Industry News Facts, insights & trends: Transport industry moving forward at transport logistic 2019 The transport logistic 2019 trade fair in Munich, which takes place every two years, once again lives up to its claim as the world's leading transport and logistics event: (more…)
Industry News What is driving logistics in the automotive industry? Digitization is in full swingFor some time now, approaches such as artificial intelligence or the Internet of Things have left the scientific and university sphere. Companies in the automotive and logistics industries have begun implementing these approaches with the technological options available today. The successful digitization of industry-specific procurement strategies is making massive progress and continues to serve as a role model and benchmark for other industries.What you could see and hear at the Forum Automobillogistik 2019, which took place on 5-6 February at the BMW World in Munich under the motto "Creating value creation - analogue - digital - in real time", was, as expected, extremely impressive. (more…)
Industry News Digitalization should not be regarded as an expense but as an investment in the future February 15 saw the conclusion of “Forum Automobillogistik” (Forum Automotive Logistics), a joint event organized by the German Federal Logistics Association (BVL) and the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA). More than 500 experts and executives from the automotive and logistics industry met in Bremen for two days. The regularly occurring event was hosted by Mercedes-Benz AG, which provided the customer center located at its plant for this purpose. Together with Dr. Joachim Damasky, Managing Director of VDA, Prof. Dr. Wimmer, the Board Chairman of BVL, welcomed the participants under the motto “Smart instead of reactive – on the path to digital dimensions”. (more…)