Address Data Management and
Sort Plan Management
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Address Data Management and
Sort Plan Management (ADM-SPM)
The Siemens software product
suite Address Data and Sort Plan
Management (ADM-SPM) was
designed and developed to fulfil
the requirements of highly automated postal organisations.
It serves for the handling of the
address data and the purpose of
compiling address directories,
as well as for the planning and
maintenance of the countrywide sorting strategy, including
the provision of sort plans to
mechanised sorting equipment,
and even including the support
of carrier walk sequencing.
Modern postal organisations
need central and consistent solutions to support the networkwide sorting strategy by providing sort plans for all sorting
equipment and by providing
address directories for all recognition and coding equipment at all production sites of
the postal network.
The newest generation of ADMSPM, version 6.0, provides many
interesting features for that purpose.
The challenge of ADM-SPM
The issues of Address Data and
Sort Plan Management in the
field of postal automation are
of major importance. The
increasing level of detail in
address recognition and mail
sorting, as well as the introduction of sequencing and forwarding services, lead to an
enormous amount of data to
be handled, which makes any
manual or semi-automatic
processing impossible.
ADM-SPM –
a modular solution
An ADM-SPM solution is based
on software components, to be
combined individually to the
needs of the postal customers.
The system is scalable and may
serve to support a single sorting
center as well as a whole postal
network.
The single components are
shown in the diagram and
explained in the following:
In addition the increasing demands considering service
level fulfilment within postal
automation requieres a perfect
collaboration among all production sites, especially in the fields
of data consistency and strategic planning.
Carrying out these tasks manually bares a high potential of
mistakes. Software support continuously improves the address
quality and ensures planning
consistency. The result will be a
reduced amount of rejects and
miss-sorts.
This leads to minimal manual
rework and thus cuts operational costs dramatically.
Release Management REM
User Group Management UGM
ADM-SPM Import ASI
Contract
Management
Sorting
Planning
Delivery
Planning
CTR
SPL
DPL
Address
Data
Manageme
ADM
Generate and Transfer Management GT
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Address Data Management
(ADM)
Stores and maintains the address
data, provides filter functionality,
as well as all functionality required for creating, modifying
and deleting address data.
ADM-SPM Import (ASI)
Allows for periodic updates of
address data and delivery structure information by providing
an interface to the postal legacy
address data repository.
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User Group Management
(UGM), Option
Allows for role based access
permissions to specific components and data areas, and
administrates users and user
groups.
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Contract Management (CTR)
Supports the definition of the
processing locations, as well as
the definition of sorting products exchanged between sorting centers and delivery offices.
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Sorting Planning (SPL)
Defines the sorting process from
incoming to outgoing mail
streams within a sorting domain.
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Delivery
Service
ent Management
TM
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DSM
Delivery Planning (DPL)
Describes the requirements of
the delivery offices to the sorting process. Represents the
interface from addresses in
ADM to the Sorting Planning.
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Generate and Transfer
Management (GTM)
Controls the generation and
transfer of address directories
and sort plans for the automation equipment in the field of
the postal network.
Delivery Service Management
(DSM), Option
Enables additional services for
the delivery part of the postal
process, like forwarding, redirection or detailed sorting for
business customers.
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Release Management (REM),
Option
Provides independent parallel
data releases, one for current
productive data, one for next
update, and other ones for
future planning purposes.
New design of Graphical
User Interfaces
Highlights
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Address Data & Sort Plan
Management ensures improved address quality and guarantees consistency between
address data and sort plans.
This leads to a lower reject
rate and thus to lower efforts
in manual work.
As a nation-wide system,
ADM-SPM prevents sort plan
inconsistencies, within and
between sorting centers. By
a high degree of automated
update functions it contribu-
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tes to higher operational productivity.
The system is easy adjustable
to changing business requirements by adding software
modules or connecting new
machinery, The Hardware is
as well scalable, acording to
cutomers needs.
The intuitive explorer-like
user interfaces ease all kind
of data administration and
planning activities.
An elaborate user guidance
and automated verification of
inserted data ensure a high
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level of data consistency.
Moreover the operation of
the system does no longer
require a high level of skills
and thus training efforts.
The Release Management
offers parallel planning of
current and future sorting
strategies with fall-back
possibilities.
For customers using former
versions of ADM-SPM
Siemens offers a smooth
migration scenario without
any disturbance of the daily
operations.
The information in this brochure contains merely general
descriptions and performance features which characteristics which in a specific case may not always be true in
the form described, or which may change as a result of
further development of the products. The required performance features shall only be binding if expressly
agreed at the time of entering into the contract.
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All user interfaces follow a consistent design principle, providing three frames: Explorer-like
navigation tree (left), child window (upper right), property
window (lower right).