Ep 232: Squeezing more efficiency from parcel sorting

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