Ep 232: Squeezing more efficiency from parcel sorting

Postal Hub podcast

Bertrand Späth, co-founder Kizy Tracking and Business Development at Spectos, joins me to talk about squeezing more efficiency from parcel sorting:

• Responding to the pandemic’s parcel surge
• Processing wildly fluctuating parcel volumes
• Availability of staff to work in parcel processing centres
• Profitability of parcels - making money on a service with thin margins
• Delivering more with the same capacity while satisfying customers
• Becoming more efficient in parcel processing - automation of parcel sorting
• Inefficiencies that currently exist in automated sorting machines
• Challenges in reading addresses (including cross-border parcels)
• What unreadable addresses mean in terms of volumes
• Saving 20 - 50% on sorting costs through automating the sorting of parcels that currently must be manually sorted
• Using OCR with video coding to achieve 99% automated reading of addresses
• How video coding can work with sorting machine technology
• Correcting incorrect addresses on address databases, and implications for improved sorting accuracy
• Managing teams in delivery networks
• Flexibility benefits of outsourced video coding