Parcel delivery company packs in new device for drivers

FORT MILL, USA: Global parcel and express delivery company DPD is equipping all of its 12,000 drivers in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg with a Honeywell Dolphin 99EX mobile computer.

As the announcement elaborates; DPD, responsible for delivering 2.5 million parcels each day, also is leveraging Honeywell's Remote MasterMind device management software, which allows its depot managers and administrators to push software updates and verify the computers are working properly from a single dashboard.

Parcel delivery companies share a need to enable their drivers to deliver parcels in extremely wet, cold or dusty environments, while scanning barcodes, capturing customer signatures and determining the optimal route to their next drop-off.

"Our requirements for this significant technology investment were clear: we needed a user-friendly mobile computer, smooth scan software performance and a total solution that could help us prepare for future transaction increases," said Peter Störring, director operations, DPD GeoPost (Deutschland). "We also needed a software system to manage our equipment, and Honeywell's Remote MasterMind gives us a decisive efficiency advantage. Honeywell's technology was best able to meet our needs on all fronts."

"Honeywell has a strong track record of equipping large-scale parcel delivery companies like DPD with reliable technology and hardware that drive productivity in the field," said John Waldron, president of Honeywell Scanning & Mobility. "Speed and accuracy are the foundation of the parcel delivery industry, and we take real pride that DPD selected Honeywell technology as the key link between its drivers and customers."

The Dolphin 99EX mobile computer was designed with input from transportation and logistics companies to help their workers be more productive, as added. The features, as mentioned, include ergonomic design that can be held comfortably with one hand and a customized keypad to shorten the amount of time it takes to input data; motion, light and proximity sensors that optimize the mobile computer's screen and lighting for its current environment, whether it's being used in a warehouse, truck or outdoors in bright sunlight.