Moving Europe

EDITION 3/2011 

magazine 

EUROHUBS 

Moving Europe 

THE WORLD OF INTELLIGENT LOGISTICS 

AIR & SEA 

Dedicated new 

industry modules 

SOLAR TECHNOLOGY 

Answering the boom 

with lean processes

SNAPSHOT 

“You sometimes have to risk 

what’s already good in order to 

achieve something even better.” 

Lakewood mastermind Martin Seeliger has been 

building legendary guitars for 25 years. Given 

the discerning nature of his target group, 

he puts his success down to a healthy portion 

of ambition and just a touch of impatience. 

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FORUM 

People and markets: 04 

Aerodynamics for sustainable technological 

progress. Also introducing the new country 

organization in Singapore, and the trend 

towards global personnel 

Dachser face-to-face: Strong regional roots. 

Bernhard Simon meets Hannes Feneberg 08 

NETWORK 

Czech Republic: Logistics growth driver 

from the new heart of Europe 10 

COMPETENCE 

Solar energy: Green and lean logistics 

for Donauer Solartechnik 12 

DIY-Logistics: Designing innovative 

supply chains with Globus DIY stores 13 

Air & Sea Logistics: New customized 

concepts for individual sectors of industry 20 

COVER STORY 

European Logistics: How Dachser 

networks Europe with its Eurohub system 14 

Scrapbook: 

Good news and competition 23 

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FORUM: PEOPLE & MARKETS 

Research & development 

Wind and weather 

Temperatures ranging from minus 40 to plus 60 degrees Celsius, hurricanes with wind 

speeds up to 265 kilometres an hour, tropical rainfall and heavy snowstorms: all 

part of the standard repertoire in two new climatic wind tunnels recently 

opened by Daimler at its Mercedes Benz Technology Centre in Sindelfingen. 

The new climatic wind tunnels will allow test engineers to optimize 

new vehicles or components for all possible wind and weather conditions 

at a very early stage in the development process. “In our 

new climatic wind tunnels we can create any climatic conditions 

we choose, to replicate any of the seasons. It’s all done with 

very narrow tolerances so that the tests can be repeated at 

any time,” says Dr Thomas Weber, member of the Board of 

Management of Daimler AG, Group Research & Mercedes-Benz Cars. For example, in the new cold 

tunnel it’s even possible to find out whether snow swirled up by a truck driving ahead of the car is 

likely to block the air intakes. 

Aviation 

Flying hybrids 

The “DA36 E-Star”, or “Cri-Cri” for short, is set to 

change aviation. At the Paris Air Show in June, 

Siemens, Diamond Aircraft and EADS presented the 

world’s prototype two-seater motor glider with serial 

hybrid electric drive. It is hoped this technology, 

which has so far only been used in electric cars, will 

in future help cut fuel consumption and emissions 

by as much as 25 percent. A small Wankel combustion 

engine drives a generator to power a 70-kilowatt 

electric engine that runs the aircraft’s propeller. A battery system supplies additional power during 

takeoff and ascent. The batteries are recharged during cruising with low aerodynamic drag. 

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AERODYNAMICS 

Optimized engines reduce emissions and fuel 

consumption. But the tractor is not the only factor 

relevant for energy consumption. Semitrailers 

can also make a significant contribution 

to improving the ecological balance sheet. At 

this year’s transport logistic trade fair, Dachser 

for the first time presented its aerodynamically 

optimized test semi-trailer. The futuristic-looking 

side panels immediately catch the eye. To 

ensure these do not impair road use, they have 

been designed so that operating and service 

units are still readily accessible. But the side 

panels alone aren’t all. The semi-trailers also 

have smooth-sided superstructures, internal 

door-locking gear and tyres with reduced 

rolling resistance, cutting fuel consumption by 

up to five percent. Assuming an annual mileage 

of 160,000 kilometres, this is equivalent to 

2,760 litres of diesel. The trailers with reduced 

aerodynamic drag are currently being tested at 


It is one of the tallest and most prestigious buildings in the 

world: the Taipei 101 Building in the financial centre of Taiwan’s 

capital city. The world’s tallest office building is 101 storeys high 

and measures a staggering 508 metres. Architecturally, it is modelled on a bamboo cane: strong 

and yet flexible – designed to withstand even earthquake tremors and typhoon winds. To offset 

the extreme movements of the building, 400 metres up structural engineers suspended a 660tonne 

gilded steel pendulum with a diameter of 5.50 metres. Tuned mass dampers help to reduce 

the amplitude of mechanical vibrations during strong wind loads by up to half. For its intelligent 

systems and innovative construction technology, Taipei 101 has recently earned the renowned 

US Green Building Council’s “Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design” (LEED) 

platinum certification. 

Driving experience 

Trailers from the wind tunnel 

Michael Schilling, 

managing director of 

Dachser’s European Network 

Management & Logistics 

Systems business unit 

Taipei 101 

Bamboo 

in the wind 

a number of Dachser branch offices, both as 

box and refrigerated semi-trailers for food. 

“The team from the Technical Equipment/ 

Movables department is working hand in hand 

with manufacturers on testing the sustainability 

of new technologies,” says Cornelia Blenk, 

responsible for Trailer/Commercial Vehicles 

fleet management at Dachser. “This allows us 

to further optimize energy consumption and 

improve the CO 2 balance.” 

hh Combining 

innovative technologies 

and optimized capacity 

utilization helps to lower CO2 emissions Michael Schilling 

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Singapore 

Entering new markets 

in the “Lion City” 

Dachser is further expanding its services portfolio in the Asia-Pacific 

region. With the foundation of a new country organization in Singapore, 

the company is now present with a total of 55 branch offices in 

eight countries across Asia. 

The services provided by Dachser Singapore Pte. Ltd. range from air and sea freight transports 

to contract logistics solutions and from customs clearance to project consulting. 

The fully-owned Dachser subsidiary currently employs a staff of 20, to increase to 30 by 

the end of the year. 

Underlining the strategic importance of the location, Dachser Air & Sea Logistics 

managing director Thomas Reuter points out: “Singapore is one of the world’s major 

logistics crossroads, handling goods from the whole of south-east Asia; at 

the same time, the metropolis is the seat of many international companies”. 

