Neopost Financial Results – Second Quarter 2007
Neopost Financial Results – Second Quarter 2007
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Two acquisitons put Menlo on map
Two acquisitons put Menlo on map
Read MoreTNT Express wins SAP EMEA Quality Award
TNT Express, with support from Atos Origin, an international IT services company, has recently completed the 56th country in a global SAP implementation to 62 countries.
The global multi-million Euro program, which is already delivering savings and business benefits, was recognized at a recent SAP award ceremony, where TNT Express won the SAP EMEA Quality Award for Global Implementation and Roll-out.
To date, the benefits for TNT Express of the global SAP roll-out include savings in purchasing and inventory, strengthened reporting processes to ensure compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley and improved management of IS/IT through a global customer competence centre. The success of this award winning project is due to the resolute commitment from TNT Express, the strong project team and the focus, energy and pragmatic style, with which Atos Origin has supported the implementation.
At a separate ceremony in London, Atos Origin won the UK SAP Partner Excellence award for Customer Satisfaction and Quality for the third year in succession. This highly coveted award is determined by an independent customer satisfaction survey, in which customers are asked to rate SAP partners on all aspects of the SAP implementation process, including professional competence, quality of consultants, SAP product know-how and ability to deliver on time and to budget.
The awards in Prague were led by Dr Svan Lembke, Vice President and in charge of the Quality Programme for SAP across EMEA. After the event, Dr Lembke concluded: “TNT Express have embraced key principles of quality early in their implementation and involved their partner Atos Origin and SAP to achieve a successful global roll-out. Having been involved with Atos Origin for more than 3 years it is tremendous to see them win the UK Partner Excellence Award and the win for TNT Express shows the collaboration in practice”.
Atos Origin has more than 20 years of experience with SAP applications and is a SAP Global Services Partner, a SAP Global Hosting Partner, a member of the SAP NetWeaver® Partnership Initiative and a leading member of the Enterprise SOA adoption program. Atos Origin has more than 4,560 SAP application consultants worldwide and SAP certified data centres in all geographical regions. The group was a finalist in the prestigious 2007 Global SAP Pinnacle Awards and two 2006 SAP Partner awards.
Read MoreFedex and DHL lead customer surveys for transportation and warehousing in Mexico
A recent market study conducted by InfoAmericas included telephone interviews with 50 manufacturing company executives in Mexico City, Monterrey, Guadalajara and San Luís Potosí (22 percent of them decision makers for logistic providers contracting) revealed that, in Mexico, the “top-of-mind” leaders for transportation and warehousing companies are FedEx, followed by DHL and K+N tied for second, and UPS in third place. Respondents mentioned DHL most frequently as a second alternative, followed by FedEx and the duo K+N & UPS.
Branding managers measure top-of-mind awareness as an indicator of positioning within specific target market. Being the first brand mentioned by potential consumers surveyed is a good indication of an intention to purchase goods or services from the mentioned company.
Inadequate infrastructure limits Mexico’s competitiveness and impedes the functional integration of productive chains, from raw materials to finished and delivered products. Interviewees ranked standard government built (free) roads as the worst Mexican transportation infrastructure mode (6.2) followed by and railroads (6.5), well behind the better-scoring toll highways (8.0) and air and sea ports (7.9), both of which are privately built and managed.
Equally compelling and much less costly is the call to open up Mexican domestic trucking to international ownership, presently barred under the auspices of the NAFTA. Cross border logistics in Mexico have achieved their efficiency levels thanks to the investments by players like UPS, FedEx and DHL as well as YRC, K&N, Panalpina, and others. Their technology and global best practices are essential to raising competitiveness. They have been a shot in the arm to Mexico’s cross-border sector – now they are needed in Mexico’s domestic trucking market.
Read MoreFedEx Corp. elects Gary Loveman as new Director
Shareowners of FedEx Corp. today elected Gary W. Loveman, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Harrahs Entertainment, Inc., a provider of branded casino entertainment, to the corporations Board of Directors for a one-year term. The Board of Directors has appointed Loveman as a member of its Audit and Information Technology Oversight committees.
Gary is a highly welcome addition to our Board of Directors, said Frederick W. Smith, chairman, president and chief executive officer of FedEx Corp. We look forward to benefiting immediately from his leadership experience and keen insight.
Before joining Harrahs Entertainment in 1998, Loveman was an associate professor of business administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration. Loveman was awarded a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.A. in economics from Wesleyan University. He serves on the board of directors of Harrahs Entertainment and is an outside director of Coach, Inc.
