I subscribe to all sorts of financial news magazines, and RSS feeds. So today I read about QBP’s (Quality Bicycle Products) new supply chain planning solution. Lots of big words and back-patting going on in the article. Then I got to the interesting part. For those that were unaware, QBP is the place that your LBS orders most of their stuff from. J&B Imports is the other, smaller, distribution outfit. But back to QBP. They ship over 70,000 parts every week. Add that to whatever J&B ships, which is all on top of the actual bikes that we’re buying, and that’s a lot of stuff. I mean, I’ve probably 2 or 3 days worth of those parts socked away in my storage right now, but someone else must be buying it up too.
Now, if I could just get each and every one of those other people buying that gear to read my blog, well, that would be good. That’s all I’m saying.
For what it’s worth, J&B is actually the biggest supplier in the US. The mighty Q actually comes in second or third; I haven’t checked this year. They both ship a lot of parts. Val