“Our presence in Singapore improves the possibilities for our customers to 

participate in an enhanced global as well as inner-Asian exchange of goods.” 

The company, with a branch office at Changi Airport and an office in 

the west of the “Lion City”, is run by managing director Matthew Ong 

and Dachser India Pvt. Ltd. CEO, Detlev Janik. Dachser is now present in 

Asia with branch offices in Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, India, South 

Korea, Taiwan and Thailand with a total of some 1,250 employees. 

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FASTER TRACK 

TO THE BRITISH ISLES 

Dachser Food Logistics is improving its 

range of services in the UK and Ireland. 

Within the scope of a new cooperation 

with Peter Green Chilled, customers 

can now also benefit from full-coverage 

daily deliveries across Ireland. Transit 

times to Scotland have also been 

reduced. Three-day services to consignees 

throughout England, Wales 

and Scotland are now uniformly offered 

from any corner of Germany. And to 

Ireland they take just one day longer. 

With its own fleet of smaller vehicles, 

the new partner also serves the inner- 

London congestion charge zone. 

Dachser’s Herne branch office functions 

as a platform for the new service. 

Groupage consignments from Dachser 

and its European partners are consolidated 

there on a daily basis and delivered 

to Peter Green in Shepton Mallet 

(south of Bristol) the following day for 

onward distribution. One day later the 

consignments are delivered across 

England and Scotland, including the 

early time slots at the central Aldi warehouses, 

which are of such importance 

for German exporters. 

Peter Green Chilled is one of Britain’s 

leading food logistics providers and, 

like Dachser, specializes in groupage. 

Dachser’s European partners Müller 

Fresh Food Logistics (Netherlands) and 

Tresserras (Spain) have been cooperating 

successfully with the company for 

a number of years. 

In brief 

Since 1 August 2011, Dachser’s joint venture 

in India has operated under the name Dachser India 

Pvt. Ltd. The ownership structure has not changed. 

Dachser has been present in India since 2007 via 

its joint venture with AFL and currently employs 

a staff of 500 at 30 locations.

Viva Dachser Mexico! 

For the first time, Dachser Mexico was one of 

eight forwarding companies to be honoured 

in 2010 by the Mexican airline, 

Aeromexico, for its outstanding export 

volumes. Aeromexico handles approximately 

25 percent of all exports from Mexico. 

Dachser Mexico increased its total air freight volume 

fivefold in 2010 compared to the previous year. 

Logistics market 

“Personnel are going global” 

Globalization, demographic 

trends, migration patterns 

and internationally-oriented career 

paths pose enormous challenges for human resources 

management, making it increasingly 

difficult for companies to attract and recruit 

the best “brains”. The reasons for this include 

the growing lack of qualified candidates 

caused by the demographic shift, and changes 

in the life plans and expectations that today’s 

top talents and professionals place in their employer 

and career. Personnel are becoming 

global. Human resources management needs 

to adjust to this and start thinking in terms of 

global recruiting. This not only means making 

international appointments at the top and 

middle management level, but also restructuring 

career paths within the company to take 

account of international career models. And 

that’s not all: it also requires a more interna- 


Competition among companies to attract the best brains is in full swing. Global recruiting 

is the latest buzzword. A commentary by Wulf Eckardt, consultant, Kienbaum Executive Search, 

Human Resource & Management Consulting, Paris 

tional orientation within the corporate culture 

and personnel development, more flexible contractual 

and remuneration structures, more 

professional and international recruiting solutions, 

an international recruitment policy and 

effective relocation competence. Human resources 

management faces a complex challenge: 

only if it becomes really global and 

international can it be successful – and with it 

the entire company. 

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FORUM: DACHSER FACE-TO-FACE 

Bernhard Simon meets ... 

Hannes Feneberg 

Success starts at home. Hannes Feneberg, CEO 

of Feneberg Lebensmittel GmbH, spoke to the head 

of Dachser’s management board, Bernhard Simon. 

hh Mr Feneberg, what do origins and regional 

identity mean to you and your grocery 

company? 

Hannes Feneberg: Origins and regional 

identity fundamentally characterize the identity 

of our family-run business. Our family 

roots go back a long way. Right back to the 

12th century. Consequently, we have close 

emotional ties with our home region in the 

Allgäu. 

hh Mr Simon, when people nowadays 

refer to Dachser as the Kempton-based 

logistics provider, is that too local a designation 

for an internationally operating 

logistics company? 

Bernhard Simon: We no longer refer to 

ourselves as a Kempten-based company, but 

rather as a global logistics provider that has 

its origins and strong local ties in the Allgäu 

region. When people in Asia and America 

ask where our company roots lie, it’s interesting 

to relate our company history, which can 

be traced back to Kempten. “Made in Germany” 

is associated with engineering skill, 

expertise and quality. Both are the result of 

many years of experience and a sense of identity 

with the origins of our company, which 

lie in the Allgäu region. This strengthens our 

ties with our home roots. 

hh Mr Feneberg, in the food industry 

you are bravely swimming against the 

tide: you don’t subscribe to the discount 

principle, you offer top-quality produce, 

where possible sourced locally. How do 

you see your role competing against 

large-scale, in some cases multinational, 

providers? 


A strong sense of 

identity with regional roots 

appeals to the taste of 

the markets 

H. Feneberg: Ten years ago you would often 

hear that companies of our size didn’t 

stand a chance against the major international 

groups. Actually the opposite is true. 

Medium-sized companies like ours can in 

fact provide services that the industry giants 

can’t. In the Allgäu we have a saying that 

goes: the bigger the elephants grow, the easier 

it is to run between their feet. 

Where people 

hh identify with 

the region, they also develop 

awareness for the regional 

market Hannes Feneberg 

hh Is Dachser such an “elephant”? 

B. Simon: Obviously Dachser is a big company. 

And there’s nothing wrong with that, 

because logistics networks need to be a certain 

size to function efficiently. Incidentally, 

personally I’m rather fond of elephants. They 

are also associated with highly developed social 

competence, which is indispensable for 

organizing networks, a high degree of mobility 

for covering large distances, as well as sensitivity 

and creativity, giving them the ability 

to understand changing and difficult conditions 

and turn them into opportunities. The 

thing large-scale companies have to be careful 

to avoid is becoming as ungainly as a dinosaur. 

