The spirit of entrepreneurship
KLU’s Logistics Start-Up Day in January proved a great success, with business pitches from almost a dozen start-ups to KLU students and guests complemented by interactive sessions and a panel discussion [...] who aim to coach fellow students in entrepreneurial thinking – KLU’s Logistics Start-Up Day featured pitches from 11 start-ups working in the field of logistics and transportation. Unsurprisingly, efficiency [...] explained co-funder and CEO Ferry Heilemann during his presentation. Cargonexx from Hamburg, which started up in December 2016, aims to make prices for freight forwarding more transparent through the development
New Players in The Logistics Sector
put theory into practice, KLU hosted Logistics Start-up Day in January, organized by two of its professors, André Ludwig and Hanno Friedrich. Eleven start-ups introduced themselves to an audience of around [...] does it take for a start-up to be successful?” Christina Raasch , Associate Professor for Digital Economy, researches this topic and can give a scientific answer: “First of all, start-ups should have insight [...] Start-ups focus on new technologies and customer value Things are moving in the logistics sector. New enterprises are developing new business models and changing best practice for interacting with customers
Setting Sail on a Successful Internship
BSc student Johara Weber shares her internship experience Having grown up in the port city of Hamburg, Johara Weber is naturally interested in the shipping industry. She chose ferry company Stena Line [...] of getting the internship in the first place, and allow for a wide range of experience once she started working there. The internship was full of hands-on experience in a real world setting, giving Weber [...] exciting. It’s worth it in the end because you gain so much hands-on experience. An internship opens up new possibilities for more complex tasks and provides insight into higher management positions within
A Bottle Full of Memories
weekend of working - and celebrating. Some parents even came along too. Starting out with great ambitions, once the team work actually started and the dream became a reality, they became aware of their capabilities [...] together was irresistible, so a group trip to Weingut Kampf was planned that September. Sabine Kampf grew up on the family’s winery in Flonheim, nearly 600 km south of Hamburg, located in one of Germany’s largest [...] graduation - that maybe we would go back to the winery. But we couldn’t just say goodbye to KLU and start our new chapter just yet.” So the idea blossomed, and plans were made for more students to join in
The Route to Sustainability
for freight transport. The vehicle’s battery runs out and you have to recharge it before you can start again. It takes time to make the resource available again, so it’s better to recharge during rush [...] battery while progressing slowly on congested roads. After recharging, the traffic may have cleared up and you can efficiently continue on your route with a fully loaded battery. This is one application [...] “They get tired and can’t drive anymore. If you have to take a break anyway, why not try to match up your break schedule with the traffic situation so one problem solves the other. It’s good for drivers;
The Global Demand for Logistic Skills
help the situation? Many small and mid-sized players don’t have the funds or volume of staff to set up their own training programs and professional bodies need to take the lead role to develop materials [...] can tertiary and training institutions do to make studying logistics more attractive? We have to start at the school level and highlight that logistics is not about moving pallets around, but it’s really
The Start of Something Big
Building on the success of last year’s inaugural KLU Logistics Start-Up Day, 2018’s day-long event attracted 25 start-ups from several countries as well as 300 participants who were given the opportunity [...] industries. It’s estimated that a new logistics start-up is founded somewhere in the world every five days. Agile and innovative, the vast majority of these start-ups are both emerging as a result of the digital [...] Ludwig, the KLU Start-Up Day gives its participants – KLU students, external students and practitioners interested in the topic – insight into the motivations and workings of these start-ups. Not to forget
First KLU PhD awarded to Florian Badorf
was very exciting to see the university grow and develop – alongside my dissertation. We now ended up “finishing” almost at the same time: KLU with the right to confer PhDs and I with the submission of [...] supply chain from novel perspectives. My thesis presents four empirical studies that move from the start to the end of this abstract supply chain. Thus, my dissertation results are two-fold: I show that [...] initial tasks in a supply chain is choosing the right supplier. So this is where my dissertation starts: with a study on supplier selection decisions. I continue by exploring a step further downstream
Ensuring safe passage: KLU Start-Up Clinch Logistics
himself. The logical progression of the idea, says Flores, who comes from Hermosillo in Mexico, was to start up a digital freight-forwarding platform together with his partner, compatriot and fellow graduate [...] or importing,” says Flores. “But as opposed to other forwarders, we are not starting with accumulating assets, we’re starting with the software, but are looking for the assets that are already there but [...] graduates Ivan Flores and Amanda Del Valle hail from Mexico, but have settled in Hamburg, setting up a ground-breaking digital freight-forwarding platform for trade between Latin America and Europe along
Chatbots and IoT: New Opportunities for Logistics
waste on the transport route. Another group came up with chatbots that provide useful additional information during a web session and cross-sell or up-sell. I was also really excited by the approach of [...] providers are currently fighting on two fronts. On one hand, they are up against their traditional competitors, but also against start-ups and digital giants like Amazon, Alibaba and Uber, which offer new [...] massively. In the future, logistics companies will therefore focus even more on this topic. Asvin Goel: Up to now, every single actor along the supply chain had information about his assets, but could not easily