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<blockquote data-quote="curiousbrain" data-source="post: 1125306" data-attributes="member: 31608"><p>Fixing things on routes is also a little more complex then clicking a few buttons.</p><p></p><p>When I was a belt soup, I would get all the complaints from the drivers about an address that "doesn't really go here", and things of that nature - so, I read all the help files on DMS and after checking with the PDS, drew up a list of manual add/cuts I would do in the morning to make sure things were where they should be.</p><p></p><p>A little more complex, though, is that DMS runs off the actual dispatch plan drawn up by the PDS (I forget the acronym for that system at the moment) - so, whenever DMS is restarted (which is every day, sometimes several times a day), it rereads the dispatch plan and reassigns all the work back to the "wrong" spots. To actually fix this, you have to change the dispatch plans.</p><p></p><p>A little more complex, though, is that the dispatch plan is based on the route loops set up by IE - and I can't speak for larger centers, but for the smaller ones such as I work in, the loops have literally not been touched in twenty years; suffice to say, a lot has changed since then. So, what this translates to in reality, is that when you try to cut address ranges in the dispatch plan, it refers back to the loops and drags a whole bunch of other stops that shouldn't go with it. Maybe there are ways around this that I'm not aware of, as I'm not a PDS - but whenever I've fiddled with the dispatch plans and talked with the PDS, this is what I always hear about.</p><p></p><p>My understanding as well is that Orion makes the PDS' job much, much worse.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="curiousbrain, post: 1125306, member: 31608"] Fixing things on routes is also a little more complex then clicking a few buttons. When I was a belt soup, I would get all the complaints from the drivers about an address that "doesn't really go here", and things of that nature - so, I read all the help files on DMS and after checking with the PDS, drew up a list of manual add/cuts I would do in the morning to make sure things were where they should be. A little more complex, though, is that DMS runs off the actual dispatch plan drawn up by the PDS (I forget the acronym for that system at the moment) - so, whenever DMS is restarted (which is every day, sometimes several times a day), it rereads the dispatch plan and reassigns all the work back to the "wrong" spots. To actually fix this, you have to change the dispatch plans. A little more complex, though, is that the dispatch plan is based on the route loops set up by IE - and I can't speak for larger centers, but for the smaller ones such as I work in, the loops have literally not been touched in twenty years; suffice to say, a lot has changed since then. So, what this translates to in reality, is that when you try to cut address ranges in the dispatch plan, it refers back to the loops and drags a whole bunch of other stops that shouldn't go with it. Maybe there are ways around this that I'm not aware of, as I'm not a PDS - but whenever I've fiddled with the dispatch plans and talked with the PDS, this is what I always hear about. My understanding as well is that Orion makes the PDS' job much, much worse. [/QUOTE]
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