Just posted this in a market thread, thought I would share it here as well in case anyone else is going through the Target FDC transition or will be in the future. Not sure how many receivers this will be relevant to but I'm usually asked to handle the acknowledge/unload/temp log on every incoming order.
-Target FDC is received as a DCI. The DCI number will be on the carbon-copy yellow/blue paper, key it in under "RF Apps/Acknowledge DCI" just like the general merchandise trailer. After that, toggle to the "Push" web app and open/close the trailer. Trailer # will again be on the carbon-copy papers. Unlike the regular truck, no labels need to be scanned, it just gets entered into the system with "Push" and then closed out.
-The drivers have been 99% third-party at my store, or else that one guy didn't know what he was doing, heh. So they will have paperwork to fill out the arriving seal, which you cut off the trailer lock, the arrival time when you acknowledge the DCI, the actual pallet count, temperature readings, returned pallets (FDC has their own unique black pallets that the order arrives on and you return on the next truck...they're very easy to differentiate, you'll see) - and then the out-going seal you record the number on and tie onto the lock. Also there is an organic/produce checklist to acknowledge that everything as far as produce pallets was acceptable, that was a new one for me.
-The few weeks of deliveries didn't have this, the most recent one did: Each pallet will have a label on it with a number somewhere on the sticker. The driver had a sheet with our store number and the pallets for our store, we were supposed to initial next to each pallet as we moved it off the truck. I wasn't able to find the number on the label and initial because we had a major problem with the driver and paperwork wasn't completed. I'd love to give an update on the situation but I feel like I'm in too small of a pool to give the gritty details, I'll be sure to post them at a later date along with how to find the pallet number, if this is an ongoing trend.
-The FDC trucks have a cooler/frozen/cooler layout with two sets of dividers and the frozen in the middle. They keep the temp much better than our previous food orders except the bananas tend to be colder. Most frozen is close to -10, dairy around 32.5, bananas 57.
-Truck arrives very promtply or even ahead of schedule; for overnight stores they will deliver at 2 or 3am, for others they will arrive within a 2-hour-before/2-hour-after window.
So far, seems to be a good thing! Strange to say at my job, as things generally trend downwards, but a change is always nice.
