"The boom in e-commerce means UPS now delivers as many as 31 million packages a day. Keeping track of all that is an immensely difficult problem."
"EDGE uses data across UPS facilities to plan everything from how workers place packages inside delivery trucks in the morning to how the vast army of temporary hires that UPS recruits during the busy holiday season are trained. Eventually, data will even dictate when UPS vehicles get washed. This includes Preload Smart Scan addressing concerns of incorrectly loaded packages and re-routing of drivers." According to UPS, "EDGE helps us share real-time data across operations to improve real-time decision-making, use data to locate every operations asset instantly, utilize mobile tools in our operations to provide real-time information to our team and optimize our operating plans to reduce cost. And, of course, EDGE continues to make our logistics network smarter."
The company claims: * Expected savings of USD$200m in operating costs * Expected to cut down incorrectly loaded package errors by 70%