ask an IE anything

[oldngray]

You say it is profitable. But how much did it cost?

Creative accounting?

 

[Ou812fu]

Creative accounting?

Waiting for a response. I know it will take a little bit. Definitely will not like the response

 

[RTS313]

You say it is profitable. But how much did it cost?

Costing $250 million to build and deploy, ORION is expected to save UPS $300 to $400 million annually. By building efficient routes and reducing the miles driven and fuel consumption, ORION contributes to UPS’s sustainability efforts by reducing 100,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions.

Motivated by a perfectionist view, the ORION project is the result of a long-term operational technology investment and commitment by UPS. ORION was more than a decade in the making from the initial development of the algorithm to full deployment to nearly 55,000 routes in North America. 2013 marked the first major ORION deployment by a team of 500 dedicated resources to roll out ORION to 10,000 UPS routes. As results exceeded expectations, UPS sped up the U.S. deployment and completed it by the fall of 2016.

Today, ORION can solve an individual route in seconds and is constantly running in the background evaluating routes before drivers even leave the facility. This level of route evaluation conducted through the ORION program requires extensive hardware and architectural provisions. Running on a bank of servers in Mahwah, New Jersey, ORION is constantly evaluating the best way for a route to run based on real-time information. While most of America is sleeping, ORION is solving tens of thousands of route optimizations per minute. In addition to architectural enhancements, the driver’s delivery information acquisition device (DIAD) is enhanced to serve as the tool for communicating optimized routes to drivers while on the road (Paterson, 2018).

 

[Ou812fu]

Costing $250 million to build and deploy, ORION is expected to save UPS $300 to $400 million annually. By building efficient routes and reducing the miles driven and fuel consumption, ORION contributes to UPS’s sustainability efforts by reducing 100,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions.

Motivated by a perfectionist view, the ORION project is the result of a long-term operational technology investment and commitment by UPS. ORION was more than a decade in the making from the initial development of the algorithm to full deployment to nearly 55,000 routes in North America. 2013 marked the first major ORION deployment by a team of 500 dedicated resources to roll out ORION to 10,000 UPS routes. As results exceeded expectations, UPS sped up the U.S. deployment and completed it by the fall of 2016.

Today, ORION can solve an individual route in seconds and is constantly running in the background evaluating routes before drivers even leave the facility. This level of route evaluation conducted through the ORION program requires extensive hardware and architectural provisions. Running on a bank of servers in Mahwah, New Jersey, ORION is constantly evaluating the best way for a route to run based on real-time information. While most of America is sleeping, ORION is solving tens of thousands of route optimizations per minute. In addition to architectural enhancements, the driver’s delivery information acquisition device (DIAD) is enhanced to serve as the tool for communicating optimized routes to drivers while on the road (Paterson, 2018).

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UPS Careers

UPS careers through Orion Talent

www.oriontalent.com

What's the cost of this team?

 

[Commercial Inside Release]

Operations management like to hand down to the lower levels the opinion that "...it is our operation, and they* work for us..."

*mechanics, IE, facilities, FEEDERS, etc...

 

[oldngray]

Costing $250 million to build and deploy, ORION is expected to save UPS $300 to $400 million annually. By building efficient routes and reducing the miles driven and fuel consumption, ORION contributes to UPS’s sustainability efforts by reducing 100,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions.

Motivated by a perfectionist view, the ORION project is the result of a long-term operational technology investment and commitment by UPS. ORION was more than a decade in the making from the initial development of the algorithm to full deployment to nearly 55,000 routes in North America. 2013 marked the first major ORION deployment by a team of 500 dedicated resources to roll out ORION to 10,000 UPS routes. As results exceeded expectations, UPS sped up the U.S. deployment and completed it by the fall of 2016.

Today, ORION can solve an individual route in seconds and is constantly running in the background evaluating routes before drivers even leave the facility. This level of route evaluation conducted through the ORION program requires extensive hardware and architectural provisions. Running on a bank of servers in Mahwah, New Jersey, ORION is constantly evaluating the best way for a route to run based on real-time information. While most of America is sleeping, ORION is solving tens of thousands of route optimizations per minute. In addition to architectural enhancements, the driver’s delivery information acquisition device (DIAD) is enhanced to serve as the tool for communicating optimized routes to drivers while on the road (Paterson, 2018).

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Looks like a press release padded to book length.

 

[Ou812fu]

Looks like a press release padded to book length.

Read this one. You'll see the malarkey that some of these people believe.

Paid Program: The Algorithm Behind UPS’s ORION Technology

 

[burrheadd]

That's an interesting statement.

I can't tell you.. how many times.. the operational people throw IE under the bus when they are getting

their asses kicked in grievance hearings. According to them.... IE dictates everything.

I’ve been in the room 10 minutes before start time when IE calls and says cut X number of routes you aren’t gonna make stops per car
center manager broke the phone he slammed it down so hard
Starting to think the cat stalker is FOS

 

[Ou812fu]

Costing $250 million to build and deploy, ORION is expected to save UPS $300 to $400 million annually. By building efficient routes and reducing the miles driven and fuel consumption, ORION contributes to UPS’s sustainability efforts by reducing 100,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions.

