Toll tracking: what can PACT technology bring in China?

Having its own China-based Global Logistics team, Toll last year introduced Pre-alert Control Tower (PACT) technology and telematics to help monitor and optimize Toll tracking across their local operations. 

1. How can PACT help monitor and optimize performance?                

Today, the state-of-the-alert control tower offers national network coverage with 24/7, end-to-end visibility of the thousands of items that travel throughout our network distribution centers and sub-stations in China, every day. Vehicle telematics also gives Toll valuable data on consignments in-transit, out on the roads.

2. Its pre-alert function

One of the main benefits a pre-alert system offers is the ability manage unique circumstances or exceptions, especially in busy periods. That’s because ‘pre-alert’ notifications that are triggered in relation to an item’s delivery status. For example, if a consignment hasn’t been scanned at the warehouse or checked-in by a driver within its nominated timeframe or checkpoint, the system controller will automatically be alerted to prompt the warehouse team to investigate, or to call the driver to understand the situation then, if necessary, re-deploy resources to keep the delivery moving.

3. Data collection and future resource planning

Not only do features like this help Toll manage deliveries more efficiently for customers year-round, importantly – even if deliveries don’t go according to plan – they enable Toll to be more proactive. This means presenting Toll’s customers with a practical solution to an issue, along with providing internal advantages such as future resource planning and utilization benefits.

For shipping info, click Toll Tracking

Swiss Post ranked first in the world

Swiss Post is well known for its quality service, but how well it truly is. Recently, Swiss Post is regarded as the best among all the postal organizations evaluated by the UPU in the Postal Development Index. 

Three major dimensions of Postal Development Index

Reliability, relevance and resilience are the three major dimensions of Postal Development Index. The UPU study evaluates reliability (efficiency, speed, and quality of delivery and services), reach (international networks and commitment), relevance (demand for the products and services, and how important they are to the country) and resilience (how innovative Swiss Post is, how diversified its sources of revenue are and how sustainable developments are implemented).

Challenges & opportunities for all the postal organizations

Statistics shows that growing digitization causes tremendous challenges for the sector worldwide, mainly due to the increasing demand for delivery capacity in online retail. However, it also shows that digitization offers new opportunities for companies which are flexible, active and quick to react.

Compared with its competitors

Among the evaluation, Swiss Post got the maximum score of 100 points for relevance and resilience. The average score for industrialized nations in these dimensions was 64.3 points (resilience) and 39.9 points (relevance).

The postal organizations in Switzerland’s neighbouring countries Germany (4th place with 91.3 points), Austria (10th place with 76.3 points) and France (5th place with 83.3 points) also ranked highly, but the gap between them and Swiss Post (1st place with 100 points) widened compared to last year (Italy was ranked 28th with 62.9 points).

To get the tracking info shipped by Swiss Post, you may go to Swiss Post or TrackingMore Swiss Post tracking 

What is the best shipping service for international students?

Every year, many students go abroad for further studies. Thus, there are a lot of baggage items that they need to send. There are also many international students who need to do some purchasing business for extra money. So, what is the best shipping service for international students?

Take an example of sending packages from Japan to China.

1. Four major international express delivery services

DHL, UPS, TNT, and FEDEX are the four major international express delivery services. They are highly commercial and have very good timeliness. Generally, door-to-door delivery can be completed within 5-7 days. Customs clearance is based on commercial items, thus they are more expensive and suitable for commodity delivery. In addition, the four major international express companies only have outlets in some large cities in China, such as the Guangzhou and Shenzhen.

2. Sagawa Express

You can also choose Japanese green line for the delivery. For example, the Japanese green line like Sagawa Express is specially designed for Japanese companies and Japanese in China. The service is relatively narrow. Most people have never heard of it. The price is slightly lower than that of the postal EMS. Its door-to-door delivery can generally be completed within 7-9 days.

3. Shipping agents

Shipping agents are cheaper than the international express delivery services, but you must find the reliable one to ship your packages. 

If you want to track your shipping info, go to track DHL, UPS Tracing, TNT, FEDEX Tracking, and Sagawa shipping.

Order tracking: a newly added function by TrackingMore

Feel tired during order tracking? looking through all the information to just ensure that there is any emergency occurs to your tracking info. It is really annoying you should miss important info after all the eye pain and soreness you suffer. So, let’s have a look at an example. When we enter the tracking number of an order, we often get the following result.

