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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Catatonic" data-source="post: 777319" data-attributes="member: 7966">I did this over 30 years ago and it had been around before that. We did it on paper and then keyed it in on a mainframe until the old IBM XTs came out in the mid to late 80's.The overall label is "Controlled Dispatch" and I remember what a long and tedious process this was before all the technology.All the technology has done is to make it easier to do initially, maybe a bit more accurate and definitely a lot easier to keep updated and to generate new dispatch plans.I remember working on an assignment with a guy named Henry McMillan who everyone referred to as the grandfather of Controlled Dispatch.  He foresaw back then that technology was the key to making Controlled Dispatch work because it was so labor intensive to generate and maintain dispatch plans as changes occurred.</blockquote>