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I'd expect shipments across the Pacific to be aggregated into the smallest possible number of containers and only subdivided into batches for individual custome
by yorwba 6y ago
I'd expect shipments across the Pacific to be aggregated into the smallest possible number of containers and only subdivided into batches for individual customers at the last possible moment, in order to minimize both transportation cost and the risk that any single customer loses their entire order when a container falls off the ship.
Is that not how it works? If so, I'd like to know why.
- gruez 6y agoThat'd depend on how the shipping is done. What you described would apply for something like retail, where the factory only deals/sells to a distributor (stateside), which then sells/ship them to retailers. Under that setup it would be hard to accurately predict where a particular motherboard would end up at the factory. However, I suspect for large orders, they won't bother with that and would send an entire shipping container or pallet to the customer straight from the factory.