Tag: International

TNT nears end of global SAP roll-out

Posted by | Sep 24, 2007 | |

TNT Express is nearing the end of global roll-out of enterprise resource planning software from SAP.

It said this week it had rolled out SAP systems to 56 countries out of 62, and the program was delivering savings in purchasing and inventory, as well as strengthened reporting processes to ensure compliance with legislation including Sarbanes-Oxley.

It has also improved management of IT by establishing a global customer competence centre, according to Dennis Beard, director of infrastructure services at TNT.

A key to its success is that the company has strong quality and project management principles deeply embedded into the whole organization and these were rigorously enforced during the roll-out, Beard said. The project has also benefited from a high degree of executive buy-in. TNT chief executive Marie Christine Lombard has attended twice-monthly project review meetings over the life of the program.

Svan Lembke, who is in charge of SAP’s Quality Program in Europe and the Middle East, said that to date the roll-out by TNT was exemplary.

“TNT Express have embraced key principles of quality early in their implementation and involved their partner Atos and SAP to achieve a successful global roll-out.”

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DHL Express and Swiss Railways (SBB) relaunch their next-day parcel delivery service.

Posted by | Sep 20, 2007 | |

DHL Express and Swiss Railways (SBB) are extending their next-day parcel delivery service to same-day deliveries to key economic centers. Since this summer the two companies have offered a next-day domestic parcel delivery service called “A-Pac” where consumers can hand in their parcels at 71 DHL Servicepoints located at railway stations.

Under the DHL Rail Pac trial service launched on September 24, customers can now hand in letters and parcels at the Servicepoints in Zurich and Bern railway stations for same-day transportation to SBB stations in Basle, Biel, Lucerne and Geneva, with optional to-door final delivery by DHL. Items delivered to Lausanne, St. Gallen and Bellinzona have to be collected at the railway station. Pick-up customers are informed by phone when their items have arrived.

The pilot project will run for three months, and the two companies will then decide whether to extend it.

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DHL increases capacity for Hong Kong-Beijing service to meet growing trade volume

Posted by | Sep 19, 2007 | |

DHL has further enhanced its overnight service between Hong Kong and Beijing, by increasing its dedicated flight frequency to meet the growing demand for cargo capacity fuelled by the robust trade between Hong Kong and Mainland China.

Customers utilizing this ten-time weekly dedicated service will now enjoy more options for their Hong Kong-Beijing shipment delivery schedule with the newly-added weekend flights, representing a 25 percent uplift capacity. As part of the service enhancement, DHL will utilize a larger Boeing B727-200F aircraft operated by Air Hong Kong – a 60/40 joint venture between Cathay Pacific and DHL – and customers will benefit from an overall 58 percent increase in payload capacity as the new freighter has a capacity to hold 24 tons per sector.

Trade between Hong Kong and Mainland China has been registering double-digit growth in recent years, boosted by strong Chinese exports. According to figures from China’s Ministry of Commerce, two-way trade figures in 2006 rose an impressive 21.6 percent, reaching US$166.2 billion. The uptrend continues in the first half of 2007, as trade volume expanded by a further 23.5 percent compared to a year ago. Hong Kong was China’s fourth largest trading partner and third largest export market last year.

The upgraded Hong Kong-Beijing service will further strengthen DHL’s Asia Air Network. The network currently comprises more than 30 destinations in 16 countries and territories, served by over 20 aircraft in dedicated air operations. This allows major Asia Pacific cities and other business centers to be interconnected through DHL’s regional hubs and gateways, providing DHL’s customers with overnight services across the region.

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DHL Japan shortens standard delivery times for customers

Posted by | Sep 18, 2007 | |

DHL has reduced its delivery times from two days to one day for documents and packages destined for major cities in China, Korea and Australia, where many Japanese companies are expanding their presence, and to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates – the center of trade in the Middle East. These shortened delivery times are made possible by new flights and improved collection and delivery efficiency in Japan and overseas.

DHL already provides next-day delivery to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Suzhou in China, as well as Seoul and Incheon in Korea. Now, by expanding its next-day delivery to major cities such as Tianjin and Hangzhou in China, and Daegu and Busan in Korea, DHL has further increased its industry-leading delivery speed in Asia Pacific and the Middle East region.

This reduction in standard delivery times has been achieved through the ongoing reinforcement of DHL’s ground infrastructure in Japan and the strengthening of DHL’s air network through the introduction of new flights to meet the increasing demand for international delivery.

In June this year, DHL has also opened its expanded gateway in the international cargo area – located adjacent to the runway – at Osaka’s Kansai International Airport. With the new facility, a threefold increase in cargo handling capacity has been realized through the introduction of the airport’s first automated sorting system.

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The winner by Scouts votes of the 2007 EUROPA stamp competition is the Armenian operator HAYPOST.

Posted by | Sep 18, 2007 | |

The winner by Scouts votes of the 2007 EUROPA stamp competition is the Armenian operator HAYPOST.

EUROPA stamps are special stamps issued by European postal administrations/enterprises, under the aegis of PostEurop, and that have Europe as their central theme.

The EUROPA stamp best design competition is a yearly event which takes place during PostEurop’s Plenary Assembly. The first competition, in 2002 saw Malta win best stamp design. Following winning stamps from 2003 to 2006 were from Monaco, Greenland, Iceland and Ukraine.

In order to celebrate the ‘100 years of scouting’ and to stimulate the interest for EUROPA stamps among young scouts, it was decided that the EUROPA competition would be opened to scouts around the world, and they were invited to vote on-line for the stamp they liked best.

On the 9th May, Europe Day, in Portoroz, Slovenia, Scouts and PostEurop launched the 2007 issue of the EUROPA stamp competition, celebrating scoutism, and in which over 50 postal operators in Europe participated.

As revealed during PostEurop’s Plenary Assembly in Vienna, Austria, the winner selected by the majority of voting scouts is the stamp issued by Postal Operator of Armenia : Haypost.

“On behalf of HayPost in Armenia, we wish to thank PostEurop for organizing this invaluable competition and especially our voters for having chosen the Armenian EUROPA stamp for the 2007 PostEurop competition. This stamp symbolizes the international peace generated by the scout movement, and the union between Armenians and all cultures in the world,” stated Hans Boon, Director General of HayPost.

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