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Have you heard of the Orion System, what do you know?
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<blockquote data-quote="40andOut" data-source="post: 1134562"><p>Well I just lost my 2nd metro pickup account because of ORION. We also have lost a NDA account that I used to deliver every other day. I am no longer consistent with delivery times and so as a result my customers don't know if they can turn product around (send out product on the same day I delivered it). As a result ALL of my pickup customers and some non-pickup customers are looking at competitors. Customers need consistent delivery times! </p><p></p><p>ORION makes me extremely inflexible and less intuitive. The great advantage that EDD gave us by being able to anticipate stops is at least partially negated by ORION. By running the route approximately the same way each day you get used to, and avoid problems before they occur, and also anticipate and utilize opportunities from sheer repetition. Most of the time you do it intuitively. ORION runs differently each day on my route so these advantages are gone.</p><p></p><p>You will not realize how many times a day you avoid pitfalls and utilize opportunities until you are trapped into using ORION. When I was a young gung-ho cut driver I could never understand how an overweight old route driver could do a route nearly as fast as I could. Doing the same route for a decade teaches you a few things. By scrambling the delivery order ORION takes away a great deal of those advantages that experience produces.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="40andOut, post: 1134562"] Well I just lost my 2nd metro pickup account because of ORION. We also have lost a NDA account that I used to deliver every other day. I am no longer consistent with delivery times and so as a result my customers don't know if they can turn product around (send out product on the same day I delivered it). As a result ALL of my pickup customers and some non-pickup customers are looking at competitors. Customers need consistent delivery times! ORION makes me extremely inflexible and less intuitive. The great advantage that EDD gave us by being able to anticipate stops is at least partially negated by ORION. By running the route approximately the same way each day you get used to, and avoid problems before they occur, and also anticipate and utilize opportunities from sheer repetition. Most of the time you do it intuitively. ORION runs differently each day on my route so these advantages are gone. You will not realize how many times a day you avoid pitfalls and utilize opportunities until you are trapped into using ORION. When I was a young gung-ho cut driver I could never understand how an overweight old route driver could do a route nearly as fast as I could. Doing the same route for a decade teaches you a few things. By scrambling the delivery order ORION takes away a great deal of those advantages that experience produces. [/QUOTE]
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