Meeting Title: Chuck <> Brainforge - Shipping-Weekly-Meeting Date: 2024-07-18 Meeting participants: Nicolas Sucari, Jakob Kagel, Uttam, Chuck Gross
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1 00:00:56.830 ⇒ 00:00:57.880 Chuck Gross: 47.
2 00:02:51.740 ⇒ 00:03:03.269 Chuck Gross: I I live. Number 2. Can you complete the transfer? It? Says Qualco. One. You got that yesterday, the day before
3 00:03:03.320 ⇒ 00:03:04.589 Chuck Gross: our Atlanta.
4 00:03:04.630 ⇒ 00:03:20.473 Chuck Gross: I know, but I gotta call well. I have to call fucking John in China, and if he sees you have 1,800 bags and fucking green. I just have a fucking meltdown. Yeah. So alright, thank you.
5 00:03:21.830 ⇒ 00:03:23.860 Chuck Gross: Luke. Important projects
6 00:03:24.536 ⇒ 00:03:35.033 Chuck Gross: a bit much. But I require. So I’m sure you’re gonna go to 7 11, so
7 00:03:36.180 ⇒ 00:03:47.675 Chuck Gross: you can go to the Bagel store for me. That’d be so. I want the coldest to bagel. They have like they’re like, Oh, tied out of the fucking back. I don’t want that shit. Yeah, all on real Bagel. 2 real bagels. Nice and cold.
8 00:05:20.450 ⇒ 00:05:21.350 Chuck Gross: Thanks.
9 00:05:43.010 ⇒ 00:05:44.530 Jakob Kagel: Hey! Good morning!
10 00:05:47.380 ⇒ 00:05:48.909 Nicolas Sucari: Hi, good morning. Chuck.
11 00:05:54.770 ⇒ 00:05:55.809 Nicolas Sucari: yeah. Dog.
12 00:05:57.040 ⇒ 00:05:57.820 Chuck Gross: Hello!
13 00:05:58.120 ⇒ 00:05:59.570 Jakob Kagel: Hey? Yeah. Can you hear us?
14 00:06:05.150 ⇒ 00:06:07.079 Jakob Kagel: Can can you hear us chuck.
15 00:06:10.670 ⇒ 00:06:11.730 Chuck Gross: Hello!
16 00:06:13.520 ⇒ 00:06:14.390 Nicolas Sucari: Connect.
17 00:06:14.390 ⇒ 00:06:15.610 Chuck Gross: Hey! How are you?
18 00:06:15.740 ⇒ 00:06:16.966 Jakob Kagel: Yeah, okay.
19 00:06:18.620 ⇒ 00:06:22.259 Chuck Gross: Yeah, I had my headphones on. It wasn’t connecting so. But we’re good. Now, how are you.
20 00:06:22.260 ⇒ 00:06:30.190 Jakob Kagel: No worries. That’s yeah. We can hear you. Okay? Awesome. Yeah. Yeah. Great. Yeah. Hope you’re having a good morning. So far.
21 00:06:30.190 ⇒ 00:06:31.469 Chuck Gross: So far so good.
22 00:06:31.810 ⇒ 00:06:34.197 Jakob Kagel: Sounds good sounds good. So I think
23 00:06:34.890 ⇒ 00:06:42.622 Jakob Kagel: in this meeting we just wanted to sort of run through the results that we had like from the center of gravity analysis. And then also
24 00:06:42.980 ⇒ 00:06:49.476 Jakob Kagel: when I combined, when I added in some of the additional potential Unis warehouse locations,
25 00:06:49.950 ⇒ 00:07:06.859 Jakob Kagel: what came out of that. I know we already sent the email over, but I think just wanted to. Give a chance to maybe discuss. And also, if you had any sort of additional questions. Things that you know you think we should look into, etc. We could discuss those here as well. Does that sound good.
26 00:07:07.010 ⇒ 00:07:08.010 Chuck Gross: Yeah, it. Sounds good.
27 00:07:08.360 ⇒ 00:07:22.202 Jakob Kagel: Sounds great sounds great. So yeah, we ran the center of gravity analysis, and it gave us sort of a location that was like really far in West Tennessee, like, pretty much as as far as you could get
28 00:07:22.790 ⇒ 00:07:41.109 Jakob Kagel: based on what we looked at previously with orders that were shipping to non ideal zones. We saw that, like the majority of the orders, were shipping to Texas from New York, they could have shipped from Florida. That was sort of the largest segment of orders that
29 00:07:41.630 ⇒ 00:07:45.212 Jakob Kagel: it could be shifted like based on the zone.
