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bigjon on 28 January 2008

Yes, It take 2-3 weeks for a Wii to cycle throught the supply chain. I do not believe it snows much in the coastal regions. I guess I should check CNN, but the factories are VERY close to the sea. To have an good supply chain you need to cut down on distance where ever possible.



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NJ5 on 28 January 2008

Sure, the factories in China are mostly near huge ports, shipping the finished products will clearly not be the problem. The rest of the supply chain is another story as I said above. I'm on my cellphone right now, so i'll write more later.



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Pk9394 on 28 January 2008

The snow storm will not have any effect, all the factories are located at the cantone province coastal areas. One more thing, anyone can even confirm if nintendo factories are located in china?? I mean it could be Taiwan or within japan. Although we dont know but if its in china I can garanteed it'll located around the cantone province.

 edited: I have worked in a import & export company, almost 90% of the goods travel by sea or air is loaded in Hong Kong.  the original senders are vastly from ShenZhen area and trucked to HongKong. only occassionally we get import coming from XiaMen or PuDong(ShangHai) because most of the company built their factories around the canton province coastal area.

 



NJ5 on 28 January 2008

Doesn't Shenzhen have its own port? I thought it did.

Yes, the wii is made in China. You mentioned Japan... Do you want the wii to cost as much as the Ps3? :P



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TheBigFatJ on 28 January 2008
bigjon said:
Yes, It take 2-3 weeks for a Wii to cycle throught the supply chain. I do not believe it snows much in the coastal regions. I guess I should check CNN, but the factories are VERY close to the sea. To have an good supply chain you need to cut down on distance where ever possible.

Do you have any more information about how the supply chain works or how Nintendo affected it to get extra Wiis into stores during the holiday shopping season?

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NJ5 on 28 January 2008
TheBigFatJ said:
bigjon said:
Yes, It take 2-3 weeks for a Wii to cycle throught the supply chain. I do not believe it snows much in the coastal regions. I guess I should check CNN, but the factories are VERY close to the sea. To have an good supply chain you need to cut down on distance where ever possible.

 

Do you have any more information about how the supply chain works or how Nintendo affected it to get extra Wiis into stores during the holiday shopping season?

Nintendo said that in normal conditions (shipping by boat), the consoles take 20 days from the factory to shelves in USA (10 days by boat + 10 days to the shelves). No figure was given for Europe though.

The obvious way of getting as many consoles as possible to shelves during the holidays is to divert some supply to planes instead of boats, which allows you to temporarily reduce the factory->shelf time (but will cause shortages once the shipments start going by boat again). Effectively, they loaded up part of January's supply in planes and sold it during December instead.

Nintendo did mention plane shipping in some interviews and articles, but I can't be bothered to fetch the links right now.

 



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