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Zach O'Donnell
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UPS Shipping Optimization

Compared UPS rates and transit times across distribution centers so fulfillment could aim at lower shipping cost and faster delivery.

Created a repeatable way to choose a ship-from location by destination instead of checking rates by hand.

Role
Built the analysis that compared origins on rate, transit time, and business priority.
Scale
Batch comparisons across destination ZIP codes and multiple origins.

What the decision was

The question was which distribution center should ship an order. The selected site was intended to improve shipping costs and customer delivery times.

I compared UPS rates and transit times across origins for destination ZIP codes, then applied a priority rule when speed and cost disagreed. Invalid destinations were logged instead of silently dropped.

Why it stayed a tool

This was decision support for operations, not a claim that a new network was implemented. The value was a repeatable comparison the team could rerun when rates or the set of origins changed.