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Dortmund/Nuremberg, 8 August 2023 – The Nuremberg-based IT provider cargo support, which specialises in logistics software, is now part of the proLogistik Group. With its Logistics Software Suite, the software and system house cargo support is aimed at service, industrial and commercial companies that primarily deal with the transport of goods. “This strategic step opens up further growth potential for the proLogistik Group. With the solutions of cargo support, we complement our portfolio in the Transportation business area and underpin our ambition to offer top performance along the entire supply chain. Our customers now benefit more than ever from the combined expertise of leading logistics specialists,” says Jörg Sänger, CEO of proLogistik Group. The range of logistics software from cargo support includes different solutions, for example the depot management software covers all areas of a container depot for full and empty containers as well as their interim storage. “The product offerings of the individual companies within the Group complement each other to a great extent. Thus, we offer our customers new solutions for a consistently optimized supply chain solution. In this sense, we are very much looking forward to the upcoming cooperation,” emphasises Volker Hasch, Managing Director of cargo support. … Read more

Premiere at proLogistik: on 14 July the Children’s Day with a colourful supporting programme took place for the first time. Seventeen children aged two to 13 accompanied mum or dad to work and had a lot of fun together. After a short reception with juice and snacks, the children first explored the house with their parents and were allowed to look at the offices. During the tour, the kicker in the kitchen was seized with enthusiasm. Afterwards, the rally by the company started with four stops:In the hardware department, the children made their own name bracelets, depending on their age, or were allowed to use the screwdriver themselves by screwing on a PC cooling plate. This was especially exciting for older kids. At the station of the marketing department, the girls and boys were able to get really creative when creating their own buttons. Colorful works of art were created such as rainbow, BVB and proLogistik buttons which were then also allowed to be put together themselves. At the next station, the People and Culture team offered various team games, while at the fourth station the children could watch a “cinema presentation” of the children’s knowledge program “Checkerwelt”. The supermarket … Read more

As of 01.06.2023 Dirk de Beer will take over the newly created position of Chief Operating Officer (COO) at proLogistik Group. He will continue his activities as Managing Director of active logistics GmbH. Dortmund, 01 June 2023. Dirk de Beer becomes the new COO of the proLogistik Group. De Beer can look back on more than 25 years of international experience in IT, business development, strategy and market development. He has held senior positions at Electronic Data Systems, Hewlett Packard and incadea (a Cox Automotive company). Since March 2022 he has been managing director of active logistics GmbH, which has been part of the proLogistik Group since December 2022. “The proLogistik Group is growing with the aim of optimizing logistics processes along the entire supply chain for our customers. With Dirk de Beer, we are gaining an experienced colleague with great ideas and enormous enthusiasm. Our team warmly welcomes him in his new role and looks forward to further cooperation,” says Jörg Sänger CEO, proLogistik Group. Press contact:Ms Kathrin MoreiraproLogistik GmbHFallgate 1D – 44369 DortmundTelephone: +49 231 5194-0presse (@) prologistik.com

Dortmund, 01 June 2023. “We are currently greatly expanding the portfolio for transport solutions within the proLogistik Group. By double occupying this position with Salih Cil and Giovanni Rodio, we underline our focus,” says Jörg Sänger, CEO of proLogistik Group. Salih Cil has been expanding his knowledge and network around logistics digitization for over twenty years, including 15 years as branch and sales manager at LIS Logistische Informationssysteme GmbH. Giovanni Rodio draws on more than 15 years of experience in logistics digitization for his new activities: most recently, he also worked for LIS, of which more than seven years as Sales Manager. “The two have been working together in this area for years and we are proud to welcome them to the team!” Press contact:Ms Kathrin MoreiraproLogistik GmbHFallgate 1D – 44369 DortmundTelephone: +49 231 5194-0presse (@) prologistik.com

The ongoing dynamics of change also pose a challenge to intralogistics. Flexible, agile and at the same time efficient processes are a “must-have” to be able to meet these challenges in the long run. However, investing lavishly is sometimes not an option. Alternatively, great things can be achieved with a retrofit. Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) play a crucial role here. Change has always been a constant. But the pace has picked up in the face of the pandemic and changing demand patterns. In the process, it also became or is becoming apparent that systems and processes that have proven themselves over a long period of time are reaching their limits and, figuratively speaking, are showing signs of chronic exhaustion. The development in online retailing is also contributing to this. While e-commerce has been established as the “new normal” in the B2C sector for years, but has received a further boost due to Corona, this sales channel is also increasingly determining B2B business. Intralogistics must also be able to withstand the associated demands. If this is only partially successful, however, it is not necessarily a question of the existing plant or the existing storage system. Instead, the required target state in … Read more

