The task
Build the day’s load plan from the order book, then reroute it live when a driver runs out of hours and a dock appointment slips.
Who it is for
VP of Transportation
Cost per load and on-time delivery move in opposite directions, and my planners choose between them every hour without writing down why.
Build the day’s load plan from the order book, then reroute it live when a driver runs out of hours and a dock appointment slips.
Pays landed cost per load and on-time-in-full against the receiver’s appointment window. Both, together, because either one alone is trivially gamed.
Hours-of-service, weight and appointment windows are hard constraints. A cheaper plan that puts a driver over their clock is not a cheaper plan; that leg scores zero and the saving disappears with it.
The counterweight is the part worth arguing about. A reward with nothing pulling against it is a target, and a target is what a model learns to hit instead of doing the job.
Nothing. There is no environment for this vertical, no recorded run, and no number. It is a proposal, written to the same shape as the one that is built so you can judge it on the same terms.
The environment that does exist is Word Five. It is a word game, and it is deliberately not one of these twelve: it is there to show the machinery, not to imply we have built yours.