Enhanced postal data modeling framework

A system comprising:

• at least one computer and
• a computer-readable medium coupled to the at least one computer having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the at least one computer, cause the at least one computer to perform operations comprising:
• accessing postal data which describes characteristics of a mail sortation process;
• accessing production management data which describes characteristics of a model production management process in an initial state and which is capable of being processed by a production management application;
• mapping the postal data to the production management data;
• inputting the production management data for processing by the production management application;
• producing forecasted production management data which predicts characteristics of the model production management process in a subsequent state;
• accessing forecasted postal data which predicts characteristics of the mail sortation process;
• mapping the forecasted production management data to the forecasted postal data;
• and
• controlling the mail sortation process based on at least a portion of the mapped, forecasted postal data.

A computer storage medium encoded with a computer program, the program comprising instructions that when executed by data processing apparatus cause the data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising:

• accessing postal data which describes characteristics of a mail sortation process;
• accessing production management data which describes characteristics of a model production management process in an initial state and which is capable of being processed by a production management application;
• mapping the postal data to the production management data;
• inputting the production management data for processing by the production management application;
• producing forecasted production management data which predicts characteristics of the model production management process in a subsequent state;
• accessing forecasted postal data which predicts characteristics of the mail sortation process;
• mapping the forecasted production management data to the forecasted postal data;
• and
• controlling the mail sortation process based on at least a portion of the mapped, forecasted postal data.