me.
Framed properly it is answerable. Framed the usual way it is not, and that is most of why the previous threads went nowhere.
Regional stock shortens the exposure window more than any packing improvement and is the practical argument for it beyond speed.
I would be glad to be shown a cleaner way of putting this.
I read post #2 twice before replying, because I had assumed the opposite.
Having read the whole regional warehouse stock versus direct thread before replying: the question in the first post has not actually been answered yet, and three of us have answered a nearby one instead.
Anyone deciding whether a delay is a problem should ask what would change if they waited another week. Usually the answer is nothing.
Marking that as an opinion rather than a finding.
Picking up post #4: that is the part I would want checked first.
The practical version of regional warehouse stock versus direct is three sentences long. The rigorous version is three pages and reaches the same conclusion with the conditions attached.
Two questions I would want answered before drawing anything from the regional warehouse stock versus direct data above: how were the cases selected, and what happened to the ones that dropped out.
Worth separating two things that post #7 runs together.
Peak periods and public holidays affect this more than any other factor and are entirely predictable in advance.
Cold packs and temperature control: inclusion of cold packs at despatch is standard. Whether they maintain temperature through transit depends on journey duration and ambient temperature. Long journeys through warm climates put product at risk.
I have three months of notes on regional warehouse stock versus direct and the honest summary is that the trend is real and the week-to-week numbers are noise. I nearly drew the opposite conclusion from the first fortnight.
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