With rising e-commerce volumes, postal and parcel carriers are integrating AI-based automated decisioning, digital networks, and advanced logistics capabilities to proactively keep customers informed while addressing growth in parcel volume and evolving consumer behavior. Digitization is now essential for managing increased parcel demand efficiently, providing scalable solutions, and capturing market share. Carriers can leverage end-to-end supply chain solutions and a digitally connected network to optimize timeliness, labor, and reliability for each delivery and offer self-service return solutions to their clients. Timely and reliable service with visibility at an optimal cost of choices is desired.
Postal & Parcel Carriers
Unlock efficiency and exceed expectations with digital operations to gain market share
Optimize your forward and reverse operations to scale efficiently, operate effectively and exceed customer expectations.
- Postal & Parcel Carriers
Industry Challenges
Drive productivity and customer satisfaction amidst significant growth
Our value as a go-to-market partner for postal and parcel carriers
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Case Studies
Success stories with Postal & Parcel Carriers
DHL Supply Chain, the global leader in contract logistics, had a vision: to create a new “plug & play” robotics hub that allowed their customers to harness robotics systems tailored to their individual business needs. Learn how, together with Microsoft, Blue Yonder helped DHL implement their first robotics hub at Tiendanimal, the largest online pet retailer in Spain.
Australia Post handled 85% of Australian E-commerce parcels, but returns were a common challenge for its many retail clients. To retain existing retailers and win even more market share, Australia Post needed a market-leading returns solution to offer all types of retailers. Blue Yonder built a customized returns platform solution powering a suite of modular products thus giving a world-leading returns experience to Australian retailers, consumers, and carriers.
Business Impact
Powering modern, scalable operations for post and parcel carriers
Transform your logistics and Returns Operations with AI-powered digital capabilities
Enhanced customer experience with real-time personalized updates and accelerate your automation transformation with state-of-the-art, AI-based logistics solutions to optimize labor, routes, shipments and warehouse space for improved speed, efficiency, and resiliency.
Boost workforce performance with incentives and best practices
Enhance workforce performance potential and cultivate a high-performance culture through standard methodologies and workforce incentives that uncover process improvement opportunities and reward productivity.
Help your retail customers offer a better returns experience
Provide your customers with an intelligent online returns initiation and orchestration engine, that incentivizes consumers to return items back to their stores or via a convenient drop-off kiosk provided by you.
Capabilities
Exceed customer expectations and gain market share
Improve availability and engagement of your critical resources
As e-commerce volumes grow, empower your business with real-time visibility and demand-based forecasting to optimize workforce needs. Ensure cost-effective staffing, reduce uncovered shifts and enhance schedule accuracy by automating schedules. Boost employee engagement, increase retention and lower training costs, while minimizing overtime with precise forecasting for a multigenerational workforce.
Optimize fleets, routes and schedules
Optimize routes, automate scheduling and improve load efficiency to save costs, fuel and time while meeting ESG targets. Use real-time data to minimize idle time and adjust routes, enhancing fuel efficiency. Accelerate fleet electrification, reduce emissions and track environmental progress, all while ensuring regulatory compliance and improving driver well-being through balanced scheduling.
Break enterprise boundaries to increase agility
Coordinate efforts across your complex fabric of trading partners for improved return on capital, lower cost to serve, and faster time to market. As variability and volatility increase, digital supply chain networks are critical to adjust to change faster and smarter.
Effortlessly manage retail customers
The Blue Yonder Carrier Portal enables you to manage multiple customers from a single, centralized interface. Effortlessly authorize new customer onboarding and access a wealth of data for key performance insights, including metrics on which retailers are driving the highest volumes.
Fully-branded, accessible returns experiences
Consumers gain access to a fully digitized journey that allows them to book a return in a matter of seconds. They can print a label at home or have a label printed for them in-store with friendly tracking updates throughout the process.
Industry Insights
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Thought Leadership
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Thought Leadership
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