Had a driver arrive late to Walmart for a delivery today because his Galaxy Note exploded in his car. Walmart told me that his phone was melted to his passenger seat.
So I've spent the last week digging into our shipments from PR back to the states. Found that since Dec 2014, we've had over $750K in shipments not discounted by UPS, and about $35K that got a 90% discount. UPS is working on a refund but it will only go back 180 days but that should be about $75K and going forward I should be saving us over $125K a year. Not bad for only being in this job 4 months.
Escalate that shit.....Is your discount in a contract that covers that time period? Sue those bastards.
Are all of the Wal-Mart DCs like the one in Colton, CA, where if you're an hour late you have to deliver at midnight? I used to love getting a call at 2:00AM... They won't let me in Shocker: were you late? Yes Shocker: Great job, I'll call you back at 8:00AM with your new delivery time :)
There's something in the contract that excluded one particular zone from PR. It should have been caught by our freight auditor though. They are amending the contract and rebating 180 days.
Rate refunds are typically on for 6 months. It depends how big of a shipper you are if they'll give in
Fucking Jax ubering at night and finding tens of thousands of dollars for his new company. Good for you, man. Also, you're co-workers now hate you and your bosses love you. Can't ask for more than that.
We are big, but not the biggest. Probably $10 million a year just on retail. Not counting mobility which is around 20k shipments a day.
They are having a big recall. I need to see pics though or the driver is just using current events to make an excuse. I mean sure your phone caught fire but that is at max a 15 min issue.
Man I really like this place. Just trying to get a feather in my hat for bonus and raise time in a few months. Well and make sure I stick around.
"I was sleepy and missed my appointment my dispatcher is going to kill me, mein" "Yo holmes tell him your phone exploded and shit"
Started my Wal-Mart career as a receiving ops manager which included the traffic office. We didn't do any live unloads at night, only drops. The night shift always had about 1/4 of the unloaders as the day shift and they were just trying to finish the workload. That was on the dry goods side. I don't know about grocery. Certain carriers could schedule appointments through an on-line system and others had to call in.
I have delivered to a ton of the Walmart and Sam's DCs across the country, and they all kind of operate differently from my experience. Some work-in, some will give same day reschedules, some will require rescheduling for a different date regardless - I'm guessing because they are routinely at capacity.
Yeah so like I said, Walmart's inbound manager confirmed that he was in their parking lot trying to get his phone unstuck from his passenger seat after his case meted to it. Not sure how we are going to get pics of it though since his phone is fried. I didn't believe him at first either. I work for a 3pl so 98% of the shit that I hear from carriers or their reps is complete bullshit.
One of their traffic managers for the Colton DC told me one morning how many pallets they move through their refrigerated side and it was insane. They will work you in if they aren't scheduled for max movements, so like November-May you can get by with a missed appointment, but by the time you hit stone fruit/grape season you're screwed if you miss it. They are actually really easy to work with, though. I've tried to get in directly with Wal-Mart for years, but it's tough.
Hopefully soon. It would be more but I'm sure they are going to hit us for the ones they over discounted too. Think it's now between Greg and indirect procurement and UPS. Still can't believe GMT didn't catch this and it's been going on since 2014 at least.
admiralawesome1 We are the preferred trucker for Nissan in Miss and TN, Nissan recently switched a good chunk of distribution from APL to hanjin (contracts so low we'll sink our on company, shit yeah! good call Nissan) Everything is either sitting at the rail collecting storage (train hit this afternoon with about 25 hanjin Nissan boxes) or on our yards while everyone is trying to figure out what is going on. Made for an interesting week but shit hasn't hit the fan just yet. Just waiting for the blow up when shut down parts are in those hanjin boxes and Nissan has to shut down production, then the fun really begins. Other than that fuck Hanjin, such a pain in the ass to deal with glad they are going under
Everyone in this thread should join my company and it'll be fun logistics instead of hateful logistics
Yea our forwarder put an incredibly hot container of parts on a Hanjin vessel and now it's stuck in Barcelona and we are begging our vendor to get some product ready so we can fly it over.
I wouldn't worry about shutting down Nissan production. They are so far behind anyways and DHL struggles to get their parts across the street that they probably won't notice your company is the one screwing things up.
Canton, Smyrna and Decherd pretty much run on JIT inventory now and it's hilarious how poorly their inventory planning is going right now. Just found out we won the ATA presidents trophy in the 25-100 million mile category.. Woo look at me, just kidding our safety department is so damn smug right now And all the drivers get a bonus so they are gonna be chirping all day. Dealing with drivers all day is shitty enough, not looking forward to this bullshit. End rant
Started at a freight forwarder a few months ago. So much shit on hanjin I can't even count it. Fuck it all
Hey Where Eagles Dare , GMT failed to notice that on one of our accounts, we were paying just over $2k per package for ground service. On 2 lb packages. Thank god it was only 28 packages since last year, but still you'd think they would have seen that and been "hey guys, you might want to look into this".
Sounds like they are a real shit company in terms of audit. Their analytics or at least how they present themselves seem OK. We rerate every shipment. Would've caught it and saved y'all $55,800. Only got 6 months to protest rates, homie. Get on that shit. Fire your auditor too
Lost package with over $8K in jewelry, claim check for $100. Maybe they should think about declaring value on those shipments.
One of our customer service agents sent a replacement phone to Praha (Prague) and chose Dominican Republic as the country. So now we get to have it sent back here, then sent to the Czech Republic. Way to go CSR!
Any of y'all ever looked at doing RFID tracking of shipments? We're trying to pinpoint where high dollar jewelry shipments are going missing at.
As a carrier I've had to deal with CASS a few times. They have been really easy to deal with in my experience. Their monthly freight/TL/IMDL indices and July market report came out today, and I strongly suggest those in the TL/IMDL/transportation industry look it over each month... It's free, and you can set up and email notification for when it's released. It's a nice brief overview of the freight and capacity markets and economic trends based off of something like $25b in domestic transportation spend. July Report Freight Index Truckload Linehaul Index IMDL Price Index
Capstone 88 no idea about the rebate check from UPS, but going forward we should be looking at around 100-150k annual savings on shipments from Puerto Rico. Addendum is all done. Now if I could get this LPS variance for these 50" TVs, we'd be cooking with Crisco.
The ISM cert is a nice one to have. I've looked into a few certifications for the near future... mainly the CSCP from APICS and ScPro from CSCPM.
Especially when work is paying for it and the training. I'm definitely doing it. Should have our practice exams for the diagnostic part this week or next and then start weekly sessions with about 10 other people.
I just want to be able to look at our retail department the next time they ask me for some BS and be all "yea, i just saved y'all $1 million a year so hold your horses".
I used the APICS Learning system. I bought it in Sept 2015 but didn't open it until a few weeks ago. I probably put five good days of studying in to it. I made a 68 on the pretest and a a 64 on the post test. Figured I was screwed but APICS had given me a free retake. I ended up passing the first time with a score in the 85% range though. I've got a Masters in Supply chain so I had general knowledge of all the concepts. Most of my studying was trying to figure out patterns in the answers. There were always two bad answers one really good answer and one perfect answer.