Bumps and Triumphs on the Road to Optimization at UPS
Big Ideas
You don’t have to make big changes to significantly improve the bottom line. Embedding analytics within processes helps achieve this.
Examine your business paradigms and rules and be willing to break them. What works well for current modeling efforts may not work well for more advanced efforts.
The effort to build analytics and models is dwarfed by the deployment effort. Do not underestimate the time and effort required for deployment.
What is analytically and technically feasible is not
