From materialfluss SPEKTRUM 2020
Intra Logistik: There is no post-corona time
Corona has meant that many companies have gone from talking to acting when it comes to digitalization. Because they had to.
I am not referring to the fact that some IT departments - and this is meant with a great deal of respect and appreciation - have managed to roll out Microsoft Teams on 632 laptops within three days and provide just as many headsets and VPN accesses so that employees working from home don't have to count the flowers on the wallpaper out of sheer desperation. Nor does it mean that the smartest of the smart IT cracks have managed to outwit Microsoft and synchronize the calendar functions of Teams and Outlook. Nor does it mean that some hardcore managers no longer measure their importance by the size of their mileage account, but by the number of calls they make every day because they have come to the surprising realization that they no longer have to fly to China for every two-hour meeting.
Digitization is a bit more. Digitalization begins when data is no longer transferred from the Excel list to SAP, when the forklift driver no longer has to pick up his transport orders on slips of paper, when the production worker no longer has to call the warehouse to find out approximately when his raw materials and semi-finished products might be where. Instead, digitalization begins when everything is displayed logically, linked, clearly and perhaps even on a screen - and can also be handled intuitively by non-computer scientists.
Many people hesitate. When is the right time to tackle this? There is exactly one right answer: now. Anyone who schedules their digitalization topics for the post-corona period will not get out of the Stone Age. Because there is no post-corona era, only a co-corona era. And we are already in the middle of it.
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