Orion. Center Manager losing his mind.

[dudebro]

So while digging for my 9th stop on my 7400 shelf on Friday, here's my 2 points on losing RDO and getting the turn by turn maps. Since UPS is all about the numbers.....All hypothetical just like every number at UPS.

Point 1. Say ORION is great and saves 10 miles per route per day. Gas averages at $3/gallon and we save 1.5 gallons of gas per route per day. That's a savings of $4.50. But labor increases 1 hr per day to dig for packages at an average OT rate of $40/hr.

Loss per route: $36.50 / day.

Weekly increase in cost on a 50-route center per week: $9,125.00 Dollars

Putting 60,000 drivers in the USA per week: $10,950,000 ADDED COST PER WEEK

Point 2. Turn by turn maps and directions are coming per my center manager very soon. What no one has mentioned is that if you skip stops / scroll down to do things efficiently and make service - THE MAP DIRECTIONS KEEP TELLING YOU TO GO TO THE STOP AT THE TOP OF THE DIAD!!! You can never hit a stop and then keep going without following exact ORION trace. This is truly asinine.

So the solution to Point 1 is to load the car in ODO, and point 2 is for ODO to be somewhat dynamic - upon stop complete it reruns the solution for remaining stops. The trick to this is, the solution in point 2 will have to be pretty close to the original one or the driver will STILL be searching for packages out of sequence order, or, the driver simply has to live with the original ODO.

The bottom line is the ability to run a route correctly needs to be socialized across the company and not solely in the head of one or two individuals. Also, as you add services and delivery customization, the routes will become more complex, change on a daily basis, and the routines good drivers use won't apply anyway.

The company will have to gamble that the money they spend in the transition will be worth everyone's time when (if) the solution works like it's supposed to and revenue continues to rise.

One thing we know we can't do, is just "leave everything alone" in RDO and be complacent. Other companies will eventually beat us at customization and win the business in that case.

The market is changing to where customers, right or wrong, will expect a motorcycle to come up next to an Uber they're riding in and hand their package through the open car window because they bought a Panic! at the Disco ticket and couldn't be home that day.

 

[MECH-lift]

I don’t follow orion .....ORION FOLLOWS ME

 

[Poop Head]

we know we can't do, is just "leave everything alone" in RDO and be complacent. Other companies will eventually beat us at customization and win the business in that case.

What if, instead of all the $$, time, and energy the company has put into Orion, they relooped everything, and spent some money on the outdated/overwhelmed infrastructure we have throughout the country?


Maybe because it doesn't sound as sexy to Wall Street peoples?

 

[MECH-lift]

outdated/overwhelmed infrastructure we have throughout the country?

Or a new truck once in awhile , they talk about safety but I feel the most unsafe when I’m driving the thing waiting for it to blow up and burn my whole body...

 

[UrFellowUpser]

Center manager = never drove a package car

Mines did and he admitted that he was a runner lol maybe thats why hes a manager now

 

[Maplewood]

I had to bring work back. A ten hour day took 14 hours and I didn't finish going Strictly Orion, and had late NDA. The next day I was told to never use Orion again. I asked for that in writing but the chicken manager wouldn't. Thank god I am no longer a stock holder in this finger-.

 

[UrFellowUpser]

I follow Orion all the time only just to make my check bigger

 

[Heavy Package]

One thing we know we can't do, is just "leave everything alone" in RDO and be complacent. Other companies will eventually beat us at customization and win the business in that case.

UPS could have licensed many other products out there and saved literally hundreds of millions of dollars - all without the added headache of this massive boondoggle.

The cars needed to be loaded in ODO now so that delivery load matches more closely to delivery order. Basic concept. FYI I don't need the turn by turn directions until after both of these things happen first. And obviously drivers who know the route can at east turn that function off.

UPS thinks delivering packages is rocket science. It isn't. The post office has been doing it since Benjamin Franklin started it up.

 

[Wally]

Lots of ODO crying around here. If drivers survived before EDD, I sure you snowflakes will survive using ODO.

 

[Box Ox]

Mines did and he admitted that he was a runner lol maybe thats why hes a manager now

Yep. Break down physically and have to go that route.

 

[Box Ox]

Lots of ODO crying around here. If drivers survived before EDD, I sure you snowflakes will survive using ODO.
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Tell me about the old timers’ 250 stops and long days.

 

[1989]

UPS could have licensed many other products out there and saved literally hundreds of millions of dollars - all without the added headache of this massive boondoggle.

The cars needed to be loaded in ODO now so that delivery load matches more closely to delivery order. Basic concept. FYI I don't need the turn by turn directions until after both of these things happen first. And obviously drivers who know the route can at east turn that function off.

UPS thinks delivering packages is rocket science. It isn't. The post office has been doing it since Benjamin Franklin started it up.

It is where I am.

 

[Wally]

Tell me about the old timers’ 250 stops and long days.

No EDD, no real stop count. Get er' done!

 

[Box Ox]

No EDD, no real stop count. Get er' done!

Now give ‘em 250 stops in a blown out PC. Still fine?

 

[1989]

No EDD, no real stop count. Get er' done!

If no sequence numbers on pkgs. fire the preloader.

 

[vvv]

I had to bring work back. A ten hour day took 14 hours and I didn't finish going Strictly Orion, and had late NDA. The next day I was told to never use Orion again. I asked for that in writing but the chicken manager wouldn't. Thank god I am no longer a stock holder in this finger-.

That's precious.......nice work mate!

 

[Wally]

Now give ‘em 250 stops in a blown out PC. Still fine?

No whining. Lol

 

[Box Ox]

No whining. Lol

Not whining. Just asking.

 

[Wally]

Not whining. Just asking.

Doesn't really matter. We both do our 13 hours and head in. 13 hours now is less stressful. I would never go back.

 

[ManInBrown]

I hope feeders doesn’t get Orion. Would really suck to have to do my 4 stops per day in a different order