Gruso said:
I don't think there would be much advantage in getting all 4,000 before CNY - it's not like they can assemble and ship that many Pandoras in a week. At least if they get 1,000, they'll have enough to keep them busy while China is off partying.
They could turn those 1000 cases into 1000 Pandoras in just a few days. They could turn all 4000 into 4000 Pandoras in the two weeks that the factory is off partying. (ok, maybe only 3000... 2000 at least!)
At the very least I think they should try for 2000. My thinking is that, if MWeston is flying down to Texas for a week to ensure production starts up smoothly, he doesn't want to be sitting around for 3 days because they ran out of cases. I'm sure they want to maximize his time and the assembly workers time with him to get these things bang on. Not my call, I don't have all the information, but it makes sense to me.