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Logistics

Interview

Logistics Real Estate in Prime Locations is scarce

Retail is betting on central warehouses and rightly so, since this creates significant savings and synergies, especially when it comes to personnel expenses. However, more and more properties are being leased and not self-built anymore, Umut Ertan, Managing Director for Realogis points out in this interview.

Several Trends determine Logistics in Retail

Logistics means more than just transporting goods from A to B. Logisticians have thought in terms of supply chains for a long time, from manufacturer through several intermediate storage facilities, ports and freeways all the way to the location where the goods are needed. Supply Chain Management (SCM) in business means:

“Retail has developed many strategies with its suppliers“

The Fraunhofer-Task Group of Technologies for Logistics in the Service Industry (=Arbeitsgruppe für Technologien der Logistik-Dienstleistungswirtschaft (ATL) has changed its name in November 2009 to Supply Chain Services (SCS). The group responds to a trend where logisticians aside from transport provide more services to their customers, like for example assembly, labelling or coordination. Fraunhofer SCS is an independent science team of 45 members.