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Next efficiency wave in the information technology focuses automation of cross-company logistics processes

(visavis Economy 06.2006) The introduction and operation of ERP-systems has significantly changed the industrial practice in the course of the last two decades. Where it was common practice in earlier days to ensure the demand-oriented supply of raw materials and supply parts through experience and expert knowledge, today sophisticated algorithms optimise internal goods flows. Significant efficiency improvements can now be found in the cross-company integration of all partners in the supply chain. The Austrian software house inet-logistics has already specialised quite early in the development of an appropriate platform and has integrated nearly all relevant logistics service providers and roughly 120 companies from different sectors. The Internet-based standard software solution for SCE, i.e. the logistics-server® of inet-logistics, synchronises the goods and information flow during cross-company transport processes. The company collaborates with research institutes, amongst them the Fraunhofer-Institute for Material and Logistics IML, and brings the insights which are the result of these partnerships into the ongoing development of the standard software.

Innovative companies make use of the Internet-based IT-solution in order to plan cross-company transport processes along the entire supply chain and to optimise it while including all relevant partners. A globally operating automotive manufacturer permanently saves a significant part of his transport costs through the reorganisation of the transport management by means of the standard software for SCE logistics-server®.