LB Plus - Combining competences - creating individual solutions

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The LB group:
Combining competences –
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Issue 02 | 2015
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« editorial »
« contents »
A new generation: LB GmbH prepares for business succession.............................................................................06
“An continuous process” – the value-added system of LB GmbH”................................................................10
Welcome – LB GmbH welcomes the specialists of tomorrow.........................................................................14
32nd International Supply Chain Conference A World in Motion.................................................................16
„What Germany must do today to stay good” – MIT business lunch in the OIC..................................20
Everything from one source....................................................................................................................................................24
Enjoy a Moods tomorrow – our common challenge!................................................................................................26
WM GROUP – what belongs together now grows together.................................................................................32
Logata Digital Solutions GmbH – Digital solutions for Industry 4.0....................................................................33
Logistics Day 2015: Logistics is infrastructure..................................................................................................................34
Hans-Wilhelm Löhr
Maximilian Löhr
Ann-Kathrin Löhr
Matthias Löhr
wps in a new design – Lanfer Systemhaus presents innovations.......................................................................38
Dear customers, partners,
prospects and colleagues
A ground-breaking step towards Industry 4.0.................................................................................................................40
Our latest issue of the interactive LB Plus magazine can be accessed
online via many different channels including several
websites, email and social networks as well as different platforms.
For us, the LB Plus magazine represents up-to-date, digital information.
The orientation of LB GmbH and its divisions Logistics, Production,
Information Technologies and Moving Images towards
the digitalisation in connection with Industry 4.0 is in full flood
and represents the major thread running through the contents
of this LB Plus issue.
Shareholders, managers and employees are absolutely determined
to strengthen and expand Industry 4.0 within the
group, but primarily for the benefit of our customers.
By merging companies within the divisions, we have achieved
greater transparency with regard to our public image and implemented
numerous value-adding standardizations within
the group.
The shareholders, managers and employees are particularly
pleased about the introduced business succession within the
LB group. For us, this primarily means continuity and securing
the company’s future.
We want to wish you, the managers and our employees good
luck for the time of the digital revolution.
We thank you for your loyalty.
Hans-Wilhelm Löhr
Ann-Kathrin Löhr
Maximilian Löhr
Matthias Löhr
News from Lanfer Automation GmbH & Co. KG..............................................................................................................44
eWatch: LogAgency offers customers transparency...................................................................................................48
Even more security for data exchange: LogAgency offers electronic invoice
exchange in ZUGFeRD format................................................................................................................................................50
Le‘Mac -22 storeys equipped by LEBO...........................................................................................................................52
Istanbul: An apartment building equipped with LEBO doors ........................................................................58
Interesting discussions, fine food and entertainment for the little ones:
The summer party of LEBO....................................................................................................................................................62
The drilling line: a documentation....................................................................................................................................63
1 Project - 3 Films.........................................................................................................................................................................64
wm.mediapro accompanies start of Fehrenkötter test........................................................................................70
The early years: From a one-man business to a freight forwarding company.......................................74
One day in the life of... ..............................................................................................................................................................76
Imprint................................................................................................................................................................................................80

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« A new generation: LB GmbH
prepares for business succession »
▶ From left to right: Matthias Löhr, Nicola Löhr, Ann-Kathrin Löhr,
Felix Löhr, Mareen Löhr, Maximilian Löhr, Hans-Wilhelm Löhr
Ann-Kathrin and Maximilian Löhr have already been working in the ranks
of the shareholders for years – in addition to their work as managing
directors in the group of companies. However, in the following years, the
focus will be shifted gradually.

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▶ The headquarters of LB GmbH in Bocholt
A new shareholder:
Felix Löhr
Ann-Kathrin Löhr
Maximilian Löhr
Beside Maximilian and Mareen Löhr, Frank Löhr is now
also presented in the ranks of the shareholders as the son
of Hans-Wilhelm Löhr.
After receiving the vocational baccalaureate diploma, the
21-year old man from Bocholt successfully completed
his training as industrial business management assistant.
Now Felix Löhr is studying General Management in Cologne.
The shareholders of LB GmbH have decided to secure
the future of the LB GmbH group within a reasonable
period of time and so Maximilian and Ann-Kathrin
Löhr will be more and more involved in the discussions
about the development and familiarized with the fate
of the group of companies,” the representatives of the shareholders
Hans-Wilhelm Löhr and Matthias Löhr explained. An
exciting task. While the eldest daughter of Matthias Löhr will
focus on human resources development and added value,
her cousin and son of Hans-Wilhelm Löhr will be responsible
for the areas Finances and Sales/Marketing. Together, they
will commit themselves to the corporate strategy. Maximilian
Löhr still is the chairman of the management board of
Lebo GmbH. However, he recently got support from Burkhard
Hessing and Andreas Rogall who join his position as a
managing director.
Ann-Kathrin Löhr still is and will remain managing director of
WM-Logistik, Logata and wm.mediapro.
