is this the biggest week of the year in term of sales?

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tokilamockingbrd said:
Japan is closer to the source of the supply chain, all of the factorys are in Japan. Nintendo can most likely produce them and get them to retailers in less than 3 days in Japan, for the US this have to ship it overseas which takes a while, then it has to enter the NOA supply management system in Washinton, which is then shipped overland, wwhich could take another week to get it NY.
I would bet that Nintendo was sending ALL of the systems it produced in Nov. to US and Europe thus the weak sales in Japan, and now Japan is consuming the Wii's hot off the press which mean none are gonna be on boats for a week or 2 and during that gap, that gap is what I am talking about... It might be 2-3 after Christmas until the gap hits. That is why they did the Rain Checks, they know Jan is gonna be SUPER Wii Dry...

 Who runs a supply chain like that?  The basic underlying principle of a supply chain is a "Chain".  You want a steady stream of supply to all regions with demand.  You don't want "broken links" in your "chain".  Thats the point of the analogy.  The whole idea is keeping steady supply to the places that need it most.

 

Sorry I'm not buying that at all, it is fundamentally flawed and I have a very hard time believing they would let such huge mistakes go unchecked.