The names for the lists came about after I proposed the use of names for the lists when I joined the Philips Projection team.
Before that, the lists sent to the forwarders just referred to the amount of pieces they allocated. That probably works just fine in logistics, but I couldn’t wrap my head around it. Before that I had started calling the pre-notification lists List 1, List 2, List 3 on the forum, so when I proposed this to PhilipsNono and The Listmaker, they agreed, and it made our communication instantly better. What I wasn’t counting on though was for the updates to be incremental on the same file. I was hoping we would just release a new List 4, List 5, etc. Instead we ended up updating List 3 with extra backers. No problem, people could still find themselves, the whole list was gonna ship.
Fast forward to yesterday. I got the updates from the meeting our representative had with the forwarders. They gave an update about the shipments by using the piece count for the lists. Now I had a problem: I couldn’t expect backers to count or find l some other way to figure out when their units might ship. So I decided to add a column to the sheet, and put the internal name of the lists in it, hoping this could give a sense of which batch we were referring to.
But as I said two posts ago, the forwarders might have some Amy, Laurent, Jordan, and Betty all together in one flight to the EU for instance, because Betty, Jordan, Laurent and Amy all have units still in their warehouse.
So that name is telling you something, but it might also mean nothing in the actual process of getting your pledge to you.