We don’t believe in building up 

anonymous global corporate structures. The 

Dachser approach is that of a flexible associated 

group of branch offices, country and 

partner organizations that are managed as 

autonomous entities on the basis of a common 

set of guidelines. The resulting agility 

and direct proximity to its customers in the 

regions are what set Dachser apart from its 

competitors. 

hh Do companies have a special responsibility 

towards regional economic 

structures as a result of this approach? 

H. Feneberg: The way I see it is this: our 

customers place high expectations on the

PERSONAL FILE 

Hannes Feneberg 

(pictured left) together with his 

brother, Christof, and cousin, 

Thomas, runs Feneberg Lebensmittel 

GmbH, with headquarters in 

Kempten. With a staff of over 3,800 

and more than 100 outlets, the 

family enterprise’s forte lies in sustainable 

and regionally sourced 

organic produce. Feneberg’s markets 

– retail as well as meat processing 

and bread, cakes and pastries 

production – lie in the Allgäu 

region, Upper Swabia and Upper 

Bavaria. Organic produce with the 

“Von hier” brand name must be 

sourced within a radius of 100 kilometres 

around Kempten (as the 

crow flies). 

Bernhard Simon 

met Hannes Feneberg at Feneberg’s 

recently opened new headquarters 

in Kempten. Privately, the head of 

Dacher’s management board – like 

his interview partner – is actively 

involved on the board of the 

“Kreuzthaler Bürgerstiftung Kulturlandschaft 

Adelegg” foundation. 

His involvement is motivated by 

solidarity with the citizens’ action 

group and personal ties with the 

natural and cultural Allgäu region. 

first-class quality of our organic products in 

the “Von hier” range. The advantage for us 

here is that we are able to integrate the smallscale 

farming structures that still exist in the 

Allgäu region. This way – together with our 

customers – we are helping to assure their 

continued survival. Thanks to this economic 

diversity, we are able to keep a little piece of 

home and regionality alive. 

B. Simon: This, in my view, goes hand in 

hand with societal needs. The more uncertainty 

we face, be it as a result of the global 

debt crisis or the consequences of climate 

change, the more people look for regional 

orientation and identity. This is clearly reflected 

in the public response to major projects 

such as the controversial Stuttgart 21 

railway initiative in Germany. We’re not talking 

here about a “return to pre-industrialization”. 

No one wants to sacrifice quality of 

life, modern conveniences and low prices. 

This is where companies need to build a 

bridge, by being at home on the world’s markets 

and combining globally sourced products 

with those produced locally. 

hh You are both actively involved on the 

board of the “Kreuzthaler Bürgerstiftung 

Kulturlandschaft Adelegg” foundation to 

preserve the cultural landscape of the 

Allgäu region. Why? 

H. Feneberg: Because the citizens’ action 

group is an ideal example of how a meaningful 

project and personal commitment can 

help to conserve a historically evolved piece 

of home and lead it into the future in a way 

that makes economic sense. The citizens have 

recognized that it will only be possible to 

contain the excessive expansion of forests in 

their region if rural smallholdings are economically 

empowered and able to survive 

over the long term with less dependence on 

subsidies. To this end the farming community 

and conservationists, green tourism and 

new industry have joined forces in the “Netzwerk 

Kreuzthal” project. 

B. Simon: What impresses me is the diversity 

of the initiative. It offers possible answers 

to the urgent question of how present-day 

communities can organize themselves: by 

moving away from large-scale structures and 

towards structures supported by the citizenry, 

which result in self-sustaining processes. 

We are seeing similar effects in our joint development 

aid project with terre des hommes 

in India. The aim of the project in Uttar 

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Pradesh is to promote the self-initiative of 

the local population and create living conditions 

and local structures that will open up 

brighter prospects for future generations. 

H. Feneberg: Where people identify with 

a region, they also develop awareness for the 

regional market. We have experienced this 

with the “Von hier” brand. But it also takes an 

entrepreneur who has the capacity to authentically 

and credibly live and practise precisely 

this regionality. 

Our way of 

hhthinking and our 

qualities are those of a 

company strongly rooted 

in the region Bernhard Simon 

B. Simon: This form of identity has to be 

born from the set of values a company ascribes 

to. For example, Dachser aims to be at 

home and not merely a guest wherever in the 

world it is represented. We feel a commitment 

to our roots, invest over the long term 

und thus create prospects for the future. This 

identity is based on long-term orientation, 

combined with stable, customer-oriented 

management. 

H. Feneberg: This is where family businesses 

with regional roots come into their 

own. Unlike major corporate groups, they 

think in terms of generational perspectives 

rather than quarterly figures. 

hh Feneberg and Dachser both 

launched their success story with the 

transport of cheese from the Allgäu region. 

What do you associate with this 

culinary taste of home? 

H. Feneberg: Quite a lot actually. You can’t 

go far in the Allgäu region without coming 

across the local cheese. However, it’s becoming 

increasingly difficult to find a really good 

one. 

B. Simon: We still like to take a really good 

Allgäu mountain cheese along with us to important 

events, knowing what it means to 

work the alpine pastures and dedicate the 

necessary care to letting the cheese ripen. 

These are standards of quality we can relate 

to. 

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NETWORK: CZECH REPUBLIC 

Mid-field 

shooting star 

From the heart of the new Europe, 

the Czech Republic links modern industrial 

centres with international markets. 

Logistics solutions made by Dachser help 

to pave the way for growth. 

h ‘Statutory Cities’ in the Czech Republic 

are “cities with a special status”. Like 

Kladno. Located 25 kilometres north-west 

of Prague and with a population of 67,000, 

the city boasts traces of an impressive and 

colourful past. With its bell tower and ornate 

façade in the Neo-Renaissance style, the 

city hall is a landmark of the splendour of 

the late 19th century, when coal and steel 

characterized one of the main strongholds 

of Bohemian industrialization. This focused 

around the Poldi steelmill, the bastion of the 

Czech coal and steel industry, which after 

1945 was destined to become the heart of 

a model Communist city. In its heyday, up 

to 20,000 people were employed there. That 

was before the fall of the Iron Curtain. Then 

it was lights out for Poldi. What remained 

was a relatively small specialized steelworks 

and a massive, movie set-scale industrial 

ruin, too expensive to pull down. 


