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<blockquote data-quote="dudebro" data-source="post: 237042" data-attributes="member: 11234"><p>This is the IE perspective, and I don't know the particular challenges in your hub so I may miss something.</p><p>One is, how big is your hub? If you send a small to the SS, how long does it typically take before that same small will come back in a bag. If it's longer than your current primary down time, then your hub management is trying to save load hours by cutting the cycle time on smalls and reducing the span.</p><p>Two, is your smalls sort staffed properly? When there are staffing issues in the hub, are there "old school" hub sups there who would bring people down out of the smalls sort? I never believed in this approach but some do.</p><p>Three, are you at least sending the smalls over the belt in totes? If not, I have to wonder how many letters are ending up in the belt drives instead of at the final destination. This is a bad deal.</p><p>Four, do those late loads have the availability to make "bypass" bags, that can be sorted directly to their final destination without being opened, that's something your IE department should be looking at.</p><p>There are a few other ways to attack this, but these would be my top 4.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dudebro, post: 237042, member: 11234"] This is the IE perspective, and I don't know the particular challenges in your hub so I may miss something. One is, how big is your hub? If you send a small to the SS, how long does it typically take before that same small will come back in a bag. If it's longer than your current primary down time, then your hub management is trying to save load hours by cutting the cycle time on smalls and reducing the span. Two, is your smalls sort staffed properly? When there are staffing issues in the hub, are there "old school" hub sups there who would bring people down out of the smalls sort? I never believed in this approach but some do. Three, are you at least sending the smalls over the belt in totes? If not, I have to wonder how many letters are ending up in the belt drives instead of at the final destination. This is a bad deal. Four, do those late loads have the availability to make "bypass" bags, that can be sorted directly to their final destination without being opened, that's something your IE department should be looking at. There are a few other ways to attack this, but these would be my top 4. [/QUOTE]
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