Growth of E-commerce Spurs Courier Delivery Company to Hire Fives Intralogistics and Patti Engineering to Conduct Revenue Recapture Project

Experts in Phoenix Contact VLC upgrades assisted with successful revenue recapture project, ROI expected in less than one year

Auburn Hills, MI – December 11, 2014 – Patti Engineering, Inc., a leader in control systems integration, today announced it completed a revenue recapture project alongside Fives Intralogistics, a go-to resource for large shipping companies, that will deliver return on investment (ROI) in less than one year. The project required Phoenix Contact Virtual Logic Controllers (VLC) upgrades for a joint customer of the two companies.

Fives Intralogistics designs and supplies world-class material handling and sorting solutions that automate internal logistics streams for postal and courier companies, distribution centers and baggage handling systems. A large parcel delivery customer of Fives was pursuing an automation provider and partner to develop a system to recover lost shipping revenue. Fives’ solution included adding high-speed inline checkweighers to its customer’s existing parcel sortation systems to recover the lost revenue on mis-weighed packages. Fives brought in Patti Engineering because of its sortation experience and knowledge of Phoenix Contact’s VLCs.

“As e-commerce becomes increasingly popular, a growing percentage of a shipping company’s revenue is generated from business customers weighing and labeling their shipments in-house. While this is efficient for all parties involved, the accuracy of the scales can vary greatly at the businesses generating the labels,” said Sam Hoff, Executive Vice President, Patti Engineering. “Creating a way to recover lost revenue from shipments that may have incorrectly stated actual weight of packages can add serious revenue to a shipping company’s bottom line! “

“Together, Patti Engineering and Fives Intralogistics successfully executed a large in-line weigh scale project for a parcel delivery company. Meeting the aggressive installation schedule in a fully operational sortation hub was the result of close collaboration and planning between all parties and, simply put, a lot of hard work and long hours on the part of the on-site resources,” said Brian Mann, Customer Service Business Unit Leader, Fives Intralogistics. “Hats off to Logan Wohlford and the Patti Engineering team for a job well done. We are looking forward to working with Patti on future projects.”