“The past is still very much present in Kladno, 

the good as well as the bad times,” says 

Petr Kozel, managing director and country 

manager of Dachser Czech Republic a.s. 

The country organization’s headquarters is 

located close to the former Poldi works. “The 

view is both a reminder and an incentive to 

ensure we operate in a modern and customeroriented 

way,” Kozel explains. Dachser has 

been active in the Czech Republic since 2006 

and has grown continuously from the outset. 

In 2010, the number of shipments increased 

by about 50.5% compared to 2009 and tonnage 

by about 46.7%. In May 2011 alone, 

140 employees at the Kladno branch office 

handled in the region of 18,000 consignments 

weighing over 8,600 tonnes. In the 

same period at its other locations in Brno, 

České Budějovice, Hradec Králové, Ostrava 

and Prague, Dachser transported almost 

51,000 consignments weighing approxi- 

VOICES 

“A small country that in the past 

has produced great composers 

such as Dvorˇák and Smetana. 

Anyone hearing Smetana’s Vltava 

(Moldau) for the first time is sure 

to feel deeply moved.” 

Frieder Delius, sea freight supervisor 

Dachser Mexico 

“I associate the Czech Republic 

above all with Prague, which 

I have always longed to visit for 

its historic buildings and beautiful 

architecture.” 

Narayan Shankar, national head – 

ocean freight & tradelane manager – 

Latin America, Dachser India 

“The Czech Republic is an upand-coming 

economic market that 

shares historical and cultural roots 

with Austria. It boasts excellent 

Bohemian cuisine.” 

Margit Hutterer, office staff member (Sales), 

Dachser Austria 

mately 25,200 tonnes. In addition to European 

overland transport services, Dachser 

Czech Republic serves more than 100 countries 

worldwide via its Air & Sea Logistics 

branch office at Prague Airport. 

Banking on high-tech 

“The logistics market follows what’s happening 

in industry,” Kozel points out. Before the

Petr Kozel, 

managing director Dachser 

Czech Republic a.s. 

collapse of Communism, he explains, the 

main industrial output was raw materials 

and semi-finished goods. But in the meantime, 

many international companies have 

dis covered the Czech Republic as an ideal 

location for manufacturing high-tech products 

in the automotive and electronic sectors. 

Leading the way are Volkswagen’s Škoda 

subsidiary, and the Taiwanese electronics and 

computer components manufacturer, Foxconn. 

“Thanks to the expansion of the EU, 

the Czech Republic is no longer in eastern 

Europe, but right in the middle of the 

continent,” Kozel emphasizes. “Dachser’s extensive 

European logistics network with its 

precision-timed services is thus increasingly 

gaining in importance.” With its branch 

offices and their daily connections to the 

central platform in Hof, as well as to the new 

Eurohub in Bratislava, Slovakia, Dachser has 

strengthened the Czech Republic’s position 

at the heart of the European marketplace. 

“We are constantly improving utilization of 

the well-developed east-west routes and are 

also looking to strengthen the north-south 

axis. With this, we are specifically targeting 

the markets in Italy and the Balkan states 

for our customers’ European distribution 

We are aiming at 

hh healthy growth 

Petr Kozel 

centres,” Kozel explains. The new Eurohub 

in Bratislava plays a key role here, he adds. 

Food competence 

Another focus of Dachser’s activities in the 

Czech Republic is the provision of a wide 

range of logistics services for the food industry. 

In order to push growth in this business 

field, Dachser Czech Republic is planning to 

massively extend the transshipment area for 

chilled goods at its Kladno location next year. 

Expansion of the Brno branch office near 

the border with Slovakia to create a second 

food logistics location is already under way. 

Additional staff have already been hired and 

are currently undergoing the specialized 

training essential in this segment. “Dachser 

has made a name for itself in the Czech 

Republic as a specialist in the fast food 

sector,” says Jan Polter, Sales & Marketing 

director at Dachser Czech Republic. International 

suppliers such as Kentucky Fried 

Chicken (KFC), Starbucks or Burger King 

rely on Dachser’s food competence to secure 

their supply chain – and the variety of required 

services is growing. “In the food sector,” 

Polter says, “contract logistics is fully 

in line with the trend.” 

The astronomical clock on 

the old town hall in Prague 

NETWORK: CZECH REPUBLIC 

SHORTHAND 

Czech Republic 

Area: 78,866 km 2 

Population: 10.51 million 

Capital: Prague 

Economy: Mechanical and plant 

engineering, automotive industry, 

metallurgy, chemical, food and 

timber industry 

Exports: Machinery, cars and 

transport equipment, beer 

IT competence is in particularly high demand 

in this context. “The widespread implementation 

of Dachser software standards, 

such as Domino and Mikado, permits intelligent 

network management and ensures 

optimum customer benefit thanks to their 

transparency and traceability,” Petr Kozel 

explains. “We are aiming at healthy growth,” 

the country manager summarizes. This also 

includes building up and further developing 

industry solutions such as Dachser Chem- 

Logistics or DIY-Logistics in future. 

Only with the best 

“The best services and the best IT are useless 

unless you also have highly-qualified staff,” 

says Jan Polter. Dachser leverages the Czech 

Republic’s traditionally high standards of 

education, especially at its universities, 

through targeted cooperation agreements 

with the country’s best faculties specializing 

in business administration, management and 

logistics. “We directly approach graduates 

and offer them the opportunity to complete 

a trainee programme,” Polter explains. “This 

enables us to find out the direct way who is 

suited to Dachser and who isn’t. Because 

we are looking to recruit only the best.” Just 

as you would expect of a foresighted company 

“with a special status”. M. Schick 

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COMPETENCE: RENEWABLE ENERGIES 

Green and lean 

The solar energy sector is booming. 

With Dachser at its side, Donauer Solartechnik 

Vertriebs GmbH is optimally positioned 

to face the competitive challenges. 

hThe company history of Donauer Solartechnik 

Vertriebs GmbH reflects 

the dynamic development in the solar technology 

market: 16 years ago, Rudolf Donauer 

set up his company in a small office container 

in Munich. Today he heads a team of 

230 employees. His company has evolved to 

become an international wholesaler for 

photovoltaic systems with Europe-wide subsidiaries 

and sales offices. And the new office 

premises which Donauer moved into in 2011 

provide plenty of space for further growth. 

