{"id":210852,"date":"2019-02-19T04:13:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T12:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=wherenext&#038;p=210852"},"modified":"2024-11-25T13:17:43","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T21:17:43","slug":"coordinating-fedex-planes","status":"publish","type":"wherenext","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/publications\/wherenext\/coordinating-fedex-planes","title":{"rendered":"Location Intelligence Helps Keep FedEx on Time"},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1001,801,1021],"tags":[281,641,254352],"department":[476792],"wherenext-category":[],"industry":[],"class_list":["post-210852","wherenext","type-wherenext","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commercial","category-operational-intelligence","category-transportation","tag-location-intelligence","tag-logistics","tag-parcel","department-cxo-priorities"],"acf":{"short_description":"By any measure, the numbers are staggering: 570,000 parts, 20,000 flights each month. FedEx manages it all with help from GIS.","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":"","file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"It was late on a Thursday afternoon in November and FedEx had 160 jets in the air, flying to destinations around the globe. Most were on schedule, though a few were running several minutes late.\r\n\r\nEach craft carried a bay full of items for eager customers from Shanghai to Memphis, Lisbon to San Francisco. Some of those packages actually included replacement parts for planes around the globe, and their on-time delivery was crucial to the carrier\u2019s success.\r\n\r\nMark Yerger, vice president of material management at FedEx Express, knew where the grounded planes were and where to find the proper parts for them because of a sophisticated geographic information system (GIS). Through the system, Yerger could track up-to-the-minute progress for the fleet\u2019s 386 jet aircraft and, with a click or two on his computer or hand-held device, drill down to learn just about anything he needed to know about a particular flight.\r\n\r\nThat level of spatial awareness, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/en-us\/location-intelligence\/overview\">location intelligence<\/a>, empowers Yerger and team to maintain an impressive level of airplane health and availability. Last year, for instance, just 60 FedEx flights out of approximately 240,000\u2014or .025%\u2014failed to take off within 15 minutes of scheduled departure time because a replacement part wasn\u2019t available in time.\r\n\r\n<strong>Five Ps of Efficient Service <\/strong>\r\n\r\nYerger\u2019s main concern is the operational status of hundreds of FedEx planes\u2014and the parts that ensure their readiness. Those parts range from rivets that cost pennies to engines that cost millions of dollars. For an operation on the scale of FedEx to run cost-effectively, it can\u2019t stock every part in every airport around the world. Instead, Yerger and his team rely on location intelligence to guide decision-making about parts and planes.\r\n\r\nHe describes their daily task as orchestrating a \u201cvery large aerial ballet\u201d to ensure that the correct parts reach the correct planes quickly and efficiently. That choreography, he says, would be virtually impossible without the GIS-based smart maps at the heart of the FedEx tracking system.\r\n\r\nYerger uses five Ps to explain the ballet. \u201cI have to have a part, a person, a plan, and a plane all in the same place at the same time,\u201d he says."},{"acf_fc_layout":"form","form_type":"aside","form_position":"Right","form_title":"THE ESRI BRIEF","form_desc":"A biweekly email connecting senior executives and business leaders with thought-provoking articles on location intelligence and critical technology trends.","form_button_label":"Sign up now","form_content":"https:\/\/go.pardot.com\/l\/82202\/2017-10-12\/jw1bmb","form_tag":"low-commitment-form\/sign-up-form"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"To do that, Yerger often places a needed part on a FedEx jet that is carrying its usual cargo and is headed to the same location as the aircraft in need of repair. He can make that call by finding the correct part and then coordinating its delivery with flights in the air, or about to take off.\r\n\r\n\u201cIf I can get that data in a very easily digestible way quickly, then I'm not going to make fire-drill calls,\u201d he says. That often means he can avoid a last-minute rerouting or a \u201cdeadhead\u201d flight that carries nothing but the replacement part. Those flights burn pricey fuel and pilot hours\u2014without moving customer packages one mile.