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The software house inet-logistics was given an award for its logistics-server which enables logistics partners to close their information gaps
(Distribution 11.2007) True to the motto of the 24th German Logistics Congress "Efficiency, responsibility and success” inet-logistics, provider of software solutions, presented itself in Berlin in mid-October. "With our applications we assume responsibility for making processes run fast and effectively,” explains Oswald Werle, man in charge of the Austrian company. And you meet with success here. This is evident not least from the fact that inet-logistics has won approximately 25 new customers this year already amongst which are companies such as Kraft Foods International, Würth Logistics, Kühne + Nagel, Fiege or SBB Cargo. "The interest in our products is growing and our concept proves its worth,” he says.
The secret: "The simplicity of our solutions is the innovative part of it", clarifies Werle. Thus, the solution which gets used at Magna Steyr Fahrzeugtechnik for the supply control was for example only recently awarded the 5th Austrian eProcurement & Supply Innovation Award. At the awards ceremony the jury said that the company from Wolfurt had succeeded by means of its application to close the gap which often existed in the information flow between the various IT-systems of manufacturers, suppliers and transport service providers in a simple way.
The awarded solution is called logistics-server and forms part of the company’s standard product. "We have further developed this web-based system consistently,” reports the company’s head of business. Complex transport processes can be made transparent and at the same time optimisation potentials can be exploited. The logistics-server is made up of different modules which can be put together as requested by the customer. The modules cover the fields transport-, freight cost- and loading device management. Apart from that the company also offers solutions for the shipment tracking via RFID- and GSM-technology, which are suited for example for the online monitoring of cooling chains during the transport.
However, the software house has still more in store. At the moment the company is developing a solution which employs the so-called ant algorithm. "In case of this agent technology not only one software gets used but actually several smaller software units which communicate with each other,” explains inet-logistics’ principal Oswald Werle. The aim is to optimise the utilisation rate of vehicles and reduce transport costs. This application should come on the market next year as a pilot project and should be offered as a fully developed product in 2009. "The first results from laboratory tests are already available,” he says.