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The 31,000m2 distribution warehouse of Office Depot is a shining example of intralogistics. Accordingly, there has been great interest amongst the trade in observing what goes on there for themselves. Adolf Würth KG (Germany) is one of Office Depot’s best customers. There are quite a few parallels between supplying tools and office products. So in the spring of 2011, a delegation of logisticians from the Künzelsau-based company visited their counterparts in Grossostheim.

Building skills across different cultures is difficult but indispensable for the sustained success of the company. To be able to continue offering outstanding global solutions in the future, we need to find, network and develop the right talent from around the globe.

inet guides complex IT projects swiftly, flexibly, and unerringly to success. Since every project involves risks as well as opportunities, the diverse risks and their potential repercussions must be handled correctly. For this reason, a new risk management process has been established at inet.

At the Grand Opening Ceremony of the inet Future Office on 15 March 2012, our knowledge consultant Dr. Manfred della Schiava provided in-depth insight into ongoing changes in the knowledge economy.

The frequently cited "war on talents" is tough and it's becoming increasingly tougher. Companies such as inet are consequently always having to find new ways and means of searching for the - in part - highly-specialized inet employees of tomorrow.

Our head office is moving from Wolfurt to the new inet Future Office in Dornbirn in February. From 13.02.2012 the following telephone numbers and addresses apply for the Austrian offices.

Continuity and reliability rank highly at inet: it is our intent that they define our relationships. It is for this reason that, together with SOS Children’s Villages Austria, we are again supporting the Self-help and Community Center in Kara in Togo this year for Christmas.

inet takes on the challenge of information security. We are therefore preparing for the ISO 27001 certification. Get more information regarding our security objectives, the technical and organizational measures we have already implemented and what the future holds for us.

Raft building, geocaching, archery and team-building activities: this year‘s Peak Challenge once more offered a lot of fun and action, but it also provided important input about collaboration in high reliability organizations (HRO).

Global Supply Chains demand the integration of many service providers. For you, Carrier Community Management by inet means many carriers already integrated, comprehensive end-to-end visibility and much more advantages.

After the implementation March, final testing and creation of a user manual, the inet Service Portal (Incident, Master Data & Problem Management) entered the go-live and roll-out phase in April. We gladly present you the benefits of the portal.

2010 was a year full of huge changes personell-wise. A lot of new employees were hired and inet’s internationalization was pushed further. For that reason we interviewed HR manager Irene Haentschel-Erhart, PhD on the role of HR at inet, international growth and other challenges.

LANXESS looked for a TMS which is fully integrable into the SAP environment and shall be introduced consistently into all parts of the group. The Transportation Management, Freight Cost Management and Dock Management solutions of the inet TMS are thus rolled out globally.

The demand for significant reports that enable performance measurement in different areas of transportation management is growing. This is why inet has increased both its human and technological resources for this purpose.

Probably the best known provider of products in the field of printing, personal computing and IT-infrastructure fastens its delivery processes in Europe significantly and lowers its logistics costs thanks to cross docking.

inet pushes its internationalization further and for this reason opens its first Asian subsidiary. Ten years after the founding of inet-logistics in Europe, inet is now also represented in Thailand.