Tips for New FT Dispatch supervisors

[What'dyabringmetoday???]

It's not the end of the world and I'm sure as they roll out more sites it will get better. Orion in itself is much better than it used to be. There were so many parameter options to adjust, nobody understood it. For the most part now, orion can take a crappy rdo and clean it up. Hopefully the same happens with this.

Lol.

 

[soberups]

sounds amazing...as quoted earlier.

Sounds like Orion on steroids' we have lost our damn minds.

The UPS Creed:
”If it isn’t broken…fix it anyway. If it still isn’t broken…keep on fixing it until it is.”

 

[burrheadd]

It's not the end of the world and I'm sure as they roll out more sites it will get better. Orion in itself is much better than it used to be. There were so many parameter options to adjust, nobody understood it. For the most part now, orion can take a crappy rdo and clean it up. Hopefully the same happens with this.

Lol

 

[soberups]

It's not the end of the world and I'm sure as they roll out more sites it will get better. Orion in itself is much better than it used to be. There were so many parameter options to adjust, nobody understood it. For the most part now, orion can take a crappy rdo and clean it up. Hopefully the same happens with this.

Only an idiot would make a business decision to intentionally block the driver from being able to see the sequential order in which the packages have been loaded in his car.
Only an idiot would make a business decision to implement a dispatch system that is in direct contravention of the work methods we are required to follow.
Lets call ORION what it actually is…an information denial system. Under no circumstances can we ever again allow the driver to have access to the information he needs to function properly in the real world. How the car is loaded must now be hidden from him in order to make him dependent upon technology, to cripple his ability to follow the methods, and to make good decisions under actual operational conditions. The purpose of ORION is not to save miles…the purpose of ORION is to justify the $1 billion that has been spent on ORION so that we can continue to defraud the shareholders who have bought into the snake oil.

 

[soberups]

 

[soberups]

Basically takes your dispatch and "enhances" it further. Loop boundaries are no more. Pickups are fair game. It will attempt to dispatch ground stops where there is a random air stop. Problem is, it doesn't assign it properly in the RDO so usually the air ends up in the 1000 shelf, while that ground stop is in your 7000s.

In addition it will also move sequences with no stops assigned to it just in case something comes in unforecasted. To top it all off, it takes about 40 minutes for the roads tool to do its thing. And then the PDS needs to double check what it did to make sure nothing is goofy. So you're looking at needing to have your dispatch plan done at least an hour prior to the preload.

Once it's done, you'll get an excel spreadsheet that tells you what sequences and addresses it moved. So unless you know every route in and out,, it makes it hard to quickly double check. No map overlay of the routes to give you a quick glance of before and after.. Your PDS will be really happy about having to come in even earlier depending on what building you work at.

If you have any pickup times that are wrong, LBT or anything else that could create wait time, it will attempt to eliminate that and move random stops. Best thing you can do is make sure you plans are pristine to get it to make as few of moves as possible.

There is an exclusion tool that you'll get so you will have the ability to select certain routes not to get looked at, but just like with everything, if you exclude too much, you'll hit a report. The one nice thing is planned bulk stops (assigned to a shelf or floor location) won't get touched.

I love it.

Is there even a remote chance that we will have bug-free DIAD 6’s, an adequate supply of reliable cradles, and operations management who have actually been trained on the new system prior to its implementation?

 

[burrheadd]

Is there even a remote chance that we will have bug-free DIAD 6’s, an adequate supply of reliable cradles, and operations management who have actually been trained on the new system prior to its implementation?

Lol
I think you know the answer to this

 

[soberups]

 

[What'dyabringmetoday???]

Is there even a remote chance that we will have bug-free DIAD 6’s, an adequate supply of reliable cradles, and operations management who have actually been trained on the new system prior to its implementation?

Don't let it get to you. Take the money and "run".