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Question about bad PAL labels ???
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<blockquote data-quote="curiousbrain" data-source="post: 1098884" data-attributes="member: 31608"><p>My impression is that it was the other way around - AMS had an alias feature that would allow a user to forward a specific address/consignee to another zip code; this feature was abused by PDS' who didn't want to edit dozens of dispatch plans to reflect the correct address.</p><p></p><p>A couple of notes here:</p><p></p><p>1) You cannot, as far as I know, edit multiple plans at once; so, if one address is changed, you have to edit every plan you have - that could take hours upon hours.</p><p></p><p>2) It's not so cut and dry as it may seem; in IE's defense, the web you can weave in a dense urban area when it comes to address ranges and consignees in AMS is simply mind boggling. Throw in PO boxes, municipal authorities renaming streets, adding streets, duplicate street names, so on and so forth, and there is a real valid argument as to why you shouldn't be able to alias across zip codes. By not allowing it, you are kind of forcing Ops to deal with the problem. Unfortunately, Ops has a huge rug to sweep things under.</p><p></p><p>3) Consignee's are almost never the same, and AMS doesn't really support "fuzzy matching"; so, let's say a business called "The Hour Glass" is a regular customer. Then, one week, the guy ordering is lazy or just not thinking, and types in "The Hourglass"; that will not match in AMS unless a specific record has been created for each possible entry: The Hour Glass, The Hourglass, etc. So, it's a little complicated to say the least.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="curiousbrain, post: 1098884, member: 31608"] My impression is that it was the other way around - AMS had an alias feature that would allow a user to forward a specific address/consignee to another zip code; this feature was abused by PDS' who didn't want to edit dozens of dispatch plans to reflect the correct address. A couple of notes here: 1) You cannot, as far as I know, edit multiple plans at once; so, if one address is changed, you have to edit every plan you have - that could take hours upon hours. 2) It's not so cut and dry as it may seem; in IE's defense, the web you can weave in a dense urban area when it comes to address ranges and consignees in AMS is simply mind boggling. Throw in PO boxes, municipal authorities renaming streets, adding streets, duplicate street names, so on and so forth, and there is a real valid argument as to why you shouldn't be able to alias across zip codes. By not allowing it, you are kind of forcing Ops to deal with the problem. Unfortunately, Ops has a huge rug to sweep things under. 3) Consignee's are almost never the same, and AMS doesn't really support "fuzzy matching"; so, let's say a business called "The Hour Glass" is a regular customer. Then, one week, the guy ordering is lazy or just not thinking, and types in "The Hourglass"; that will not match in AMS unless a specific record has been created for each possible entry: The Hour Glass, The Hourglass, etc. So, it's a little complicated to say the least. [/QUOTE]
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