Case study

Now we can better
track assets andprevent loss
How Atos uses location to cut customer
costs and increase sustainability

Atos needed

To help customers reduce
lost assets
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HERE delivered

Indoor warehouse mapping,location data and greater,
real-time asset visibility
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Atos gained

A sustainable solution tohelp customers improve
efficiency and save money
Read moreAtos needed

To help customers reduce lost assets
About Atos
Atos is a global leader indigital transformation with
107,000 employees andannual revenue of over €11 billion. Global leader incloud and digital workplacesolutions and European
number one in cybersecurity
and high-performancecomputing, the Group
provides tailored end-to-end
solutions for all industries
in 71 countries. A pioneer
in decarbonization services
and products, it has been
selected as a member ofboth the 2021 Dow Jones
Sustainability Index Worldand Europe. Regarding theenvironmental dimension,
Atos obtained the best scoreof its industry worldwide.

Atos is a global information technology service and consulting
company. They realized that customers from the logistics and postal
industries had some common challenges:→ Cost reduction: Reducing cost is a universal desire, to keep paceand stay competitive.
→ Secure supply chains: The pandemic exposed supply chain
vulnerabilities and highlighted the many areas that canbe improved and optimized, in terms of efficiency.
→ Sustainability: The global focus on greener initiatives ismotivating companies to reduce their carbon footprint.
To tackle these challenges, Atos proposed to their customers thatthey implement location tracking devices on all containers.
In sprawling warehouses, roll containers can get lost for months. In somecases, customers were losing roll cages within their own warehouses.
They were constantly spending money to buy new containers,
while their missing ones were sitting idle at unknown locations.
For example, a postal company that operates in only one country has
over 500,000 roll containers, but didn’t know the location of over 15% ofthem. On top of that, up to 3% of their roll containers are stolen every
year — that’s a total of 15,000 stolen containers. At €100 per container,
the unnecessary cost adds up to €15 million over a 10-year period.
Another finding with this particular customer was that 40% of their rollcontainers were sitting idle for more than eight months out of the year.
All of this is far too common and, as you can see,
there are many areas ripe for improvement.

Michael Todorovitsch“Almost all logistics companies, postal companies
and even retail companies are using rollcontainers to move parcels from A to B. What
we learned is that companies currently do notknow where a portion of their roll containers are:some are lost, some are sitting idle and somehave been stolen. There is huge potential for
efficiency and cost-savings improvements.”
Michael Todorovitsch, Global Head of Presales for Logistics at Atos

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The purpose of Atos is tohelp design the future of
the information space.
Its expertise and services
support the development ofknowledge, education andresearch in a multicultural
approach, and contribute to
the development of scientificand technological excellence.
Across the world, the Group
enables its customers andemployees, and membersof societies at large tolive, work and develop
sustainably, in a safe andsecure information space.

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HERE delivered

Indoor warehouse mapping, location data and greater, real-time asset visibility
For their asset management solution to work, Atos utilizes HERE Asset Tracking that enables tracking ofassets in real time.
With HERE Asset Tracking, users can access indoor mapping capability to prevent roll container loss within
their own warehouses and campuses. This gives them the ability to pinpoint assets within a 3- to 5-meter
window indoors and within 10-15 meters outdoors, with WiFi. According to Atos’ Michael Todorovitsch, “Theoutdoor location services using WiFi positioning is also of a quality unique to HERE. This is why we havechosen HERE as a main partner for our offering.”
Accurate location data collected daily from roll containers will highlight optimization opportunities. As
Todorovitsch puts it, “We recognize that there’s a huge need for data. Data is the new oil.”
Are some of your containers sitting idle? Was the route traveled the most efficient option? Insights derived
from collected data can shed light on these questions and help transform ways of working for the better.
It is crucial to analyze each and every part and process of your operation, to optimize efficiency. Whilecollecting data can be used to improve operations, it’s also possible to sell the data you gather to othercompanies or use Atos’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) capabilities to become evenmore precise.
With the power of location, Atos can now provide their customers with asset management as a service
solution, to facilitate roll container tracking, prevent loss and collect data for optimization opportunities.

“With HERE indoor maps, you can detect
where your containers are currently.
This is a very important functionality,accomplished with a level of quality
only achievable with HERE. I believe
HERE is best in class for this.”
Michael Todorovitsch, Global Head of Presales for Logistics at Atos

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Atos gained

A sustainable solution to help customers cut costs and reduce their carbon footprint

Atos has developed a service, with the help of HERE, that ticks multiple boxes for a majority of companies. “Everyefficiency improvement with your logistics is a one-to-one benefit with your carbon footprint,” says Todorovitsch.
Through location-powered asset management, users can:→ Reduce costs by preventing loss and increasing efficiency→ Secure supply chains, thanks to full location visibility and the ability to react to disruptions→ Increase sustainability by decreasing carbon footprint when fewer
replacement containers are transported, saving fuel“This offering is a one-stop shop and this is exactly
what our partners and customers like from Atos”
Michael Todorovitsch, Global Head of Presales for Logistics at Atos

N o w u se rs ca n

Track the movement of all roll containers

Charge companies who don’t return their assets

Pinpoint the location of theft

Enjoy improved indoor andoutdoor visibility

Find missing assets and determine
exactly where things went wrong

Gather data daily to be used forbusiness analytics and optimization

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About HERE Technologies

HERE, a location data and technology platform, moves people, businesses and cities forward by harnessing the power of location. Byleveraging our open platform, we empower our customers to achieve better outcomes – from helping a city manage its infrastructure ora business optimize its assets to guiding drivers to their destination safely. To learn more about HERE, including our new generation ofcloud-based location platform services, visit 360.here.com and www.here.com.

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