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BCS Group wins Toll parcel facility contract

Technology company BCS Group has won the contract to build a specialised sortation system for Toll’s new express parcel sorting facility.

Toll Group is currently building the 53,000 square metre facility in the new Bungarribee Industrial Estate in Sydney’s west.

The project will implement a combination of BCS Groups’ hardware solutions and smart software products Freightflow and SYM3 to provide transparency of the sites operations, as well as tracking and accurate loading information.

The project will enable Toll’s parcels to be sorted and processed at approximately four times the rate as the current system allows on a system that maintains ultimate parcel integrity.

BCS CEO Brad Jackson said the company developed specific modular freight management software with customisable sortation and handling for freight, parcel and distribution hubs.

“Freightflow can be deployed on both low and very high volume operations because of its scalable modular architecture, virtualisation technology and software performance,” Jackson said.

“The combination of the Freighflow and Sym3 which can be linked to multiple sites contributes dramatically to operational visibility and understanding, which is the key to optimising operations at not only a hub level but at a national level,” he said.

BCS has previously delivered one of the largest freight handling systems seen in Australasia in 2009. That project was in Auckland and is capable of sorting just under 20,000 parcels per hour.

Jackson said the Toll contract was a milestone for the company.

“Traditionally, the BCS Group core business was in automated airport solutions and our many logistics projects in recent years has gradually been balancing the ledger.

“We made a business decision last year to scale our operations preparing for these large logistics projects and our innovative industrial intelligence solutions have definitely allowed us to offer a unique value added solution which has helped us get across the line.” 

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