Tag: Worldwide

time:matters Enters into Partnership with Scandinavian Sameday Market Leader Jetpak

Posted by | Apr 18, 2007 | |

time:matters is now offering its customers a sameday delivery service to and from the Scandinavian region. The new service is a result of a close partnership recently established between time:matters and Jetpak, the market leader for sameday services in Scandinavia.

Due to the new partnership, approximately 100 additional destinations for urgent incoming and outgoing shipments are available in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. The new destinations include North European commercial centers such as Stockholm, Oslo, and Copenhagen as well as cities like Göteborg and Billund. The new partnership reduces delivery times between the most important business centers and in Scandinavia and in Europe. For example, the shipment of urgent documents or goods between cities like Göteborg and Düsseldorf takes only three hours, and only four hours from Stockholm to Zurich and vice versa. “Business relations between Scandinavia and the other European countries are continuously increasing, which means there is a rising demand for rapid and individual logistics solutions. Thanks to the new partnership, we are optimally able to fulfill these needs,” says Erik Lautmann, CEO of Jetpak.

The broad range of services are based on exclusive and customized dispatch and transportation solutions developed jointly by time:matters and Jetpak as well as on the integration of the tight and high-frequency networks of the two partners. Other benefits of the new partnership for customers include the long opening hours of the Jetpak drop-off and pick-up locations – including early morning and late night hours, which gives customers maximum flexibility in their timing.

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Day Software announces new digital asset management solution

Posted by | Apr 17, 2007 | |

Day Software is releasing a new, standalone digital asset management solution. Part of Communique, Day’s enterprise content management suite, Communique Digital Asset Management (CQ DAM) is the first to fully leverage a Java Content Repository (JCR) that is JSR 170-based, the industry standard for content access. The only native JCR-standard-compliant DAM solution available, CQ DAM is expected to distribute in mid-2007.

Delivering unparalleled global asset distribution and sharing through a centralized storage system, Day’s CQ DAM provides global, enterprise-wide access to digital assets via the web. The new solution includes essential DAM services such as a powerful metadata management engine, comprehensive version control, user and workgroup management, as well as integration with relevant third-party tools.

“Companies worldwide have witnessed a rich-media revolution, whereby Web content, images, audio and video have all become business-relevant media types,” said Michael Moppert, Chairman and CEO.

Day’s CQ DAM also provides intellectual property protection by creating dynamic rules for each asset or asset class, in order to control access and user rights. The system includes the ability to watermark and track digital information, and control the use of individual components. The product also offers a powerful workflow engine that enables the implementation of cross-organizational processes for content creation, editing, approval processing, quality control, metadata management, distribution and archival.

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Researchers see India's express industry growing by 20% a year

Posted by | Apr 16, 2007 | |

India’s express and courier industry, now valued at Rs71bn (USD1.63bn), is forecast to reveal a compound annual growth rate of 20% over the next five years and more than double its size by 2012.

According to a study by rating agency Credit Analysis’ research the main growth driver for the express industry will be the opening up of the banking, insurance, retail, aviation and telecommunications sectors.

Several executives recently interviewed for UPS indicated that a key segment of Asia’s business leaders were more excited about the growth of India than they were of China’s.

While there was optimism over the growth of the Chinese consumer market, small and medium sized enterprise leaders across Asia expressed a desire to capitalise on India’s rapid growth by leveraging its continued rise as a manufacturing base.

Leaders of such enterprises also expressed a desire to become an outsourcing destination for India and an exporter of raw materials to India for manufacturing.

The UPS Asia Business Monitor, a survey designed to gauge the competitiveness of small and medium sized enterprises in Asia, also found that, of 1,200 decision-makers interviewed across 12 different markets in the region 85% said India had the potential to be a regional economic leader and 81% said the country’s economy was certain to grow this year.

The express industry in India, which ranks among the fastest growing sectors in the Indian economy, has been growing at an annual rate of 33% over the past decade.

At its present estimated size, the industry is almost as large as the shipping and paper industries in the country. However, it is highly fragmented, with more than 2,500 express operators, although about 20 of them make up more than 50% of the industry’s revenues.

According to another study the organised portion of the industry comprises 65% of the total market.

The semi-organised and unorganised segments, which consist largely of regional and intra-city service providers and the government-run EMS Speedpost, between them account for the rest.

Among domestic operators, Blue Dart, DTDC, First Flight and Overnite Express are leading express service companies while FedEx, UPS, DHL and TNT are the top international operators.

‘Document parcels that weigh less than 300 gm account for about 70% of the total volume of document parcels and intra-city deliveries account for nearly 37% of their turnover,’ the CARE report says.

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Hi-Tech Logistics Conference

Posted by | Apr 16, 2007 | |

Hi-Tech Logistics Conference

Monday 14th May 2007 – Wednesday 16th May 2007
Radisson SAS Park Lane Hotel, Antwerp, Belgium

Outlook on the costs of globalisation, logistics infrastructure challenges and opportunities within emerging countries
Impact of consumer driven supply chains and what can be done to stay competitive
Implementing strategies to manage the risk in longer supply chains
Achieving, maintaining and strengthening collaborative relationships and trading partnerships to achieve speed-to-market results
Examining the impact of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive and other key environmental considerations
Effective reverse logistics management case studies
Reducing excess inventory and inefficiencies through leaner and improved chain visibility strategies
Security – protecting high value items
PLUS – Separately bookable Pre-Conference Workshop
MANAGING REVERSE LOGISTICS – GETTING YOUR RETURN STRATEGIES RIGHT

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TNT to connect Europe with own freighter aircraft

Posted by | Apr 11, 2007 | |

TNT India Private Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Netherlands based Euro 12.6 billion TNT NV, is planning to connect India with the European Union and expand domestically this year. The company is looking at either buying or leasing freighter aircraft to launch its international operations out of India.

He said the company, which recently acquired the Hyderabad-based Speedage Express Cargo Services, is also exploring opportunities to extend its domestic air express service to various cities in the country. The company is looking at forming alliances with existing airlines to carry cargo for it.

Currently, TNT is connecting 110 cities on its own and reaching other important centres through its agents and partners. The major verticals for TNT in India are banking and financial services, automobile and auto components, pharmaceuticals, ICT sectors and computing. The company with its newly-launched domestic air express business aims to service these sectors intensively.

“The acquisition of Speedage yielding results very rapidly and we have almost transformed their processes within TNT’s processes. After the acquisition we are growing rapidly. Recently we have added several new clients including Pantaloon and ABB,” Mitra added.

The company had earmarked an investment of Euro 100 million in early 2006. However, with its plans to launch express service to Europe, the investments may be doubled over the next few years. The remaining funds will be used to augment the express delivery infrastructure in the next two years in the country.

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