The light at the end of the tunnel is getting a little bigger for liquor stores, restaurants, and casinos in Mississippi as the ABC made substantial progress in reducing its backlog last week.
After reaching a high of 220,027 on March 1, the number of pending cases plummeted to 126,989 last week, a reduction of nearly 20,000 cases from the prior week. It is a 42% reduction from the March 1 backlog. It appears at the current rate, half of the backlog will be reduced by the end of May.
What accounts for the good news? ABC customers ordered fewer cases last week, 13,706, than the warehouse shipped. It is the second consecutive week shipments exceeded orders by more than 10,000 cases, giving ABC a much needed breather.
The cycle time fell to 12.4 days, still much higher than the normal 3 days ABC customers enjoyed at the beginning of the year but better than 25.6 days of March 1.
12 comments:
Absolute and complete failure by state elected officials to resolve this problem once and for all. Great work (not) Tate, Delbert, and Jason!
The more customers that quit ordering the sooner the order backlog can be eliminated.
Honest question:
Why aren't we using a liquor distributorship system? Are we investing the capex and injecting government into what is a completely solved logistics issue in most states?
It doesn't matter even if they catch up. The state of Mississippi and their leadership needs to end this ABC and go with direct ship. The state will still get its taxes but eliminate having to pay a 3rd party to run this debacle.
The only reason Ruan is catching up is because back in February, they placed a limit on how many cases you could order to 100 cases a day. The top big stores have not been able to order as much as they did previously with the exception of Costco and Sam's. In March, during the ordering limit, Costco was allowed to order 203 cases a day somehow. These are numbers which are generated directly from the ABC.
Heads should roll. They will not. Place blame and vote accordingly. That said, who got paid to steer this contract to Ruan?
If the government was not somehow associated with this debacle it would have been solved six weeks or two months ago. The private sector does not typically put up with this sort of shit.
They ordered less because they are running out of money or out of business
ABC : It's not really that we don't think about our smaller customers. It's because we don't think.
Is it a train?
I agree!
Just stop with the "catching up" headlines and theme. They are making tiny movements in a positive direction, mostly due to shenanigans on order restrictions and running some folks out of business. There is no spin-world where this is good.
And stop comparing charts to the worst of times. The comp should be to the run rate in late 2025, as hinted at in the line item for early January.
Complete ineptitude.
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