Parcel Hub & Sortation Capacity: Inbound Waves, Sorter Throughput, Cut-Off Times, Staffing per Shift, Missorts & Cost per Parcel
See how a parcel hub keeps its promises overnight. You will profile inbound arrivals in waves, compare them with sorter throughput, build a queue of parcels waiting to be sorted, check outbound cut-off times per route, staff unloading and loading, measure missorts and compute the cost per parcel, with every cell checked as you go.
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About this course
This course plans the night of a fictional parcel hub in a spreadsheet. You build a cumulative arrival curve from trailers per 15 minutes, turn a nominal sorter rate into real capacity and find the bottleneck with MIN, calculate the backlog against cumulative sorter capacity and find its peak and the moment it clears with INDEX/MATCH, work back from departures to the latest sort finish and count late routes with COUNTIF and SUMIFS, staff unloading and loading with ROUNDUP, test peak-season uplifts against the longest sort window, measure pooled missort rates and their cost and chart the cost per parcel by block.
Lessons
- The Inbound Profile: Trailers, Parcels per 15 Minutes and Cumulative Arrivals Pro
- Sorter Throughput: Nominal Rate, Efficiency, Induction Limits and Non-Sortables Pro
- The Backlog: Cumulative Arrivals vs Cumulative Sorting, the Peak and When It Clears Pro
- Cut-Off Times: Departures, Loading Time, Slack per Route and Late Parcels Pro
- Staffing the Dock: Unloading and Loading Rates, Staff per Half Hour and Crew Utilisation Pro
- Peak Season: Volume Uplift, Longer Sort Windows, a Second Wave and the Capacity Limit Pro
- Quality: Missort Rates, Damaged Parcels per 10,000 and the Cost of Rework Pro
- Cost per Parcel: Labour, Equipment and Building per Parcel and the Cost Chart Pro