Reading an inbound ASN against what is actually on the dock
Most inbound files arrive as a list of purchase-order lines. The person at door 4 sees a trailer, a pallet count, and a packing list that may or may not match the file the planner received the night before.
On a Packagegridline board we keep three inbound columns that must be filled from different hands. Planning writes the ASN reference and expected door. The dock writes actual arrival and pallet count. Inventory writes the first count that survives a spot check at staging.
When those three cells disagree, the board does not hide the gap. The disagreement is the point: it tells the afternoon shift whether to treat the load as complete, short, or still sitting in the yard.
We ask sites to stop averaging those gaps into a weekly KPI before anyone has walked the discrepancy. A visibility board is slower than a dashboard tile and more useful on a Tuesday when a buyer is calling about a missing case pack.