La Poste: improve the traceability of postal containers

Among the activities of the La Poste Group is press distribution, meaning the daily delivery of newspapers and magazines to subscribers across the entire country. To this end, La Poste collaborates with around fifty distributors who handle, upstream of distribution, the addressing operations. The logistics exchanges between La Poste and the shippers are carried out using large-capacity plastic containers, with a unit cost of approximately €400.

Problem: Every year, many containers owned by La Poste were lost at the shippers’ facilities.

What is the solution?

The solution implemented by UBI Solutions made it possible to track the containers and know precisely which distributor held them, allowing La Poste, if necessary, to invoice for a container that would not be returned. This container monitoring has enabled significant savings by limiting losses and also reducing the stock of containers.

To learn more, we invite you to read the article published in Stratégie Logistique magazine.