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The bay is free. The load still isn't staged.
An empty bay looks like progress. It often is not. I watch plants celebrate a free door while the load for that slot is still scattered across the warehouse. The appointment is booked. The haulier is en route. The product is not in bay order, not axle-checked, and not sequenced
The yard walk after the system said go
The system said go. The screen was green. Then someone still walked the yard. I see that walk every week in packaging plants. Not because people distrust software for fun. Because the plan on the screen and the trailer on the bay are not the same thing yet. What the
Returns and rework that steal tomorrow's trailers
Tomorrow's outbound plan often dies on today's returns bay. A few pallets come back. A short of board needs rework. Someone parks it on a good trailer because that is the only open deck in sight. By morning the vehicle you needed for a customer window
Cluster before you route
Most route tools start with miles. I start with clusters. If you route before you group the work, you optimise a mess. Packaging plants ship mixed SKUs to many sites in short windows. The useful first move is to cluster what belongs together on the same run. Then you route