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<blockquote data-quote="ArcherUTR" data-source="post: 1603544" data-attributes="member: 53175">ORION cares only about miles and nothing else. It is bounded by pickup windows and business closures and guided by your time allowance. The traveling salesman problem is intractable, meaning you can&#039;t use computers to find the absolute solution. So it must use an ad-hoc method to find an imperfect solution. In this case it uses smaller &#039;cluster&#039; (smaller problem sets, smaller sections of DOL) solving smaller problems and piecing them together and then solving that larger set of clusters and so on.In layman&#039;s terms, computers cannot solve this problem so they use mathematical and logical shortcuts to get a &#039;good&#039; solution. Depending on all the daily variables this may work, it may not. It also makes flat out mistakes.A well trained, safe, and responsible blows the doors off ORION. ORION is a good tool and will only get better. But it will not save this company and in the end because of a lack of good implementation and feedback, it will fail because management wants to cram it down driver&#039;s throats and fire them because it doesn&#039;t work.The end.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ArcherUTR, post: 1603544, member: 53175"] ORION cares only about miles and nothing else. It is bounded by pickup windows and business closures and guided by your time allowance. The traveling salesman problem is intractable, meaning you can't use computers to find the absolute solution. So it must use an ad-hoc method to find an imperfect solution. In this case it uses smaller 'cluster' (smaller problem sets, smaller sections of DOL) solving smaller problems and piecing them together and then solving that larger set of clusters and so on. In layman's terms, computers cannot solve this problem so they use mathematical and logical shortcuts to get a 'good' solution. Depending on all the daily variables this may work, it may not. It also makes flat out mistakes. A well trained, safe, and responsible blows the doors off ORION. ORION is a good tool and will only get better. But it will not save this company and in the end because of a lack of good implementation and feedback, it will fail because management wants to cram it down driver's throats and fire them because it doesn't work. The end. [/QUOTE]

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