O.R. In UPS Package Delivery/Pickup Operations
UPS continues to use O.R. to enhance its award-winning Package Flow Technology (PFT), a technology suite UPS utilizes to optimize sortation, dispatch planning and delivery in its small package operation. By leveraging address and map data, customer data and real-time GPS and by integrating O.R. algorithms into PFT, UPS is testing O.R. algorithms that will provide real-time guidance to drivers in order to service customers in the most cost-effective manner.
UPS is testing this new on-road integrated optimization and navigation system in several locations around the United States. The O.R. algorithm balances optimality and consistency to provide a solution that should drive cost efficiencies while meeting service and customer commitments.