Postkantoren BV and TNT Logistics sign contract
Postkantoren B.V. and TNT Benelux & Multi Country Logistics have signed a new contract. Spearhead of the contract is the consolidation of various product flows at the TNT site in Maarssen, the Netherlands.
Postkantoren B.V. is a joint venture between TNT N.V. and ING N.V. The company owns the Bruna chain of stores. Postkantoren has 800 sites in the Netherlands, 500 of which are franchised postal agents and 300 self-owned. Consumers are offered a wide range of products, from cinema vouchers, moped licences and lottery tickets to fishing permits and bus and tram cards. Postkantoren last year decided to assign these products to three main logistics flows. Postkantoren Logistics Manager Reinoud van der Baan: “We have three categories: standard logistics, secure logistics and correspondence logistics. TNT Logistics Benelux is now responsible for the entire standard logistics operation.” Wichert van Dijk, Sales Operations Manager at Postkantoren adds, “This includes leaflets, forms and in-store products”.
Consolidation
The standard logistics flow can be further divided into Postbank products, TPG Post products and products from other Postkantoren business partners. This is the logistics flow taken on by the TNT site in Maarssen. Onno Meij, Managing Director of TNT Benelux & Multi Country Logistics: “The products are recorded and managed per owner. The customer can place all its orders in a single transaction and the IT systems ensure that each owner is charged accordingly. This places high demands on IT support, but also generates cost savings.”
Responding to change
Postkantoren and TNT Logistics Benelux already had a contract. The new policy based on three flows prompted Postkantoren to put out a tender, in which ten companies participated. Quality and experience were the decisive factors for Postkantoren when it once again chose TNT Logistics Benelux to handle its standard logistics.
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About TNT Logistics
TNT Logistics Benelux is a business unit of TNT Logistics, a leading global logistics company. It designs, implements and operates complex supply chain solutions on a national, regional or global scale for medium to large enterprises. Through its freight forwarding unit it provides air and sea freight services within an international network. It exploits technology to achieve optimisation, integration and visibility throughout the supply chain. The company focuses on a diverse range of market sectors including automotive, tyres, electronics, consumer goods, utilities & telecom and publishing & media.
TNT Logistics employs appr. 40,000 people, who are operating in 40 countries, managing over 8.5 million square metres of warehouse space. In 2004, TNT Logistics reported sales of €4.081 billion. The TNT Logistics web site address is: www.tntlogistics.com. TNT Logistics is a division of TNT N.V. The TNT group web site is: www.tnt.com/group.
