Which orders went short on board, and when did you find out?

Everything on a corrugation line depends on board arriving right, right flute, right GSM, right size, right quantity.

When it is short, nobody finds out at the corrugator. They find out at conversion, two days later, when the operator counts what he has and it is not enough to finish the order.

Quantity out is now recorded at the corrugator, not assumed from the plan.

Board that sat too long, or sat wrong, does not perform. Everybody on the line knows this.

But nobody records how long a lot waited before conversion, so when a batch fails the bursting test the cause is argued about rather than known.

The pattern was on the screen in five weeks. Board older than three days now gets converted first.

Orders are ready at different times. The truck is booked for a time.

So a trailer goes out at sixty percent because two orders that were nearly ready were not visible to the person booking transport. Freight was paid twice for one customer.

Dispatch now sees what will be ready in the next four hours, not only what is ready now.