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<blockquote data-quote="Ricochet1a" data-source="post: 1138301" data-attributes="member: 22880"><p>I called the engineer I occasionally talk to regarding DRA etc., and you are correct, SRA <em>currently</em> DOESN'T do stop ordering - only route assignment. Previously he was speaking 'ahead' of what is current, and I assumed he was speaking of current capability. </p><p></p><p>If DRA turns to be an intractable mess, the 'talk' is to enhance SRA to have stop ordering capability. This would only occur if DRA simply is overloaded with the conflicting goals of route balancing AND stop ordering the differing service levels (PO, SOS, Deferred). What would happen, is that DRA would have the 'dynamic' part disabled, and merely be used to generate stop ordering with 'fixed' route boundaries. </p><p></p><p>This is what I'm thinking will eventually happen, fixed route boundaries will be accepted as being necessary (for the next few years), then the capability to generate stop ordering will be used and routes will have volume pulled off of them if they exceed a certain number of P1 and/or P2 stops. </p><p></p><p><em>If Express decides to pull the trigger on shifting of deferred volume over to Ground, the problems of DRA would more or less solve themselves. The software can easily handle only worrying about balancing P1, then any SOS that happens to be thrown onto a route can EASILY be gotten off in time (in the absence of deferred volume being present in the Express delivery system).</em></p><p></p><p>From what I was told (and from what I can see), I do think a 'modified' version of DRA will be implemented (basically SRA WITH stop ordering). The reason for my line of thinking, is due to the <u>combination</u> of the reality being faced by engineering AND the reality attempting to be imposed by Express senior level management to get <em>something</em> to work and get it to work quickly.</p><p></p><p>Express doesn't talk publicly about the issues with DRA, but internally, it IS the future of DGO. They are banking on it, since they KNOW full well that getting and retaining quality people in the face of the reality of the wages and wage progression they are offering will become impossible. </p><p></p><p>Posters have repeatedly come up stating that they are seeing a 'crop' of part-time Couriers being brought into their station - when they can't really explain it., The reason has to due with DRA and the need to 'throw personnel at the problem' until they solve the problem.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ricochet1a, post: 1138301, member: 22880"] I called the engineer I occasionally talk to regarding DRA etc., and you are correct, SRA [I]currently[/I] DOESN'T do stop ordering - only route assignment. Previously he was speaking 'ahead' of what is current, and I assumed he was speaking of current capability. If DRA turns to be an intractable mess, the 'talk' is to enhance SRA to have stop ordering capability. This would only occur if DRA simply is overloaded with the conflicting goals of route balancing AND stop ordering the differing service levels (PO, SOS, Deferred). What would happen, is that DRA would have the 'dynamic' part disabled, and merely be used to generate stop ordering with 'fixed' route boundaries. This is what I'm thinking will eventually happen, fixed route boundaries will be accepted as being necessary (for the next few years), then the capability to generate stop ordering will be used and routes will have volume pulled off of them if they exceed a certain number of P1 and/or P2 stops. [I]If Express decides to pull the trigger on shifting of deferred volume over to Ground, the problems of DRA would more or less solve themselves. The software can easily handle only worrying about balancing P1, then any SOS that happens to be thrown onto a route can EASILY be gotten off in time (in the absence of deferred volume being present in the Express delivery system).[/I] From what I was told (and from what I can see), I do think a 'modified' version of DRA will be implemented (basically SRA WITH stop ordering). The reason for my line of thinking, is due to the [U]combination[/U] of the reality being faced by engineering AND the reality attempting to be imposed by Express senior level management to get [I]something[/I] to work and get it to work quickly. Express doesn't talk publicly about the issues with DRA, but internally, it IS the future of DGO. They are banking on it, since they KNOW full well that getting and retaining quality people in the face of the reality of the wages and wage progression they are offering will become impossible. Posters have repeatedly come up stating that they are seeing a 'crop' of part-time Couriers being brought into their station - when they can't really explain it., The reason has to due with DRA and the need to 'throw personnel at the problem' until they solve the problem. [/QUOTE]
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