Tag: Finland

Post Office Networks Abroad

Posted by | Dec 14, 2007 | |

This information was collected as part of the background for Postcomm’s work on the future role of the UK’s network of Post Office branches. It provides a brief overview of the common issues faced by post office networks abroad and how governments and postal operators have tackled them.
Covers: Austria / Australia / Belgium / Canada / Denmark / Finland / France / Germany / Republic of Ireland / Italy / Japan / Netherlands / Norway / New Zealand / Portugal / Spain / Sweden / Switzerland / UK / USA
P:LibraryPostalPostComm Formal DocumentsPost Office networks abroad Dec03.pdf

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Miele and Schenker start logistics partnership in Finland

Posted by | Dec 3, 2007 | |

Delivering all spare parts throughout the country ¡ñ Warehousing activities will move to Schenker¡¯s multimodal logistics center at the port of Turku
(Essen/Helsinki, 28 November 2007) Miele, the world¡¯s largest family-owned and operated appliance company, and Schenker in Finland, the leading provider of integrated logistics services in the country, have just signed a contract on a logistics partnership. Schenker will be Miele¡¯s new partner for logistics in Finland.

Effective 1st January 2008, the Miele spare parts activities will move to the Schenker premises in Helsinki. Schenker¡¯s own parcel service Schenker Express will then deliver all Miele spare parts throughout the country.

In April 2008, Miele¡¯s remaining warehousing activities, now still located in the city of Hanko, will move to Schenker¡¯s multimodal logistics center at the port of Turku. The new Schenker complex is unique to Finland, linking the four carriers ¨C truck, air, ship and rail ¨C and serving at the same time as a distribution center. Schenker will continue as the national distributor of Miele¡¯s products in Finland. Schenker also offers home delivery service for Miele products.

Miele¡¯s range of consumer appliances includes: vacuum cleaners; laundry systems; rotary irons; dishwashers; built-in convection, speed and steam ovens; cooktops; ventilation hoods; and coffee systems. In addition, Miele Professional offers commercial cleaning equipment such as laboratory glassware washers, industrial parts cleaning systems, dental disinfectors and commercial wet cleaning systems.

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Itella Information creates one international document scanning environment standardising on Kodak’s production scanners

Posted by | Oct 12, 2007 | |

Eastman Kodak Company today announced that Itella Information, the service bureau division of Itella Group, has harmonized its production scanner infrastructure selecting Kodak as its main partner. To support ongoing growth of the business and add future capacity for growth, four i1860 scanners, the fastest ever high volume systems from Kodak, have been purchased for use at its production centers in Finland and Sweden.

This is a significant deal as Itella Information’s extensive scanner fleet will be now be predominately Kodak based thereby simplifying hardware management, improving efficiency and flexibility in a hugely price sensitive and competitive business.

Formerly known as Finland Post Group, the company was renamed Itella Group in June 2007 and provides traditional consumer focused postal services in Finland under the Posti brand, along with services to businesses in Finland and eight other northern European countries as Itella (1). Operating in three business areas –Itella Logistics (freight services), Itella Mail Communication (letter and direct mail delivery) and Itella Information (outsourced document management services, invoicing and business communication), the Group employs over 24k staff with net sales in 2006 totaling EUR 1,550.6 million.

Itella Information provides a range of standardized and bespoke services for customers with particular focus on digitizing solutions which covers invoice processing and document process outsourcing. Itella manages the whole lifecycle of documents from initial scanning, workflow, document management, electronic archiving and subsequent access.

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Bar Code Cameras: Accu-Sort Camera Systems Help Finland Post Process Faster, Cut Cost

Posted by | Sep 28, 2007 | |

Accu-Sort Systems announced that it has installed an AV4000(2.0) camera-based sortation system at the Finland Post Parcel Sorting Center in Helsinki. The new system eliminates manual handling by handing off camera-captured images to an optical character recognition (OCR) imaging system that reads parcel address labels.

Multi-side camera tunnels over an FKI tilt tray system capture parcel dimensions, bar code data, and high-quality images for an OCR and Video Coding System supplied by Prime Vision. This is the first high-speed parcel sortation application able to send full-resolution images including embedded tracking data across a standard Ethernet network.

Prior to this system, the Finland Post used a manual process in which every label was read and manually keyed into the system. This process was slow and introduced numerous opportunities for error.

In addition to the AV4000 camera tunnel system, Finland Post also installed a mobile image capture solution to read labels on roller cages, pallets, and non-conveyable items coming into the facility. Unlike any other hand-held readers, the Accu-Sort AccuVision HandsFree CCD camera provides an image good enough to be read by an OCR system. At Finland Post, the camera reliably reads carbon copy labels which include handwriting. Another unique advantage is a reading field large enough to capture an A5 label (8.3″ x 5.8″). Because the camera has an exceptionally deep depth of field, operators do not need to position the camera precisely, enabling faster processing.

Technicians installed the camera on a movable overhead arm so operators can move the camera in a five meter radius. This increased productivity and safety: operators can move out of the way of forklifts and continue working.

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