Tag: TNT

Deutsche Post rivals strengthen hands in Germany

Posted by | Oct 1, 2007 | |

TNT Post and PIN Group have made further acquisitions in Germany to strengthen their hands to compete with Deutsche Post when the latter loses its national monopoly over the German letters market on 1 January 2008.

PIN Group has acquired Arriva GmbH, the largest private mail firm in Baden-Württemberg, which covers 40 pct of all households in the state. A joint venture between Badischen Verlag, of Freiburg, and SüdKurier, of Konstanz, Arriva also has more than 4,000 business customers.

Meanwhile, TNT Post announced yesterday that it was buying 25 pct of Citipost Osnabrück, a sister company of the local Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung newspaper. The holding will give TNT Post access to over 320,000 households in the region. TNT Post says it now covers 90 pct of all households in Germany.

Both PIN Group and TNT Post have acquired a large number of regional mail companies in Germany in recent years to build up national delivery networks in preparation for full liberalization of the German mail market.

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TNT Post buys 25.1 pct stake in Citipost Osnabrueck

Posted by | Oct 1, 2007 | |

TNT NV’s TNT Post said it agreed to buy a 25.1 pct stake in regional letter distribution company CPO CITIPOST Osnabruck GmbH & Co. KG.

No financial details were disclosed.

TNT Post said the stake provides it with access to more than 320,000 households in and around Osnabruck, a city in Germany’s northwest.

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PIN and TNT Post say 50,000 jobs at stake if minimum wages applied

Posted by | Oct 1, 2007 | |

PIN AG and TNT NV’s TNT Post convinced Germany’s Economy Ministry that 50,000 jobs are at stake, if the minimum wage agreement concluded by former monopolist Deutsche Post World Net AG and union ver.di is applied to the whole postal industry, Der Spiegel reported, citing ministry documents.

‘The entrepreneurs plausibly demonstrated that they would have to file for bankruptcy at minimum wages between 8 and 9.80 eur,’ the magazine quoted the minutes of a meeting between Deutsche Post’s competitors and the Economy Ministry held last Wednesday.

A representative of TNT Post said the Netherlands-based logistics company will consider withdrawing from Germany all together if Deutsche Post’s minimum wages are extended to the whole industry, Der Spiegel also reported, citing sources who attended the meeting.

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TNT Express wins SAP EMEA Quality Award

Posted by | Sep 24, 2007 | |

TNT Express, with support from Atos Origin, an international IT services company, has recently completed the 56th country in a global SAP implementation to 62 countries.

The global multi-million Euro program, which is already delivering savings and business benefits, was recognized at a recent SAP award ceremony, where TNT Express won the SAP EMEA Quality Award for Global Implementation and Roll-out.

To date, the benefits for TNT Express of the global SAP roll-out include savings in purchasing and inventory, strengthened reporting processes to ensure compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley and improved management of IS/IT through a global customer competence centre. The success of this award winning project is due to the resolute commitment from TNT Express, the strong project team and the focus, energy and pragmatic style, with which Atos Origin has supported the implementation.

At a separate ceremony in London, Atos Origin won the UK SAP Partner Excellence award for Customer Satisfaction and Quality for the third year in succession. This highly coveted award is determined by an independent customer satisfaction survey, in which customers are asked to rate SAP partners on all aspects of the SAP implementation process, including professional competence, quality of consultants, SAP product know-how and ability to deliver on time and to budget.

The awards in Prague were led by Dr Svan Lembke, Vice President and in charge of the Quality Programme for SAP across EMEA. After the event, Dr Lembke concluded: “TNT Express have embraced key principles of quality early in their implementation and involved their partner Atos Origin and SAP to achieve a successful global roll-out. Having been involved with Atos Origin for more than 3 years it is tremendous to see them win the UK Partner Excellence Award and the win for TNT Express shows the collaboration in practice”.

Atos Origin has more than 20 years of experience with SAP applications and is a SAP Global Services Partner, a SAP Global Hosting Partner, a member of the SAP NetWeaver® Partnership Initiative and a leading member of the Enterprise SOA adoption program. Atos Origin has more than 4,560 SAP application consultants worldwide and SAP certified data centres in all geographical regions. The group was a finalist in the prestigious 2007 Global SAP Pinnacle Awards and two 2006 SAP Partner awards.

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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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