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Originally Posted by jaark View Post
More wrong? Oh you mean like 'Nokia UK Retail' - which is actually MPD. It still doesn't change the fact that stock will take a different amount of time to get from Korea to the US as it would to Japan.
Nevertheless it makes your "Nokia is not the retailer" point look silly when Nokia is much closer to being the retailer than the organisations you're comparing it against. Do you think the time to get things from Korea to the US is not known?


OK then. You explain quite how a company can arrange an accurate global release date or dates without either spending a shed-load of time and money estimating and producing a massive release data booklet taking into account the particular logisitics realities of different countries and retailers or without imposing artificial delays on stock being released to the public.
If you can, I guarantee that you will make millions as a distribution chail manager for any global company.
What do you think companies have logistics and operations departments for? They plan all this out. Do you honestly think Nokia throws their output onto the boat, sets it off over the horizon and then says "Well gee I hope they get somewhere soon so we can actually make money selling them"?