• born: 14.12.1980 in Bocholt
• in the company since: 01.09.2009
• previous achievements: 2-year long stays abroad in England,
Spain and the Netherlands with language certificates;
Economics, Philosophy and Cultural Studies in Witten-Herdecke;
foundation and management of the consulting
company Löhr & Prym.
• Aims: To keep the mind nimble.
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• born: 25.05.1982 in Bocholt
• in the company since: 01.05.2009
• previous achievements: training as a bank clerk with
Volksbank Münster eG, trainee with the logistics group
Kühne+Nagel (Hamburg und Toronto, Canada), Studies at
the German Academy for Foreign Trade & Logistics in Bremen
(with a focus on international business), trainee with
HSH Corporate Finance in Hamburg, area management as
sistant at BLG Logistics in Bremen
• Aims: Continuity
LB GmbH
Photo credits: wm.mediapro GmbH
Contact person: Ann-Kathrin Löhr,
Maximilian Löhr
Am Gut Baarking 21 • 46395 Bocholt
Tel.: +49 28 71 / 28 94 11
Fax: +49 28 71 / 28 94 10
Email: info@lbgmbh.com
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«“An continuous process” –
the value-added system of LB GmbH”»
the managing directors of the individual companies,” explains
shareholder Ann-Kathrin Löhr who is responsible for
the subject of added value.
All concepts and measures focus on the top priority: to
sustainably safeguard the company’s existence. “For this,
the shareholders determined the corporate strategy for the
following years and informed the managers of the individual
companies. In a joint workshop, they then developed
and passed a consistent management style,” says Löhr.
Training at all levels
One of the first measures was the training of all employees
in 5S. The 5S tool is a systematic method to organize
the workspace in such a way that the employees can optimally
focus on value-adding activities and thus prevent
a waste of time. The 5 S’ stand for sort, set in order, shine,
standardize and sustain. The employees from all areas of
the group of companies got to know this method during
one-day workshops before being able to implement this
tool in everyday working life.
“In the first half of 2015, we have introduced the next
step in the area of added value,” Ann-Kathrin Löhr explains.
“Team and project managers from the individual departments
took part in a shop floor workshop. For this, we
invited experts of LMX Business Consulting – just like for
the 5S trainings. The idea of “shop floor” offers a transparent
organization, a better overview for all employees and
is said to guarantee a continuous improvement process
thanks to permanent reflection. The responsible employees
of the different departments have thus developed
and implemented their individual shop floor concepts.
▶ Shareholder Ann-Kathrin Löhr during a
lecture of an added value workshop
▶ Shareholder Maximilian Löhr supports the
value-added system of LB GmbH
Since 2013, LB GmbH and its employees have been
working on pursuing a common objective. This
value-added system is based on the foundation of
the temple that was developed in 2013: The values
of the Löhr family. Confidence, passion, self-responsibility
and modesty are key words that describe the self-image of
the Löhr family.
“Based on this foundation, we have worked out the pillars
of our so-called temple together with the management or
“Confidence, passion, self-responsibility
and modesty are key words that describe
„
the self-image of the Löhr family

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▶ Regular workshops in the OIC
Löhr: “The different companies and departments have
different shop floor concepts that are continuously developed
further. Moreover, we have implemented three control
loops that guarantee best value-adding communication.”
These techniques and methods allow each employee to
contribute to the big picture with individually defined aims
in their specific area of responsibility – the safeguarding of
the company’s existence. “Everything is based on the bottom-up
strategy. The employees – that is to say every single
one – are our greatest potential. In a value-adding company,
they are fully involved and allowed to make decisions.
We always aim at employing everyone according to their
strengths and this is why every single employee can and
should make a contribution,” Ann-Kathrin Löhr records.
“ Everyone
can and should
make a contribution
„
▶ The process of a CIP project
The value-added system of LB GmbH is constantly growing
and further developed. Löhr: “Thanks to the awareness
and will to constantly question oneself and reflect
ones measures, there will be no standstill, which secures
the further development of the single employees in their
areas of responsibility and with that the development of
the whole company.”
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Contact person: Ann-Kathrin Löhr
Schlavenhorst 88a ∙ 46395 Bocholt ∙ Germany
Tel.: +49 28 71 / 28 94 11
Fax: +49 28 71 / 28 94 10
Email: ann-kathrin.loehr@lbgmbh.com
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« Welcome – LB GmbH welcomes
the specialists of tomorrow»
▶ Melanie Wolbring and the new apprentices
Congratulations!
In the last few months, a large number of young
people have successfully completed their apprenticeships
in the group of companies.
Hendrick Dünck and Florian Frerk will continue
their work as warehouse logistics specialists for
WM-Logistik at the location on Hindenburgstraße.
Lucas Jens Hochstein successfully completed his
apprenticeship as IT specialist for system integration
and was taken on by the apprenticing company.
Simon Hochstein also completed his apprenticeship
as warehouse logistics specialist and will
make his way outside the group
After completing his apprenticeship as IT specialist
for application development, Christian
Bückemeyer will start a full-time study programme
and continue to temporary work for his apprenticing
company.
