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Wow, no one says you have to get a spare part to a customer tomorrow morning. Just grab one before it goes to assembly line, ship it with the actual completed m
by withinboredom 5y ago
Wow, no one says you have to get a spare part to a customer tomorrow morning. Just grab one before it goes to assembly line, ship it with the actual completed machines to a distribution center where it will go to the customer from there. There's nothing "new," except at the beginning/end of the chain, just add a few more of those parts to the next order of them. If it will impact operations to take a few from the beginning, some of those spares will have to be delayed. That's ok, tell the customer 6-8 weeks to deliver a spare part. That was pretty standard shipping times when I was younger.
- ethbr0 5y ago> Just grab one before it goes to assembly line, ship it with the actual completed machines to a distribution center So customers can only order replacement parts while assembly lines are currently doing production runs?
- rootsudo 5y agoWhat if it's no longer being manufactured or on assembly line? HOw do you grab it before assembly line? And comingling parts with completed machines? Heh. You have no idea of the distribution chain of b2b retail goods vs b2c service repair and such. 6-8 weeks repair time is still common, especially nowadays.
- tibbetts 5y agoThis is sort of liking saying “how hard could it really be to do a special software build for one customer?”
- withinboredom 5y agoI guess it depends on how you CI and build process is setup. Caddy does an excellent job of doing per-customer custom builds.
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- s1mon 5y agoIf you just "grab one before it goes to assembly line" this will likely have a huge impact on the assembly line. Factories put a lot of effort into managing inventory of material. Lead times on parts can often be in the months if not years. If there are unexpected shortages of parts and subassemblies, the hourly or daily costs of a line down can be enormous. Shipping one of something to an end consumer is usually a completely different supply chain than shipping containers full of finished goods to distribution centers which then go to retail. Taxes, tariffs, shipping methods, etc are all completely different. You can't just commingle things like this easily.
- jeffreygoesto 5y agoWe once had to drive special parts for one car by taxi cab to the factory, in single figure quantities, to not let the line stop and pay the fine... "just in time" production can be hell...