trailer world Issue Two 2013

Issue Two 2013 13 Title or time window for the delivery. Along this line, DPD now offers the possibility of following the consignment in real time, a count- down informs the recipient every 15 minutes when the delivery man will ring the door bell. For the coming year, Hermes has developed several new services. The focus is the introduction of a time window of several hours for the delivery, which will be communicated to the customer on the day before. Furthermore it should be possible to deliver to the workplace, the holiday desti- nation and to reroute the consignment at short notice. A further logistic challenge: the frequent under utilisation of the capacity of the vehicles. “One of the solutions would be the cooper- ation with competitors,” says Heuing. That would mean that it would not be necessary to have four half laden Sprinters drive to the same part of the village. That would also improve the CO2 balance. “Everyone is concerned with ecological sustainability”, observes Geiger. In the meantime, the delivery services in the cities already partly use gas and electrically powered vehicles to reduce emissions and save on fuel. (bb) Hermes Fulfilment operates a 32,000 metre square dispatch centre in Löhne near Minden for furniture, white goods and other goods over 31 kilogram. Every day, about 4,000 of those large pieces are ready for delivery to the customer at the outgoing goods. Now a lorry has taken the parcel with the blouse and the skirt to Berlin-Oranienburg to one of the three subsidiaries of the Hermes Logistik Gruppe Deutschland. With the arrival of the parcel at the subsidiary, the monitor map light in the HTL logistics office goes off as the Hermes par- cel service takes over. In the subsidiary, packing employees quickly load the consignment into a Sprinter with the Hermes logo, which then heads off at 8am to Lena Meuser who is the first drop on the delivery schedule. Wednesday 3.20 am:

trailer world Issue Two 2013

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