Thomas Reiser will continue to work for
wm.mediapro as a media designer for images and
sound.
After successfully completing her apprenticeship
as a media designer for digital and print media,
Louisa Kampshoff works in the marketing department
of Logata GmbH..
Things have changed. While it was still a real challenge
to find the right apprenticeship position a few
years ago, there are now more positions available
than there are young people looking for apprenticeships.
“From the apprentice’s point of view, the apprenticeship
market has improved and now offers more chances
than ever before,” federal minister Johanna Wanka says during
the presentation of the 2015 National Report on Vocational
Education & Training.
14 apprentices start their working life
With the start of the new year of apprenticeship, LB GmbH
is happy to welcome numerous young people to the group
of companies and to successfully fill all positions.
This year, too, the shareholders of LB GmbH welcomed the
new apprentices personally, gave them an understanding
of the company’s structures and explained them the values
of the Löhr family at the start of their apprenticeships.
“We are happy to see how many young people decided to
make their apprenticeship in our company. We wish them
every success for their apprenticeships in the different divisions
of LB GmbH,” personnel officer Melanie Wolbring
says.
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LB GmbH
Contact person: Melanie Wolbring
Am Gut Baarking 21 • 46395 Bocholt • Germany
Tel.: +49 28 71 / 28 9412
Fax: +49 28 71 / 28 9410
Email: melanie.wolbring@lbgmbh.com
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« 32nd International Supply
Chain Conference A World in Motion »
▶ Atmospheric photograph of the 31st International Supply Chain Conference in Germany
An exciting challenge
Since February 2015, Melanie Wolbring has been working
as a human resources manager at LB GmbH.
She already started her career in the group with her
apprenticeship in marketing communications at wm.tv
GmbH as well as in the logistics division and at LB GmbH
in 2007.
During her work as a management assistant for WM-
Logistik GmbH & Co. KG, Melanie Wolbring has already
been responsible for marketing and human resources
– after one year of work as a personnel officer at WM-
Services GmbH and one year at LB GmbH, she is now
responsible for personnel matters in the logistics, IT and
media division. Besides, she works closely together with
the human resources department of Lebo GmbH.
„A October. In the forward to the programme,
World in Motion“ – this is the slogan of this
year’s international supply chain conference
that takes place in Berlin from 28th to 30th
the president of BVL International Prof. Raimund Klinkner
writes: “We have suspected since Galileo Galilei, and known
since Bernard Léon Foucault, that the world is in motion.
But if we look at the world from the perspective of a logistics
manager, we have no need of astrophysics, because it is
the day-to-day job of logistics managers to keep the world
in motion by ensuring constant streams of goods and products.”
There are many good reasons for a journey to Berlin:
Kontakt
twelve main speeches, one panel discussion, 16 special topic
sequences, four workshops and three excursions are waiting
for the participants. Beside the comprehensive information
provided, there is also a gala evening on the first day of the
conference, an after-work party on the second day, an exhibition
and lounges where you have the possibility to talk, to
enter business relationships, as well as to maintain and establish
professional contacts.
“For me personally, it is a real challenge. It is exciting to
put the theory into practice and I’m especially looking
forward on interesting projects in the area of human resources
development – here, we directly started in the
logistics division,” says Wolbring.

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Special Guests: Gabriel –
Kornblum – Obama
To get an insight into economic and geopolitical issues,
BVL has invited three public figures. The vice chancellor of
Germany and Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy
Sigmar Gabriel is going to hold a speech during the opening
event at 11.30 a.m. on 28th October. The guest speaker
on the last day of the conference on 30th October is John C.
Kornblum, a former US ambassador in Berlin. His topic: Germany,
America and the Globally Integrated World. BVL is also
happy to welcome the publicist Dr. Auma Obama, the older
half-sister of America’s President Barack Obama, as a guest of
honour at the gala event on 28th October. The Kenyan woman
is initiator and head of the Sauti Kuu foundation, Powerful
Voices. The foundation wants to give the children of Africa
the possibility to take their fate into their own hands.
Special Topic Sequences and Workshops:
From Impulse to Applications
All 16 special topic sequences are held under the slogan
“A World in Motion”. Four times – one time on Wednesday,
two times on Thursday and one time on Friday – the participants
can choose between sessions under the topics impulse,
turning moment, dynamics and applications. Impulses
mean creative ideas, exemplary solutions and pioneering
strategies. Established fields of logistical action undergoing a
process of radical change are discussed under the keyword
“Turning Moment”. Logistics and supply chain management
alone are characterised by dynamics. Often, they have to react
to their rapidly changing environment. Under the slogan
“Dynamics”, the speakers focus on the topics of volatility and
crises, personnel strategies, the response to cyber risks and
the developments in the urban logistics sector.
During the applications sessions, the participants learn
some solid facts about the challenges of the B2C markets,
the B2B markets, the assembly and production or the manufacturing
and process industries – always with a view to
logistical aspects, of course. In addition to the special topic
sequences, the conference also offers workshops that invite
to an intensive exchange between speakers and audience.
