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<blockquote data-quote="beentheredonethat" data-source="post: 989957" data-attributes="member: 4886"><p>Keep in mind, the big metric is SPC. So to make the math easy let's assume a goal of 100 spc, and the IE plan projects out 2000 stops, therefore the IE plan has 20 drivers. Well if the dispatch supv that day sees that he will have 2100 stops, he can and should dispatch a 21st driver to keep the spc metric going and hit the 100 spc. The problem is that if he\she ends up with only 2020 stops and has 21 drivers then that center will end up well below their 100 spc plan. That's when the operations people get in trouble for going below the IE plan.</p><p></p><p>Also keep in mind, when I was in IE, we had to do the plans starting a year early and we got to tweak them as new data became available. We had to stop editing the plans and have them finalized over a week early so operations had time to take the plans and their staffing figures to help them in working with their operating plans. If a large storm hits the midwest which delays volume from getting to us we couldn't change those plans. When I did plans for my centers 95% of the time I was within 5% for delv vol and stops, and 80% of the time I was within 2% for volume and stops each day. The same dispatch supvs who complained about my projections on volume when they did veer from the plans since they thought it would be heavy that day. (The day when they had the load %'s etc) usually where wrong when they veered from plan. Of course, they had an excuse why on the day of the plan they could be wrong, but I was bad since weeks out I couldn't be 100% perfect.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="beentheredonethat, post: 989957, member: 4886"] Keep in mind, the big metric is SPC. So to make the math easy let's assume a goal of 100 spc, and the IE plan projects out 2000 stops, therefore the IE plan has 20 drivers. Well if the dispatch supv that day sees that he will have 2100 stops, he can and should dispatch a 21st driver to keep the spc metric going and hit the 100 spc. The problem is that if he\she ends up with only 2020 stops and has 21 drivers then that center will end up well below their 100 spc plan. That's when the operations people get in trouble for going below the IE plan. Also keep in mind, when I was in IE, we had to do the plans starting a year early and we got to tweak them as new data became available. We had to stop editing the plans and have them finalized over a week early so operations had time to take the plans and their staffing figures to help them in working with their operating plans. If a large storm hits the midwest which delays volume from getting to us we couldn't change those plans. When I did plans for my centers 95% of the time I was within 5% for delv vol and stops, and 80% of the time I was within 2% for volume and stops each day. The same dispatch supvs who complained about my projections on volume when they did veer from the plans since they thought it would be heavy that day. (The day when they had the load %'s etc) usually where wrong when they veered from plan. Of course, they had an excuse why on the day of the plan they could be wrong, but I was bad since weeks out I couldn't be 100% perfect. [/QUOTE]
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