CIO
Challenge
Postal shipping for enterprise customers is a very operational demanding business and needs to be effective and efficient to be aligned with CTT commercial goals, especially with the current context of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Solution & Goal
This project rethinks all CTT warehouse operations for postal enterprise customers, leveraging on: mobility, one tablet for each operator; computer vision to recognize simultaneously several barcodes; ERP, CRM and Advanced Analytics integration to improve overall operational efficiency, cost control and associated risks.
How-To
Development of a complete postal warehouse platform that manages all the postal shipment reception, several steps of conference and sampling, exception handling (retentions and returns) and billing and CRM interface:
BackOffice Portal for supervisors and warehouse coordinators. The systems will compare declared characteristics and quantities with the ones obtained from automatic postal counting machines (MMSs) via Advanced Analytics Integration. Exception handling (missing documents, parcel classification, returns etc) are also handled by the platform. The final values are sent to billing via SAP ERP. All the intermediate states, photos and automatic counting images are sent to CTT Datalake and are available for exploration and algorithm training and optimization.
The platform was developed with version 11 of the OutSystems platform, supporting enterprise-grade scalability and security. The system integrates with several internal CTT Systems (Azure Authentication, SAP ERP, CRM, Azure Datalake, etc).
KPI’s / Client Value
The platform will allow to decreasing 30% average warehouse costs (direct and indirect), compared to the previous process.
Benefits
About the Client
CTT – Correios de Portugal, is a Portuguese company that operates as both the national postal service of Portugal and a commercial group with subsidiaries operating in banking, e-commerce, and other postal services. It was founded in 1520 by King Manuel I of Portugal, during the Portuguese Renaissance, and CTT is the oldest company still in operation in Portugal to this day.