Clappedoutpostie wrote: ↑27 May 2022, 07:48
SpacePhoenix wrote: ↑27 May 2022, 07:03
SDs, Tracked and packets have got higher priority than mech letters, manual letters and flats, so it's highly likely that they'd sacrifice mech letters, manual letters and flats to get the SDs, Tracked and packets done. We often don't get to TPM the machines after wave 1 as we're often moved onto other sections the moment that we've finished boxing up the final batch of wave 1
But your missing an important fact. RM will shortly be opening one of the biggest parcel hubs in Europe. Mail Centres won’t have anywhere near the workload they have now in afew months.
The machines at the new hubs don't have anywhere near the number of selections available for one output per DO so we're still going to have to sort it in MCs. On the PDAs in "MC Mode" there's streams been added for containers from hubs, which suggests that we'll still be scanning the stuff from the hubs. Depending on relative locations, some areas might get their stuff in later, so will have to have final dispatched pushed back.
At the moment it's (where not intra)
Outward MC > RDC > RDC > Inward MC > DO
Outward MC > RDC > Inward MC > DO
Outward MC > Inward MC > DO (where the areas covered by the outward and inward MCs are next to each other
Once the hubs are online it's probably going to be:
Outward MC > RDC > Hub > RDC > Inward MC > DO
Outward MC > RDC > Hub > Inward MC > DO
Outward MC > Hub > Inward MC > DO
The extra travel time to and from the hubs and the time needed to sort in the hubs needs to be factored in