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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 856436" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>And yet, 99% of the time, the center manager would be the person <em>most</em> qualified to decide how many stops should be on each car in his operation.</p><p></p><p>UPS should try an experiment. For one month, determine the average cost-per-piece for each center using the current idiotic method of remotely micromanaging stops-per-car.</p><p></p><p>Then on the <em>next</em> month....give the center manager his balls back. Let <em>him</em> decide how many routes to dispatch, based upon his own initiative, logic, area knowledge and common sense. Challenge him to beat the micromanagers at their own game.</p><p></p><p>The two months would ideally be in mid-summer, to eliminate variables such as peak season and winter weather and create a direct apples-to-apples comparison of cost-per-piece. </p><p></p><p><strong>I will bet my last dollar that the center managers would beat the micromanaging cubicle dwellers every damn time.</strong> UPS would be far more efficient <em>and</em> profitable if it allowed local decision-making.</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately, such an experiment will never be allowed. Those in authority are well aware of the truth, but that truth is a threat to the status quo that they so desperately need to maintain in order to hang on to their spots at the corporate trough.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 856436, member: 14668"] And yet, 99% of the time, the center manager would be the person [I]most[/I] qualified to decide how many stops should be on each car in his operation. UPS should try an experiment. For one month, determine the average cost-per-piece for each center using the current idiotic method of remotely micromanaging stops-per-car. Then on the [I]next[/I] month....give the center manager his balls back. Let [I]him[/I] decide how many routes to dispatch, based upon his own initiative, logic, area knowledge and common sense. Challenge him to beat the micromanagers at their own game. The two months would ideally be in mid-summer, to eliminate variables such as peak season and winter weather and create a direct apples-to-apples comparison of cost-per-piece. [B]I will bet my last dollar that the center managers would beat the micromanaging cubicle dwellers every damn time.[/B] UPS would be far more efficient [I]and[/I] profitable if it allowed local decision-making. Unfortunately, such an experiment will never be allowed. Those in authority are well aware of the truth, but that truth is a threat to the status quo that they so desperately need to maintain in order to hang on to their spots at the corporate trough. [/QUOTE]
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