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Have you heard of the Orion System, what do you know?
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<blockquote data-quote="BrownArmy" data-source="post: 1101916" data-attributes="member: 18225"><p>I'm not sure there is an intellectual response...</p><p></p><p>Whatever the math-heads are cooking up looks absolutely brilliant on paper, but will only take you to a certain point...unless NASA or DARPA decide to let UPS use their supercomputers, ORION is an SAT exercise with a neat answer.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I love your posts P-man, but over 75% of the trucks in my center are 'blown-out'. It's been Peak for about three years (at least during the real Peak the delivery area tightens up and I get a helper...). We routinely have drivers going out with 250+ stops, and these are the 'split' cars...the regular routes are hammered.</p><p></p><p>The DOL's in my center are more or less OK, I'd say about 85% of the way toward awesomeness...I'm a cover driver so I see most of them. The drivers in my center have very excellent suggestions as to changing certain things in the listings here or there, but it never happens, perhaps because the dispatch guy is WAY to busy with the endless add-cuts to properly go in and change the multiple instances over different route configurations. </p><p></p><p>Really simple changes, like removing schools/churches/businesses in resi-sections from the 8000 section (which always gets cut...love showing up to my second town at 1800 with a pkg for a school <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/FeltTip/knockedout.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":knockedout:" title="Knockedout :knockedout:" data-shortname=":knockedout:" />), reordering house-number rankings for one-way streets, removing that one dick house number which is actually on a dead-end across the major road which bisects two routes, etc. Dispatch guy simply doesn't have the time to go in and make these simple changes across %$^ different route plans.</p><p></p><p>(The other day, after add-cutting, I practically high-fived another driver on-route, as we both had pkgs for the same streets, same section: on one street, I had 76, he had 78 and 74...on another street, I had 31, he had 25, 7 and 3. I realize this must be the result of some sloppy mouse clicks, but if this is what they're going to build ORION on, in my center, I don't predict a smashing success)</p><p></p><p>Having said all that, I embrace technological advances, and they all have to start somewhere. I'm a fairly new driver (only five years in), and I started on DIAD 4. I'm sure drivers bitched when the move was made from paper to DIAD 1. I'm sure we'll bitch when we move from DIAD 4 to DIAD 5, and then new routines will set in and we'll be fine. Look, us drivers are just going to bitch. ORION is a great idea, and it's a starting point. </p><p></p><p>But some of our bitching is for a reason. EDD/PAS was in play when I started at UPS, and like I said, as a center we're probably 85% implemented. It works as well as it does, which must be well enough: my guess is that the pain of climbing closer to 100% is somehow higher than the constant pains of only being at 85%.</p><p></p><p>The initial implementation of ORION will only be as good as the foundations it's built upon.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BrownArmy, post: 1101916, member: 18225"] I'm not sure there is an intellectual response... Whatever the math-heads are cooking up looks absolutely brilliant on paper, but will only take you to a certain point...unless NASA or DARPA decide to let UPS use their supercomputers, ORION is an SAT exercise with a neat answer. I love your posts P-man, but over 75% of the trucks in my center are 'blown-out'. It's been Peak for about three years (at least during the real Peak the delivery area tightens up and I get a helper...). We routinely have drivers going out with 250+ stops, and these are the 'split' cars...the regular routes are hammered. The DOL's in my center are more or less OK, I'd say about 85% of the way toward awesomeness...I'm a cover driver so I see most of them. The drivers in my center have very excellent suggestions as to changing certain things in the listings here or there, but it never happens, perhaps because the dispatch guy is WAY to busy with the endless add-cuts to properly go in and change the multiple instances over different route configurations. Really simple changes, like removing schools/churches/businesses in resi-sections from the 8000 section (which always gets cut...love showing up to my second town at 1800 with a pkg for a school :knockedout:), reordering house-number rankings for one-way streets, removing that one dick house number which is actually on a dead-end across the major road which bisects two routes, etc. Dispatch guy simply doesn't have the time to go in and make these simple changes across %$^ different route plans. (The other day, after add-cutting, I practically high-fived another driver on-route, as we both had pkgs for the same streets, same section: on one street, I had 76, he had 78 and 74...on another street, I had 31, he had 25, 7 and 3. I realize this must be the result of some sloppy mouse clicks, but if this is what they're going to build ORION on, in my center, I don't predict a smashing success) Having said all that, I embrace technological advances, and they all have to start somewhere. I'm a fairly new driver (only five years in), and I started on DIAD 4. I'm sure drivers bitched when the move was made from paper to DIAD 1. I'm sure we'll bitch when we move from DIAD 4 to DIAD 5, and then new routines will set in and we'll be fine. Look, us drivers are just going to bitch. ORION is a great idea, and it's a starting point. But some of our bitching is for a reason. EDD/PAS was in play when I started at UPS, and like I said, as a center we're probably 85% implemented. It works as well as it does, which must be well enough: my guess is that the pain of climbing closer to 100% is somehow higher than the constant pains of only being at 85%. The initial implementation of ORION will only be as good as the foundations it's built upon. [/QUOTE]
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