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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 830251" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>Will ORIAN be able to comprehend the fact that your route (that <em>should</em> be loaded in a P-10) has instead been forced into a P-7 which requires you to deliver the bulk that is clogging up the middle of the package compartment before you can get anything done?</p><p> </p><p>Will ORIAN be familiar with the schools on your particular route so that you can avoid delivering to them at the same time that the students are all being dismissed? Will it be "smart" enough to keep you from getting stuck behind a school bus that stops at every 5th house for 10 miles ?</p><p> </p><p>Will ORIAN know which driver in your loop has an 8 hr request that will require you to meet him and take his remaining stops at 5:00, and will it plan for that contingency?</p><p> </p><p>Will ORIAN know which roads get plowed and which ones are impossible to drive on until the snow melts?</p><p> </p><p>Will ORIAN know which businesses have a shift change at 3:00 so that you dont get stuck in the parking lot behind 200 employees who are all trying to leave at the same time?</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>I suspect that the answers to these questions are "no". Which is fine....as long as the driver with years of area knowledge is <em>still allowed</em> to use common sense in order to deal with the variables. Unfortunately, common sense has little or no relevance in the metrics-obsessed cult of UPS management. Whatever benefits ORIAN might have to offer will be offset by the absurd lengths that operations management will go to in order to generate whatever metric Corporate is demanding.</p><p> </p><p>The system wont fail. We will fail the system.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 830251, member: 14668"] Will ORIAN be able to comprehend the fact that your route (that [I]should[/I] be loaded in a P-10) has instead been forced into a P-7 which requires you to deliver the bulk that is clogging up the middle of the package compartment before you can get anything done? Will ORIAN be familiar with the schools on your particular route so that you can avoid delivering to them at the same time that the students are all being dismissed? Will it be "smart" enough to keep you from getting stuck behind a school bus that stops at every 5th house for 10 miles ? Will ORIAN know which driver in your loop has an 8 hr request that will require you to meet him and take his remaining stops at 5:00, and will it plan for that contingency? Will ORIAN know which roads get plowed and which ones are impossible to drive on until the snow melts? Will ORIAN know which businesses have a shift change at 3:00 so that you dont get stuck in the parking lot behind 200 employees who are all trying to leave at the same time? I suspect that the answers to these questions are "no". Which is fine....as long as the driver with years of area knowledge is [I]still allowed[/I] to use common sense in order to deal with the variables. Unfortunately, common sense has little or no relevance in the metrics-obsessed cult of UPS management. Whatever benefits ORIAN might have to offer will be offset by the absurd lengths that operations management will go to in order to generate whatever metric Corporate is demanding. The system wont fail. We will fail the system. [/QUOTE]
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