These workshops primarily focus on logistical challenges.
They are about design thinking, about the future of dual training,
as well as about the subjects of outstanding bachelor
and master theses.
This year, the number of conference visitors will again be
more than 3000 and the number of exhibitors around 200.
The annual meeting of the German and the international
logistics community promises many new impulses for strategic
planning and solution approaches for professional life.
Conference Programme
Information on the programme can be found online
at www.bvl.de/dlk
Text, photo credits: Bundesvereinigung Logistik (BVL) e.V.
▶ Apart from workshops and excursions, there are
many possibilities for exciting conversations
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Contact person: Bernhard Vogt (WM GROUP)
Am Gut Baarking 21 • 46395 Bocholt • Germany
Tel.: +49 2 03 / 75 96 73 16
Fax: +49 28 71 / 28 93 40
Email: bernhard.vogt@wm-group.de
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« „What Germany must do today to stay
good” – MIT business lunch in the OIC»
▶ The parliamentary secretary of the Ministry of
Finance Jens Spahn during his lecture
▶ Around 60 guests came
to the business lunch
Around 60 guests came to the business lunch of
the CDU Bocholt/Rhede small business association
(MIT) in the Open Innovation Center on “Am
Gut Baarking”. Among the guests: Jens Spahn,
member of the German Bundestag, and Heinrich Welsing,
mayoral candidate for Bocholt.
At first, Ann-Kathrin and Maximilian Löhr presented the
company LB GmbH. Together they are already preparing
the succession of their fathers Hans-Wilhelm and Matthias
Löhr and are getting more and more involved in company
affairs. It’s a group of companies that is about to become a
company 4.0. Combining competences, learning from and
perfectly complementing each other – this is what makes
up LB GmbH.
Industry 4.0 – The creation of a new kind
of raw material
The parliamentary secretary of the Ministry of Finance Jens
Spahn also talked about the important and advanced age of
digitalisation during his lecture. According to Mr Spahn who

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▶ Matthias Löhr greets the guests in the Open Innovation Center
▶ Heinrich Welsing presents his plans and
aims for the office of mayor
was born in Ahaus, all data that is made available online and
exchanged via the Internet creates a new raw material. And
yet there are numerous companies that don’t know how to
benefit from it – we cannot imagine a life without facebook,
Twitter and Co. “Having a website cannot be called digitalisation,”
Jens Spahn says.
Of course, the CDU politician also discussed current topics
that are moving Germany and the world at present.
The treatment of refugees in our country, the still prevailing
shortage of skilled workers and the idea of a flexible pension
scheme were also topics of his lecture.
His party colleague Heinrich Welsing took the opportunity
shortly before the election to tell the local companies more
about his plans and aims for the office of mayor in Bocholt.
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LB GmbH
Contact person: Ann-Kathrin Löhr
Schlavenhorst 88a ∙ 46395 Bocholt
Tel.: +49 28 71 / 28 94 11
Fax: +49 28 71 / 28 94 10
Email: ann-kathrin.loehr@lbgmbh.com
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« Everything from one source »
▶ Individual logistics solutions
together,” Ilya Zelin says. Hansa alone has already had customers
in more than 60 countries of the world. With the merger
of the companies into the Oras Group, the company’s reach
continues to grow and with that the requirements on the logistics
partner. Requirements WM GROUP meets. The variety of
services offered, the individual and flexible customization, as
well as the proximity to the customer characterize WM GROUP
as a partner.
Zühal Arpa
Order picker and packer
▶ Quality check before shipment
For 3.5 years now, the company Hansa Metallwerke
AG, that was taken over by the Finnish manufacturer
of sanitary fittings Oras in 2013 and has been
operated under the name Hansa Armaturen GmbH
since then, has been a client of WM GROUP in Duisburg. The
cooperation of the two companies covers the entire portfolio
of the logistics provider. From here, high-quality sanitary
fittings are shipped to specialist shops and fitters all over
the world. Since 1998, WM GROUP is also located at the free
port in Duisburg and since 2012, orders from the company
Hansa are processed here, too. “Hansa specialises in the manufacture
of high-quality sanitary fittings that can only be
purchased from specialist shops or specialist wholesalers,“
site manager Ilya Zelin explains.
Single-source
logistics solutions
At the start of the cooperation about three years ago,
WM GROUP was only responsible for the picking of goods.
“But then our area of responsibility was complemented
by the business segments packing and returns,” says Zelin.
“Today, we are responsible for all logistics processes of the
Oras Group and its brands Hansa and Oras.”
Individual and
flexible customization
At the location in Duisburg, around 60 employees put
together individual combinations depending on the order
and ship them via the postal or the general cargo sector.
In the area of the further processing of goods, single
items and/or raw materials are also individually combined
in sets before they are shipped. “These are just a few examples
for the individual requirements of our customers
that we take into account every day. From the steps mentioned
through to the packaging required, we act in accordance
with the customers’ individual requirements and
continuously optimise them in a close cooperation,” the
site manager explains.