1. Deficiency of the previous order tracking

With just word descriptions, and the overall tracking status is shown on the top. If you want to find out more detailed info, you have to read word for word. However, the thing is that not all the info is necessary for you. What you really care about is whether your package is in the following statuses:"delivered",  "out for delivery", "transit","exception", or "failed attempt". To solve this problem, TrackingMore now has designed five icons for your convenience. They are:

delivered: package is received by recipient

out for delivery: package is being dispatched 

transit: package is received by courier

exception: tracking status cannot be found for some unknown reason

failed attempt: delivery is not completed for some reason

This is how the icons actually present after entering a tracking number.

2. New experience from this newly added function

This new added function is really fabulous. It saves a large amount of time and I can figure out the info I truly need by just one look. The thing I love most is that any important detailed info won’t be overlooked.

Wanna have a new experience? You can try for yourself: go TrackingMore.

What chocolate brands you cannot miss when visiting Belgium?

Speaking of Belgium, I guess the first thing you think of is chocolate. Yes, it's really a chocolate kingdom, and local Belgians like it too.

There are chained chocolate shops on the street, and some are home-made workshops. The chocolate there tastes much more authentic than elsewhere: sweet but not excessive.

Here are several chocolate brands I would like to recommend:

Cote D'Or

This is one of the most common brands in Belgian supermarkets.

About two euros for a large chocolate bar! Although the price is similar to Dove, the purity is much higher than that of Dove. After trying Cote D'Or, you may think Dove is too sweet.

Guylian

Guylian is famous for its shell-shaped chocolate. Its name is the combination of Guy Foubert and his wife Liliane. Its price is not expensive. It tastes too sweet for me, but its shell shape is indeed adorable.

Godiva

Godiva is a most common high-end Belgian chocolate brand. It tastes pure and sweet. If you are lucky enough, you can try its strawberry chocolate - the combination of fresh and slightly sour strawberry with sweet chocolate. It’s more than perfect!

Neuhaus

Neuhaus is also a high-end chocolate brand. Neuhaus's sandwich chocolate is very popular and has become a world famous brand. Neuhaus is also the first brand to pack chocolates in boxes, making chocolate a good choice for gifts. Sandwich chocolates account for 40% of all its production.

Leonidas

Leonidas is also a popular Belgian chocolate brand, it is cheaper than Neuhaus. Compared with Godiva, it doesn’t taste that sweet; but in terms of purity, it is not as good as Godiva. However, taking packaging, taste and price elements into consideration, it can be a very suitable gift choice.

If you cannot go to Belgium yourself, you may also buy Belgian chocolate online. And for the tracking information of Landmark Global: go to Landmark Global tracking

Business opportunities in Walmart

As a major cross-border e-commerce market, America attracts a large amount of Chinese sellers to join in.

Fifth, compared to Amazon, Walmart offline stores can bring more support to its online stores.

According to relevant statistics, it is estimated that by 2018, as many as 41 million U.S. consumers will spend nearly 80 billion U.S. dollars or more each year to purchase goods from international websites, and 40% of which will be used to purchase goods from Chinese cross-border e-commerce sellers. Thus, Chinese sellers can find unlimited business opportunities in the US market.

Among all the platforms, Walmart is one of the most wanted platforms for them to cooperate with.

Walmart has huge market potential, and here are five advantages it possess:

First, Walmart traffic ranks third among American online platforms;

Second, Walmart enjoys great popularity only next to Amazon;

Third, Walmart grows quite rapidly. According to the statistics of the first quarter in 2017,the growth rate of Walmart online platforms has reached 69%;

Fourth, Walmart is much less competitive compared to Amazon, but it has great growth potential. This is a good opportunity for e-commerce sellers;

Fifth, compared to Amazon, Walmart offline stores can bring more support to its online stores.

To get Walmart tracking information details: click walmart tracking

What do you know about Safexpress?

Safexpress offers a wide range of innovative supply chain services including Express Distribution, 3PL and Consulting. The firm provides value-added logistics services for 9 different business verticals ranging from Apparel & Lifestyle, E-commerce, Healthcare, Hi-Tech, Publishing to Automotive, Engineering & Electrical Hardware, FMCG & Consumer Electronics and Institutional.

Safexpress provides cutting-edge logistics solutions to its customers, enabling them to focus on their core competencies. The firm adds maximum value to businesses at every level, right from providing world-class warehousing support to ensure time-definite deliveries of goods anywhere in India.

To get Safexpress tracking information : click safex tracking