Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

TNT makes sweet music

Posted by | Sep 12, 2006 | |

Business-to-business express deliverer TNT has struck the right note with a significant deal to deliver the hottest names in home entertainment to the customers in double-quick time.

TNT Express Services UK & Ireland sealed the three-year deal with the Pinnacle-Arvato Group to deliver more than 100 million home entertainment products a year to more than 2,000 UK retail outlets.

Mega delivery: Danny Geach, TNT Technology Express Business Development Manager, who helped win the Pinnacle-Arvato deal, says 100 million products will be distributed each year

The express delivery giant has won the contract from the Pinnacle Arvato Group to make overnight deliveries to independent retailers and major High Street chains, stocking music , film entertainment and computer games.

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Regulus opens major new remittance processing operation in Atlanta

Posted by | Sep 12, 2006 | |

Regulus, the nation’s largest independent provider of bill presentment and payment processing solutions, announced today the opening of a new remittance processing facility in Atlanta, Georgia. This premier site will serve Regulus’ regional and multi-national clients with customers located throughout the Eastern and Southeastern United States.

The new 36,000-square-foot facility is strategically located near a major U.S. Postal Service hub as well as the Atlanta airport. Known in the industry as one of the fastest mail collections and clearing points in the country, Atlanta offers immediate value to current and future clients seeking coverage in this heavily populated region. Among Regulus’ customers in the region are industry bellwethers in the telecom, healthcare, utility, and financial sectors. The close proximity to the USPS postal hub means that payments are received, processed and deposited faster and more efficiently. The new high-volume facility also has the potential to double in capacity in coming years as the demand from Regulus’ customers continues to grow.

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US FedEx – Shipping Data To Back-Office Apps

Posted by | Sep 12, 2006 | |

FedEx Locks In Customers By Tying Shipping Data To Back-Office Apps

Customers can link their invoicing, billing, accounting, and inventory systems with FedEx’s shipping data.
Every company wants to come up with that one compelling service that ties a customer closer to its business. Dell’s buyer-activated computer configuration system is one example. FedEx’s Web package tracking system was another. But that system kept a firm grip on customers only as long as FedEx’s competitors couldn’t duplicate it. Eventually they did, sending the company back to the drawing board.

FedEx came up with Ship Manager, an application on a small computer set up by FedEx at customer sites to help users weigh packages, calculate shipping charges, and print shipping labels.

FedEx Integration Assistant quizzes a representative at the customer site on what data sources he’s using and automatically generates scripting language to create links between FedEx Ship Manager and the data sources. It can do so for common accounting, ERP, warehouse, shopping cart, and fulfillment applications. Any system that uses a relational database compliant with the Open Database Connectivity standard can be discovered and linked. The wizard also can connect to the popular small-business accounting package QuickBooks.

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GLS targets pharmaceutical industry

Posted by | Sep 12, 2006 | |

Parcels and express company GLS aims to generate more business from the German pharmaceuticals industry. The Royal Mail subsidiary said that it will be exhibiting for the first time at the Expopharm trade fair in Munich from September 21-24 to gain new business contacts and promote its services.

“We offer 10 years of experience in the shipping of dental products, very high quality standards and industry-specific additional services,” explained Klaus Conrad, managing director of GLS Germany. “We are targeting growth of 20% this year in the pharmaceuticals sector.” GLS put particular focus on quality and secure transportation, with a damage rate of less than one item per 10,000 parcels, he added.

GLS Germany said it has already successfully doubled its volumes in the pharmaceuticals sector in the last two years. Export shipments, particularly to Austria and the Benelux states, had increased strongly. It now delivers to all 21,500 chemists across Germany.

The parcels company offers reliable delivery with rapid transit times, full tracking and tracing and inclusive insurance, along with additional services specifically for the pharmaceuticals industry such as the “Adressee Only” delivery option.

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GeoPost subsidiary Armadillo expands Russian network

Posted by | Sep 12, 2006 | |

The Russian parcels and freight logistics group Armadillo, a GeoPost subsidiary, said it has opened six new branches in key regions over the first half of 2006 to further expand its network.

Three branches are located in Siberia (Barnaul, Krasnojarsk, Osmk), one in the Volga region (Saratov), and two branches in the Far East (Charabarovsk and Wladiwostok). The openings give the company a total of 22 branches throughout all the regions of the Russian Federation, from the North-West to the Far East, Armadillo said in a statement.

Each new branch incorporates an office and operating terminal, including handling equipment and IT technology linking all branches. Each branch covers about 500 sqm and has capacity to handle up to 2,000 parcels per day.

“In the next five years, the Russian logistics market will experience a tremendous boom thanks to the biggest Western retailers,” explained Sergey Kruglov, director general of the Armadillo Group. “After opening branches in Moscow and St. Petersburg, they are capturing the market in further regions of Russia where they require the same quality they guarantee to their customers in Moscow, Europe and all over the world. Russian companies will certainly try to capture the regional market where the demand for transportation services is very high,” he added.

The Armadillo Group, which is jointly owned by GeoPost and its Turkish partner, Yurtici Kargo, offers courier, express, parcel and freight transportation within Russia and internationally, including the Bizpak just-in-time delivery service. It plans to expand its network further later this year.

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