A growing partnership
“The implementation of Oras’ goods in Duisburg has been
successful and now both parties are working towards the realisation
of an optimised warehouse and process structure full
of synergies. The Finnish company will also place their trust in
us in future and so we will continue to be the logistics partner
of the group. With this step, we are able to strategically grow
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Fatma Sahin
Helper
Marco Buszta
Apprentice for warehouse logistics specialist
Raphael Terfurth
Apprentice for warehouse logistics specialist
WM GROUP GmbH
Regional Manager (Duisburg | Voerde | Hamminkeln):
Ilya Zelin
Im Freihafen 9 • 47138 Duisburg • Germany
Tel.: +49 2 03 / 75 96 73 14
Fax: +49 2 03 / 75 96 73 40
Email: ilya.zelin@wm-group.de
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« Enjoy a Moods tomorrow –
our common challenge! »
▶ Dannemann tobacco at the location in Velpe
▶ Stored, picked…
▶ …and processed
WM GROUP, Logata,
LogAgency and
wm.mediapro together
at the 2015
transport logistic
Ranging from an own tobacco production for cigarillos
through to the production of high-quality
cigars – Dannemann produces and distributes tobacco
of highest quality. In order to guarantee the
consumers a first-class taste experience, highest quality standards
have been implemented along the entire production
chain – standards the WM GROUP meets every day at the
location in Velpe.
Tobacco – air-conditioning as the main
challenge
The raw material tobacco and the products made of it are
extremely sensitive. The environment in which the products
are stored must not be too warm, too dry or too humid. “You
have to preserve the desired flavour and protect the goods
from spoilage – this is a real challenge we solved together with
our customer,” branch manager Johannes Weyers remembers.
This means that a huge part of the warehouse and picking area
in Velpe is nothing but an oversize humidor that always keeps
the temperature and humidity at a constant and optimum
level. The respective area was already equipped with a costly
air-conditioning system in cooperation with the customer
Dannemann in 2004 and further expanded in 2013. “Based on
the experience gained over the years, we decided two years
ago to implement latest technologies to achieve even better
values,” the branch manager explains.
In close cooperation for
more than 10 years
In 2014, Burger Söhne Holding AG, the company where
Dannemann belongs to, celebrated its 150th anniversary.
More than 55,000 trade visitors from 124 countries
and 2,050 exhibitors from 62 countries showcased
the world of logistics on the exhibition site in Munich.
The importance of the trade fair for the industry
was emphasized by Federal Minister of Transport
Alexander Dobrindt during the inaugural ceremony:
“transport logistic is the world‘s key trade fair for the
entire logistics and supply chain sector.” At the stand
of North Rhine-Westphalia, the logistics provider
WM GROUP showed together with its IT sister companies
Logata and LogAgency and its media sister
wm.mediapro how Industry 4.0 is already implemented
and realised and what potentials there are for the
future. We would like to thank all visitors for the interesting
and informative conversations and are looking
forward to further developing newly established
contacts.
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WM GROUP rated as
“preferred” supplier
The company Benning carries out regular supplier
evaluations in order to bring or keep the business
relations to or at the highest possible level,” the company
for electrical engineering and electronics states.
Dannemann Cigarrenfabrik GmbH gets its specially grown
tobacco from origin countries like Brazil and Indonesia – most
of the end products are also produced in Germany. “Every day,
a truck from the production site nearby in Lübbecke arrives
in Velpe. In addition to this, we process one full truck load coming
from Treffurt in Thüringen per week,” says Weyers. And
“process” not only means the mere storage and shipping of
the goods.
“We want to offer our customers the highest possible
added value, which is why we are also involved in the processing,”
the branch manager explains. “This means that we
build and fill so-called sales displays on site. Sales displays
are those units that are decoratively positioned in store to
“You have to preserve the desired flavour
and protect the goods from spoilage – this
is a real challenge we solved together with
our customer.
„
Further training:
Marc Güttler is now a
certified business
economist
WM GROUP was rated in the areas of purchasing, disposition
and quality control/technology for 2014 and
achieved a result of 93.50 per cent. With that, the logistics
provider is among the 33 per cent of suppliers
that achieved the best possible results.
A “preferred” supplier fulfils all essential requirements
for a longstanding cooperation with the company
Benning and is always willing to further develop.
The “preferred” rating is fundamental in order to be
involved in new projects as a development supplier,”
Benning Elektrotechnik und Elektronik GmbH & Co.
KG further states.
“Highest customer satisfaction and best performances
are our daily objective. We really appreciate the
extremely positive rating,” Oliver Niemann of WM
GROUP says.
▶ The high-bay warehouse in Velpe
Marc Güttler has been working for WM GROUP since
August 2009. Back then he successfully completed his
apprenticeship as a warehouse logistics specialist. “During
my apprenticeship I got to know all areas of logistics
ranging from disposition via picking and packing,
goods receipt and forklift truck riding through to the
work at the parcel sorting line,” Güttler remembers.
