Supply chain and document management
In the supply chain, delivery is the ultimate stage of the order process. After this, products are invoiced. For the great majority of manufacturers and distributors, this task is entrusted to a carrier or logistician who consequently assumes responsibility for and attests to their delivery. In some sectors, for example supermarket distribution, certain companies demand that their suppliers systematically provide them with proof of delivery before paying their invoices. It goes without saying that poor delivery document management has a direct impact on end-customer invoicing, on invoice payment, and consequently on a company’s cash flow.
Carriers and logisticians have fully understood the importance of this phenomenon in improving the supply chain process, and have long since implemented POD-specific management systems.
Until the 90s, the majority of companies fell back on manual POD-management processes involving collection, sorting, identification, classification and physical storage operations for archiving documents either locally in offices or centrally at a site designed for this purpose, and for performing the POD entry, research and faxing operations requested by customers. Although effective, these document management activities were not the core competence of logisticians, and demanded much in terms of resources and space.
With the growth of the Internet and of document management technologies, logisticians understood that outsourcing these POD management functions would offer numerous advantages: no more storage space, no more staff dedicating several hours a day to this activity, and improved customer service thanks to the self-service, online availability of PODs 24/7. It is with this in mind that Neopost ID developed its neoPod® POD document management service offer.
More than 10 years of experience in digitization
Neopost ID is the leader in transport document digitization in Europe. We digitize over 400,000 documents every day at our various scanning centers located in France, Spain and Italy. These documents are available on the Internet in just a few hours.
In order to meet the individual needs of each company, we adopt a personalized approach – support in project mode, digitization and indexation tailored to the structure of your documents, customization of our Internet solution to reflect your corporate identity – combined with proven industrial processing processes and technical platforms.
Year after year, major European carriers such as DHL, GEFCO, GEODIS, GLS, HEPPNER, MORY, NACEX and SERNAM have placed their trust in us.
Your PODs in just a few clicks
neoPod® is a comprehensive service operated by Neopost ID offering two document management solutions:
Give us your documents and we will digitize, index and physically archive them. We will make them available to your customers, partners and in-house departments for online access from your own neoPod® solution.