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<blockquote data-quote="Moana Drifter" data-source="post: 454860" data-attributes="member: 18821"><p>The Achilles Heel for all of that is that you have to be able to accurately project the volume for people to accurately tell you when they need to start to finish on time. You can't ask the boxline to give you a start time and then dump an extra several thousand packages on them and expect them to finish on time, which seems to be what happens on an almost daily basis in my center. </p><p></p><p>Monday was a classic example. Our center added 7 more cars because the projections were off, one of the other centers had to add 13. Then you have all the add/cuts which, since the sheets come out half way through the shift when half of the packages have already been loaded, means that half of those boxes end up getting loaded twice. I actually had about 15 packages that were cut over to one of my cars, and then they changed their mind and cut them back to the car they were on originally, which means that they were loaded 3 times.</p><p></p><p>I realize I've been working here for less than 2 months and maybe there's something I'm missing, but it absolutely floors me how poorly they are able to forecast volume. Since every package, from the instant it enters the system, has a delivery address and an estimated delivery date, they should know, almost to the package, what the volume is for a given day.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Moana Drifter, post: 454860, member: 18821"] The Achilles Heel for all of that is that you have to be able to accurately project the volume for people to accurately tell you when they need to start to finish on time. You can't ask the boxline to give you a start time and then dump an extra several thousand packages on them and expect them to finish on time, which seems to be what happens on an almost daily basis in my center. Monday was a classic example. Our center added 7 more cars because the projections were off, one of the other centers had to add 13. Then you have all the add/cuts which, since the sheets come out half way through the shift when half of the packages have already been loaded, means that half of those boxes end up getting loaded twice. I actually had about 15 packages that were cut over to one of my cars, and then they changed their mind and cut them back to the car they were on originally, which means that they were loaded 3 times. I realize I've been working here for less than 2 months and maybe there's something I'm missing, but it absolutely floors me how poorly they are able to forecast volume. Since every package, from the instant it enters the system, has a delivery address and an estimated delivery date, they should know, almost to the package, what the volume is for a given day. [/QUOTE]
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