Transport logistics and Supply Chain Management - Service Packages

Supply Chain Management for Perishable Goods

Supply Chains in themselves are already large and complex. In order to meet the even higher requirements for transportation of perishable goods it takes a special handling. While time is already an important factor in a normal supply chain, it is critical when dealing with perishable goods. The temperature has to be monitored constantly to ensure an unbroken cooling chain. Additionally, due to the low margins in the sector, the utilization of the available transport capacity must be optimized in order to keep the transport cost as low as possible.
Supply Chain Mangement for Perishable Goods

Information Management in Supply Chains

Supply chains and business relationships are becoming increasingly complex. As a result, companies are facing the following challenges in information management.

To begin with, frequent and substantial changes can be observed in the supply chain setup. This phenomenon is demonstrated by increased competition, technological improvements, ongoing innovation in the field of business applications, as well as stricter  regulatory requirements. What is more, inefficiencies and errors occur as a result of recurring manual data entries as well as a plethora of different documents and document formats. This leads in turn to difficulties in transferring the data and communicating along the supply chain. The structural frictions mainly derive from the supply chain participants’ lack of appropriate and functioning IT systems.
Information Management in Supply Chains

Business Development of Adriatic Ports

Transport volumes in Adriatic ports have not grown as much as expected over the last couple of years. The gap in growth rates compared to Northern European ports has widened as well. This is mainly because the bulk of goods that are destined for the Alps-region or Southern Europe still arrive in the ports of Rotterdam, Hamburg or Bremerhaven. These goods continue to be shipped through Northern European ports even though it adds an extra five days of transport via truck and ignores the fact that the hubs in Northern Europe are already a bottleneck in the chain.
Business Development of Adriatic Ports

Internal Price based Container Management

Imbalanced movements of goods in global trade are the main reason for the accumulation of empty containers at certain destinations. In this context, container management has become one of the most complex problems in the global distribution of goods. Empty Containers are often not where they are needed and therefore have to be repositioned. The repositioning of large amounts of containers between trade partners entails high transportation costs.
Internal Price based Container Management

Tracking and Tracing in the Supply Chain

Today’s transport industry is characterized by an overwhelming complexity. Overloaded schedules result in an increasing number of bottlenecks, leaving little room for leeway in the timetable. While this tightening leads to efficiency when things are running smoothly, the system can already be destabilized if small problems occur and are become larger as they travel the supply chain. Often those initial problems are not recognized until they have become a major problem.
Tracking and Tracing in the Supply Chain