The current debate over the future of our energy 

supply presents the company with new 

potential sources of revenue. For the past 

year-and-a-half, Donauer Solartechnik has 

therefore been working intensively to improve 

workflows and transport processes in order to 

ensure that product turnover can keep abreast 

of growth. 

Klaus Prusinovsky, head of logistics at 

Donauer Solartechnik, is very clear when it 

comes to the demands his business area has 

to meet: “‘Green and lean’ is the motto for 

our processes.” Accordingly, Donauer is lead- 


ing the way by providing its own heat and 

power from a large-scale photovoltaic system 

installed on the roof of its office and warehouse 

buildings. In logistics, this credo also 

extends to contracting companies that operate 

sustainably. Here, Dachser was able to 

score points, for example, with double-deck 

swap bodies as well as a strong and wellorganized 

groupage network. “Carrying loads 

on two rather than just one level significantly 

reduces relative CO 2 emissions,” Prusinovsky 

notes. This is particularly worthwhile in the 

case of solar technology, because the photovoltaic 

panels cannot be transported on standard 

europallets and the double-deck system 

means the load space can be utilized to optimum 

capacity. “Lean” is a cause particularly 

close to logistics expert Prusinovsky’s heart. 

Klaus Prusinovsky, 

head of logistics at 

Donauer Solartechnik 

PROFILE 

Donauer Solartechnik Vertriebs 

GmbH is a leading, Europe-wide 

specialist wholesaler for photovoltaic 

systems, off-grid solutions 

and e-mobility. Headquartered 

in Munich, the company has 

subsidiaries and sales offices in 

Portugal, Italy, France, Belgium and 

the UK. For more information visit: 

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www.donauer.eu 

For him, this includes rapid and efficient 

workflows across the entire logistics chain. 

With this in mind, a solution has been developed 

with manufacturers of photovoltaic 

panels that speeds up capture of the serial 

numbers of the individual products. Now, 

Donauer’s warehouse staff can scan all information 

and forward it to the warehouse management 

software in a single operation. 

In order to create transparency in logistics, 

“we need to consolidate transport and communication 

flows,” Prusinovsky argues. This 

way, he and his team know what goods are 

where along the chain. Prusinovsky believes 

this gives companies a decisive edge in an ever 

tougher competitive environment. Companies 

like Donauer benefit from Dachser’s 

IT competence, which provides ideal conditions 

and possibilities for development. This 

made the decision to outsource some of the 

company’s warehousing activities to Dachser 

an easy one for Donauer and Prusinovsky. 

The change permits greater flexibility while 

at the same time assuring transparency. 

Dachser’s Munich branch office is also ideally 

equipped to handle a recent addition to 

Donauer Solartechnik’s product portfolio: 

e-bikes offered along with photovoltaic 

bikeports. The Feldkirchen warehouse even 

assures complex data management and regular 

charging of the bike batteries. Ch. Merten 

“Green and lean” 

hh is the motto for our 

processes Klaus Prusinovsky

Everything 

to hand 

When it comes to customer 

satisfaction, Globus DIY 

stores rank at the very top. The 

recipe for success is simple: optimum 

service starts with the supply chain. 

hAs a do-it-yourselfer there’s nothing 

more annoying than a wasted trip to the 

DIY store. They’ve sold out of grouting material, 

at home a half-finished bathroom waits 

and it’s nearly closing time on Saturday. At 

Globus DIY stores, Dachser IT-assisted logistics 

solutions see to it that this can’t happen – 

by optimizing the entire supply pipeline from 

manufacturer through to the retailer’s shelf. 

A customer-oriented approach. Flexible responses. 

Acting on initiative. The Globus retail 

chain has been pursuing these principles since 

an ad placed back in 1828 by company founder 

Franz Bruch promised “good and inexpensive 

service.” And his promise held good – because 

today the fifth-generation family enterprise 

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generates revenue in the region of six billion 

euros with a staff of 31,000 at 41 hypermarkets 

and over 80 specialized DIY stores. For Globus 

Fachmärkte, customer orientation starts 

with the supply chain: in order to ensure optimum 

product availability on the shelf, there 

needs to be an uninterrupted and on-demand 

flow of goods from the manufacturer to the 

local DIY outlet. With over 140 product groups 

in the product mix and global sourcing processes, 

this is no mean feat. “One very important 

factor for customer satisfaction is a reliable and 

continuous supply of goods,” Erich Huwer, managing 

director of Globus Fachmärkte, points 

out. “We therefore place high demands on 

Dachser as our logistics provider when it comes 

COMPETENCE: DACHSER DIY-LOGISTICS 

to optimum goods procurement and transparent 

processes across the entire supply chain.“ 

Optimum transparency 

According to Ralf Meistes, department head 

of Dachser DIY-Logistics, the key to getting 

this right is the gap-free integration of 

Dachser’s IT systems. “For Globus Fachmärkte, 

we draw on an order monitoring system 

that works hand-in-hand with our tried-andtested 

Tracking and Tracing tool,” Meistes explains. 

As soon as the customer has checked 

stock levels and reordered from the supplier, 

the ‘Order Monitor’ eLogistics application 

provides all participants with a reliable overview 

of the current delivery status, including 

order and shipment information. All shipped 

containers are listed under ‘container view’, 

allowing foresighted resource planning. When 

a container arrives ‘just-in-time’ at Dachser’s 

distribution centre in Überherrn/Saarland at 

precisely scheduled time slots, everything has 

already been prepared to ensure speedy order 

picking and loading, or alternatively, storage 

in the multi-channel warehouse. “At Globus 

Fachmärkte, the customer comes first. The entire 

supply pipeline is guided by this,” Meistes 

comments. And it pays off. In a 2010 customer 

satisfaction survey conducted by the Service- 

Barometer research institute, customers voted 

Globus DIY stores in first place for the 13th 

time. Not least because they know that they’ll 

get that bathroom finished. C. Weber 

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COVER STORY 


On the move: the in-floor dragchain 

conveyor transports pallets 

to the respective loading bays

Moving 

Europe 

Serving destinations across Europe every day: 

where no direct services exist, Dachser’s three 

Eurohubs in Überherrn, Bratislava and Clermont- 

Ferrand consolidate groupage shipments for 

pan-European scheduled freight services – 

with continuously improved transit times and 

uniform Europe-wide quality standards. 

