logistics adventures in operations research intermodal asset management
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Logistics Adventures
in
Operations Research
Intermodal Asset Management
Railcar Supply and Distribution
Repositioning Rail controlled domestic containers
Domestic Chassis forecasting and Utilization
Train and Terminal Capacity Management
Intermodal Applications
For Analytics
Sense of urgency
Sense of urgency
Burning Platform
• Legacy Systems– Multiple systems– No visibility to inventory– Systems don’t “Talk” to each
other– No Analytic Capabilities
• Forecasts• Storage• Entitlement
• Growth– Increased Volumes– Additional Terminals
In today’s competitive environment, manual asset
management is a recipe for failure
Mainframe
Excel Spreadsheets Email
Network Optimization
Workstation
NOW
YESYard Enterprise System
UmlerBOBJ
VoIP
Intermodal Railcar Management (IRM)
Operations Research Regional/ Terminal ManagersAsset
ManagersCustomer Service Network Operations
Form a Coalition
Create a guiding coalition
Roles
•Develop sound modeling and data usage.
•Provide leadership platform
•Improve railcar delivery, build capacity and catalog best
practice.
•Communicate goals and actions.
Responsibilities
•Develop policies for car management, forecasting, data
analysis, report generation and integrated solutions
•Gather feedback on policy and procedures to fill gaps or
correct unclear policy
The knowledge of 10
Vision: Single platform providing complete asset
management through visibility, reporting and analysis,
forecasting and optimization.
Create a Vision and Strategy
Develop a Vision and Strategy
Strategy
• Integrate all data sources
• Make the invisible visible
• Develop User Tailored, Operationally focused
reports and dashboards.
• Enterprise Data Warehouse.
• Make it the “tool of choice”
Communicate the change vision
Communicate the Vision
• Leverage Key Leaders – Get Their Buy In– Provide training to key users (early adoption is
critical)– Reinforce capabilities with each update
• Establish a Team– Emissaries to win the hearts and minds– Intermodal Rail Car Management Team (ICMT)– Specific goals – Tie to use of the tool (bad order,
dwell)– Personal Contact with “Resistors”– Ambassadors for Change (Management Trainees)
Generate Short Term Wins
Eliminate Excess Inventory - Reduce Foreign Car Supply
Improve Supply Positioning / Service – Reduce LOGS
Reduce Out of Service (OOS) Time – Bad Order (B/O) Awaiting Maintenance
Reduce Unproductive Time (DWELL)
Execute Initial Capabilities to Build Confidence
Focus efforts on achievable results
•Switching = critical vulnerability
•Switch where we can, mitigate where we can
People – Focus brainpower on the problem
Process – Clearly communicate actions and
desired results
Technology – Leverage current and future
tools to provide business
intelligence
Build on Success
Informed and Empowered
Management Team
Networked Decision Making
Collaborative
Execution
PM – mutual accountability
– Butterfly Effect
Training – Terminal Operations
focused
Master the Team work
Change our Culture
Consolidate gains and lead more change
Questions?