Marc Güttler has just completed a part-time educational
training as a certified business economist lasting
six semesters. He had visited the business college “Berufskolleg
am Wasserturm” in Bocholt on two evenings
a week and two Saturdays a month before successfully
passing the exams. “For me, further training and development
is of high importance. It is not only good for
me personally, but also offers me better opportunities
within the company,” Marc Güttler explains.

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▶ Customers who order today will receive their goods tomorrow
lers all over the world. However, the number of picks for the
German business alone is impressive. Usually, customers who
place their order today will receive the goods tomorrow!
Forward-looking
In spite of a longstanding successful cooperation and a stable
business, both parties – WM GROUP and Dannemann –
want to permanently increase the quality for end customers.
“We have already been sitting together around a table several
times to analyse our processes,” Weyers reveals. “We constantly
assess each single aspect – ranging from the raw material
through to the end product – to be able to optimize the processes
if necessary and to increase the added value – at all
levels.”
Njomeza Dukellaj
Packer
Aldin Dautovic
Warehouse employee
Photo credits: WM GROUP GmbH
Kevin Barlag
Apprentice as a manager for forwarding and
logistics services
Patrick Liebrand
Apprentice as a warehouse operator
Contact
present the goods. Here, they are newly packed and shipped
ready for sale.”
The fact that WM GROUP currently handles a part of the
production supply for Dannemann shows how trustful the
longstanding cooperation is – even though the branch
manager Johannes Weyers emphasizes that this is only for
a short period of time. “At the moment, we also temporarily
store raw materials that are needed for production. If bottlenecks
occur, we will of course offer our customer reliable
support,” Weyers states.
From Velpe into the world
Dannemann products that are manufactured in Germany
and stored as well as processed in Velpe are shipped to retai-
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WM GROUP GmbH
Niederlassungsleiter: Johannes Weyers
Industriestraße 39 • 49492 Westerkappeln-Velpe
Tel.: +49 54 56 / 93 36 20
Fax: +49 54 56 / 93 36 92
Email: johannes.weyers@wm-group.de
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« WM GROUP – what belongs
together now grows together »
« Logata Digital Solutions GmbH –
Digital solutions for Industry 4.0 »
With the entry into the commercial register
on 04.09.2015, WM-Logistik GmbH and
WM-Handelslogistik GmbH were merged
to WM GROUP GmbH. The merger is
backdated to 1 January 2015. The logistics company has
already had a uniform presence in the market with the
popular “WM GROUP” logo for several years now. “This
is why the merger of the companies and the change of
name is just a logical consequence of a successful corporate
strategy,” the chairman of the management board
Günter Artinger explains. The merger of the companies is
also an important step towards Industry 4.0 and further
pushes the company’s orientation towards the future. The
WM GROUP thus consequently pursues the development
strategy of the group to become a networked company
within the meaning of Industry 4.0.
Photo credits: WM GROUP GmbH
Digital solutions will more and more become the
central key to a sustainable value creation. The
company Logata GmbH from Bocholt and its
subsidiaries have already successfully developed
such solutions for their customers from the industry and
logistics sector for years. This is how they have established
concrete and accessible innovative solutions regarding the
“Internet of Things”, Industry 4.0, automation as well as electronic
business processes and data conversion in recent years.
This year’s Hannover Messe trade fair showed the potential
of these solutions. As part of our digitalisation strategy 4.0,
we are combining these individual solutions to offer our customers
integrated solutions and thus a higher added value
thanks to standardization. Technically, Logata has a groundbreaking
and sophisticated first-class integration platform to
offer: the logistics mall. In future, our experts from the individual
areas will work closer together in agile teams. Taking
into account this development from an organizational point
of view, the subsidiaries LinogistiX GmbH and LogAgency
GmbH were merged into Logata GmbH. In this way, the core
know-how from the fields of software development for electronic
business processes, industry 4.0 and warehousing are
combined.
Logata GmbH now becomes Logata Digital Solutions GmbH.
We accompany your business on its way to the future.
Photo credits: Logata Digital Solutions GmbH
Contact
Contact
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WM GROUP GmbH
Contact person: Günter Artinger,
Ann-Kathrin Löhr
Im Freihafen 9 • 47138 Duisburg • Germany
Tel.: +49 28 71 / 28 93 78
Fax: +49 28 71 / 2 19 27 93 40
Email: guenter.artinger@wm-group.de
www.wm-group.de
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Logata Digital Solutions GmbH
Contact person: Dirk Meyer
Schlavenhorst 88a ∙ 46395 Bocholt • Germany
Tel.: +49 28 71 / 2 34 63 51
Fax: +49 28 71 / 23 46 43 51
Email: dirk.meyer@logata.com
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« Logistics Day 2015:
Logistics is infrastructure»
▶ Dirk Meyer at Allgäu Airport
This year, the logistics cluster forum of Swabia invited
to the Logistics Day at the Allgäu Airport in
Memmingen. Among them: Dirk Meyer who gave
a lecture on cloud computing in the logistics sector
on behalf of the Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems
Engineering ISST and Logata Digital Solutions GmbH.
