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<blockquote data-quote="beentheredonethat" data-source="post: 990208" data-attributes="member: 4886"><p>The plan is a good starting point, and if I were the hub manager I'd love to be able to "run the plan". However, can you guarantee me that I won't have a late load? Can you guarantee me that I will only have x people of my assigned work force call out for the day? With all the variables involved, it makes it difficult to run plan unless you have a "perfect" day. If we have a bunch of service failures because I attempted to run the plan but due to the heat, 10 people above the estimate called in sick, and I'm now down 5% staffing (based on 202) then I am in a world of hurt and may not close on time and have LIB's\svc failures. </p><p></p><p>Don't get me wrong, I think the planning is a valuable tool. But the planning process doesn't get as involved as a good manager needs to be. If you are running a 3.9 pd day and 100K, then you are running about 24K - 25K per hour average flow. At the start of the day, everyone is fresh, trailers are empty, chutes empty, belts running good. You probably can run 26 setups instead of 24 or so for the first hour, maybe drop a setup after an hour, another after two hours and send those to the outbound\rewrap to keep them running smooth. If you get down a bit early you can save the added hours by the shorter avg pd day. The problem is the plans aren't good with an hour by hour plan vs an average day plan.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="beentheredonethat, post: 990208, member: 4886"] The plan is a good starting point, and if I were the hub manager I'd love to be able to "run the plan". However, can you guarantee me that I won't have a late load? Can you guarantee me that I will only have x people of my assigned work force call out for the day? With all the variables involved, it makes it difficult to run plan unless you have a "perfect" day. If we have a bunch of service failures because I attempted to run the plan but due to the heat, 10 people above the estimate called in sick, and I'm now down 5% staffing (based on 202) then I am in a world of hurt and may not close on time and have LIB's\svc failures. Don't get me wrong, I think the planning is a valuable tool. But the planning process doesn't get as involved as a good manager needs to be. If you are running a 3.9 pd day and 100K, then you are running about 24K - 25K per hour average flow. At the start of the day, everyone is fresh, trailers are empty, chutes empty, belts running good. You probably can run 26 setups instead of 24 or so for the first hour, maybe drop a setup after an hour, another after two hours and send those to the outbound\rewrap to keep them running smooth. If you get down a bit early you can save the added hours by the shorter avg pd day. The problem is the plans aren't good with an hour by hour plan vs an average day plan. [/QUOTE]
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