Third Party Logistics: Views from the Customers Results and Findings from the 2006 – 11th Annual Study – Capgemini
Third Party Logistics: Views from the Customers Results and Findings from the
2006 – 11th Annual Study – Capgemini
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Chronopost France announce new appointments
Stephane Simon has been appointed Sales Director of Chronospost France, heading national and international sales. Stephane Simon started his career in 1989 in TNT, where he was Operational and Commercial Regional Director.
Stephane Simon was Sales Regional Director of South East in Chronopost from 1998 to 2004. Before joining Chronospost, he was Sales Director in Taxicolis.
Chronopost also announced the appointment of Bernard Lemaire as a Human Resources Director. Before joining Chronospost, Bernard Lemaire was Director of Human Resource in FNAC.
Read MoreBerlin ponders mail VAT move
The German government is considering exempting private-sector postal operators from value-added tax in order to improve their competitive position with Deutsche Post, the former monopoly, three months before the liberalization of the German letters market.
A spokesman for chancellor Angela Merkel told the FT that Berlin was reviewing ways to “correct competitive distortions” in the postal market. “The review includes the different tax treatment of affected companies.”
Currently, only Deutsche Post is exempted from VAT in its letters business on the ground that it provides a universal public service – a mandate that includes the obligation to serve remote and thinly populated parts of the country.
Competitors, including Pin, a joint venture created by large publishing houses, and the Netherlands’ TNT, have long complained that the exemption gave Deutsche Post, which controls 91 per cent of the German letters market, an unfair competitive advantage.
Their complaints grew louder this summer after the government decided to impose a minimum wage on postal services. The government plans to use a 1996 law that allows it to declare a wage deal between the trade unions and employers in any sector as legally binding for all companies in this sector.
Commission gives public aid to finance La Poste pensions for civil servants
Acting under the EC Treaty rules on state aid, the European Commission has authorized the aid planned by France for the reform of the arrangements for financing the retirement pensions of civil servants working for La Poste. The authorization is subject to conditions to ensure that La Poste and its competitors are placed on an equal footing as regards social security contributions and tax.
In the light of important commitments given by the French authorities, the Commission has concluded that the social security contributions and tax paid by La Poste would now be equivalent to what is borne by the postal operator’s competitors.
Under a 1990 law, La Poste was to finance in full the pensions paid by the State to its civil servants by way of a repayment to the State of the amounts paid out. This method of financing was a departure from the ordinary arrangement. Unlike an ordinary employer in a pay-as-you-go system, La Poste did not pay the levy that releases employers from any additional commitment for retirement pensions, but it had to ensure that the pension scheme for its civil servants was in balance.
Read MoreDHL Global Mail opens new domestic terminal in Singapore
DHL Global Mail, Deutsche Post World Net’s International Mail division, today opened a new Domestic Terminal in Singapore. The facility, located in close proximity to Singapore’s Changi Airport, is the largest of its kind for DHL Global Mail in the Asia Pacific region.
The new terminal has the capacity to handle over five million pieces of mail per month, a four-fold increase from its previous operating facility. This will help to strengthen DHL Global Mail’s leadership position in Singapore’s Direct Marketing industry. The new terminal also complements DHL Global Mail’s operations at the existing terminal at the Airport Hub, which caters to the South East Asia region.
Customers will have access to an expanded portfolio of value-added services, including database management, variable printing, letter shopping and light warehousing. In addition, the customers can also look forward to faster turnaround times for their mail delivery, as well as enjoy cost savings from the introduction of a new generation of technology at the terminal.
The new terminal occupies a total area of nearly 18,000 square feet, or about the size of 6 tennis courts, and is close to three times larger than the existing terminal. It offers a comprehensive suite of product offerings covering Direct Mail, Publication, Parcel, Solution and Business Mail.
Read MoreBrand manufacturers rely on DHL's logistics concept
This campus is designed for brand manufacturers of cosmetics and cleaning agents and will initially cover a space of 60,000 sqm.