30 00:07:45.670 ⇒ 00:07:55.076 Jakob Kagel: So when we looked at like the list of the Unis warehouse locations that would make sense based on the center of gravity. We was Dallas Houston, and then Memphis.
31 00:07:55.460 ⇒ 00:08:12.989 Jakob Kagel: That I added into our table. And in the table, basically, we just have the calculation for every shipment. What zone it would be for every warehouse, so we could map every shipment to what its ideal warehouse location would be.
32 00:08:14.630 ⇒ 00:08:28.280 Jakob Kagel: And then for, like out of the top, 10 splits like that, we got out of that basically based on on the ideal shipping location. 7 out of the top 10 would have shipped out of Dallas.
33 00:08:28.702 ⇒ 00:08:31.120 Jakob Kagel: And the largest was, of course.
34 00:08:31.490 ⇒ 00:08:33.750 Jakob Kagel: Dallas Zone one. It was about
35 00:08:34.150 ⇒ 00:08:46.560 Jakob Kagel: 2,300, I think, out of the 7,000 Texas shipments that could have shipped from Florida would be Dallas zone. One so like a really large chunk there as well.
36 00:08:47.430 ⇒ 00:08:48.070 Jakob Kagel: Okay, yeah.
37 00:08:48.302 ⇒ 00:08:48.999 Chuck Gross: Defense. Sorry. Yeah.
38 00:08:49.000 ⇒ 00:08:53.380 Jakob Kagel: Go any further. Yeah, exactly. Just wanted to see if there’s any any questions there.
39 00:08:53.520 ⇒ 00:08:55.369 Chuck Gross: Nope makes total sense.
40 00:08:55.990 ⇒ 00:08:56.930 Jakob Kagel: Okay?
41 00:08:58.360 ⇒ 00:09:03.674 Jakob Kagel: yeah. I mean, obviously, like, I think we did look at some of like the skews and stuff.
42 00:09:04.070 ⇒ 00:09:11.060 Jakob Kagel: when I looked at the split like that was shipping from New York. They could have shipped from Florida to Texas.
43 00:09:11.310 ⇒ 00:09:16.193 Jakob Kagel: Obviously, I think, like we discussed before, like brushes, were the largest
44 00:09:16.960 ⇒ 00:09:19.176 Jakob Kagel: like sort of product class.
45 00:09:19.650 ⇒ 00:09:37.300 Jakob Kagel: but we also did see that there was a number of these like black and decker, like the 2 HP, the 3 HP, and the 1.5 HP. Pumps. Those were like the 3 largest sort of non brush. Skews or product names. That we’re shipping to that area as well.
46 00:09:38.680 ⇒ 00:09:54.480 Chuck Gross: Right. Yup, then yep, makes sense. Yeah, those are the ones we’re focusing on for Unis, for now we might do the brushes there, too, but that involves packaging and picking, and it’s a little more complex for them to handle. That’s not just like a, you know. Stick a label on and ship it out. Kind of move.
47 00:09:54.790 ⇒ 00:09:57.110 Jakob Kagel: Right? Okay. Yeah, sounds good.
48 00:09:57.110 ⇒ 00:10:06.330 Chuck Gross: Yeah, I think we yeah, we we figured once we got all of the proper location set up and all the software. Then we could start expanding to more skews from there.
49 00:10:07.140 ⇒ 00:10:13.079 Jakob Kagel: Yeah, that sounds good. I think that was, you know, kind of the question that we had, of course, is like.
50 00:10:13.140 ⇒ 00:10:23.259 Jakob Kagel: you know, can every skew ship, from every warehouse. Or how does that kind of factor into the decision? But yeah, I mean, it sounds like
51 00:10:23.665 ⇒ 00:10:26.590 Jakob Kagel: you’re already sort of thinking ahead of us. There.
52 00:10:26.790 ⇒ 00:10:36.049 Chuck Gross: Yeah, and that and some of the other skews like, especially some of the new skews. You know, we still don’t have much sales data on. There’s a couple of items that are, you know, we sell
53 00:10:36.840 ⇒ 00:10:43.749 Chuck Gross: a couple 100 a year. So we have to try to figure out which ones are those we want to expand into these warehouses and stock in multiple spots.