\r\n\r\n<strong>Collaborating with IT <\/strong>\r\n\r\nYerger relies on a program FedEx has built and refined over the years, overseen by Bob Minford, the company\u2019s vice president of airline technology. The program integrates GIS technology with the FedEx maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) system, delivering location intelligence on smart maps. The program is available to FedEx executives, pilots, mechanics, flight planners, and just about anyone at the company involved in getting goods to their destination.\r\n\r\n\u201cBecause of our scale and the global nature of our business,\u201d Minford says, \u201cwe have a large number of our team members that are looking at this data.\u201d\r\n\r\nIn order to deliver the world on time, those FedEx professionals need information quickly. \u201cWhether they're sitting in Global Operation Control managing all the operations, in Maintenance Operation Control, or at a maintenance shack waiting for a plane to come in, this gives them visibility\u201d into the locations and dependencies among parts, people, and planes, Minford says. \u201cIt ties those relationships together by bringing all those disparate data sources into much better information [so] that they can make good decisions.\u201d\r\n\r\nThat means mechanics can tap into the system using an iPad while in the hangar inspecting or working on a plane. \u201cThey could see all the manuals,\u201d Minford says. \u201cThey could see everything about that aircraft, but they can also do every transaction that they can do on the desktop. So we've extended those capabilities from the desktop out to mobile devices.\u201d\r\n\r\nThe bottom line, Minford says, is that the program allows our partners to concentrate on what\u2019s most important.\r\n\r\n\u201c[W]ith the scale that we've gotten to and how these planes are constantly in the air, the geospatial tools really help many facets of the business to manage and to ensure that we simplify things.\u201d That, he says, enables FedEx to \u201cfocus on the things that we have to focus on from a safety and an on-time service perspective.\u201d"},{"acf_fc_layout":"quote","image":210832,"text":"Having timelier access to more granular information, having the problems jump out of the screen\u2026 means that my maintenance specialists can absorb much more information more quickly than by looking at giant spreadsheets.","author_name":"Mark Yerger, VP of material management at FedEx Express","author_profession_organization":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<strong>Customers Want Speedy Delivery<\/strong>\r\n\r\n\"When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight,\u201d a FedEx tagline first deployed in 1978, has never been more apropos in the delivery and logistics business than right now.\r\n\r\nWhile consumers still shop mostly in stores, the balance is shifting. The percentage of goods ordered online continues to grow, and with it, expectations for fast\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/publications\/wherenext\/holiday-deliveries-and-logistics\/\">sometimes even same-day<\/a>\u2014delivery.\r\n\r\nThat demand led to a 17 percent spike in parcel volume during 2017, according to a Supply Chain Dive article. Additional double-digit gains were predicted through 2020 across more than a dozen major economies. FedEx connects with 99 percent of the global GDP through 14 million air and ground shipments each business day.\r\n\r\nRetail sales, one of the financial drivers of parcel companies, were estimated to rise almost 5 percent in 2018 over 2017\u2019s nearly $5.7 trillion, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.\r\n\r\nIf global trade skirmishes escalate into trade wars this year, that could put a crimp on commerce. But the long-term trend is toward more goods being delivered quickly all around the world.\r\n\r\n<strong>Long Haulers to Short Hoppers\u2014Coordinating Moving Targets<\/strong>\r\n\r\nRegardless of politics and trade negotiations, certain FedEx officials spend the majority of their day ensuring that the company\u2019s fleet of almost 700 jets\u2014ranging in size from long haulers like the Boeing 777 to smaller mid-range jets\u2014are ready to fly around the clock.\r\n\r\nYerger relies on the company\u2019s location intelligence system to track the fleet and make sure planes are where they are supposed to be, safely and at the right time. That\u2019s no small feat when FedEx aircraft take 20,000 trips each month."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":210842,"image_position":"left","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"Like any executive who must make sensitive decisions in short order, Yerger looks to the GIS-powered system to find signals in the noise. As he explains, \u201cThe computer and the picture tell you what your biggest worries are, and\/or what your easiest solutions are in a way that's much easier for a human to digest.