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Morning, everyone. I'm still flu-ridden, so one more day at home for me.

blaaislaai said:
Morning poeples!

Payday for most today?
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I wish, only on Friday night, if our company's cash flow holds out.

DieGrootHammer said:
Working in the FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) market, we can easily see sales lifting from the average weekend sales by about 150% on the last weekend of the month. It's usually also the weekend we target for specials, deals and more stock. It's been like this since I can remember. Seems that prevailing thought is that consumers would spend money on groceries and stuffs for the upcoming month while their bank account is full, having this sense of "I have money to spend, and so I shall spend it". Most plans of expenditures are made for that moment your paycheck is received.
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I didn't know you were in FMCG. I've always been curious about it, and see ads for positions in the industry that I'm qualified for every now and then, but it'll take a move to CPT, typically. Out of interest, what's the lead time from manufacturing to delivery at the distribution centres? Do you typically get an order with more than enough time, or do you need to account for market spikes and dips on your end for when the buying lot messes up?

Solitude said:
It's a pleasure. It's because the name of the thread isn't what one would expect.

Morning peoples.

Sigh so things have not been going well with us over the last week. I will be taking tomorrow off to help my wife with some things and it's my birthday. With the last week being so sucky I haven't had time to game much so maybe tomorrow I'll get some time to that which I enjoy. I hope things are going better with all of you.
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Ai, man. Take the day and rest up properly, so that you have some energy for the next few days. Treat yourself and wife to a nice day, and forget all the world's shit for a bit.
 
InSanity said:
simply put on their end their practice is to mark a order as complete as soon as it leaves the warehouse... not when it arrives at the customer, Well in my case it was marked as complete before the courier had even picked it up. So basically their only answer is phone the courier and put their hands up when you enquire about a parcel
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That's pretty standard practice for 3PL (third-party logistics) providers, the supplier (here Loot) deems the shipment as "Complete" because it's been handed over to their 3PL provider. It does however highlight that their 3PL is not integrated or an end-to-end provider as is the case with larger firms. Integrated 3PL allows for tracking and tracing to happen after the handover between the supplier and logistics provider has taken place. This SHOULD be seamless if the Dispatch Management Software and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is integrated to the supplier's IT systems. This has not happened here. What that should at a minimum have given you is the name of the 3PL and a shipment/tracking reference.
 
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I didn't know you were in FMCG. I've always been curious about it, and see ads for positions in the industry that I'm qualified for every now and then, but it'll take a move to CPT, typically. Out of interest, what's the lead time from manufacturing to delivery at the distribution centres? Do you typically get an order with more than enough time, or do you need to account for market spikes and dips on your end for when the buying lot messes up?
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Oh what you are referring to here is the forecasting for manufacturing. There is a very rigid, statistically driven system that plans order numbers based on a few variables: seasonal requirements of products, availability of raw material, promotional activity, manufacturing capacity, product lifespan and shelf life, plus a few others that are a bit more on the intellectual property side of things. Unfortunately, these systems and predictions are not always that accurate, as there are just too many variables to accurately predict possible consumption of products. So we run the danger of having an excess returns should too much stock be manufactured.

As these forecasts are passed on to the various plants, they will manufacture stock based on TRP's (Trade Required Specification). These TRP's is the governing documents that stipulated how long it takes for any given product from manufacturing to store. Most normal perishable stock has about an average TRP of 60 days, but more spoilable stock can go so low as 40 days, and other stock can go up to 150 days.
 
DieGrootHammer said:
Oh what you are referring to here is the forecasting for manufacturing. There is a very rigid, statistically driven system that plans order numbers based on a few variables: seasonal requirements of products, availability of raw material, promotional activity, manufacturing capacity, product lifespan and shelf life, plus a few others that are a bit more on the intellectual property side of things. Unfortunately, these systems and predictions are not always that accurate, as there are just too many variables to accurately predict possible consumption of products. So we run the danger of having an excess returns should too much stock be manufactured.

As these forecasts are passed on to the various plants, they will manufacture stock based on TRP's (Trade Required Specification). These TRP's is the governing documents that stipulated how long it takes for any given product from manufacturing to store. Most normal perishable stock has about an average TRP of 60 days, but more spoilable stock can go so low as 40 days, and other stock can go up to 150 days.
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I assume from this (and your love of Excel) that you're on the forecasting side of the game?
 
PsychoFish said:
That's pretty standard practice for 3PL (third-party logistics) providers, the supplier (here Loot) deems the shipment as "Complete" because it's been handed over to their 3PL provider. It does however highlight that their 3PL is not integrated or an end-to-end provider as is the case with larger firms. Integrated 3PL allows for tracking and tracing to happen after the handover between the supplier and logistics provider has taken place. This SHOULD be seamless if the Dispatch Management Software and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is integrated to the supplier's IT systems. This has not happened here. What that should at a minimum have given you is the name of the 3PL and a shipment/tracking reference.
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Yip that is what I have and also pretty much what i said to them in Lame mans terms that they aren't in the league of other big online retailers despite their marketing saying they are.
 