At its annual meeting today, shareowners also reelected the other thirteen director nominees, each for a one-year term: Frederick W. Smith, James L. Barksdale, August A. Busch IV, John A. Edwardson, Judith L. Estrin, Philip Greer, J.R. Hyde, III, Shirley A. Jackson, Steven R. Loranger, Charles T. Manatt, Joshua I. Smith, Paul S. Walsh and Peter S. Willmott.
Read MoreDHL Global Mail implements Radio Frequency Identification technology for quality checks on international mail
DHL Global Mail, Deutsche Post World Net’s International Mail division, today announced that it is the first in the mail industry in Asia Pacific to implement Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) across multiple countries in the region. Based on an Automatic Mail Quality Measurement (AMQM) system, this effort is aimed at improving quality control checks for its mail logistics chain. The AMQM system, which has been installed in the mail terminals in Sydney, Hong Kong and Singapore, complements DHL Global Mail’s AMQM system in other regions. It is an enhanced service that provides greater visibility of the mailing process from the point when letters are posted to the last-mile delivery.
RFID tags based on the AMQM system will be utilized on selected international mail pieces between mail hubs, such as for example Frankfurt to Hong Kong, and between mail hubs and postal operators to regulate and enforce stringent quality control on the mail logistics chain to ensure mail pieces are delivered within the stipulated time frame to recipients. The data derived from the system will be used to optimize routing options for customers.
Key benefits for DHL Global Mail’s customers as a result of using RFID for quality checks focus mainly on increased reliability, transparency and improved service quality. As a result, customers will enjoy higher service quality for no additional costs.
The RFID technology uses devices attached to objects that transmit data wirelessly to a RFID receiver. It offers larger data storage capacity; read and write capability; and no line-of-sight requirement for both transponder and receiver – these are attributes that traditional bar-coding could not offer.
In addition to Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore, DHL Global Mail is planning to install the new technology in Japan in 2008.
Read MoreDHL in Sweden offers international parcels service to private customers
November sees the launch of DHL’s assault on a completely new area – the private market. Competitive prices combined with rapid delivery are designed to persuade Swedes to send their parcels with DHL. In the first phase, the new B2C service covers Sweden only. From next year, Swedes will be able to send their parcels all over the world via DHL.
Until now, DHL Express in Sweden has focused on the business-to-business market. But now the company is breaking new ground and taking on the private market. The recipe for success is based on a completely new business model.
Initially, the service will be available in 1,000 posting and collection centres in Sweden. Apart from signing a number of contracts with local dealers in various industries, DHL has also established a cooperative agreement with a nationwide franchise chain in the service sector. But this is just the beginning. Access to the so-called SERVICEPOINT for private individuals and for the existing 50,000 business customers will be exceptionally good. In future, it will be just as common to see a sign advertising SERVICEPOINT as a yellow and red DHL van.
The concept of SERVICEPOINT has been around for some time in places like Germany, Spain, the UK, Italy and the Benelux countries. As early as 2008, DHL expects to be able to offer Swedish customers shipments worldwide. There is great demand for the concept from existing customers and also from private individuals who need a quick and easy way to send parcels to relatives and friends all round the globe.
Read MoreTrade with China is boon to industry of logistics
The huge wave of trade with China and other countries that has washed over ports in Southern California has been a boon to companies that once saw themselves simply as small warehouse and distribution businesses.
Processing and distributing millions of freight-laden containers through the region and to the rest of the United States has become the largest source of jobs on the West Coast. But the overall growth in the industry is raising new challenges, as California regulators demand reductions in air pollution in the port areas and larger companies raise the pressure on smaller businesses.
Small to medium companies exemplify the logistics industry, a fast-growing business of warehousing, trucking and freight forwarding on the cutting edge of technological and social trends, from Internet commerce to evolving Latino markets. Their businesses have grown along with the ports in Southern California, which now handle 44 percent of the merchandise imported to the United States, according to the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp.
Formerly a business of thousands of trucking and storage outfits, logistics has become a giant industry in the past decade as international trade has grown. U.S. Commerce Department statistics show that the value of imports and exports reached almost USD 3 trillion in 2006, up 67 percent since 1999. At USD 900 billion in annual revenue, logistics now accounts for some four million jobs across the United States. It is the largest single source of employment in Southern California, at more than 650,000 jobs, according to the economist John Husing, of Redlands, California, an authority on regional industry.
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