Thread: N900 shipping delayed
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jaark is offline jaark
2009-11-13 , 23:29
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Originally Posted by sharper View Post
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?
It is known - to a margin of error. That margin is probably a couple of days.

What do you think companies have logistics and operations departments for? They plan all this out.
They plan it out (within their margins of error) with the destinations they deal with. Let's say fifty distribution points throughout the current target areas for the N900. Each of those distribution points have a turn around time before they deal with the retailers. Each distribution point will deal with hundreds of retailers. Retailers with many shops will then have their own distribution points to ship stock to their stores then the stores ship to individual consumers.
Nokia can plan for that first stage anything outside of that is outside of their control. No other company expects to do tha, so why do you treat Nokia differently?

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"?[/QUOTE]