Motivated by a perfectionist view, the ORION project is the result of a long-term operational technology investment and commitment by UPS. ORION was more than a decade in the making from the initial development of the algorithm to full deployment to nearly 55,000 routes in North America. 2013 marked the first major ORION deployment by a team of 500 dedicated resources to roll out ORION to 10,000 UPS routes. As results exceeded expectations, UPS sped up the U.S. deployment and completed it by the fall of 2016.

Today, ORION can solve an individual route in seconds and is constantly running in the background evaluating routes before drivers even leave the facility. This level of route evaluation conducted through the ORION program requires extensive hardware and architectural provisions. Running on a bank of servers in Mahwah, New Jersey, ORION is constantly evaluating the best way for a route to run based on real-time information. While most of America is sleeping, ORION is solving tens of thousands of route optimizations per minute. In addition to architectural enhancements, the driver’s delivery information acquisition device (DIAD) is enhanced to serve as the tool for communicating optimized routes to drivers while on the road (Paterson, 2018).

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RION is expected to save UPS $300 to $400 million.
Keyword expected. They have never realized anywhere close to that. There has never truly been a public number of savings for the program. It has always been speculation. The use of words like, we believe, possible projected. Never a statement of this programs complete savings have been x amount of dollars from the company.

 

[catstalking]

You say it is profitable. But how much did it cost?

i don't know i wasn't on that project; my point is i've seen enough projects seemingly be locked in as the future of the company, lose a cent, and be canned overnight to know ORION is only as sacred as it's profitable

 

[catstalking]

Operations management like to hand down to the lower levels the opinion that "...it is our operation, and they* work for us..."

*mechanics, IE, facilities, FEEDERS, etc...

yes, except for feeders, everyone bows before them

 

[catstalking]

I’ve been in the room 10 minutes before start time when IE calls

we plan 2-4 weeks out, the day-of is totally out of our hands

and says cut X number of routes you aren’t gonna make stops per car
center manager broke the phone he slammed it down so hard
Starting to think the cat stalker is FOS

you're either making it up or it wasn't IE

 

[catstalking]

I’ve been in the room 10 minutes before start time when IE calls and says cut X number of routes you aren’t gonna make stops per car
center manager broke the phone he slammed it down so hard
Starting to think the cat stalker is FOS

this is also totally bull on several other levels:

• IE doesn't really care about SPC, we care about Plan Day; SPC is a metric the ops managers use because its simpler and easier to enforce
• the idea a manager wouldn't know his own SPC hours before an IE is laughably stupid
• the idea an IE would know or give a what the SPC for each of their 20-40 centers is laughably stupid
• the idea an IE SUPERVISOR could give an instruction to a MANAGER for an operational decision is laughably stupid
  • or in the case of an IE manager, you're telling me he'd jump over two entire levels of command to talk to 50-100ish centers and micromanage their route levels, all an hour before dispatch when they're on like 2-3 other calls? laughably stupid

you're either a huge liar, or a gigantic rube who believed your manager hook line and sinker

 

[catstalking]

RION is expected to save UPS $300 to $400 million.
Keyword expected. They have never realized anywhere close to that. There has never truly been a public number of savings for the program. It has always been speculation. The use of words like, we believe, possible projected. Never a statement of this programs complete savings have been x amount of dollars from the company.

it didn't save as much as projected, but it was still a winner so it was kept

 

[pkgdriver]

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we plan 2-4 weeks out, the day-of is totally out of our hands


you're either making it up or it wasn't IE

Ive seen similar quite a few times. Who was on the phone? Dunno?
Ops manager,Division manager or I.E. Who knows.

 

[catstalking]

Ive seen similar quite a few times. Who was on the phone? Dunno?
Ops manager,

10% chance

Division manager

90% chance

or I.E. Who knows.

0%

i would know because i've slammed some phones down myself, it was literally the DM every time and it had nothing to do with IE

 

[burrheadd]

this is also totally bull on several other levels:

• IE doesn't really care about SPC, we care about Plan Day; SPC is a metric the ops managers use because its simpler and easier to enforce
• the idea a manager wouldn't know his own SPC hours before an IE is laughably stupid
• the idea an IE would know or give a what the SPC for each of their 20-40 centers is laughably stupid
• the idea an IE SUPERVISOR could give an instruction to a MANAGER for an operational decision is laughably stupid
  • or in the case of an IE manager, you're telling me he'd jump over two entire levels of command to talk to 50-100ish centers and micromanage their route levels, all an hour before dispatch when they're on like 2-3 other calls? laughably stupid

you're either a huge liar, or a gigantic rube who believed your manager hook line and sinker

 

[catstalking]

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yeah i admit it, it's so outlandishly false i can't help it

 

[Coldworld]

yes, except for feeders, everyone bows before them

Been in feeders for years and learned very early on that both feeder drivers and feeder mgt don’t take from anyone except other feeders. They consider themselves “Hub and Feeder” and could care less about some scrub mgr in package or another company work group.

 

[Coldworld]

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She going to strip again out by the corrals???