From paper to digital intralogistics in just six months Sideshore AG is a young, dynamic company in Wolfhausen (Canton of Zurich), which has been successfully active in sports wholesale since 2006. As an exclusive Swiss importer and retailer, Sideshore sells trendy sports equipment and apparel from numerous manufacturers and brands. At the Wolfhausen site, approximately 14 employees store up to 10,000 different articles and process an average of 40 to 50 customer orders per day. Looking back at the time without a digital warehouse management Since the company was founded, the company and the variety of articles have grown considerably. Before digitization with the LOGIS MOVE warehouse management software, the warehouse extended over two parts of the building, each with two levels, where the ordered items were picked according to customer specifications. The employees had to travel long distances and were only supported to a limited extent by the ERP system. This led to inefficiencies and errors within the logistics processes, as no warehouse management software and no MDE devices were in use until then. Criteria which were important to Sideshore AG for the commissioning of a digital intralogistics system – including consideration of the strategic goals with regard to … Read more

With the latest release update of the warehouse management software LOGIS MOVE, Volg Konsumwaren AG starts into a new intralogistics era. Volg is the specialist for village stores in German-speaking and French-speaking Switzerland. Volg Konsumwaren AG is part of the fenaco cooperative, which was founded in 1993 by the merger of six agricultural cooperative associations and, as the marketing partner of farmers, ensures that Swiss food reaches customers. Volg Konsumwaren AG supplies around 930 small-scale food outlets, including around 600 Volg stores. Since 2005, Volg has relied on warehouse management software from Dataphone AG In order to continue to meet the constantly growing demands of the market in terms of intralogistics, Volg opted for the release update – the latest warehouse management software version LOGIS MOVE. “fresh and flush” – this motto still applied after an intensive rollout night The “Release Update at Volg” project started at noon on a Friday and ended the following Monday. Thanks to a flawless planning phase and a careful testing phase, the release update was implemented error-free within just one night. Mega rollout in parallel in three distribution centers and six areas The LOGIS MOVE warehouse management system was put into operation simultaneously at … Read more

In intralogistics, WMS solutions impress with quality and a range of functions perfectly tailored to specific needs. Modern warehouse management systems (WMS), such as pL-Store®, offer sufficient flexibility to integrate new processes that allow companies to respond to market changes. pL-Store®, the comprehensive software solution for warehouse management and material flow control, is suitable for any industry and directs all processes from goods receipt to forklift control and picking to goods issue in clearly structured, efficient ways. The modular pL-Store® WMS also has a high degree of individualization and is constantly being further developed in consideration of specific customer requirements. The WMS solutions “Foodline” for the food industry and “Techline”, which covers the sanitary, building materials and technical wholesale trade, have been developed from decades of experience and cooperation with well-known companies. The special feature of this is that, in addition to standard modules of general relevance to logistics, the warehouse management software also already covers a large number of additional modules in the standard version, which are of particular importance for these industries and no longer need to be extensively reprogrammed. When introducing a WMS solution, it is advisable to carry out a precise survey of the current status … Read more

More and more companies want and need to optimize their intralogistics in order to serve their customers quickly and sustainably. The Dortmund-based proLogistik Group is the German market leader with its warehouse management software and specially developed industrial PCs. Together with the Swiss companies Dataphone and Xelog, it is now setting its sights on the European market. Today, we can only smile about the fact that in the past, we were not allowed to know or did not want to know exactly what was actually happening behind the company walls in order to somehow get a grip on all the workflows, storage and delivery processes. Slips of paper, paper clips and phrases like “I think we have three left, I’ll take a look later” are a thing of the past. Digitization, e-commerce and sustainability debates ensure that lean, efficient and optimally controllable intralogistics not only bring competitive advantages but, on the contrary, keep companies alive in the long and medium term in the first place. Worldwide competence The Dortmund-based proLogistik Group has become Germany’s leading logistics consultant with its wide range of warehouse management software and computers and services developed specifically for the industry. Heilbronn-based LogiSoft-S GmbH has also been … Read more

With the surge in online orders since the outbreak of the pandemic, peaks are a daily occurrence for many retailers. The booster for successful fulfillment is a WMS (Warehouse Management System) that keeps inventories online and continuously adapts processes to the current order volume. As the German E-Commerce and Distance Selling Trade Association (bevh) has determined, the industry will record consolidated growth of 23.2 percent in the first half of 2021. This corresponds to a goods value of around 45.2 billion euros. Whether this figure will weaken again following the relaxations in stationary retailing remains questionable. This is because people have come to appreciate the convenience of online shopping around the clock. It is not only companies that have not used this sales channel to date that are being called upon to set up store systems on the Internet or with providers such as Amazon & Co. At the same time, existing logistics structures must be aligned with the new multi-channel purchasing reality, which requires high availability of goods and short delivery times, and optimized in terms of efficiency. These challenges can only be mastered with the help of a high-performance warehouse management system (WMS) that seamlessly maps the specifics … Read more