More internet access at Portugal's post office
The Portuguese government will install 254 internet kiosks at post offices throughout the country by the end of 2001.
The programme will receive investments of Es625m
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Dynamic scheduling – delivery slots on demand?
The guy who can give the narrowest time window for deliveries is the one who will clean up.” So said Paul Palmer of routing and scheduling specialist DPS International this June during the launch of a new Web-enabled client-server version of his firm’s LogiX system.
Also in June, during the Institute of Logistics and Transport’s annual conference, Bernard Auton of Unipart Technology Logistics commented: “Lack of capability to reschedule journeys dynamically is one of the biggest problems for home deliveries.”
Take these two observations together and you begin to see why dynamic rescheduling could become a real growth area in the coming months. It’s a familiar concept, but has not so far been implemented widely. Now interest appears to be hotting up.
Read MoreOnline exchanges – rivalries between systems are subverting the good intentions
It seemed like a good idea at the time; and Carrefour, Sainsbury’s and at least twenty other retailers still believe they are on to a Good Thing with GNX, the marketplace (also called a trading exchange or portal) for retailers to use for communicating and collaborating with suppliers. Not only can orders be placed, processed and tracked online, but things like promotion planning and monitoring and product specification and design can also be carried out by any number of relevant parties through one computer system.
This, surely, should reduce time to market, cut costs, result in more appropriate products and therefore higher sales, and strengthen working relationships.
In theory, yes. But – and it’s a big but -Tesco, acting like a spoiled schoolboy, decided it couldn’t join the same community as Sainsbury’s, so it set up its own marketplace, WWRE (Worldwide Retail Exchange). It now claims to have over 50 retailer members.
Read MoreENEL unit launches Speedpost business postal service in Italy
ENEL SpA said its information technology unit Enel.it has launched
a new business postal service in Italy called ‘Speedpost’.
ASPSiam Launches Encrypted E-Mail Service In Thailand
Thailand’s OGA has introduced an online encryption service for secure e-mail and documents through ASPSiam.com, its latest application service provider (ASP) business.
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