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
Sweet Success: 8 Cafés in Hamburg that Make Great Study Spots
Wi-Fi. Feeling up to a nice brunch? Some locations also offer a buffet-style brunch on the weekends that you can enjoy before or after preparing for your next exam season. If we head up to Eimsbüttel, [...] the bustling streets and tranquil corners of Hamburg as we uncover some study sanctuaries. Let’s start off strong with a café that you can find in multiple locations throughout Hamburg! Café May is a chain [...] in Altona, St. Georg and Rotherbaum, among other neighborhoods. Fresh roasted coffee, coming right up! Located on the historical Deichstraße, Nord Coast Coffee Roastery does not disappoint when it comes
Online Sales on a Rainy Day
y weather effect is modest it can be substantial on a weekly basis with order variability reaching up to 15% attributable to weather effects. We discuss forecast improvement potentials due to incorporation [...] Chain Management at the Kühne Logistics University. Before joining the KLU in September 2012 he started his Ph.D. studies at the Cologne Graduate School in Management, Economics and Social Sciences in
KLU President Strothotte: how we're handling the Corona Crisis (video)
loosen up and the travel restrictions are gone, then of course we expect everyone to be coming to KLU to do the learning here. But in the meantime, we will find solutions for whatever problems come up. For [...] worked very well because we have been working for almost two years now on getting our online learning up and running. So we basically had everything we needed. It was a matter of rolling it out to everybody [...] teaching today is working very well and the response of the students is positive. Our faculty is coming up with new ideas like coffee sessions in addition to the teaching and is creating a kind of family atmosphere
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;
Boot Camp 2019: The Student Experience
about these technologies, to understand how they work and how they can be implemented, and to come up with solutions that use these technologies”, explained Raphael. The personal contact with executives [...] companies here.” And the participants feel that a new approach or a bright idea might well be picked up by the company. “They are taking our ideas seriously,” said Milan. “This is more than a university [...] never been done before, that’s not an easy task. You have to get rid of all the ‘normal’ thoughts and start being creative, innovative, visionary.” Ready-to-use technology Dealing with things like Artificial
Logistik-Podcast: Das Gleiche in Grün?! Staffel 3
rund bei „Das Gleiche in Grün“, denn mit Frank Seeger sprechen Timo und Moritz über Reifen. Das Startup CO2OPT ist angetreten Fuhrparkbetreiber bei der Auswahl der wirklich passenden Reifen zu unterstützen [...] Datenmess- und Datensammelpunkte definieren und welche Vorgehensweise respektive welche Strategie zum Starten ist hierbei ratsam? Welche Maßnahmen im Sinne der Best Practices zeigen die meiste Wirkung, wenn [...] haben sich Timo und Moritz darum mit Julian Kakarott zusammengesetzt. Julian ist CEO des Hamburger Startups „CarbonStack“ und beschäftigt sich intensiv mit Umweltmodellierung, Aufforstung und Kompensation
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
Founding a new company? Alumnus Jannes Dawe knows the ropes
quite a bit. I’ve been active in a number of fields. I started creating websites back in the 11th grade. When I was 18, I registered a business to start making money off it, and my first customer hired me [...] into a startup in the area of pricing. And in 2018, the other two jacks of all trades and I founded our company. We’re currently working on our next idea … What matters most when it comes to starting a company [...] secondary school, I was marketing specially designed street lamps for them in South Africa and set up a company for this purpose. During my bachelor’s studies at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt
"Companies need confidence" - Alumni story with Hannes Voigt
master’s in management at KLU. The past three years I was at Forto, a logistics startup out of Berlin, where I headed up development in various European countries. KLU imparted upon me a broader perspective [...] originally as a haulage firm in Pomerania. During World War Two the family fled to Neumünster and started over. In the past 30 years under my father’s leadership, we’ve grown fast from simple haulage to [...] a recession; there is uncertainty about how things will continue. To that effect, I imagined my start differently. In the first 100 days I presented a strategy that is now being implemented step by step