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After the storm; what can we do differently?
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<blockquote data-quote="notlookingback" data-source="post: 458484" data-attributes="member: 18185"><p>A few years back, every preload was supposed to develop a "silly sort" plan. (It used to be called a knowledge sort, before PAS made knowledge into something silly.) This was the result of several major preloads crashing & burning due to computer problems the day after a rollout of UDC upgrades.</p><p></p><p>The preloads were supposed to design ahead of time how to manage running a non-PAS sort when 75% of inside employees were PAS-dependent. You would think that UPS would require similar contingency planning for severe snow during peak.</p><p></p><p>A center team can identify ahead of time which neighborhoods will be inaccessible due to snow, which business arterials are plowed by the city and deliverable at half the pace of a normal day, etc. Rather than build the same old 60 peak routes with their usual territory on a snow day, let a center send out the 60 drivers to deliver the areas of town that can be done. Plan out each driver at a 7-hour day on paper if that's appropriate to how snow affects your area.</p><p></p><p>Let the center teams plan for triage, rather than doing it on the fly. You can SPA the retained volume direct to retain trailers. If you set up the dispatch plan intelligently, you can unload the retain trailers with the same SPAs directly onto a "mop-up" plan. Don't put your greenest peak hire on the retain trailer pickoffs. Pay your hub rats to doubleshift and put them on the pickoff; they know how to do it. Your retain trailers will be much cleaner when the right people are on the pickoffs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="notlookingback, post: 458484, member: 18185"] A few years back, every preload was supposed to develop a "silly sort" plan. (It used to be called a knowledge sort, before PAS made knowledge into something silly.) This was the result of several major preloads crashing & burning due to computer problems the day after a rollout of UDC upgrades. The preloads were supposed to design ahead of time how to manage running a non-PAS sort when 75% of inside employees were PAS-dependent. You would think that UPS would require similar contingency planning for severe snow during peak. A center team can identify ahead of time which neighborhoods will be inaccessible due to snow, which business arterials are plowed by the city and deliverable at half the pace of a normal day, etc. Rather than build the same old 60 peak routes with their usual territory on a snow day, let a center send out the 60 drivers to deliver the areas of town that can be done. Plan out each driver at a 7-hour day on paper if that's appropriate to how snow affects your area. Let the center teams plan for triage, rather than doing it on the fly. You can SPA the retained volume direct to retain trailers. If you set up the dispatch plan intelligently, you can unload the retain trailers with the same SPAs directly onto a "mop-up" plan. Don't put your greenest peak hire on the retain trailer pickoffs. Pay your hub rats to doubleshift and put them on the pickoff; they know how to do it. Your retain trailers will be much cleaner when the right people are on the pickoffs. [/QUOTE]
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