hThe day starts at 0.00 hours – in top 

gear. The first trucks leave the loading 

ramps at midnight. By 2 a.m., 98 vehicles will 

have departed for 90 destinations – one every 

1.3 minutes. A swarm of blue-and-yellow in 

the glaring floodlights. It’s rush hour at 

Dachser’s Eurohub in Überherrn. And when 

things really get buzzing, Oliver Wild is 

totally in his element. The 46-year-old family 

man has been with Dachser for 21 years, 

occupying a number of positions at various 

locations. From the year 2000, he was also 

part of the project team that conceived the 

first Eurohub in Überherrn, which opened its 

doors on 30 August 2002. And he has been 

in charge of the Eurohub there ever since. 

Überherrn marked the beginnings of a 

unique pan-European network organization 

in the world of logistics, which has been completed 

this year with the opening of additional 

Eurohubs in Bratislava, Slovakia, and 

Clermont-Ferrand, France. “The new system 

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with three Eurohubs will reduce the number 

of transshipment operations to the destination 

branch office to one or at maximum 

two,” explains Wolfgang Janda, manager 

of Dachser’s European Logistics Network 

Management: Production division. “Through 

targeted and systematic load consolidation, 

the three Eurohubs enable us to compensate 

imbalances in European traffic flows with 

goods destined for regional and national 

transport. In this way, we improve our transport 

capacity utilization and optimize our 

economic and ecological efficiency.” 

“The hub system is the natural consequence 

of our vision of what network competence 

means,” says Michael Schilling, managing 

director of Dachser’s European Network 

Management & Logistics Systems business 

unit. In its European overland services, the 

Dachser network relies on precision-timed 

connections. These are ensured on a daily 

basis within the scope of the entargo � 

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COVER STORY 


After delivery, ... 

... scanner identification and ... 

... goods handling ... 

... are timed to-the-minute 

product family (targofix, targospeed and 

targoflex), with clearly defined transit and 

delivery times. In the case of high volumes, 

direct scheduled services from the individual 

branch offices provide planning security. 

“Where volumes are not sufficient to justify 

a daily direct departure, we consolidate the 

loads at the Eurohubs, combine them with 

regional consignments and integrate them 

into the daily goods flow, while ensuring optimal 

capacity utilization,” Schilling explains. 

Gap-free network 

The principle is modelled on the hub-andspoke 

system that is widespread in logistics. 

“If you follow a spoke from the rim to the 

hub, there are myriad possibilities for distribution 

in every conceivable direction,” says 

Wolfgang Janda. It must be possible to reach 

all the nodes in the network from every 

branch office reliably and at all times, he adds. 

“That’s the difference between a system 

based purely on branch offices and an efficient 

network. This is why we are aiming in 

future to link all of Dachser’s European 

branch offices to the three Eurohubs.” The 

Eurohub locations in Überherrn, Bratislava 

and Clermont-Ferrand were specifically 

chosen with a view to making the pan-European 

Dachser network accessible in all directions 

via 24- or 48-hour connections. This 

will be based on uniform rules for the hubs 

and the individual countries, with the same 

accounting system and the same EDI data 

interchange. “This way, the hubs become 

enablers in a gap-free network configuration,” 

Janda says. While meeting Dachser’s 

growth targets at the same time. 

“Growth is not an end in itself, but should 

always be geared to the benefit of our customers,” 

Bernhard Simon, the head of 

Dachser’s management board, points out. 

“Via the three Eurohubs, we connect some 

160 destinations in 30 European countries. 

Platform freight services now offer all branch 

offices systems-based forwarding possibilities.” 

And the volume is impressive: Europewide, 

Dachser currently operates 2,825 systems 

freight services itself, with a further 800 

offered via its partners. Since April this year, 

the Eurohub in Bratislava connects 14 countries 

between the Baltic, the Adriatic and the 

Black Sea: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, 

Estonia, Greece, Croatia, Latvia, Lithuania, 

Austria, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, 

the Czech Republic and Hungary. Cler-

Michael Schilling, 

managing director of 

Dachser’s European Network 

Management & Logistics 

Systems business unit 

mont-Ferrand offers daily connections between 

France and Germany, Belgium, the 

Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy, Spain, 

Portugal and the Maghreb states. 

Switchover 

Outwardly the Eurohubs are no different 

from the branch offices: indeed, during the 

day they operate as regular branch offices. 

From 8 p.m. in the evening, however, a complete 

switchover takes place and the hub gets 

into action. It functions as an autonomous 

operating unit, with a separate team and dedicated 

workflows. Eurohub operations in 

Überherrn, for example, are overseen by six 

office and administrative staff members, with 

around 75 more in the terminal. In the offices, 

the computers are booted up at around 6 p.m., 

while in the terminal things start getting busy 

from 8.30 p.m., with one truck after another 

pulling up at the bays. By 11 p.m. the number 

of arrivals totals 67, which means a new truck 

every 2.4 minutes. First, the trucks operating 

the more local routes are unloaded, followed 

by those coming from further afield. 

Today, a trailer combination with swap bodies 

arrives in Überherrn at 9.50 p.m., having 

left the branch office in Orléans, France, at 

2.30 p.m. After registering his freight at the 

gate, the driver is allocated an unloading bay. 

The Eurohub in Überherrn utilizes a total of 

117 bays for over 90 destinations. 25 bays are 

reserved for unloading, the remainder for 

loading operations. 

At bay 83 the unloader is already hard at 

work. He transports the pallets that have arrived 

from France on pallet trucks from the 

swap body into the terminal and hooks them 

up to the in-floor drag-chain conveyor. The 

conveyor system is 420 metres long, moves in 

a clockwise direction and completes a cycle 

through the entire terminal to the respective 

loading bays every 16 minutes. “Its rhythm 

determines the heartbeat of our timed-tothe-minute 

transshipment operations,” says 

Eurohub manager Wild. 