Of course, the place of event was chosen carefully, as this is
where they are working on the Swabian infrastructure at full
stretch until 2021. “Over a distance of 60 kilometres, the German
railway company Deutsche Bahn AG constructs nine tunnels in
the Swabian mountains, as well as more than 40 overpasses.
Goods and passenger trains are expected to undercross the
mountains with a speed of up to 250 km/h from 2021 onwards.
This reduces the journey times to almost the half,” a paper of
the logistics cluster forum of Swabia says. The chairman of the
Stuttgart-Ulm railway project organisation Georg Brunnhuber
explained to the 70 guests from politics, economics and sciences
that the different speakers primarily focus on transparency,
communication with the citizens affected by the construction
works, as well as on the aim to provide information to the smallest
detail. Moreover, Brunnhuber emphasized that the benefits
for individual citizens are the focus of this communication. As
the new railway line will offer space for more trains, additional
direct trains can be offered and delays avoided.
Cloud-based solutions for
logistics providers
In the final lecture, Dirk Meyer examined a completely different
part of logistics. The part that is closely linked to IT, that benefits
from IT and that develops faster than ever before thanks
to IT. “The development of logistics is as difficult to predict as
the weather. In Germany alone, due to Internet and e-commerce
there are more than one million additional parcels per year.
Each of these parcels is being ordered, commissioned, packed,
transported, distributed and delivered “on demand”. At the
same time, the number of products is increasing exponentially
due to individual configuration.
Flexibility and dynamics of logistics processes have reached
a level that cannot be fulfilled by conventional forms of organisation
and that makes efficient IT solutions indispensable:
Logistics moves things and software determines where these
things are as well as how, from where and towards which
“Logistics moves goods and the software
„
determines where they will go.
New phone numbers:
How to contact Logata
Digital Solutions
GmbH and Lanfer
Systemhaus GmbH
Since 1 July 2015, Logata Digital Solutions GmbH and Lanfer
Systemhaus have optimised and restructured their telephone
service. While the current phone numbers of the
individual contact persons can be found on www.logata.
com or on www.lanfer-systemhaus.de, here’s the
central phone number of Logata Digital Solutions:
+49(0) 28 71/23 46 - 350
central phone number of Lanfer Systemhaus:
+49(0) 28 71/23 46 -0
The central fax numbers have also changed:
Central fax number of Logata Digital Solutions:
+49 (0) 2871/23 46-43 50
Central fax number of Lanfer Systemhaus:
+49(0) 28 71/ 2346 – 4333

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▶ Logistics Day 2015
Ann-Kathrin Löhr is the
new manager
Louisa Kampshoff
Since 13th July, Ann-Kathrin Löhr is part of the manage-
Media designer digital/print
ment of Logata Digital Solutions GmbH and its subsidiaries
Lanfer Systemhaus and Lanfer Automation. While still
being the managing director of wm.mediapro GmbH,
Mrs Löhr is now also part of the management of the associated
company WM-Logistik mbH.
We wish Mrs Löhr every success for her new tasks.
A strong network
What is the mall? How can you use it? What advantages
does it offer? Those are all questions that are not easy to
answer. Together with wm.mediapro GmbH, Logata Digital
Solutions GmbH has now realised a film project that
facilitates the approach to the virtual mall. See here for
more information:
Article wm.mediapro “1 project – 3
videos” on page 64
location they move“, the Fraunhofer Institute for Software
and Systems Engineering ISST explains. The Fraunhofer Innovation
Cluster “Cloud Computing for Logistics” combines the
development and organisation of logistics services with IT
within a joint design. The two Fraunhofer Institutes IML (Material
Flow and Logistics) and ISST have satisfied the need for
new logistics software and merged the two disciplines logistics
and computer sciences.
The logistics mall
as a lead project
The logistics mall creates the conditions for offering IT logistics
services and logistics processes as commodities in the
cloud. This includes both the design of the processes as well
as their instantiation and execution. “With that, the mall is not
only a one-stop shop for logistics, but also a coordinating
and monitoring body for the execution of logistics processes,”
Dirk Meyer explains. “The features can be individually adapted
to the process and designed according to the specific
sector with the help of the Process Designer.”
For more information on the mall and all functions and benefits
it offers, see here:
Article wm.mediapro “1 project – 3
videos” on page 64
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Contact
Dominik Neumann
(Junior) Project manager
Photo credits: Logistik-Cluster Schwaben (LCS) e.V.
Logata Digital Solutions GmbH
Managing director: Dirk Meyer
Schlavenhorst 88a ∙ 46395 Bocholt ∙ Germany
Tel.: +49 28 71 / 2 34 63 51
Fax: +49 28 71 / 23 46 43 51
Email: dirk.meyer@logata.com
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« wps in a new design –
Lanfer Systemhaus presents innovations »
▶ new, modern and user-friendly
information they do not need. So if you only need the dialogue
window “Shipment”, you can hide the rest of the navigation.
