The Inbound Profile: Trailers, Parcels per 15 Minutes and Cumulative Arrivals
This lesson is part of the course
In this lesson
You turn one night of trailer arrivals into parcels per 15 minutes, a cumulative arrival curve, pooled parcels per trailer and the peak arrival rate per hour: the demand side of every hub capacity plan.
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Lessons in this course
- The Inbound Profile: Trailers, Parcels per 15 Minutes and Cumulative Arrivals Locked
- Sorter Throughput: Nominal Rate, Efficiency, Induction Limits and Non-Sortables Locked
- The Backlog: Cumulative Arrivals vs Cumulative Sorting, the Peak and When It Clears Locked
- Cut-Off Times: Departures, Loading Time, Slack per Route and Late Parcels Locked
- Staffing the Dock: Unloading and Loading Rates, Staff per Half Hour and Crew Utilisation Locked
- Peak Season: Volume Uplift, Longer Sort Windows, a Second Wave and the Capacity Limit Locked
- Quality: Missort Rates, Damaged Parcels per 10,000 and the Cost of Rework Locked
- Cost per Parcel: Labour, Equipment and Building per Parcel and the Cost Chart Locked