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I assume from this (and your love of Excel) that you're on the forecasting side of the game?
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That would be a very good guess yes, but it's not completely correct. I'm more in the reporting side, creating insights and analysis on all the data from all different departments and drawing business decision from that. Business Intelligence if you will. I don;t do the actual forecasting, but more the reporting on the effects and success of forecasting. So a close relationship is needed with them
 
DieGrootHammer said:
That would be a very good guess yes, but it's not completely correct. I'm more in the reporting side, creating insights and analysis on all the data from all different departments and drawing business decision from that. Business Intelligence if you will. I don;t do the actual forecasting, but more the reporting on the effects and success of forecasting. So a close relationship is needed with them
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Cool. Thanks for the insight! :D
 
DieGrootHammer said:
No problem. It's not every day I get to strut my professional stuff and speak about my work, as most people find it rather boring. It's also the 4th most effective way of getting rejected by girls I've found.
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Haha I've got that experience down pat. It's a lot of fun being an engineer until you tell someone about your day to day and their eyes glaze over. I've learned to simplify things, but the flipside is that my wife isn't entirely sure what I do all day.. :rolleyes:
 
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Haha I've got that experience down pat. It's a lot of fun being an engineer until you tell someone about your day to day and their eyes glaze over. I've learned to simplify things, but the flipside is that my wife isn't entirely sure what I do all day.. :rolleyes:
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My wife knows exactly what i do, she calls it "Computer stuff", why parents call it "playing with computers all day"

My official job title is "Senior IT Infrastructure Architect" but I primarily deal with Hardware platforms, Linux/UNIX, Networking (WAN), Security and Storage.
 
DieGrootHammer said:
No problem. It's not every day I get to strut my professional stuff and speak about my work, as most people find it rather boring. It's also the 4th most effective way of getting rejected by girls I've found.
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you are doing it wrong then bro my sql talk literally makes ladies slide off their chairs :D :D

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Haha I've got that experience down pat. It's a lot of fun being an engineer until you tell someone about your day to day and their eyes glaze over. I've learned to simplify things, but the flipside is that my wife isn't entirely sure what I do all day.. :rolleyes:
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My wife is in the same field as me :p
PsychoFish said:
My wife knows exactly what i do, she calls it "Computer stuff", why parents call it "playing with computers all day"

My official job title is "Senior IT Infrastructure Architect" but I primarily deal with Hardware platforms, Linux/UNIX, Networking (WAN), Security and Storage.
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LIEZ everyone i know knows exactly what I do ... as little as possible :p
 
PsychoFish said:
My wife knows exactly what i do, she calls it "Computer stuff", why parents call it "playing with computers all day"

My official job title is "Senior IT Infrastructure Architect" but I primarily deal with Hardware platforms, Linux/UNIX, Networking (WAN), Security and Storage.
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My first job out of varsity was working on the design of a gearbox for a helicopter. Really interesting stuff, but slow moving as shit, it's now 5 years later and they've barely started manufacturing of the first one. Anyway, my sister-in-law is still convinced that I'm a helicopter mechanic :D
 
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My first job out of varsity was working on the design of a gearbox for a helicopter. Really interesting stuff, but slow moving as shit, it's now 5 years later and they've barely started manufacturing of the first one.
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Now that's interesting stuff.
 
PsychoFish said:
Now that's interesting stuff.
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It's okay. Not all that different from a bog standard gearbox, except that you have all sorts of clever ways to get the mass down. But normal spur gears work the same, whether it's flying, vibrating, falling, whatever.
 
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It's okay. Not all that different from a bog standard gearbox, except that you have all sorts of clever ways to get the mass down. But normal spur gears work the same, whether it's flying, vibrating, falling, whatever.
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Again, very interesting stuff. Any planetary gears and bevel gears? Or is that further is the drivetrain if at all?
 
PsychoFish said:
Again, very interesting stuff. Any planetary gears and bevel gears? Or is that further is the drivetrain if at all?
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Not in this particular gearbox. The secondary gearbox, which is to step down from turbine engine speeds (~30000 rpm) to primary gearbox speeds (~1500 rpm IIRC) has a couple of bevel gears in it. This one is also used to tap power to the tail rotor, which is coupled with a simple bevel gear pair right at the end of the tail.

Planetary gearboxes are useful for low mass application, but only really shine at a high gear ratio, so we opted for a different, more novel approach on this machine. In hindsight, it might've been worth looking at the possibility of getting both speeds out of a single planetary gearbox.. But my boss was never really interested in exploring this.
 
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