The hub system 

hh is the natural 

consequence of our vision 

of what network competence 

means Michael Schilling 

To ensure the pallets on the drag-chain conveyor 

find their way to the right destination, 

the shrink-wrapped goods are clearly labelled 

with the country code for Sweden together 

with the respective route number. These are 

the identifiers for the “unhooker,” who detaches 

the pallet at the bays for Scandinavia 

and makes it ready for the loader. The latter 

scans in the pallet and loads it together with 

other groupage consignments via the Scandinavia 

bay onto the corresponding blueand-yellow 

swap body, where the team of 

In keeping with the principles 

of the flow of goods, pallets 

are transported by drag-chain 

conveyor from the unloading 

bay to the respective loading 

bay for their destination 

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drivers is waiting. The next stop is Dachser’s 

branch office in Jönköping in Sweden, from 

where the goods are shipped to Stockholm. 

They arrive in the Swedish capital at 5 a.m. 

on the morning of the following day. It has 

taken the pallet just 48 hours to complete its 

journey across Europe from consignor to 

consignee. 

Quality comes first 

Precise, to-the-minute timing demands a 

concentrated, uninterrupted and smooth 

workflow. Even at peak times, when more 

than 4,000 consignments and over 1,000 

tonnes a day pass through the terminal, 

there’s no chaos or shouting. “Chaotic conditions 

impede getting the job done properly,” 

Oliver Wild believes. “And that’s something 

we can’t afford. Our teams’ motto is: 

quality, quality, quality. Because this is 

critical for the entire network.” To ensure 

optimum quality day in, day out, per- � 

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COVER STORY 


Eurohubs consolidate freight 

services to Europe. They optimize 

truck capacity utilization and thus 

help to increase sustainability

The central Eurohub distribution 

platforms serve a radius of 400 to 

700 kilometres 

Oliver Wild, 

manager of the Dachser 

Eurohub Überherrn 

Eurohub 

Überherrn 

Eurohub 

Clermont Ferrand 

fectly synchronized processes are key. The 

right hand must always know what the left 

hand is doing. This is one of the reasons why 

he is especially proud of his staff. “We place 

high expectations on ourselves and try to live 

up to these as best we can at all times.” 

Smooth workflows are the best confirmation 

that he and his team are doing a good 

job. Ideally, they run like clockwork. At the 

Eurohub, punctuality is therefore paramount. 

A departure that is delayed by only 60 

seconds is already considered late. “We work 

in close synchronization with our supplying 

branch offices. Out of 98 daily departures in 

July, only one was late.” 

“A continuous flow of goods is part of the 

Eurohub principle,” Wolfgang Janda ex- 

Eurohub 

Bratislava 

In a Eurohub, 

hh it’s quality that counts. 

This is critical for the entire 

network Oliver Wild 

plains. “This enables us to minimize the 

transshipment frequency and hence the risk 

of damage. These are decisive criteria for the 

organization of our customers’ logistics.” 

Flowing processes permit continuous scanning 

of the logistics chain, which can be constantly 

monitored in real time via Dachser’s 

eLogistics applications, he adds. And this 

pays off. “The major benefit for customers,” 

Janda points out, “is that in addition to the 

reliability of the system, the optimized network 

with Eurohubs means they can service 

a lot of countries without having to maintain 

a large number of regional warehouses. This 

gives Dachser’s customers a valuable competitive 

edge in their coverage of Europe.” 

Around the clock. M.Schick 

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THREE FOR EUROPE 

Dachser’s Eurohubs: 

Bratislava/SK 

Management: Martin Jurasek 

Area: 63,885 m2 Transit terminal: 3,565 m2 with the possibility to expand 

by 3,000 m2 Number of bays: 29 + 2 ramps 

Expansion capacity for 

contract logistics: 18,000 m2 Clermont-Ferrand/F 

Management: Christian Bobinet 

Area: 60,597 m2 Transit terminal: 6,868 m2 Number of bays: 98 

Initial volume: 

approx. 580 t/day 

Überherrn/D 

Management: Oliver Wild 

Area: 140,000 m2 Transit terminal: 9,200 m2 Number of bays: 117 

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COMPETENCE: GLOBAL KEY ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT 


Hardly any other 

hh industry demands 

such rapid response times 

as the automotive sector 

Thomas Krüger, Manager of the Global Sales 

division at Dachser Air & Sea Logistics

h Great 

to create an industry-specific standard module 

for other customers. “Customers in any 

given sector tend to have essentially the same 

logistics requirements,” explains Thomas 

Reuter, managing director of Dachser Air & 

Sea Logistics. With the introduction early 

this year of centrally organized industryoriented 

key account management in its Air 

& Sea Logistics business field, Dachser is 

increasingly utilizing existing synergies and 

systematically improving knowledge transfer 

across the company. 

“In the course of the next two to four years, 

we aim to engage key account managers with 

in-depth industry expertise in all major ASL 

countries,” Reuter says. Additionally, European 

overland freight services and air and 

sea freight services are to be more closely 

dovetailed, thus as far as possible enabling the 

entire transport chain to be accompanied. 

The first five key account managers are cur- 


Modules for a 

networked world 

Automotive components suppliers place different demands on 

logistics from DIY stores or manufacturers of consumer electronics. 

Dachser’s Air & Sea Logistics specialists take this into account 

with their new global industry solutions. 

ideas are often based on surprisingly 

simple concepts. “The photovoltaic 

segment is dependent on feedin 

tariffs and hence on fluctuating demand,” 

says Thomas Krüger, Global Sales division 

manager at Dachser Air & Sea Logistics 

(ASL). Dachser ASL manages some 15 key 

accounts in the renewable energies sector in 

Europe, the US and Asia. In addition to 

direct air and sea freight services, customers in 

this segment expressed the wish for permanent 

inventories in their European and US 

sales markets to enable them to respond more 

flexibly to demand. “So for customers with 

overseas production facilities we have set up a 

specialized warehouse in Waddinxveen near 

Rotterdam, where goods can be stored duty 

unpaid until the consignee in Europe is 

known. Only then are the consignments delivered 

– either as groupage via the European 

Logistics network or as full or part loads via 

Dachser Cargoplus.” Krüger explains. 

