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.
6 comments:
All of this analysis minutia is totally irrelevant to 95% of the readership of the blog or consumers of liquor.
What we want to know is what's the deal, what went wrong, what will be done, will it be repeated, will the knuckleheads in the legislature give up this shit-show of State-Owned liquor warehouse and distribution.
Getting lost in the weeds of these details is fucking irrelevant.
Did they hire a former Chik-Fil-A manager?
Austin TX generally has higher taxes than MS, not including income tax. Yet liquor and wine are better stocked and more plentiful in more venues for less cost than MS.
ABC is inherently incompetent: let stores order directly and collect tax at the point of sale.
That's a reduction that is almost meaningless and still ridiculous backlog.
However all the pleas to let stores buy directly and state still gets tax ignore the bigger issue. The state has put itself in the monopolistic role of sole wholesaler and is making HUGE profit margins off that. This is why they will never give it up.
Krusatyr, not just Austin, TX. One would be hard pressed to find any state with higher prices and a worse selection. Ohio is a control state, but their distribution process is excellent and prices are very reasonable. A customer can routinely walk into a Kroger there and pick up allocated bourbons that store owners here can't get their hands on at any price. They even have an online inventory system. Our system is broken and will likely remain so for the foreseeable future.
What a joke
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