Has anyone started having the vendors schedule their own appointments? How does that work? No one knows any details.
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I'm sure having a pallet picked up gives you no problems claims person.Having a paper truck with 59 pallets to unload and key is just a slightly bigger deal with Walmart trucks waiting to be unloaded and fresh trucks showing up whenever they want. Thanks for your knowledgeable opinion though.
Retail link is the website for appts. Some have been told, just haven’t been given a start date. May is the goal so it won’t be long now. Beside when I’m out the office no one answers the phone. Trucks show up anyway. Add $1000 for any water/paper truck pushed passed the Must deliver date. Really? Give me a break. Half the time water schedules and is a no show. A valuable window lost because we had to schedule it!
Really? Because I haven't seen anything.
If you are a clerk you have already seen some changes. The Saddlecreek trucks are automatically input into the schedule as well as the fresh deliveries. When you make your daily schedule you can already see them on there.
Claims uses TA shipping to schedule pick up now. It is completely computer generated and it works great. We just have to get used to new system. I don't think there will be as many issues as you guys are whining about
Why communicate to us? That would be the right thing to do. I'm asking vendors when they call in, and no one knows anything about an app. Typical!
Well, like everything else they said it would start in May but they are sending out notes on AMP now telling us not to refuse books when they show.
No do not have vendors scheduling anything yet. When I watched the video from the YBM thought it said the vendor scheduling was starting in May.
What is the AMP ?
As I stated earlier, Class A CLUSTER! Because the people making the decisions have no idea how the real world of receiving works. From the "Butterflies and Rainbows" vision that the people sitting in Bentonville have, the issues that the previous poster mentioned do no exist. The whole thing is an absolute joke. Besides, when trucks arrive after receiving leaves the managers will unload them, are they freaking kidding me? LOL . Out of 6 managers that work days, only one knows how to drive a lift.
This has always been a problem with Walmart/Sams, there is horrible communication. So vendors set their own appointments....ok, do they have hour blocks? two hour blocks? Can they schedule at the same time? There's a big difference between two 20 pallet water trucks coming back to back and two 60 pallet paper trucks. What if they're late? Can they reschedule immediately? Will they reschedule or just show up whenever they feel like it? Do we have any recourse if they're consistently late? What are the times they're allowed to schedule? Did anyone consider fresh trucks or other deliveries that want giant delivery "windows" rather than small set appointment times?
But if you ask anyone "Oh, I don't know, they haven't told us anything."
I also got readerlink schedule off AMP, I wish they would give more information, feel like I'm flying by the seat of my pants!!!
So far AMP, has only notified us of readerlink being set on a schedule without calling any more. Still waiting on the rest.
I haven't heard anything but if my 26 years of experience is halfway accurate, this is going to be a CLASS A cluster (you know what).