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inet presents itself at the career fair at HTL Dornbirn

On May, 17th 2013 inet will again participate in the career fair at the Austrian Federal Polytechnic and Research Institute Dornbirn, briefly HTL.

HTL Dornbirn receives a logistics model landscape

Subject matter at your fingertips – this is the goal which HTL Dornbirn is pursuing with the logistics model landscape. HTL is receiving support through inet amounting to 1,000 € for this fantastic project.

10 years chemical and pharmaceutical logistics

Maximum security and the highest degree of reliability are naturally part of the inet “beyond standard” standard. Customers from one industry have contributed particularly to ensuring that today is as it is: Chemicals and pharmaceuticals.

At the end of March 2013, inet moved its headquarters in Germany from Oberursel to Hamburg. The new office on the Herrengraben in the center of Hamburg is inet's new address in Germany with immediate effect.

What opportunities do cloud solutions present to the supply chain? What benefits do they offer? ‘The Supply Chain Cloud’ intends to provide answers to these questions for the European logistics sector.

Career fair at University of Applied Sciences

On January 25th 2013 inet participated again in the career fair at the University of Applied Sciences Vorarlberg, which took place for the sixth time. The career fair is a meeting place for students, Alumni, companies and interested parties.

inet cherishes long-term relationships based on trust. That's why this Christmas inet is happy to once again support SOS Children's Villages Austria, which will use our donation to promote the development of the Self-help and Social Center in Togo, Africa.

The SupplyOn AG, provider of the leading web platform for cross-company collaboration in the manufacturing industry, in November 2012 has implemented technology from inet-logistics GmbH on the SupplyOn platform. This will add fully developed and comprehensive transport management functions to the existing SCM solution from SupplyOn.

In Oktober 2012 the graduation ceremony of the University of Applied Sciences Vorarlberg (FHV) took place in the Kulturhaus Dornbirn. In additon to granting of the academic degrees, the companies Blum and Hilti awarded students for their outstanding academic achievements. Three of these students are now employees of inet.

With today's common bandwidths, even larger print templates can shoot through the web without problems. That's why inet has implemented "Cloud Label" for its solutions: the transport data that is entered at the picking station feeds directly into the inet TMS and the system ...

Cloud solutions such as the inet TMS offer huge advantages in comparison to conventional license models: customers only purchase the features they need. The solutions are fast, freely scalable, and can be used anywhere in the world with little effort.

On October 24, 2012 the careers fair FH>>next took place at the Hagenberg University of Applied Sciences in Upper Austria.Two human resource managers and one marketing manager flew the flag for inet-logistics at their own booth 66.

Companies that centrally manage their shipments automatically have valuable resources at their disposal. They have access to large amounts of data, which – if combined and linked together correctly – can bring a lot of knowledge to light about the organization and its processes. Looking at this closely allows them to see relevant correlations and thus create the basis for improving processes in key areas.

In the 1990s and beyond, outsourcing was considered to be the remedy for excessive transportation costs. It makes sense: If everyone does what they do best, then everything works out cheaper. But is this still true today? “Not for large shippers,” says Lois Kerber, Head of Business Consulting at inet-logistics.

Car manufacturer supply chains are highly complex entities. Thousands of employees organize, steer and control the countless processes involved, from procurement to spare parts logistics. Last year one major enterprise sent out an RFP for a new TMS. inet was one of the suppliers who responded – and had to compete with global players in the logistics software sector. David and Goliath...

Thousands of users around the globe manage their shipments via inet TMS. To ensure that they will always be able to rely on this system and that it consistently performs “beyond standard”, inet began opening its first branch offices in Asia a few years ago. Udon Thani and Khon Kaen in Thailand. The branch offices in Thailand will serve the vast Asian market.

nilo, TNT, Kraft Foods, Coloplast etc. ... Milestones on the way to becoming global.

“It‘s true... before concluding a contract, all software companies will shine, send out their best staff, do all they can to please the potential new client,“ says Stefan Fischer, sales director at inet. “Then reality bites. And the gloss of the presentations and promises often..."

In the early years, when inet‘s systems were “only” used in Europe, everything was simple: Because transportation orders were processed at night, service technicians had ample time for maintenance work, updates and the like. Today, TMS provides customers around the globe with streamlined transportation processes and is in use 24 hours a day, seven days a week. 99.5% availability is the standard for software as a service.