54 00:10:44.490 ⇒ 00:10:45.420 Jakob Kagel: Right?
55 00:10:45.770 ⇒ 00:10:46.750 Jakob Kagel: Okay.
56 00:10:46.750 ⇒ 00:10:50.770 Chuck Gross: Oh, yeah, yeah, right now, definitely focusing on those 3 major pumps for now, definitely.
57 00:10:51.110 ⇒ 00:11:20.349 Jakob Kagel: Sounds good. Yeah. I mean, if it is of interest to you, too, I mean, I can. I can send over sort of the Excel. Documents like that are created to that you can, just if you are interested and want to sort of filter through it will have, like all the different splits from shipping provider to skews to, and and everything has ideal zone as well. So if that’s something that you’re interested in. I could shoot that over to you as well.
58 00:11:20.640 ⇒ 00:11:22.579 Chuck Gross: Oh, yeah, absolutely. I’ll definitely take a look at that.
59 00:11:22.580 ⇒ 00:11:27.726 Jakob Kagel: Sure. Okay, yeah, I’ll send that later. Today. I’ll just make sure everything is cleaned up.
60 00:11:29.240 ⇒ 00:11:46.059 Jakob Kagel: yeah, I think that’s about it, like, kind of from our end. Just wanted to see if there’s anything else. And of course to. I mean, maybe when you take a look you’ll have some more questions, or or or you know, if anything comes up. But yeah, I just wanted to sort of have a quick touch base on that.
61 00:11:46.300 ⇒ 00:11:51.429 Jakob Kagel: but I think everyone kinda is in alignment. I I mean on Dallas. Sounds like.
62 00:11:51.540 ⇒ 00:11:59.399 Jakob Kagel: you know, that that was sort of a little bit preconceived notion. And I think that we basically confirmed that with the data. So yeah.
63 00:11:59.400 ⇒ 00:12:01.000 Chuck Gross: Yup. Yeah, yeah, I agree.
64 00:12:03.370 ⇒ 00:12:04.616 Jakob Kagel: Sounds great.
65 00:12:05.700 ⇒ 00:12:08.790 Jakob Kagel: okay, Nico, is there anything else that.
66 00:12:08.790 ⇒ 00:12:19.270 Nicolas Sucari: No, just yeah. Just wanted to know that if that is something that we can agree on check. And if you want us to start communicating with Michael to start working on setting
67 00:12:19.280 ⇒ 00:12:22.879 Nicolas Sucari: that new warehouse in Dallas App, so that you can start using it.
68 00:12:23.170 ⇒ 00:12:41.150 Chuck Gross: Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. We should definitely get that going as soon as possible, because, you know, they’re still programming the California warehouse a month now, so I’d rather get the location set up and get all the programming set. So we’re ready for, because the the heater orders will start to pick up
69 00:12:41.330 ⇒ 00:12:45.680 Chuck Gross: soon, like end of August beginning of September, when it starts getting cooler routes.
70 00:12:45.720 ⇒ 00:12:52.909 Chuck Gross: So I really want to get I really want to get everything ironed out by, say, like September, one would be ideal, probably, like right before Labor Day.
71 00:12:53.640 ⇒ 00:13:06.239 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, perfect. I think we can. Yeah start sending all of the information to Michael and start working on setting that new that as warehouse up so that we can have it ready by September. And you can start using that. Okay.
72 00:13:06.240 ⇒ 00:13:08.019 Chuck Gross: Perfect. Yep, perfect. It sounds good.
73 00:13:08.480 ⇒ 00:13:21.169 Jakob Kagel: Awesome. Thanks so much. Well, yeah, really appreciate. Your help on this and yeah, we’ll, I’ll send over all the sort of raw data. Excel stuff just so that you have it. I’ll send that over later today.
74 00:13:21.640 ⇒ 00:13:23.080 Chuck Gross: Alright, cool sounds, good.
75 00:13:23.420 ⇒ 00:13:38.249 Nicolas Sucari: Just one more thing, Chuck. If you have some time, I would like to discuss a little bit on the Puerto Rico orders that you sent. I think it was yesterday or the day before. I looked into that orders, and they were already fulfilled. Is that right?
76 00:13:38.680 ⇒ 00:13:41.450 Chuck Gross: I fulfilled them at a Yap, Hank, because
77 00:13:41.580 ⇒ 00:13:47.540 Chuck Gross: those don’t tag as an order that should have been shipped out from Florida.
