Case study Warehousing & logistics

YTO Express Australia: one partner for a national parcel network

A growing parcel carrier needed customer-service voice, reliable networks, security, certified cabling and power for automated sorting at each new facility — without a different vendor for every layer. PI NETWORK delivered the lot as one project and supports it day to day.

  • ClientYTO Express Australia
  • IndustryParcel delivery & logistics
  • SitesDepots and sorting hubs in several states
    Specific locations to be confirmed for publication
  • Our roleDesign, installation, certification, ongoing support
  • DeliveredRolled out facility by facility
    Dates to be confirmed for publication
  • StatusIn ongoing managed support
Project photo — pending client approvalFacility exterior, comms room and sorting-floor installation photos to be added once YTO Express Australia confirms what may be published.

What the client needed to solve

YTO was opening and expanding depots and sorting hubs across Australia. Each facility needed the same things working on day one: a customer-service call centre with agents in Australia and overseas, a network that keeps scanners, sorting equipment and office systems online, security across docks and yards, structured cabling to a known standard, and the electrical supply for automated sorting lines.

Buying each layer from a different supplier meant a different standard at every site and nobody responsible for the whole. The brief was one design, repeated at every facility, with one party accountable for it afterwards.

Site constraints

  • Industrial facilities. Large sheds, long cable runs between the comms room, docks and office areas, and equipment that has to survive a working warehouse.
  • Automated sorting. The sorting line needs its own dedicated power and data, installed to the equipment supplier's requirements and to Australian standards.
  • Voice across two countries. Customer-service agents in Australia and overseas work from the same call-centre platform, with the same queues and recording.
  • Several states, one standard. Trades and carriers differ by state; the delivered design must not.
To be added from the project lead: one specific difficulty encountered on site and how it was resolved. The list above describes the constraints of this type of facility as delivered; it is not yet a narrative of a particular site.

What PI NETWORK delivered

  • Cloud call centreIVR, queues, softphones for agents in Australia and overseas, call recording and reporting.
  • Networking & Wi-FiSwitching and routing per facility, with indoor and outdoor Wi-Fi coverage across the floor, docks and yard.
  • CCTV, alarm & accessCameras across docks and yards, alarm and access control, designed from the start for a multi-site estate.
  • Structured cablingCat6/6A backbone and outlets, tested, certified and documented as built.
  • Electrical worksPower for the automated sorting line — distribution, switchboards and UPS — carried out by licensed electricians.
  • Managed ITOngoing on-the-ground support and maintenance for each facility after handover.
Wording note: earlier versions of this page described the electrical scope as “high-voltage”. The work described here is low-voltage distribution (up to 1,000 V AC); the heading has been corrected pending confirmation of the exact electrical scope from the project lead.

How it was deployed and handed over

The same sequence was run at each facility, so a new site followed the one before it.

  1. CablingBackbone and outlets installed, tested and certified.
  2. ElectricalDistribution, switchboards and UPS for the sorting line.
  3. NetworkSwitching, routing and Wi-Fi commissioned; site brought online.
  4. SecurityCameras, alarm and access configured and verified.
  5. Call centreQueues, agents and recording cut over on the cloud platform.
  6. HandoverDocumentation delivered; site moves to managed support.

At handover each facility received as-built cabling documentation and test certification, the network and security configuration records, and a single support contact for everything delivered.

To be added from the project lead: a publishable summary of the handover pack or test records for one facility.

What this gave the client

One accountable partner

Voice, data, security, cabling and power delivered under one contract owner, so there is one party to call whichever layer is involved.

One design, every facility

The same equipment list, cabling standard and configuration repeated at each site, so a new depot opens the way the last one did.

Supported by the team that built it

The facilities are kept running day to day under managed IT by the engineers who installed them.

Results policy: this page states what was delivered. No uptime, cost-saving or speed figures are quoted because none have been verified for publication. A confirmed client comment can be added here.

Specific brands, models, designs and commercial details remain confidential; this summary describes scope and outcomes only.

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