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67
Corporate Divisions
LOGISTICS
One-stop global logistics
In the LOGISTICS Corporate Division, we aim to meet the growing demand among
high-quality goods manufacturers for comprehensive, one-stop logistics services. The
Solutions Business Unit takes over the management of the entire supply chain, from
the procurement, storage and packaging of goods, right through to invoicing and
order processing; we also ensure that information and goods flows are tightly inter-
linked. Our expertise is focused on selected industry sectors: automotive, pharma/
services
healthcare, electronics/telecommunication, , and
textiles.
The air and ocean freight activities of the Intercontinental Business Unit
connect all of the world’s commercial centers. We do not maintain our own air and
ocean fleet; instead, we buy loading space and charter capacity as required. Integrated
value added services for coordinating and monitoring goods flows are becoming
increasingly important. We have also been successful in the area of complex project
shipping for a number of years, with a particular focus on industrial and energy
projects.
The services provided by the Eurocargo Business Unit cover general domestic
and European cargo traffic, full loads carried by road and rail, and specialties such as
trade fair logistics. All in all, we have 180 transshipment centers across Europe, which
we intend to incorporate within an integrated European distribution network as part
of the Group-wide bundling of express and logistics activities. In order to implement this
quickly and efficiently, Eurocargo will be transferred from the LOGISTICS Corporate
Division to the EXPRESS Corporate Division effective from January 1, 2003.
Outsourcing of logistics services offers potential
The market for logistics services has changed in recent years. Industry has started
to produce and sell its goods in more and more countries around the world. The
complexity of goods flows is increasing – and so, too, are requirements for workflow
management. If companies were to organize their own logistics activities, this would
fast moving consumer goods
Fast Moving Consumer Goods:
consumer goods required on a
day-to-day basis which must be
shipped quickly, such as food,
drinks, and cleaning materials.