Colgate-Palmolive, Johnson & Johnson and Reckitt Benckiser are placing their trust in the new logistics concept of DHL Exel Supply Chain. This autumn, Deutsche Post World Net’s contract logistics will open a so-called Logistics Campus in Unna in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia that is designed especially for brand manufacturers of cosmetics and cleaning agents, and will initially cover a space of 60,000 sqm. The first customers to tap the quality and flexibility benefits available in Unna will be Colgate-Palmolive and Johnson & Johnson. Reckitt Benckiser will move in the mid of 2008 when 20,000 sqm have been added to the campus.
DHL has designed the center in Unna to meet the requirements of manufacturers of cosmetic products and cleaning agents. Frequently changing assortments and seasonal capacity logjams are key features of this sector. Manufacturers need sufficient leeway to respond to these challenges and realize synergies – the only way to ensure a high service level in the market. The campus concept guarantees uniform standards in warehousing and transport processes as well as in the area of IT systems. In addition, identical hall designs ensure that all DHL services can be flexibly adapted to the customer’s warehouse capacity requirements at any time.
Aside from comprehensive warehousing services and value-added assistance such as display construction and RFIT integration, DHL also handles the processing of national and European shipments. An SAP platform developed specifically for the consumer goods industry ensures that all partners can use a common information interface.
All logistics services offered in Dortmund will be relocated to Unna by the end of the year. All employees will receive jobs at the new location.
Tetra Pak and DHL in alliance for reduced emissions
The global packaging company opts for DHL’s environmental service, GoGreen
Express shipments from Sweden will be handled via GoGreen, DHL’s carbon-neutral shipping service.
DHL, and Tetra Pak have entered into broad cooperation in the environmental field. The arrangement means that all express shipments from Sweden will be handled via DHL’s unique environmental service, GOGREEN.
GOGREEN is a carbon-neutral shipping service. This means that DHL measures the carbon dioxide emissions caused by a customer’s shipments and then neutralizes emissions by an equivalent amount somewhere else in the world. To calculate the emissions from different flights, DHL uses a specially developed and patented program.
For almost thirty years, Tetra Pak and DHL have collaborated closely and very successfully in the transport field. They took a further significant step recently when Tetra Pak decided to opt for DHL’s environmental service, GOGREEN. The first stage will cover all express shipments from Sweden.
The reduction of carbon emission is enabled through investments in different environmental projects. It can be projects about new technology for vehicles, usage of new alternative fuels, methane extraction, sun panels. The whole process for CO2-calculations for reducing the emissions through various projects is annually checked by the well known certifying and verifying company, SGS in Switzerland.
For Tetra Pak, environmental investments are an important issue within the company.
“As Tetra Pak grows, so we transport more and more goods. We want to use forwarders who can help us to grow without increasing our carbon dioxide emissions. In this situation, GOGREEN is seen as a natural step. For ten years now, we have ranked forwarders, and companies that do not manage to live up to our high environmental standards are automatically dropped,” says Agneta Melin, Tetra Pak’s environmental manager for the Nordic region and the Baltic republics.
Industry demands Govt intervention on postal dispute
The direct marketing industry is urging the Government to ‘sort out the postal strike now’, following a flood of calls from DMA (UK) members – clients, agencies and suppliers – who fear their businesses will suffer irrevocable damage.
The dispute started in June, but the latest back-to-back strike could see the postal system out of action for up to three weeks.
DMA director of media channel development Robert Keitch says: “We need high level input. The Government, as the single shareholder, must sort this out now. It’s not just the direct mail industry that is suffering. Many companies rely on Royal Mail to handle their invoicing – businesses simply aren’t getting paid.
His concerns are echoed by Williams Lea strategic solutions consultant for mail Justin Rabett, who comments: “Not only is Royal Mail causing short term damage to an already troubled organisation, but its current actions will cause longer term consequences in terms of mail consumption across Great Britain. As it stands, Royal Mail’s position as a pre-eminent supplier of mail distribution in the UK is under serious threat. The latest strike is simply providing more ammunition to its critics who have questioned its ability to deliver on its universal service obligations.
The move follows Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s comments that the rolling industrial action is ‘unacceptable’.
Talks between Royal Mail, the TUC and the Communications Workers Union are said to be progressing, although a deal to avert the next wave of action has yet to be struck.
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