78 00:13:48.060 ⇒ 00:13:56.709 Chuck Gross: so I didn’t think anything of it. I see the 2 orders. I shipped the 2 orders out because it was Puerto Rico Puerto Rico. You have to ship with the postal service because they don’t have Fedex
79 00:13:57.000 ⇒ 00:14:01.839 Chuck Gross: ups there. It’s a pain in the bot, and we only sell those couple of skews there just because they’re high dollar items.
80 00:14:02.530 ⇒ 00:14:16.849 Chuck Gross: But then I got that email from Unis, saying, you know, 2 weeks later that they couldn’t ship these 2 orders out. So I just wasn’t sure how they got those 2 orders, because I know that those zip codes cause they’re like 0 0 6 and 0
81 00:14:17.240 ⇒ 00:14:21.289 Chuck Gross: or 0 9 or whatever I know that those aren’t in their Zip code file.
82 00:14:22.010 ⇒ 00:14:30.439 Nicolas Sucari: Okay, okay, yeah, we’re gonna take a look. Probably some of the integration or something fail there. So that’s why they are receiving those. It goes to ship. But yeah.
83 00:14:30.870 ⇒ 00:14:33.110 Nicolas Sucari: we’re gonna start digging into there. Yeah.
84 00:14:33.110 ⇒ 00:14:37.039 Chuck Gross: Yeah, I I just get nervous when they get stuff that I don’t expect.
85 00:14:37.320 ⇒ 00:14:39.229 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, that’s fine. No, my.
86 00:14:39.672 ⇒ 00:14:47.200 Uttam: Yeah, I I wonder if hey, I wonder? Yeah, there’s something wrong with the existing integration.
87 00:14:47.250 ⇒ 00:14:49.247 Uttam: But we can also ask them,
88 00:14:49.720 ⇒ 00:14:52.420 Uttam: just for records about those orders, about how they came in.
89 00:14:52.917 ⇒ 00:14:55.750 Uttam: I don’t know if we could also look at past Puerto Rico orders.
90 00:14:55.920 ⇒ 00:14:59.680 Uttam: cause I’m not sure if there have been, I mean, I assume there’ve been a couple
91 00:15:00.405 ⇒ 00:15:02.350 Uttam: and like, if they’ve made it through.
92 00:15:03.110 ⇒ 00:15:09.079 Chuck Gross: Yeah, it’s only been we we we, you know, we sell like one every like 2 weeks there, 3 weeks like, there’s not a lot.
93 00:15:09.100 ⇒ 00:15:18.890 Chuck Gross: But I was thinking, maybe we some, maybe something changed when California, when we sent the new sheet to California. Maybe it’s something there sparked to change.
94 00:15:23.130 ⇒ 00:15:24.050 Chuck Gross: Thanks.
95 00:15:24.050 ⇒ 00:15:24.760 Uttam: But look.
96 00:15:24.760 ⇒ 00:15:35.110 Chuck Gross: Yeah, it’s the only thing I could even think of, because we’ve sold the Puerto Rico before, and that’s the 1st time since January they’ve ever said anything about Puerto Rico. That’s why I didn’t think twice about it.
97 00:15:39.330 ⇒ 00:15:39.970 Nicolas Sucari: Okay.
98 00:15:40.180 ⇒ 00:15:46.470 Nicolas Sucari: yeah, definitely, we need to ask how they got those orders and try to see if there is an error on the integration or something.
99 00:15:46.790 ⇒ 00:15:56.950 Chuck Gross: Yeah, yeah, not a problem. That’s why it’s for for the for Puerto Rico. It’s just easier for me to ship those we charge the customer the shipping price like they don’t get free shipping. They pay for shipping, anyway.
100 00:15:57.270 ⇒ 00:16:00.680 Chuck Gross: Okay? So the you know, the high dollar shipping on there is kind of irrelevance.
101 00:16:01.970 ⇒ 00:16:11.680 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, perfect. No. My question was because when I went into shopify to try to look to the orders and see what happened, they were very fulfilled, and I didn’t get that by the email. But that’s fine, perfect.
102 00:16:11.950 ⇒ 00:16:12.990 Chuck Gross: Alright, no problem.
103 00:16:14.176 ⇒ 00:16:18.900 Uttam: Nico. Sorry I just came a little bit late. Where do we end up with the with the Dallas.
