AeroScout provides TNT with management solution

AeroScout has announced the deployment of its Logistics Visibility solution at TNT Express. TNT Express leveraged its existing wireless network to implement AeroScout’s Wi-Fi RFID (radio-frequency identification) solution for automating inventory management, without needing to add a proprietary RFID network.

The solution will help prevent delivery delays by optimising the inventory management of 16,000 assets across 200 depots in 29 European countries.

TNT Express deployed AeroScout’s Logistics RTLS (real-time location system) to automate the inventory management of its roll cages, which are metal carriers used to transport parcels between depots across the company’s European road network.

AeroScout’s Wi-Fi Tags are attached to each roll cage, and AeroScout’s MobileView software enables the tracking and management of the carriers and parcels. The solution eliminates the need to manually track and scan each roll cage to determine the inventory of cages at each depot. This drives improved asset utilisation, decreases cage replacement costs and reduces delivery delays.

“With real-time visibility of our assets we’re able to maximise efficiencies across the board,” said Ben Klaassen, managing director at TNT Express Worldwide Networks. “The AeroScout solution eliminates almost completely the manual inventory scanning of roll cages and empowers us to make quicker and better decisions.”