As of Monday, we moved our hard wheat and rye to a pooled route with three nearby bakeries, dropping average lead time from 5.6 to 2.9 days and cutting one weekly dock slot. Anyone else trialing co-loads to buffer the driver shortages? I’m watching OTIF and shrink weekly and can share the scorecard if useful.
But that ‘2.9 days’ is huge. We color-tag per-bakery wraps and ban partials; OTIF ticked up — mind sharing the scorecard?
Nice on the ‘2.9 days’; we align pickups with mill grind days; hold one rye safety pallet.
Since you “cut one dock slot,” pair the pooled run with a single mill ASN that breaks out per-bakery lines and requires a photo-on-load; it cut our unload by about 10 minutes and killed most shrink debate. Small caveat: rye sagged when they over-stacked, so we cap at 72 in and insist on 4-way pallets. @s_rogers92 if you’ll share the scorecard, I’m curious how OTIF shifts by stop order.
We saw the same bump after asking the mill to add GS1 SSCC labels on each pallet and send a lightweight 856 with lot-to-pallet mapping — counts dropped to a couple minutes per stack and tracebacks felt like scanning a concert ticket (https://www.gs1.org/standards/sscc). Small caveat: if the pooled truck mixes bag weights, agree on a standard pallet height/stack pattern or you’ll give that time back at unload. Are you getting the ASN direct from the mill or via the co-load coordinator?