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
