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TNT lights fuse on tech asset management

Posted by | Apr 25, 2007 | |

TNT is working on an IT asset management pilot project in the UK which it hopes to roll out around the world.

TNT has started with desktop software asset management and by the end of the year plans to have charted the software on its servers as well, said Steve Fell, supplier and asset management group manager at TNT Express ICS.

He told silicon.com: “What asset management does is risk mitigation – it helps us to understand where our investment has gone.”

Speaking at the CA World user conference in Las Vegas, Fell said: “In order to manage what is a huge and complex environment we need to know where everything is.

“We want to get one view of our investments. The idea is we pilot in the UK and then deploy it across the rest of the organisation over two to three years – this is not going to happen overnight.”

Through its software and hardware asset management project the company wants to reduce risk – by knowing that it has enough software licences – and also reduce cost by not buying too many licences.

The company is using CA’s security, asset management, patch management, software delivery and deployment software as part of the project.

Eighty per cent of the project won’t be about the technology but about the processes in the organisation – such as making sure everybody involved with the purchasing process knows what they need to do to keep the tech asset management system up to date, he said.

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1-2-3…proves Elementary for TNT

Posted by | Apr 25, 2007 | |

A GBP 1.5 million investment in new equipment, a recruitment drive to boost staffing levels and the appointment of a new divisional general manager have equipped the TNT Document Services with the tools to reach new levels of business in 2007.

The three-pronged approach has seen the addition of six highlight colour printers, deployed at TNT sites in Basildon, Essex and Cardonald, Scotland, along with the introduction of two new high-speed mailing machine capable of collating documents at a rate of 22,000 per hour.

Formerly known as Cendris, the company joined the TNT Express Specialist Services portfolio as TNT Document Services just 15 months ago. Since then it has achieved:
• Scanning 18 million plans of buildings and land in England and Wales and 90 million supporting documents to replace a paper library with an electronic equivalent for Land Registry – a new five-year deal was signed last year to convert up to 60,000 ‘live’ documents a day.

• Winning contracts to print and dispatch millions of invoices and statements on behalf of major mailing, waste management, IT and food companies.

• Managing millions of electronic documents which have been converted from paper files, maps and invoices.

• Securing a contract with a leading consultancy to scan 1.5 million property-related records on behalf of a Government organisation.

TNT Document Services generate annual revenue in excess of GBP 20 million and employs a 250-strong workforce in London, Basildon, Cardonald and Coventry.

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TNT Post UK mobilises new advertising medium to reach mother and baby market

Posted by | Apr 25, 2007 | |

Advertisers looking to tap into the mother and baby market will have the opportunity to communicate their campaigns to over 1 million UK mothers and expectant mothers directly to their mobile phones, following the launch of Emma’s Diary Mobile Internet site, sponsored by TNT Post.
Emma’s Diary, created by Lifecycle Marketing, is a week by week guide to pregnancy and its paperback version has been distributed by GPs throughout the UK for the last 14 years. The new ‘mobile accessible’ version of the diary has been made available due to TNT Post’s recent sponsorship deal with its subsidiary company, Lifecycle Marketing and is a response to the growing usage and accessibility of mobile phones in the UK.
Through using this service, advertisers will have the opportunity to reach expectant mothers and those with young families with precision timed SMS and multi-media messages anytime, anywhere. In addition, by using information provided by the individual mobile user, advertisers will be able to target the recipient at the exact week of pregnancy or parenthood which best suits their product and thus increase projected ROI for the campaign.
With high read and response rates and the ability to track responses in real time, the mobile phone offers an extremely cost effective way for advertisers to reach this target market. Lifecycle Marketing has one of the largest data bases of mobile numbers available in the UK.

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TNT Express generates fast growth in Russia

Posted by | Apr 25, 2007 | |

TNT Express achieved strong growth in Russia last year and following its network expansion increased its business by 35%.

TNT Express Russia announced that it undertook 1.5 million shipments in 2006. Domestic volumes, which grew faster than international volumes, currently account for 40% of total deliveries and grew by 40% last year.

International items accounted for 60% of shipments, but by less, up 20% when compared with last year. Special services, offering business solutions for individual clients, increased significantly growing by 60%.

The number of employees increased last year by 20% to more than 500, while the vehicle fleet was expanded by 30%. The number of corporate customers almost doubled.

TNT Express Russia further expanded its regional network and opened new branches across the country. New air routes were established between Kaunas (Lithuania) and St. Petersburg in response to rising volumes and to speed up the rate of delivery.

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TNT, unions and works council await government vote

Posted by | Apr 24, 2007 | |

Unions and a works council within TNT NV have said they will keep a close eye on the Dutch parliament which is scheduled to vote this afternoon on market liberalisation legislation that will open the Dutch postal market to competition on deliveries of less than 50 grams.
The Abvakabo FNV union and BVPP, a postal union representing 9,000 workers, have criticised the liberalisation, while the works council at TNT Post, a division of TNT NV’s domestic operations, has warned of possible labour action, including efforts to openly obstruct competitors, if the law is not amended with minimal requirements for labour agreements.
The liberalisation law is intended to open the Dutch market more fully to TNT competitors, such as Selekt Mail and Sandd, by Jan 1, 2008.
Those companies are not required to pay workers an hourly wage and use freelance performance-based pay schemes. Abvakabo FNV and the TNT Post works council say that these companies pay less than the minimum wage and enable unfair competition.
The subject was discussed during a series of parliamentary debates, and proposals were put forward to establish basic standards for all postal workers. But the motion failed to garner majority support and was rejected by Frank Heemskerk, the Social Democrat deputy minister in charge of the liberalisation.

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