Strategy: Top consultant Karl-Heinz Land
The fifth industrial revolution is hitting the logistics sector hard. Faster than other sectors of the economy, it will develop autonomous performance networks worldwide in which humans play no role as managers, dispatchers or transporters.
read more...Guest article: Prof. Michael Schreckenberg
Michael Schreckenberg teaches at the University of Duisburg-Essen as Professor of Physics of Transport and Traffic. Once a year, the expert takes a humorous look back at the year and transport policy.
read more...Kik makes supplier audits transparent
Whether CSR, VCM or SRM - the acronyms vary, but everyone agrees on the need to create better production and working conditions. Often it is not so much the will that is lacking as the tools. The textile discounter KiK has made the audits of 500 suppliers transparent following the introduction of the OSCA VCM setlog software.
read more...Dear readers, 2018 will soon be over. What comes next remains to be seen, but one aspect is certain ...
read more...Editorial materialfluss MARKT 2019
The current issue of materialfluss MARKT provides numerous answers to classic questions such as "What does company X actually do?" or "Who built the Klickkaufundzahl AG warehouse?" A total of 645 entries in eleven market overviews and two user statistics are waiting to be discovered on 84 pages.
read more...It's taken a long time, but something like a culture of innovation is finally developing in Germany. Artificial intelligence, robotics, IoT, big data and autonomous mobility promise nothing less than to reinvent the world. Exciting. And then this: let the following dialog melt in your mouth.
read more...In the "2 Perspectives" section, we comment on topics that concern both industry and intralogistics. This time with Petra Born, editor-in-chief of handling.
read more...The column from Intra Logistik
Dear German logistics experts, I am writing you a letter because I like you. Because when the annual industry navel-gazing took place at the Logistics Congress in Berlin in October, you showed who the navel is: the logisticians - not the associations, federations and lobbyists.
read more...Topics relating to digitalization and its effects and opportunities for logistics were the focus of the 19th TEAM Logistics Forum on 27 November in Paderborn. Over 450 participants were inspired by presentations on visions and solutions for intralogistics in their own companies.
read more...Supply Chain Management 2020 Consumer Goods
What challenges and trends will the supply chains of the consumer goods industry face in the future? Miebach Consulting has launched a survey together with GS1 Germany to answer this question.
read more...The year 2018 will soon be drawing to a close. The last "normal" materialfluss issue of the year (the annual special issue materialfluss MARKT will be published on December 14) will focus this time on storage and retrieval machines and shuttles.
read more...Dr. Malte-Maria Münchow, spokesman for the Logistics Property Initiative (Logix) and Head of Purchasing and Sales Retail, Hotel, Logistics at Deka Immobilien GmbH, on limitations and solutions for the establishment of logistics properties.
read more...Trade press workshop on December 6, 2018
On 6 December 2018, WEKA BUSINESS MEDIEN is once again organizing a one-day trade press seminar in which employees from PR and marketing can refresh their trade press knowledge.
read more...Trade press workshop on December 6, 2018
On 6 December 2018, WEKA BUSINESS MEDIEN is once again organizing a one-day trade press seminar where PR and marketing staff can brush up on their trade press skills.
read more...It is not uncommon for goods in the transportation business not to reach their destination, or to reach it damaged. As a gesture of goodwill, out-of-court settlements of damages are often granted. Do these have a settlement effect if they are accompanied by a reference to the settlement of further claims?
read more...The "FOB" Incoterm clause is often used in international commercial transactions. In the event of transport damage, it is often unclear who concluded the contract of carriage and who is entitled to make a claim against the carrier.
read more...In the "2 Blickwinkel" section, we comment on topics that concern both industry and intralogistics. This time we are joined by Meinolf Droege, editor-in-chief of Kunststoff Magazin, which, like materialfluss, is published by Weka Business Medien.
read more...Few topics move the media as much as the first exit of a member state from the European Union. It will happen on March 30, 2019. What will companies have to face and what preparations can they make? Guest author Marcus Hellmann has given it some thought.
read more..."2 Perspectives" is a new section: Here, we comment on overarching topics that concern the industry and logistics. This time with: Andrea Gillhuber, editor-in-chief of the industry magazine SCOPE.
read more...Losses or delayed deliveries of goods cause billions in damage in logistics every year. Intelligently networked pallets should provide a remedy.
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