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<blockquote data-quote="Sidewinder" data-source="post: 480992" data-attributes="member: 9512"><p>I have a customer whereby they have paid over £180 in "man in a van" carriage to get some NH fuses, nobody local stocked them, RS had them and we could get them in &lt; 6 hours to site.</p><p></p><p>The fuses were like £5 ish each, so dwarfed by the carriage cost, but the cost of having the machinery on stop was much more than £180, if we could have got them in an hour for twice that it would have been worth it!</p><p></p><p>I used to work a lot in Tier 1 &amp; OEM automotive and I still do some manufacturing plants, and like raparee suggests, sometimes the cost and carriage of the material pales into insignificance.</p><p></p><p>I was involved in a job going back to 1998 where the line stoppage back charge alone from the customer to the supplier I was working at was over £100k per hour, so paying a £few hundred to ship things around via a man in a van is small change in comparison to stopping a line for an hour.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sidewinder, post: 480992, member: 9512"] I have a customer whereby they have paid over £180 in "man in a van" carriage to get some NH fuses, nobody local stocked them, RS had them and we could get them in < 6 hours to site. The fuses were like £5 ish each, so dwarfed by the carriage cost, but the cost of having the machinery on stop was much more than £180, if we could have got them in an hour for twice that it would have been worth it! I used to work a lot in Tier 1 & OEM automotive and I still do some manufacturing plants, and like raparee suggests, sometimes the cost and carriage of the material pales into insignificance. I was involved in a job going back to 1998 where the line stoppage back charge alone from the customer to the supplier I was working at was over £100k per hour, so paying a £few hundred to ship things around via a man in a van is small change in comparison to stopping a line for an hour. [/QUOTE]
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