Leveraging experience 

Once an individual solution has been successfully 

developed and implemented for one 

customer, Dachser leverages this experience 

rently doing pioneering work and preparing 

case studies to make their know-how available 

across the entire Dachser organization. 

Reuter explains the strategy: “We are concentrating 

initially on four sectors in which 

we are strongly positioned: automotive components 

suppliers, renewable energies, consumer 

electronics and the DIY sector.” 

Meeting special demands 

“We aim to focus more strongly on the needs 

of key account customers,” Thomas Krüger 

says. He believes in-depth industry expertise 

puts sales staff at an advantage when dealing 

with business partners from the respective 

field. “A good example is the automotive industry 

with its highly specialized terminology,” 

Krüger explains. But industry-specific 

jargon is not the only requirement. “Hardly 

any other industry demands such rapid response 

times as the automotive sector,” says 

Krüger, whose team cooperates closely with 

the industry’s global players. “We have developed 

many solutions in cooperation with our 

customers, not just in the express and charter 

segments,” Krüger points out. “This enables 

us to meet special demands such as in the � 

DACHSER magazine 21


current case of transports of digital steering 

systems for assembly in Mexico. These are 

precision-timed to the minute and also require 

maximum possible transparency.” 

The global key account managers service 

their industry-specific customer base, improve 

knowledge about the respective sector 

within the Air & Sea Logistics business field 

and familiarize the individual country representatives 

with the specific logistics challenges 

involved. The philosophy behind it all 

is that insider industry knowledge permits 

staff to recognize potential for development 

and identify new customers. Flying highly 

sensitive consumer electronics components 

to Europe is a case in point. When it comes 

to handling this fragile freight, Dachser offers 

professional warehousing and transportation 

competence. 

Via its company-wide Supply Chain Management 

division, ASL Global Key Account 

Management offers customers from all four 

sectors supplementary logistics services upstream 

or downstream of sea or air freight 

transport. This may involve setting up a consolidation 

warehouse for overseas customers, 

or feeding goods into Dachser’s European 

groupage network at their destination. For, 

as Thomas Krüger firmly believes, intercontinental 

business still offers enormous opportunities 

– and this is also true for Dachser 

in Europe. Thus, the idea behind Global Key 

Account Management is based on a fairly 

simple concept: it’s not only individuals who 

appreciate being made the centre of attention 

– industry sectors do too. S. Machens 


Dachser ASL links 

continents 

Learn more about Dachser Air & Sea 

F Logistics here: 

www.dachser.com/asl-en 

POLE POSITION 

Dachser ASL Global Key Account Management 

industry solutions 

Renewable energies: 

For project-related warehousing, Dachser utilizes its own warehouses 

located near a solar park to store solar panels procured overseas along 

with other components, and to deliver them on-demand to the assembly 

site ready for installation. The aim: optimized availability and a high 

level of flexibility. 

DIY-Logistics: 

Product availability is also one of the key factors of success in the DIY 

industry. To ensure the just-in-time and gap-free supply of goods to some 

18,000 DIY outlets in Europe, Dachser relies on its international transport 

and information network. All service modules are consolidated in Dachser’s 

so-called supply pipeline to create an integrated full-coverage solution 

in which goods “flow” on demand, in line with individually customized 

processes. 

Automotive suppliers: 

The automotive sector demands extremely rapid response times, a transparent 

transport chain, global networking among all countries, extremely 

low damage rates, very high delivery reliability and, ideally, support with 

implementing potential cost-cutting measures. 

Consumer electronics: 

Consumer electronics such as flat screens, laptops and mobile phones 

have to meet extremely high security requirements, which can include 

video surveillance and access controls in warehouses, staff security 

checks or using GPS-trackable trucks with two drivers, and only stopping 

at guarded parking lots. 

Supply chain management: 

Thanks to holistic supply chain management, Dachser demonstrates its 

strengths with flat hierarchies, speed and dedicated logistics solutions.

IT with a kick 

With IT, anything’s possible. Even 

winning against the human world 

championship team in soccer. 

This is the ambitious goal that 

programmers of humanoid robots 

hope to achieve by 2050. Till then, 

much remains to be done. In July, 

2,600 school pupils, students 

and researchers from around the 

world convened at the RoboCup championship in Istanbul. 

In the humanoid class, the Americans from Virginia 

Tech had the edge when it came to dribbling, winning 

with DARwin in the Kid Size and with CHARLI in the 

Adult Size (130 centimetres and above). In the Teen Size 

(up to 120 centimetres) the German NimbRo team from 

Bonn University came first. The final score: lots of goals, 

powerful technology, no injuries. The only thing that’s not 

yet programmed is the swapping of jerseys – but there’s 

still plenty of time for that between now and 2050. 

SCRAPBOOK 

? ? 

What am I? 

If I didn’t already exist, someone would 

have to invent me. Oh, now I know what 

you’re thinking: anyone could say that! But 

have you ever stopped to think what the 

world – especially the office world – would 

be like without me? It just doesn’t bear contemplating. 

Everything would fall to pieces. Worse still – 

there’d be nothing to distract yourself with during boring 

phone calls or meetings. You’d have to bend over backwards 

to keep yourself happy. And what if you should 

want to tighten a screw, clean your pipe or make a necklace? 

At that point you’d simply have to invent me. 

Take part and win in “What am I?”, DACHSER magazine’s 

prize competition. If you think you know what the picture is showing, 

then send us your answer by 21.10.2011 to: 

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Knowing where 

Harmony in marriage, between flatmates, with 

colleagues at work? No problem – as long as everyone 

knows where the shared car has been parked. 

Berlin architect Melanie Nölken has rendered urban 

groups an enormous service with the invention of her 

car location assistant (www.kunstschule.net). An indispensable 

aid for all those scatterbrains who often 

forget where they or their partner last parked the 

car near their office or home. The principle is simple: 

a laminated map of the 

respective area is 

stuck onto a stylized 

metal box. The driver 

simply places a 

magnetized miniature 

car on the spot where 

he or she last parked. 

What could be 

more harmonious? 

Solution from 2/2011: 

What you could win: 

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The correct solution was “auto-valve”. 

The winners are: 

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OUR TOTAL 

WORK OF ART. 

DACHSER Contract Logistics 

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Logistics is the completely integrated solution that will make all your company’s 

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