Column: Intra Logistics
Who has what it takes to become a GNLH?
As I was watching the screaming competition between Heidi Klum and Thomas Gottschalk in the final of Germany's next Topmodel (we insiders call it GNTM) the other day, a thought occurred to me as I was drifting off: Why don't we organize a competition: Germany's next Logistics Hero (GNLH)?
The emphasis is on next. In other words, the opposite of those who are kept in the Logistics Hall of Fame, who have, so to speak, already reaped all the merits and received the Oscar for lifetime achievement, for whom, so to speak, nothing comes next.
Who could be Germany's next Logistics Hero? What would such heroes be made of? Are they young scientists who have developed something that makes something complicated really simple? Is it a start-up person who is so young that they automatically and of their own accord think things differently from all those who have always done it this way and who therefore reverently call them "disruptive"? Is it the seasoned entrepreneur who has the courage to be an entrepreneur, i.e. to think about the future, to change it - instead of "just" preserving it?
Or is it the forklift or truck driver who spends his whole life squatting on a trestle with a curved spine for €1,557 a month so that we can all sizzle for 99 cents per 100 grams of neck steaks from pigs fattened in Lower Saxony and slaughtered in Sicily on our grill designed in the U.S.A., manufactured in China, which the sub-sub-contractor of a CEP service provider has dragged up to the fourth floor at the end of his 14-hour shift? Or is it the pieceworker who has to fulfill the intralogistics supplier's promise of 1,000 picks per hour? But maybe it would be an idea to recognize someone like that as a GNLH. What do you think?
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