Combine the largest part of your total operational cost – Delivery – with the worrying trend in falling volumes and revenues, and it's easy to see why improving productivity is an attractive proposition. Transend's Tubular Sorting Case is the solution and has much more than productivity to offer your postal organisation…

We live in a technological world. As such, faced with a choice between investing in process improvement, workflow re-design and performance management, many organisations are persuaded to pour money into expensive machinery. Despite the leaps made by engineers however, the reality is that the delivery operation remains labour intensive. The need to have efficient manual processes alongside automation will remain for the foreseeable future.

This fact, along with the variety and diversity of delivery networks, has meant that change in this area has been notoriously difficult. Here's how Transend's Tubular solution takes into consideration this reality and delivers in more ways than one.

Vertical sort advantages over horizontal sort
Traditionally, the delivery business is divided into 3 distinct activities:

1. Sort to round or route (often referred to as inward primary sort)
2. Individual round sort into sequence of delivery (or preparation of mail for delivery)
3. Physical delivery of route

With Transend's Tubular Sorting Case, the vertical sort design allows delivery officers to sort mail directly into the delivery sequence, thus avoiding the 2 pass action (sort, then finger or sequence sort) of old horizontal sort frames. The productivity gains of this kind of move can be in the range of between 20% and in some cases, 80%.

Training leads to higher productivity
To achieve the higher productivity gains, however, it's essential for operators to use the equipment correctly. This is where adequate training in new sorting and bundling mail methods is strongly suggested, along with following certain defined processes to ensure sorting is carried out in the stipulated order.

One key advantage associated with Transend's vertical sort frames is that they can be used as a catalyst to establish best practice processes, and standardisation of these processes, across your entire Delivery Office network. This requires delivery officers to be trained, ensuring consistency across your operation and providing a framework for managers to control each step of the delivery process.

New Equipment. New Office Layout.
Transend's Tubular vertical sort system is also your opportunity to review your current office layout to optimise work flows and remove obstacles in the Delivery Office. As a vertical sorting system, Tubular allows organisations to remove such barriers, letting more natural light into the Delivery Office and giving managers a clear view from any vantage point.

Address Point Data
Another benefit that's potentially a company-wide bonus, is that individual address point data can be collected for address labelling of the frames. What's more, this process can form the base of a national address database or lead to the confirmation and cleansing of data that may already exist.

Introducing Transend's Tubular sort system brings benefits beyond the immediately obvious. This relatively simple piece of equipment has tremendous productivity potential for your Delivery Office. Not simply in terms of efficiency gains in sequence sorting, but as a wider catalyst for moving your postal delivery organisation to a best practice process operation that becomes your industry standard.

The difference is Tubular from Transend.

Introducing vertical sort frames for the manual sequencing of mail into delivery route order, or the merging of product from sequencing technology, can generate considerable productivity gains in delivery.