Company

Neopost is the european leader and the number two world-wide supplier of mailing solutions. It has a direct presence in 18 countries, with 5,500 employees and annual sales of €966 million in 2010. Its products and services are sold in more than 90 countries, and the Group has become a key player in the markets for mailroom equipment and logistics solutions. Neopost supplies the most technologically advanced solutions for franking, folding/inserting and addressing as well as logistics management and traceability. Neopost also offers a full range of services, including consultancy, maintenance and financing solutions. Neopost is listed in the A compartment of Euronext Paris and belongs notably to the SBF 120 index.

Neopost ID, a Neopost group company, develops and runs supply chain traceability solutions.

These solutions address both the companies that make up the supply chain, such as carriers, postal companies and logistics specialists as well as companies that use logistics processes, such as manufacturers, distributors, e-commerce players, etc

Formerly Neopost Logistics Systems, a strategic division of the Neopost group, which was founded in 1999, Neopost ID is the result of the merger of this division with Neopost Diva and NBG-ID, which were acquired by the Neopost group in 2000 and 2008 respectively.

Neopost ID offers an unparalled combination of sector knowledge and data capture technology for transport/logistics and supply chain processes. Focused on classic data acquisition technologies such as barcodes, voice response, digitisation and EDI, Neopost ID expanded in 2008 its range of tracing products with RFID technology by acquiring NBG-ID, one of the leading integrators of RFID solutions on the French market.

OUR VALUE CHAIN

Our value chain expresses itself in the form of an information supply chain process. It is based on the three concepts 1-capture | 2-process and/or archive | 3-deliver the object 'piece of information'.

• Barcode, RFID, EDI, digitisation, voice response technologies are used to capture/collect information
• Sector-specific applications are used to process and store information
• Web-based applications, dashboards, EDI, alert engines, ... allow information delivery

OUR SOLUTION APPROACH

Our solution approach is based on our ability to handle every part of a project, from the requirements analysis to the deployment through to the project monitoring of the solution.
We have our own in-house teams:

• The "Business Process and Projects" team, which gathers and analyses requirements and then studies and tailors the solutions to the projects
• "Innovation" and "R&D" teams, which implement the solutions
• "Services" team, which deploy the solutions and ensure they run smoothly on our central server and at our customers’ sites

In order to respond to our customers’ different requirements, our products consist of technological modules that can be combined and personalized on demand.

OUR RFID EXPERTISE

The acquisition of NBG-ID enables Neopost ID to take advantage of seven years of experience and more than 20 successfully completed RFID implementations for major companies in the logistics, retail and textile sectors.

In October 2008, Neopost ID demonstrated its RFID expertise by implementing and deploying a major RFID project: The DHL/Metro project, which consists in tracking pallets of products from DHL Exel Supply Chain’s distribution centres to Metro Cash & Carry’s stores. This project required the installation of 156 RFID dock-door portals at 96 sites to read without contact the 1.3 million pallets that pass through them every year.

As a member of GS1 and one of the first adopters of the EPCglobal standard, Neopost ID is the first integrator in France to have implemented an Oracle EPC-IS tracking database.

OUR CLIENTS

Our solutions, our domain knowledge and our fully managed services approach have already attracted major European companies.

• In the Parcel and Express sector, such as Geodis, Chronopost, Parcelforce Worldwide, Nacex, DHL Express, DHL Freight, Heppner, Gefco, Sernam, Mory
• In the postal sector, such as La Poste, Royal Mail, Australia Post, Uniposta
• In the Supply Chain Logistics sector, such as DHL Exel Supply Chain, DHL Fashion, Kuehne & Nagel
• In the Specialized Logistics sector, such as Baudelet, Temis, Securitas
• In Industry, such as Airbus, Renault, Chimirec, Sony
• In the retail sector, such as Metro Cash & Carry, Carrefour

OUR RESOURCES

Neopost ID has 140 employees working out of several European countries:

• In France
• In the United Kingdom at Neopost Ltd
• In Spain at Neopost Mailing & Logistics Systems
• In Italia at Neopost Italia
• In United States
• In Australia

In addition to the three countries where our solutions are distributed directly, Neopost ID's services are distributed in Europe and North America by the 18 subsidiaries of the Neopost group and on the other continents by the Export division.

Our R&D team is composed of 40 engineers based in Cavaillon in the south of France.

Our server centre consists of two separate secure sites with load balancing, real-time data duplication and 24/7 monitoring. Its infrastructure offers an availability that exceeds 99.9%.

NEOPOST ID: FACTS AND FIGURES