The ABC warehouse made progress again last week in reducing its backlog of orders.
The backlog fell to 155,834 cases last week, a 30% reduction from 220,027 case backlog on March 1.
Cycle time (cases shipped after order placed) fell to 15.5 days, still three times as long as its normal time but substantially less than the 25.6 days it experienced on March 1.
ABC made such progress last week for two reasons. Shipments outpaced orders by 3,137 cases. Some weeks there are more shipments than orders and other weeks the reverse is true. However, ABC had not been able to make much progress for a month until last week. Approximately 8-9,000 less cases were ordered last week than each week for the previous month, thus giving ABC a chance to catch up.
Kingfish note: Remember, ABC predicted the backlog will be gone by the end of May. Stay tuned.




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