SIAM Industry Talk by Dr. Julian Pachon from Amazon Last Mile Science

Описание: Talk Title: Large Scale Last Mile Operations: Trends, Challenges, Opportunities and Innovation

Abstract: Last Mile Delivery is the movement of good from a retailer’s transportation hub to its final destination – a business or consumer’s home. The rapid growth of e-commerce has elevated the role of the Last Mile. First, the number of packages that are delivered on a daily basis has increased at double digit rates over the past few years, requiring that the science and technology is able to scale fast. Second, innovation, which was once seen just as a way of driving down the cost of delivery, is now viewed as an opportunity to make more aggressive delivery offerings to compete or surpass the competitors. We will highlight fundamental changes in retail that have impacted Last Mile and discuss the cornerstones and key science-based decisions of an efficient and scalable last mile operation.

Speaker Bio: Julian Pachon, PH.D: Julian Pachon is the Director and Chief Scientist for Last Mile Logistics at Amazon. He leads a team of researchers and engineers that design and build the decision support systems used to run Amazon Last Mile Worldwide Operations. This includes the areas of capacity management, scheduling, pricing, routing, dispatch and recovery. These technologies power Amazon’s 6 Billion package delivery network in 16 countries. Julian holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from Universidad de los Andes, Bogota (Colombia), MS in Industrial Engineering from Universidad de los Andes, Bogota (Colombia), and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from University of Miami.
Julian started his career as a professor teaching optimization, probability, stochastic processes and statistics at the Universidad de los Andes. After finishing his Ph.D., he joined Caleb Technologies – a company focused on building optimization systems for aviation. While in Caleb, he traveled around world implementing these technologies on carriers of all types and sizes in all five continents. Furthermore, he led the team that won the prestigious Edelman Prize based on the irregular operations technology that was used by Continental Airlines to recovery from September-11 disruption (the largest disruption in the history of aviation). Prior to joining Amazon, Julian spent 8 years leading all the Operations and Optimization technology for United Airlines. He was in charge of leading the largest merger in the aviation industry, and the build-out of the state-of-the-art and fully automated United’s command center at the Willis tower in Chicago. He has published extensively and holds over 25 patents in aviation and logistics related topics.