KFC runs out of chicken
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Taken from the Guardian link above -
'The crisis has prompted a widespread consumer backlash against KFC. Police in Tower Hamlets, east London, urged the public not to waste officers’ time by complaining about closed KFC stores.'
I know Tower Hamlets locals were at the top of the tree for voter fraud, but this has to be a new all time low!
'The crisis has prompted a widespread consumer backlash against KFC. Police in Tower Hamlets, east London, urged the public not to waste officers’ time by complaining about closed KFC stores.'
I know Tower Hamlets locals were at the top of the tree for voter fraud, but this has to be a new all time low!
JuniorD said:
Pintofbest said:
Yipper said:
Logistics ain't rocket science. Restaurant A needs 1000 chickens by lunchtime. Just fill up the truck and drive over there on time. Job done.
Of course, but you'd obviously be ignoring the fact you need supplier scheduling, forecasting, manage and credit returns, system and product traceabilty, billing/accounting, inventory management etc. It may not be rocket science but getting it right is bloody difficult - and I say this currently having a 3PL failure in France due to getting their shift patterns wrong so the system work release doesn't match where the resources are!Janluke said:
I reckon this is the real issue or at least the long term issue. I bet they bid so low to get the contract they can't meet demand without losing money
Or just screwed up the transition plan. Poor supply data, poor assumptions, poor risk mitigations in the transition plan. Inexperienced transition leader. Poor understanding of what was needed from an IT stream to implement the change, with insufficient time for testing, QA, rollout, etc. Big bang transition.All guesses.
Etc.
Vaud said:
Someone needs a copy of MS Project...Four Litre said:
Taken from the Guardian link above -
'The crisis has prompted a widespread consumer backlash against KFC. Police in Tower Hamlets, east London, urged the public not to waste officers’ time by complaining about closed KFC stores.'
I know Tower Hamlets locals were at the top of the tree for voter fraud, but this has to be a new all time low!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS9gEu2qya0'The crisis has prompted a widespread consumer backlash against KFC. Police in Tower Hamlets, east London, urged the public not to waste officers’ time by complaining about closed KFC stores.'
I know Tower Hamlets locals were at the top of the tree for voter fraud, but this has to be a new all time low!
Woman at the end
Vaud said:
Naive question for you if you will indulge me... re trains used at all in the uk for non-time sensitive bulk delivery for supermarkets?
Yes. No. Sort of. Trains aren't door to door, so the costs of trans-shipping from train to truck & onto depot prohibits its growth. Also, trains are used for passengers & so it's hard to shift freight to the schedules needed when you can't access the track when you require. But some comes in that way. DIRFT (Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal) and Stratford Lift are the two big efforts to combine train & road freight I know of in the UK. Stratford is defunct now I think?Ultimately, big retailers which make up the bulk of UK road freight use trucks because they're the cheapest & most convenient method. Supermarkets in particular are cut throat businesses, if they could add 1% to the bottom line switching to trains, they would. It's a QED thing.
BilderBurger said:
Yes. No. Sort of. Trains aren't door to door, so the costs of trans-shipping from train to truck & onto depot prohibits its growth. Also, trains are used for passengers & so it's hard to shift freight to the schedules needed when you can't access the track when you require. But some comes in that way. DIRFT (Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal) and Stratford Lift are the two big efforts to combine train & road freight I know of in the UK. Stratford is defunct now I think?
Ultimately, big retailers which make up the bulk of UK road freight use trucks because they're the cheapest & most convenient method. Supermarkets in particular are cut throat businesses, if they could add 1% to the bottom line switching to trains, they would. It's a QED thing.
Thanks.Ultimately, big retailers which make up the bulk of UK road freight use trucks because they're the cheapest & most convenient method. Supermarkets in particular are cut throat businesses, if they could add 1% to the bottom line switching to trains, they would. It's a QED thing.
Bear-n said:
AppleJuice said:
Bear-n said:
AppleJuice said:
...that they're peckish.
Loving your work there.alangla said:
Bilderburger, Pintofbest - many thanks for the answers!
Not at all. I'm only in it for the glamour. 
ETA: Conversations with colleagues & customers over the past few days are interesting. We're all largely saying there but for the grace of god etc.
We've all had skin of our teeth weeks where trucks break down, staff don't turn in, IT systems evaporate & all the rest of it where by a wing & a prayer, we've got the loads out the door somehow. The worst one I remember was a produce warehouse shift at Morrisons, where Iceberg lettuce (Top 5 best seller) ran six hours late inbound to us because some poor sod fell into a machine at the packers & lost an arm. We involved the directors in deciding whether or not to delay despatch of the store deliveries to 75 branches because not having lettuce in store was unthinkable to the company.
Edited by BilderBurger on Wednesday 21st February 15:38
Vaud said:
BilderBurger said:
I can answer that 
Naive question for you if you will indulge me... re trains used at all in the uk for non-time sensitive bulk delivery for supermarkets?Tesco run long trains of containers between their depot at Daventry and Mossend, where it's transhipped to lorries to go to the RDC at Livingston. There are also trains between Mossend (again, containers from Livingston) and Inverness and Aberdeen that get transhipped to lorries for store delivery around Inverness, Aviemore, Aberdeen, Deeside etc. I believe Asda run some containers from the Grangemouth RDC to Aberdeen in a similar way.
If you're up this way, look for Stobart or Russell lorries hauling curtainside containers that say LESS CO2 on the side in Tesco font. I think Tesco also had a similar operation in South Wales, served from Daventry, but I'm not sure if it's still running or exactly what goes where.
Edited by alangla on Wednesday 21st February 15:37
CAPP0 said:
BilderBurger said:
I'm not & never have been a DHL guy & if I'm wrong about this, then fair enough but I would be amazed if the retail distribution operation overlaps in any significant way with the parcels business. Totally different business models & the name over the door is indicative of nothing other than who the owners are.
DHL Supply Chain (logistics) and DHL Express (parcels) pretty much only come anywhere near each other in the Post Tower. (DP-DHL Global HQ, Bonn)
Edited by CAPP0 on Wednesday 21st February 13:58
BilderBurger said:
Vaud said:
Naive question for you if you will indulge me... re trains used at all in the uk for non-time sensitive bulk delivery for supermarkets?
Yes. No. Sort of. Trains aren't door to door, so the costs of trans-shipping from train to truck & onto depot prohibits its growth. Also, trains are used for passengers & so it's hard to shift freight to the schedules needed when you can't access the track when you require. But some comes in that way. DIRFT (Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal) and Stratford Lift are the two big efforts to combine train & road freight I know of in the UK. Stratford is defunct now I think?Ultimately, big retailers which make up the bulk of UK road freight use trucks because they're the cheapest & most convenient method. Supermarkets in particular are cut throat businesses, if they could add 1% to the bottom line switching to trains, they would. It's a QED thing.
Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah said:
‘Can only eat out of buckets, like farm animals.’
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