An Post invests €30m into its e-commerce capabilities | ti-insight.com
An Post has opened its second e-commerce processing centre and completed of Ireland’s largest e-commerce campus.
An Post’s latest investment is designed to future-proofing its business, it is located at the Dublin Mails Centre in Dublin 12, right next door to the new automated Dublin Parcel Hub which opened in November last year. The An Post campus is now handling 2.5m parcels each week.
Construction of the new processing machinery began earlier this year with full ‘go-live’ in November, in good time for the 2020 Christmas peak period.
Staff currently working in the manual sorting of small parcels have been re-trained to support the new ‘Beumer’ Packet Processor which will handle 100,000 items a day. The new self-learning technology is purpose designed and can recognise Irish locations, eircodes and Irish language addresses, and can cope with a variety of sizes and formats.
Garrett Bridgeman, Managing Director of An Post Mails & Parcels, commented, “We are investing in the re-orientation of our whole business from the old world of traditional letters to a new world of e-commerce parcels. The type of smaller parcel handled by the new centre – padded envelopes and smaller boxed items – is growing really quickly in terms of both outgoing volumes from Irish companies selling worldwide and incoming online shopping from all over the globe. We have invested over €30m in our e-commerce campus providing world-class national infrastructure for Irish businesses trading in Ireland or Internationally. Irish businesses can grow their e-commerce trading with confidence with An Post as their partner. We have been preparing and significantly investing in our technology and infrastructure capability all year to support businesses post Brexit on January 1st. We will be able to manage the changes that Brexit will bring for businesses and consumers in a seamless way.”
Source: An Post