System and method for optimizing a mail document sorting machine
A system and method for optimizing mail sorting equipment based upon various commingled data files and user selected options includes a sorter, an optimizing system, and a computer for optimizing the sort plan based upon the data files and user settings.
1. A method of optimizing a mail document sorting machine, comprising:
inputting a first datafile;
inputting user settings;
generating an optimized sort plan based upon a statistical analysis of the user settings and the first datafile;
sorting mail documents based upon the optimized sort plan
producing likely results of implementing the optimized sort plan;
analyzing the likely results of implementing the optimized sort plan;
producing pre-analysis results based upon the likely results;
reporting to a user the pre-analysis results;
analyzing the sorting;
producing sorting results based upon analyzing the sorting;
comparing the sorting results to the pre-analysis results; and
reporting to the user the comparison between the sorting results and the pre-analysis results.
2. The method of optimizing a mail document sorting machine according to claim 1 , wherein the reporting to a user the comparison between the sorting results and the pre-analysis results is completed in near real-time for allowing the user to stop the sorting before the completion of sorting.
3. The method of optimizing a mail document sorting machine according to claim 1 , wherein the statistical analysis includes trend analysis of predicted zip codes.
4. The method of optimizing a mail document sorting machine according to claim 1 , further comprising:
inputting a second datafile;
comingling the first datafile with the second datafile; and
producing a comingled dataset from the comingling of the first dataset with the second dataset;
wherein the generating an optimized sort plan is based upon the user settings and the comingled dataset.
5. The method of optimizing a mail document sorting machine according to claim 1 , wherein the first datafile and the second datafile are historical mail processing records.
6. The method of optimizing a mail document sorting machine according to claim 4 , wherein the first datafile is a listing of a first group of mail and the second datafile is a listing of a second group of mail, and wherein the first group of mail and the second group of mail have been combined.