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UPS’s $20 Billion Problem: Operations Stuck in the 20th Century
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 3779879" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><strong>UPS’s $20 Billion Problem: Operations Stuck in the 20th Century- Wall Street Journal</strong></p><p></p><p><em>As the package giant tries to satisfy America’s 21st-century shopping-and-shipping mania, it is striving to bring its delivery network out of a past era </em></p><p></p><p>In the sticky Southern heat, hundreds of workers streamed in for the 11 a.m. shift last month at [United Parcel Service Inc.’s local package-sorting facility, one of dozens nationwide that help it move millions of parcels daily.</p><p></p><p>In a windowless room, a 30-year-old analog control panel about the size of a chest freezer monitors operations, with rows of green and red lights indicating when something goes awry in the building’s web of conveyor belts.</p><p></p><p>“Thirty years ago, this was top-notch,” UPS plant engineering manager Dean Britt said of the control panel. Today, the panel’s computing capabilities “can probably fit on your phone,” he said, “and not even a good phone.”</p><p></p><p>The site, and other similar UPS facilities, haven’t automated much over decades—despite <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/fully-autonomous-robots-the-warehouse-workers-of-the-near-future-1474383024?mod=article_inline" target="_blank">a rush of new warehouse technology </a>in many industries. Today, the company is paying a price.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 3779879, member: 1"] [B]UPS’s $20 Billion Problem: Operations Stuck in the 20th Century- Wall Street Journal[/B] [I]As the package giant tries to satisfy America’s 21st-century shopping-and-shipping mania, it is striving to bring its delivery network out of a past era [/I] In the sticky Southern heat, hundreds of workers streamed in for the 11 a.m. shift last month at [United Parcel Service Inc.’s local package-sorting facility, one of dozens nationwide that help it move millions of parcels daily. In a windowless room, a 30-year-old analog control panel about the size of a chest freezer monitors operations, with rows of green and red lights indicating when something goes awry in the building’s web of conveyor belts. “Thirty years ago, this was top-notch,” UPS plant engineering manager Dean Britt said of the control panel. Today, the panel’s computing capabilities “can probably fit on your phone,” he said, “and not even a good phone.” The site, and other similar UPS facilities, haven’t automated much over decades—despite [URL='https://www.wsj.com/articles/fully-autonomous-robots-the-warehouse-workers-of-the-near-future-1474383024?mod=article_inline']a rush of new warehouse technology [/URL]in many industries. Today, the company is paying a price. [/QUOTE]
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