Question

During your handoff walk with your counterpart sort manager, they inform you that the upstream sort center informed them that your station will have a trailer containing 3,500 packages arriving AFTER your megacycle shift leaves for the day. Your station does not have a flex shift. You need to determine how much VET you will need to submit in order to process the volume from 12:00 to 14:00. This 2 hour shift will still include 7 minutes of fast start. Your ops manager informed you your rate goals for the respective sort paths. Your crash requires you to use 2 fingers. The OTR team informed you they will run FLEX dispatch so you just need to focus on sortation. Here are your planned rates: Water Spider: 2,000 Unloader: 1,200 Inductor: 1,200 Pusher: 1,200 Diverter: 1,000 Pick to Buffer: 200 Problem Solve: 1 for each finger used

Answer 1

To determine how much VET you will need to submit in order to process the volume from 12:00 to 14:00, calculate the total volume of packages that need to be processed during that time and consider the rate goals for each sort path.

Step-by-step explanation:

To determine how much VET you will need to submit in order to process the volume from 12:00 to 14:00, you first need to calculate the total volume of packages that need to be processed during that time. The trailer arriving with 3,500 packages will need to be processed within the 2-hour shift. Next, you need to consider the rate goals for each sort path and calculate the total time required to process the volume. Finally, you can calculate the total VET needed by subtracting the available work time from the total time required to process the volume.

For example, if the Water Spider has a rate of 2,000 packages per hour, and the Unloader, Inductor, Pusher, Diverter, and Pick to Buffer have rates of 1,200, 1,200, 1,200, 1,000, and 200 packages per hour respectively, you can calculate the total time required to process the volume of 3,500 packages.

Based on the given rates, it would take the Water Spider approximately 1.75 hours (3,500 packages / 2,000 packages per hour) to process all the packages. The Unloader, Inductor, Pusher, and Diverter combined would take approximately 2.92 hours (3,500 packages / (1,200 + 1,200 + 1,200 + 1,000) packages per hour). The Pick to Buffer would take approximately 17.5 hours (3,500 packages / 200 packages per hour). Adding up all these times, the total time required to process the volume is approximately 22.17 hours. Since the shift from 12:00 to 14:00 is only 2 hours, you would need to submit 20.17 hours of VET to complete the processing.