The Strategic Business Development Award, one of three “best in class” awards presented annually at the Forum, recognizes customers who have taken steps to implement new technologies and best practices to maximize efficiencies in the mail value chain.
The Strategic Business Development Award: This award recognizes customers who have kept pace as technology advances. They're the “innovators”. They embrace new technologies and implement best practices to improve efficiency and productivity in their mail operations. They're always working to improve their operations and provide customers with a mail product that delivers increased value and business results while benefiting the mailing industry overall.
Kewill, Inc., located in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, has been in the global trade management and logistics business since 1972, with over 600 employees worldwide. A long-time innovator of solutions for manufacturers, distributors, retailers, freight forwarders, transport companies, customs brokers, as well as, other related institutions, Kewill’s solutions are in daily use by more than 7,000 customers worldwide with domestic and global supply networks and management. Kewill’s mission is to provide state-of-the-art software that enables their customers to drive shipping efficiency, flexibility, and performance whether they are moving products across the state or around the world, from anyplace to anyplace. In partnership with the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), Kewill ensured that their parcel shipping products (Kewill Flagship, Kewill Clippership, and Kewill Netship) support the latest technology offerings within USPS. Investing both time and resources into designing products that enhance and support the internal mail and parcel acceptance procedures, Kewill worked closely with USPS technical support to ensure that the final release gives their clients access to the latest technology and easier integration with all their carriers on the same shipping system. The partnership between Kewill and USPS progressed to the establishment of resources for Kewill to develop an Electronic Verification System (eVS) compliant system which would allow their customers seamless access to USPS solutions. This development created the first multi-carrier shipping system to be fully eVS compliant with the USPS. The expansion of customers utilizing a Kewill eVS compliant system allows the USPS to reduce acceptance time, improves tracking, and enhances reporting. USPS field sales teams joined Kewill in a ‘sell with, sell through’ strategy that allowed both organizations to offer customers more cost-effective shipping and software solutions. As a result of this joint effort, the USPS sales team has been successful in identifying millions of dollars in new business opportunities.
Speaking at the 2012 National Postal Forum, Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe stated “As an industry, we have to retain what differentiates mail and physical delivery, and bring it into the future. It’s astonishing how much is changing in the ways people communicate. Mail has to be a part of these changes.”
The National Postal Forum is the mailing industry’s largest trade show and networking event for industry professionals. Since 1968, it has provided business mailers with ongoing training and education, and helped them keep pace with the mailing industry’s rapid progress. Held once a year in the spring, the Forum is a combination educational conference/trade show offering a wide range of opportunities for attendees. For more information, visit www.npf.org.
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The National Postal Forum, a not-for-profit education corporation, was established in 1968 by a group of postal customers/mailers who were committed to an ongoing partnership with the U.S. Postal Service. The Forum’s goal, then and now, is to provide education to business mailers and communication/feedback between the Postal Service and its business customers for a more responsive and efficient mail communications system.
