Ford Uses Analytics to Help Fleet Customers Buy More Sustainable Vehicles

Daniel Reich
Daniel Reich
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Research and Advanced Engineering, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan 48124
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Sandra L. Winkler
Sandra L. Winkler
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Research and Advanced Engineering, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan 48124
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Erica Klampfl
Erica Klampfl
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Research and Advanced Engineering, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan 48124
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Natalie Olson
Natalie Olson
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North America Fleet, Lease and Remarketing Operations, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan 48126
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Daniel Reich

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Research and Advanced Engineering, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan 48124

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Sandra L. Winkler

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Research and Advanced Engineering, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan 48124

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Erica Klampfl

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Research and Advanced Engineering, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan 48124

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Natalie Olson

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North America Fleet, Lease and Remarketing Operations, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan 48126

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Published Online:7 Oct 2015https://doi.org/10.1287/inte.2015.0808

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Reich D, Winkler S, Klampf E (2013) The Pareto frontier for vehicle fleet purchases: Cost versus sustainability. Vitoriano B, Valente F, eds. Proc. 2nd Internat. Conf. Oper. Res. Enterprise Systems (SciTePress, Lisbon), 175–182.Google Scholar
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Daniel Reich, Sandra L. Winkler, Erica Klampfl, Natalie Olson (2015) Ford Uses Analytics to Help Fleet Customers Buy More Sustainable Vehicles. Interfaces 45(6):543-553.

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We thank our customers who are dedicated to sustainability and have been eager to partner with us to improve their fleets. They motivated us to develop the Ford Fleet Purchase Planner™, and their feedback has allowed us to continually develop, refine, and enhance the system over these past five years.

This paper was the second-place finalist in the INFORMS 2014 Innovative Applications in Analytics Award. We thank the judges for all of their efforts in organizing the award competition and giving us the opportunity to participate. We thank the reviewers and editors for their thorough feedback that led to significant improvements in this paper.

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