US 2019/0295204 A1Published application

Systems and methods for transportation staffing

AssigneeWalmart Apollo, LLC

InventorsSai Phaneendra Sri Harsha Viswanath Putcha, Yiqiang Su

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Abstract

Exemplary embodiments provide a transportation staffing management system. An amount of transportations miles are forecasted for delivering inventory from a distribution enter to a store based on a sales forecast for a store. Non-driving time for drivers engaged in delivering inventory to a store is tracked based on data collected in real-time from mobile computing devices associated with delivery vehicles. An amount of time needed to deliver the inventory based on the forecasted amount of transportation miles and non-driving is calculated. An optimal transportation workload is generated for the distribution center based on the amount of time, data from a first database storing data from a central office, and data from a second database storing data from a distribution center.

Claims23

Dependent claims

A system for transportation staffing management, the system comprising:

a plurality of mobile computing devices respectively associated with a plurality of delivery vehicles, each of the plurality of delivery vehicles operated by one of a plurality of drivers;
a first database storing data from a central office serving a plurality of distribution centers;
a second database storing data from a distribution center from the plurality of distribution centers, wherein a distribution center serves a plurality of stores;
one or more computing devices communicatively coupled to the plurality of mobile computing devices and configured to execute a dwell time module, a forecast module and a staffing module;
wherein the dwell time module when executed:
tracks non-driving time for the plurality of drivers engaged in delivering inventory to the store via a plurality of routes based on data collected in real-time from the plurality of mobile computing devices;
wherein the forecast module when executed:
forecasts an amount of transportation miles needed to deliver inventory from the distribution center to a store based on a sales forecast for a store for a defined time period and the tracked non-driving time, and
calculates an amount of time needed to deliver the inventory based on the forecast amount of transportation miles;
and
wherein the staffing module when executed:
generates an optimal transportation workload for the distribution center based on the amount of time calculated by the forecast module, the data from the central office, and the data from the distribution center, the optimal transportation workload assigning at least some of the plurality of drivers and delivery vehicles to deliver the inventory from the distribution center to the plurality of stores;
and
generates a user interface displaying the optimal transportation workload.

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A non-transitory machine readable medium storing instructions executable by a processing device, wherein execution of the instructions causes the processing device to implement a method for determining a transportation workload, the method comprising:

forecasting an amount of transportation miles needed to deliver inventory from a distribution center to a store based on a sales forecast for the store for a defined time period;
tracking non-driving time for a plurality of drivers engaged in delivering inventory to a store via a plurality of routes based on data collected in real-time from a plurality of mobile computing devices associated with a plurality of delivery vehicles, each of the plurality of delivery vehicles operated by one of a plurality of drivers;
calculating an amount of time needed to deliver the inventory based on the forecasted amount of transportation miles and the tracked non-driving time;
generating an optimal transportation workload for the distribution center based on the amount of time, data from a first database storing data from a central office, and data from a second database storing data from a distribution center, the optimal transportation workload assigning at least some of the plurality of drivers and delivery vehicles to deliver the inventory from the distribution center to plurality of stores;
and
generating a user interface displaying the optimal transportation workload.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/361,820Filed 22 Mar 2019
Priority: 23 Mar 2018
Published: 26 Sep 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

G06Q 10/08
Administration; Management: logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management
G06Q 10/063116
Scheduling, planning or task assignment for a person or group: schedule adjustment for a person or group
G06Q 10/06315
Resource planning, allocation, distributing or scheduling for enterprises or organisations: needs-based resource requirements planning or analysis
G06Q 10/067
Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling: enterprise or…