Why your Q4 inbound calendar is already late if you start in September.
Why this matters
Operations teams keep rediscovering the same lessons. This post lays out the patterns that actually move the needle on q4 prep: lock your inbound by august 1.
The core idea
Throughput, not headcount, is the lever. Measure cycle time at every step and the bottleneck reveals itself.
A practical example
A 12-person prep center in Memphis cut receive-to-putaway from 4 hours to 90 minutes by changing two things — neither of them software.
