On-time Delivery Programme
Cross team effort to get the printed issue into subscriber hands within six days of press.
Current status
Treat the printer change as the primary lever
Why
Editorial scheduling recovered one day; the remaining delay sits in the print and dispatch stage.
Open commitments
- Nothing outstanding.
Recent decisions
Trial an alternative printer side by side
Because Arrival times were getting worse and 70 per cent of the delay sat after editorial.
3 Aug
Timeline
23 Jul
First clean baseline: 11.4 days from press to subscriber, with roughly 70 per cent of that time after pages leave editorial.
28 Jul
Tighter editorial scheduling recovered a full day; Sarah judged that no further meaningful gain existed inside editorial.
3 Aug
Roughly 70 per cent of the total time sits after editorial; our own close to press step is steady at about three days.
3 Aug
The printer position shifted from watch item to active problem when average arrival moved from 10.8 to 12.1 days while awaiting their fix.
3 Aug
Trial an alternative printer side by side, Arrival times were getting worse and 70 per cent of the delay sat after editorial.
12 Aug
Trial design: same issue, same paper stock, same three distribution regions, one full run each, measured on the same schedule.
20 Aug
Trial result: Halstead averaged 12.4 days to the doorstep against Calder's 8.2, roughly four days in Calder's favour.
28 Aug
Recurring topics with Sarah: the printer changeover, delivery times, contract timing and editorial capacity.