Tag: Deutsche Post World Net

IPC leads environmental sustainability initiative

Posted by | Oct 19, 2007 | |

The International Post Corporation (IPC) announced today at its bi-annual Board meeting in New York City, its plans to develop a three-tier program to address environmental sustainability among its member posts. The program will focus on developing common sector-wide definitions and measurement systems; conducting stakeholder research and communicating sector-wide advances in environmental sustainability throughout the postal industry.

“Climate change is no longer an issue of debate,” said Jean-Paul Bailly, chairman and CEO of Groupe La Poste in France and chairman of the IPC Board. “Two prominent areas for concern to postal operators and our industry stakeholders are the operation of extensive road and air transport networks and issues related to direct mail, a strategically critical business for posts.”

Mr. Bailly added, “Because of the sector-wide urgency of the issue, the IPC Board will devote its annual conference this May to develop a common environmental sustainability initiative and map the way forward for the postal industry.” The conference, Leadership through Sustainable Development: Postal Industry Challenges and Opportunities will take place on 29 and 30 May, 2008 in La Chapelle en Serval, France. CEOs representing 24 member postal organizations and several selected CEOs from both inside and outside the industry are expected to attend.

Last month, IPC conducted a members’ forum on the subject of environmental sustainability, where it was decided that IPC should take a leadership role in providing the platforms for members to come together to define the way forward for the sector.

IPC has been a leader in providing postal delivery measurement systems for nearly 20 years, we are the natural partner for the postal industry and it makes sense that we are the organization to develop a common system for environmental measurement and research among the posts,” said Herbert-Michael Zapf, CEO and president, IPC.

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Virtual Journey into the Future of Logistics

Posted by | Oct 17, 2007 | |

The theme portal “Trends in Logistics” offers practical case studies, animations, and video clips of how, for example, an RFID chip works or what exactly is meant in logistics by the term “rendezvous management”. Specialist articles written by renowned logistics experts from research and practice complement the content of the new theme channel which can be found at www.dpwn.com/future. All delegates attending the 24th German Logistics Congress are invited to a live presentation being given by DHL in Room Charlottenburg 1 at the InterContinental Hotel in Berlin between October 17 and 19 where they can gain a detailed insight into logistics of the future.

According to figures produced by the German Logistics Association (BVL), some 2.6 million people are employed in the German logistics industry and account for around EUR 170 billion in annual revenue. After engineering logistics is the second biggest industrial sector in Germany. The BVL also states that the sector is growing at an annual rate of six to seven percent and has calculated the share of logistics work outsourced to external service providers by trade and industry to be an average 32 percent. On the “Trends in Logistics” web portal a sequence entitled “The Logistics Phenomenon” examines how general trends such as outsourcing, globalization, and deregulation will affect modern-day logistics.

The homepage of Deutsche Post World Net not only underlines the Group?s position as a leader in the field of logistics innovation but demonstrates just how fascinating the world of logistics is in reality. At DHL trends are turned into marketable logistics solutions and a number of these, including RFID and telematics, are now explained online and are easily to understand. Among a wide range of fascinating content Deutsche Post World Net also includes a logistics glossary which offers more transparency in the often highly complex language used in the world of logistics.

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CPL – TNT, DPWN take up the environmental challenge

Posted by | Oct 5, 2007 | |

TNT and Deutsche Post World Net are responding to the environmental challenges facing the CEP sector with a wide range of similar operational measures but are taking a divergent strategic approach on the issue of “green” products, the CPL Summit in Barcelona this week heard.

Presenting TNT’s new “Planet Me” environmental program, Carin ten Hage, project director social responsibility, stressed the importance of a comprehensive program covering not only operations but also issues such as company cars, business travel and employees’ private lifestyles.

But TNT had deliberately decided not to introduce any “green” products in the style of DHL’s GoGreen services, ten Hage noted. “We don’t want to have a green product, we want to be a green product,” she commented. “If you use us, then you know you are using a company that does everything it can to reduce emissions.”

Winfried Häser, DPWN director of environmental strategy and policy, outlined the German group’s three-tier environmental management approach of measuring, reducing and finally replacing emissions through various carbon-neutral GoGreen products. However, the latter services, now available in selected markets, were still “niche” products at present, he said.

In an overview of the challenges facing the CEP industry on environmental issues as it continues to grow on a worldwide scale, CEP-Research chief editor Paul Needham warned that external pressure from stakeholders would grow in the years to come, with harder-hitting regulations to follow.

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Deutsche Post World Net appoints new CFO

Posted by | Sep 14, 2007 | |

Effective October 1st, John Allan (59) will assume responsibility as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) based in Bonn, the headquarters of Deutsche Post World Net (DPWN). Allan is already a member of the Deutsche Post World Net Executive Management Board and responsible for Logistics, based in Bracknell/London. In future, he will also take over the Global Business Services (GBS), the Group’s Shared Services such as IT, Procurement, Real Estate, or Legal Services.

Frank Appel (46) will take over Allan’s current position as Head of the Logistics division in Bracknell, effective October 1st. Appel ran the DHL Logistics business prior to the Exel-acquisition and is currently on the Executive Management Board in charge of Global Business Services (GBS), Mail International and Global Customer Solutions (GCS). While Allan takes over GBS after Appel successfully established these Shared Services functions, the latter will keep his responsibility as Head of GCS, the unit which manages the relationships with Deutsche Post World Net’s top 100 customers. Appel will also continue to run Mail International, Corporate Regulatory Management as well as the “First Choice”-program, which is Deutsche Post World Net’s quality and customer service improvement initiative.

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German cartel office slams regulator approval of Deutsche Post rates

Posted by | Aug 29, 2007 | |

The German cartel office said that regulators’ lenient calculations allow Deutsche Post World Net AG to keep its postal rates unchanged, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported, quoting a spokeswoman of the office.

The Bundesnetzagentur, Germany’s regulatory authority for postal services, yesterday said it will continue to base its calculations for postal rate approval on the difference between productivity gains and inflation rates.

The regulator sees productivity increasing at a rate of 1.8 pct a year.

The cartel office argued a productivity factor of 1.8 pct is too low, adding Deutsche Post is reducing its costs at a faster pace, according to the newspaper.

It also criticized Deutsche Post’s social payments and wage levels as being unusual in the industry, and urged regulators to include in their calculations foreign postal markets, some of which have significantly lower postal rates.

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