104 00:16:19.760 ⇒ 00:16:23.338 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah. So we just Jacob, just
105 00:16:23.930 ⇒ 00:16:31.290 Nicolas Sucari: said everything that we were doing on the analysis we are going to share with Chuck the Excel file that Jacob was using
106 00:16:31.568 ⇒ 00:16:38.820 Nicolas Sucari: so that he can take a look. And we can start sending an email to Mike to Michael yet start working on setting up that Dallas warehouse.
107 00:16:40.240 ⇒ 00:16:50.529 Uttam: Okay, cool. And I think, chuck, it’s just like we just probably have to get them a shipment over there. I’m basically gonna see if we can get Valley and Dallas online at the same time, because
108 00:16:50.810 ⇒ 00:16:54.330 Uttam: it’s gonna be a nightmare if we try to like, do both of them
109 00:16:54.370 ⇒ 00:16:57.570 Uttam: and separately, because they’re like so unresponsive.
110 00:16:57.939 ⇒ 00:17:06.920 Uttam: So that’s what we’re gonna try and get on the timing side. But I think we should just if once Chuck gives the okay, we should just tell Michael
111 00:17:07.230 ⇒ 00:17:10.609 Uttam: that we’re good to move forward dial so he can get us a contract.
112 00:17:11.300 ⇒ 00:17:15.140 Chuck Gross: Yeah, I said, it was fine. I think we should get moving on, Dallas, you know, today.
113 00:17:15.260 ⇒ 00:17:17.119 Chuck Gross: And then once we sign the
114 00:17:17.510 ⇒ 00:17:30.100 Chuck Gross: papers, we’ll get them a little beginning inventory like we sent to California. Then maybe we can just get all of the software ready for California and Dallas and Jacksonville and here. So it’s like one fell swoop, and we just get everything going.
115 00:17:30.540 ⇒ 00:17:33.262 Uttam: Yeah, exactly like, I’m really tired of talking to you guys.
116 00:17:33.510 ⇒ 00:17:35.730 Chuck Gross: I know. So, yeah, so am I.
117 00:17:35.760 ⇒ 00:17:37.330 Chuck Gross: Yeah, okay, perfect.
118 00:17:37.850 ⇒ 00:17:38.670 Uttam: Alright, all.
119 00:17:39.940 ⇒ 00:17:46.049 Nicolas Sucari: Okay. Great I don’t know if we have something else to discuss with Chuck Uzum. But
120 00:17:46.598 ⇒ 00:17:53.290 Nicolas Sucari: if not, I think we can get started with that dollar stuff. And yeah, continue digging on the Puerto Rico orders.
121 00:17:53.640 ⇒ 00:18:01.720 Uttam: Yeah, I know. Chuck. There, we just have 2. We have this, this, the unleash stuff that’s still outstanding. We have them like noted down and just
122 00:18:01.810 ⇒ 00:18:07.989 Uttam: wanted to close out this Dallas thing. And it’s probably something we can start working on soon.
123 00:18:08.540 ⇒ 00:18:08.890 Chuck Gross: Okay.
124 00:18:09.242 ⇒ 00:18:17.697 Uttam: And the pro issue. So that’s just gonna require, probably like a bare hug with without me. So don’t didn’t wanna like
125 00:18:18.320 ⇒ 00:18:19.729 Uttam: add that to the plate.
126 00:18:20.530 ⇒ 00:18:25.570 Chuck Gross: Yeah, no, no, no, that’s fine like that. We can get that done. We get that done. That’s there’s no real rush on that.
127 00:18:25.570 ⇒ 00:18:26.890 Uttam: Okay. Okay. Cool.
128 00:18:29.260 ⇒ 00:18:30.000 Nicolas Sucari: Perfect.
129 00:18:30.160 ⇒ 00:18:31.010 Nicolas Sucari: Okay.
130 00:18:31.603 ⇒ 00:18:35.720 Nicolas Sucari: thank you very much, Chuck. We will be talking soon. Okay.
131 00:18:35.720 ⇒ 00:18:36.950 Chuck Gross: Thank you. Guys have a good one.
132 00:18:36.950 ⇒ 00:18:37.710 Uttam: Thanks guys.
133 00:18:37.710 ⇒ 00:18:39.310 Jakob Kagel: Everyone have a great day. Bye, bye.
134 00:18:39.310 ⇒ 00:18:39.990 Chuck Gross: That.