AM PM making Mexico proud
The express package delivery group from Jalisco, Mexico, AM PM, founded by Pablo Moreno Valenzuela, yesterday won the World Mail Awards prize thanks to a technological innovation called EyeTrack, a system that permits company to know the exact time and place of delivery. AM PM has patented the system and has had interest from other express delivery groups from other countries in buying a copy. EyeTrack took 18 months to perfect and cost USD 5mil to develop. The delivery-man himself wears devices around his neck that scan at the critical moment and send information back to their base where special software interprets it, explains technological director at AM PM, Bernardo Bravo Gaxiola.
The firm has 4,000 employees and 12 distribution centres (in Jalisco, Baja California Norte and Sur, Sinaloa, Sonora, Distrito Federal, Guanajuato, Nuevo Leon, Nayarit, Colima and Michoacan) plus 1,500 vehicles; it is the nation’s biggest such enterprise and focuses on mass-mailing and credit-card deliveries, having been founded 16 years ago. It beat firms such as DHL Global Mail, Deutsche Post, the U.S. Postal Service and the Royal Mail to the World Mail prize. AM PM will invest around USD 6.5mil in 2007 on technological development alone.
