Newsprinters’ vision is to work collaboratively with publishers for mutual sustainability and benefit.
The TAAP Team deployed the Food Donation Solution with Tesco to over 3,300 stores nationwide.
NewsPrinters, a leading printing and distribution firm, is at the forefront of delivering major publications such as The Times and The Sun, along with third-party products like Hello and Ok magazines, directly to retailers and consumers. Operating 24x7x365, the company faced the challenge of modernising its logistics to improve accuracy, reduce disputes, and enhance service levels.
The traditional paper-based system for managing deliveries was inefficient, prone to errors, and lacked transparency, leading to customer disputes and challenges in service level monitoring. Furthermore, the absence of real-time tracking made it difficult to optimise routes and ensure timely deliveries, especially critical in the fast-paced news industry.
To address these challenges, NewsPrinters implemented a cutting-edge delivery application integrated with GPS tracking to ensure accuracy and reliability in their distribution process. This digital transformation included live mapping and tracking of logistics teams, providing unprecedented visibility into the delivery process. The solution was seamlessly integrated with SAP, offering an end-to-end logistics management system that eliminated paper-based processes and enabled real-time service level monitoring.
The implementation of the GPS-tracked delivery application revolutionised NewsPrinters’ distribution operations. By providing direct-to-retailer and direct-to-consumer services with enhanced precision and transparency, the company significantly reduced customer disputes and improved overall service levels. The live tracking capability allowed for more efficient route planning, ensuring timely deliveries across all serviced areas. The integration with SAP further streamlined operations, from order management to delivery, creating a cohesive and efficient logistics workflow.
NewsPrinters’ logistics solution set a new standard in the distribution of print media, demonstrating the power of technology to transform traditional operations. The shift to a digital, GPS-enabled system not only improved operational efficiency but also strengthened the company’s commitment to service excellence. This case study exemplifies how innovative logistics solutions can provide competitive advantages in the rapidly evolving media landscape.
Why TAAP?
Why would you build applications on TAAP?
The software industry promised you could digitise all your processes, become a data first organisation, embrace AI and transform into the business of the future. But is that really the full story?
It’s an exciting vision, but here’s the reality.
Just like the nuclear industry, software promises immense power and potential, but it also has a radioactive side.
Over time, software decays. It becomes harder to manage, each year its maintenance costs spiral. All software reaches a tipping point where it must be retired or completely rebuilt.
Software maintenance is its own master, touching every part of an organisation.
All of your software must be maintained all at once, reacting to Patches, updates, compatibility issues, and new vulnerabilities. You don’t control the timeline, your software does.
It consumes every available IT resource, restricts agility, and the more you digitise the worse it gets
And the cost? Maintaining software typically costs 7 to 10 times more than the initial cost of building it.
It drains your ability to innovate, to seize opportunities, to move at the speed of business and to remain competitive.
The dream of end-to-end digital transformation begins to fade. The vision becomes a fantasy. Software, once a symbol of progress, becomes a burden. Delays mount. Backlogs grow. New ideas are sidelined. Legacy software grinds your business to a halt, undermining your most critical asset: data.
It’s a self-perpetuating cycle, a workload-creation engine, creating lag, inefficiency, and operational drag.
This isn’t the future you imagined, but it’s how the software industry has operated for the last 50 to 70 years. It’s the unspoken cost of ownership, the law of diminishing returns.
There has to be a better way!
This is where TAAP steps in.
TAAP has shifted spend from maintenance to innovation, embracing an AI-centered future of evolving knowledge engineering.
Apps written to run on TAAP are free from legacy maintenance.
They can run for 10, 15, or more years, maintenance-free!
You can digitise everything and do so free from the burden of technical debt!
TAAP technologies allow you to leverage our AI-assisted designers to scope and define the solutions you require.
TAAP simplifies and accelerates the process of turning ideas into apps.
With TAAP you can build fully functional applications in seconds, not code snippets, but enterprise-grade applications with support for role-based access controls and Single Sign On right out of the box. This means you can operate at enterprise scale giving the right people permissions to access and use the apps they require.
You can now truly become a digital-first organisation.
You can have tremendous flexibility over how you can build apps and target different types of deployments, cloud, on-premise, on-device, even fully offline.
You can develop and release an unlimited number of processes and at different release cadence.
TAAP has been engineered to allow organisations to embrace software at scale across departments, for SMEs, national and global enterprise, and in multiple languages.
Our generative technologies are deterministic, allowing you to digitise any process without compromise, built how you want, bug free, with zero maintenance, whilst providing access to your source code and IP.
Engineered for frictionless scale-out via the Microsoft commercial marketplace, customers from over 170 markets can directly start building applications on TAAP with a click of a button.
Commercialised to be inclusive for consultancies, ISVs, SIs, and product companies to benefit from this technology. Creating their own IP on TAAP, licensing and protecting their margins and value within a new and modernising software industry.
With low-cost licensing, we encourage you to digitise everything, and we don’t penalize or restrict you from wanting to digitise it all
This is a tectonic shift to the way in which software can be envisioned and leveraged for the future. We are driving the next stage of evolution for the software industry, reducing the time to value and bringing quicker results, improved quality, and lower costs
It’s almost too good to be true, but that’s our vision, allowing the world to embrace software and elevating the way technology can help humanity grow and evolve. We are changing the rules of how the software industry has operated so far.
TAAP delivers the future the software industry promised, but struggled to deliver.
TAAP can help you simplify complexity, accelerate performance, and achieve results—fast.
Click the link and contact us today to start your digital transformation with TAAP!