\u201d\r\n\r\nPlanes on time, for instance, appear in green on his smart device or desktop, while those that are lagging are red. He can see flights all over the earth in one glance, or limit his view to aircraft associated with a particular region or airport.\r\n\r\nThat flexibility saves him and his fellow managers, as well as the mechanical staff that reports to him, precious minutes for other pressing decisions.\r\n\r\n<strong>Data to Save Time <\/strong>\r\n\r\nIn essence, the FedEx system replaces a slew of documents with an integrated smart map, Yerger says.\r\n\r\n\u201cI don't have to go thumb through 130 or 140 lines of a spreadsheet to figure out when did [the flight] depart, when was it supposed to depart, what's the turnaround time, what's the window, and when it's expected back to [FedEx headquarters in] Memphis,\u201d he explains.\r\n\r\nOne of Yerger\u2019s primary responsibilities is avoiding the dreaded and costly AOG\u2014an aircraft on the ground, unable to fly. During that November afternoon, Yerger checked the system to discover that only two of the planes in the air were behind schedule enough to cause concern. Both needed repairs that might not be completed in time for the scheduled departures. As a result, other planes might have to be used as replacements. In the industry, that\u2019s called a tail switch.\r\n\r\nOn paper, the variables involved in the aerial ballet seem overwhelming. For instance, not all repairs are created equal. Some are mission critical and must be made before the airplane can lift off again. Others are less pressing, giving Yerger and team the luxury of time.\r\n\r\nThen there are the parts themselves. FedEx manages more than 80,000 part numbers across its air operations. It keeps at least one part in each of about 575,000 bins at airports worldwide. Its nearly 700 planes visit 175 airports worldwide.\r\n\r\nWhen one of those planes needs repairs and the five Ps aren\u2019t aligned, Yerger\u2019s team uses the logistics system to find the correct replacement part and coordinate its delivery to the aircraft\u2019s next stop. Yerger likens the process to passing a hockey puck where a teammate will be instead of where he is.\r\n\r\nTo meet that \u201cmoving demand,\u201d FedEx annually sends more than 850,000 shipments of parts. It\u2019s a massive job made faster and more reliable by location intelligence."},{"acf_fc_layout":"quote","image":210822,"text":"When I think about GIS, I think about a couple variables\u2014not only [the] location of our aircraft, but GIS also provides us with time. And those are two variables that are extremely important to the business at FedEx.","author_name":"Bob Minford, FedEx VP of airline technology","author_profession_organization":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<strong>Artificial Intelligence Predicts Maintenance Needs<\/strong>\r\n\r\nYerger, Minford, and their FedEx colleagues know as well as anyone how important speed is to customer satisfaction and competitive advantage. The location intelligence system they rely on was built to help them make the right decisions faster.\r\n\r\nAnd despite its success, FedEx continues to find ways to wring idle minutes out of its operations. The constantly evolving system, Minford says, now incorporates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/en-us\/artificial-intelligence\/overview\">artificial intelligence<\/a>, or AI, that forecasts when a plane needs replacement parts or a maintenance checkup.\r\n\r\nAI\u2019s predictive capabilities, combined with the geospatial programs that monitor where a plane is, amount to \u201calmost the holy grail for a maintenance operation,\u201d he says.\r\n\r\nThe company is also exploring maintenance innovations like using drones to perform airplane inspections that are cumbersome for humans to undertake. The top of a 777\u2019s tail, for instance, can stand 60 feet above the ground. A mechanic piloting a drone with high-definition cameras now can detect hail or lightning damage faster than ever, while standing on the tarmac.\r\n\r\n\u201cAs new things come up, we can just layer those relationships on,\u201d Minford says, \u201cand the map visualization simplifies it so that humans can understand it.\u201d\r\n\r\nThat awareness of information tied to time and location, he says, allows Yerger and other FedEx professionals to act quickly on issues flagged by the system. \u201cBut they also see the big picture,\u201d Minford adds."}],"references":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>FedEx Manages Airplane Maintenance with GIS, Location Intelligence<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"FedEx manages maintenance on its global fleet of airplanes with help from geographic information system (GIS) technology.\" \/>\n<meta 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