An advanced shipping notice is a promise about cartons. The dock sees pallets, mixed SKUs, and a driver who needs a door. Here is how we line those two pictures up on a visibility board.
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A warehouse can be “fine on days of cover” while a pick face is empty and reserve is full of the wrong pack size. Aging columns should name locations, not hide them.
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Trailers wait because doors are occupied, appointments stacked, or staging is full. Blaming the carrier first usually skips the yard map.
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A count that dies in a spreadsheet never corrects the inventory column. Here is a modest rule set for counts that change what the board shows the next morning.
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A session is not a slide review. It is two hours at the dock office while appointments land, with the board open and the floor radio on.
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