PT Pos Claims For The Utilization Of Robotics And AI Results In 42 Percent Efficiency

BANDUNG - PT Pos Indonesia claims the use of robotic system innovation and artificial intelligence (AI) in the logistics process at the government company, produces up to 42 percent efficiency.

Director of Business Development of PT Pos Indonesia Prasabri Pesti said the implementation of innovation, one of which is with robotic systems and AI in the sorting process and labeling goods (labeling), is an important factor for logistics companies in global competition and creating efficient and profitable logistics companies.

"The implementation of robotics and AI in the robotic sorting and auto labeling processes at Pos Indonesia has succeeded in encouraging efficiency of up to 42 percent," said Prasabri Petti in a statement in Bandung, Saturday.

Prasabri explained that since 2023 Pos Indonesia has implemented robotic sorting for the process of sorting packages based on the destination group, followed by the implementation of auto labeling robots.

Both, he continued, in addition to having an impact on lowering costs, the implementation also has an impact on improvements in the timeliness of shipments.

Pasabri explained that currently the portion of revenue from Pos Indonesia's logistics portfolio is increasing, from only 12 percent in 2022, to 41 percent at the end of 2024, which shows that there must be a strengthening of the accuracy and speed of the sorting and labeling process, to the delivery of goods.

Prasabri said the use of sorting machine robots has created up to 30 percent of human resource efficiency and accelerated sorting speeds by 2.5 times compared manually.

Currently, PT Pos has used 150 sorting robots in Jakarta, Surabaya and will soon follow in Yogyakarta, which can handle the sorting of 18,000 packages per hour with an error rate of 0.7 pm (per million).

"We will continue to automate in all lines tailored to the human resource roadmap, because there must be stages of preparation for the transfer of employee duties which originally carried out sorting and labeling to the new field of tasks," said Prasabri.

According to Prasabri, another key factor to creating efficiency is the use of electric vehicles for both four-wheelers and two-wheelers. Currently, Pos Indonesia has more than 1,200 four-wheeled fleets and more than 13,000 motorcycles.

The application of EV Cars and EV Ride based on evaluation can reduce costs by almost 40 percent. However, the aspect that must be considered properly is looking for EV vehicles that have good durability for high daily use.

Pos Indonesia, continued Prasabri, plans to convert its entire fleet to 100 percent using electric vehicles (EVs) gradually starting in 2030.

"By using EVs, the efficiency generated is to reduce fuel costs by 70 percent and vehicle maintenance costs by up to 30 percent," he said.