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<blockquote data-quote="curiousbrain" data-source="post: 1098508" data-attributes="member: 31608"><p>Some of it has to do with AMS - the Address Management System. It's basically a database that can alias certain addresses, locations, etc to the correct address - for example, if there is a business at 100 Pizza Street, and they move to 500 Cheese Lane, and for some reason things are still shipped to the Pizza Street address, they can be forwarded (based on the consignee) to the correct address. The same thing holds for PO Boxes, and things of that nature.</p><p></p><p>The issue arises when the consignee is not an exact match - so, if the business in question is Deep Fried Madness, and for some reason the shipping information UPS receives is Deep Fried Sadness, it won't match in AMS and the PAL label won't be right.</p><p></p><p>From there, sometimes the "system" (which is really a massive conglomeration of multiple systems that, from what I can tell, were never designed to work together in the first place) will try a "best match", other times it will just give up, and other times it will just be blank (a PAL with lines on it).</p><p></p><p>This ties in with the data corrections that are supposed to be done via UDC before the Preload shift begins; also, the clerks who do actual address corrections and what not are supposed to maintain the AMS database - now, I can't speak for other buildings, but in the building where I am employed I am the only one who even knows what AMS is, and I have enough to do. The result: bad PAL's, blank labels, and much frustration.</p><p></p><p>edit: To the original question, blank PAL's and NIS are the alert label - they are supposed to go to a clerical/DataAcq station to be corrected and fixed (i.e. E2DC, DKE Small, and/or AMS).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="curiousbrain, post: 1098508, member: 31608"] Some of it has to do with AMS - the Address Management System. It's basically a database that can alias certain addresses, locations, etc to the correct address - for example, if there is a business at 100 Pizza Street, and they move to 500 Cheese Lane, and for some reason things are still shipped to the Pizza Street address, they can be forwarded (based on the consignee) to the correct address. The same thing holds for PO Boxes, and things of that nature. The issue arises when the consignee is not an exact match - so, if the business in question is Deep Fried Madness, and for some reason the shipping information UPS receives is Deep Fried Sadness, it won't match in AMS and the PAL label won't be right. From there, sometimes the "system" (which is really a massive conglomeration of multiple systems that, from what I can tell, were never designed to work together in the first place) will try a "best match", other times it will just give up, and other times it will just be blank (a PAL with lines on it). This ties in with the data corrections that are supposed to be done via UDC before the Preload shift begins; also, the clerks who do actual address corrections and what not are supposed to maintain the AMS database - now, I can't speak for other buildings, but in the building where I am employed I am the only one who even knows what AMS is, and I have enough to do. The result: bad PAL's, blank labels, and much frustration. edit: To the original question, blank PAL's and NIS are the alert label - they are supposed to go to a clerical/DataAcq station to be corrected and fixed (i.e. E2DC, DKE Small, and/or AMS). [/QUOTE]
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