Mobile data capture
From now on, wps also serves as a modular system for
handheld transceivers. Process chains can be individually
arranged, and names, instructions, the execution order of
different modules as well as user entries freely defined. “For
the areas warehousing, stock transfer, removal, picking and
packing, incoming goods, filling, disposal, shipment and
stocktaking, the modules that can be used with mobile data
capture are already available,” project manager Björn Renzel
explains.
Download the wps data sheet here:
www.lanfer-systemhaus.de/leistungen/wps
Welcome Edda!
LB GmbH congratulates the dispatcher of Lanfer Systemhaus
Melanie Hitpass on the birth of her baby girl Edda.
We wish the family all the best and happy moments with
the new arrival.
Photo credits: Lanfer Systemhaus GmbH & Co. KG
wps is a cross-sector, multiple client capable
warehouse management system that is
suitable for both simple and complex requirements
thanks to an easy menu navigation
and a standardised user interface. “We have developed this
product further and made it even user-friendlier,” project manager
Björn Renzel explains.
Modern look and feel
Quite a lot has been changed. The customers can immediately
see the advantages and improvements compared to the
already existing wps application. It’s now a web-based pro-
duct that is compatible with all common browsers. “Browser
plug-ins such as Flash are no longer required. wps can simply
be used immediately,” Björn Renzel says. Moreover, they are
quite a few changes with regard to design and usability. The
user can now choose from a wide range of different designs.
Renzel: “Those who like it even more individual can also ask
for an adaptation of wps to the corporate design of the company.
That’s also possible.”
Whether PC, tablet or smartphone – thanks to the improvements
made, wps automatically adapts the display to the
device used. A responsive design makes sure you don’t have
to zoom. Another new feature: The users can now hide the
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Contact
Lanfer Systemhaus GmbH & Co. KG
Contact: Björn Renzel
Schlavenhorst 88a • 46395 Bocholt • Germany
Tel.: +49 28 71 / 2 34 62 70
Fax: +49 28 71 / 23 46 42 70
Email: bjoern.renzel@lanfer-systemhaus.de
www.lanfer-systemhaus.de
Lanfer Systemhaus GmbH & Co. KG is a
subsidiary of Logata Digital Solutions.

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« A ground-breaking
step towards Industry 4.0 »
▶ SMART FACE at the 2015 Hannover Messe trade fair
▶ Fully automatic planning processes
Lanfer Automation GmbH & Co. KG took care of the development
of appropriate concepts. “The question was
how to migrate already existing and new production control
systems into the networked 4.0 world,” explains Markus
Dünne, project manager of Lanfer Automation. “The
previously used control concepts of production processes
are very different from those of the SMART FACE project,”
he adds.
The focus of the overall objective to perform planning
processes in a decentralised and automatic way was on autonomous
material flow units. Experts call these units cyberphysical
systems – in short: CPS. These are for instance mobile
robots that autonomously bring assembly parts from one
LinogistiX: With SMART
FACE at the Hannover
Messe trade fair
“Smart Micro Factory for Electric Vehicles with Lean Production
Planning” – in short: SMART FACE – parallelizes information flows
with real material flows via embedded systems for the first time
ever. Moreover, it creates an easily scalable production process
and allows for a lean planning. This innovative research and development
project that is managed and coordinated by the managing
director of LinogistiX Andreas Trautmann was presented at
this year’s Hannover Messe trade fair at the joint exhibition stand
of the Federal Ministry of Economics. Subject matter and objective
is the development of sustainable concepts and measures
that meet the special requirements of small-series productions
with regard to operation, scalability, robustness and efficiency –
and this requires a radically new approach to production planning
and control. Also part of the team: Lanfer Automation.
Click here to read more about SMART FACE.
SSMART FACE: „Smart Micro Factory for Electric
Vehicles with Lean Production Planning”. No less
than two companies of the group are involved
in this research project. LinogistiX and Lanfer
Automation have supported the project with all their
know-how and respective skills. The research and development
project that is funded by the Federal Ministry for
Economic Affairs and Energy was presented at this year‘s
Hannover Messe trade fair.
Automation of planning processes
As consortium leader, LinogistiX has incorporated two
software modules together with the team of SMART FACE
project manager and managing director of LinogistiX Andreas
Trautmann. „The logistics mall and an intelligent transport
management system. This system accepts transport requests
via an interface and then distributes them among the vehicles,“
software project manager Manuel Ehrlich explains.
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Contact
Logata Digital Solutions GmbH
Contact person: Andreas Trautmann
Mallinckrodtstr. 320 ∙ 44147 Dortmund ∙ Germany
Tel.: +49 231 / 5 88 30 11
Fax: +49 231 / 5 88 30 14
Email: andreas.trautmann@linogistix.com
www.logata.com
Because of the Industry 4.0 strategy, LinogistiX was merged
with Logata that was then renamed into Logata Digital Solutions GmbH.

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workstation to the other within one manufacturing network.
An Internet of Things control system makes that
possible. It receives transport requests from the cloud and
distributes them among the individual vehicles. Intelligent
sensors then ensure that the robots independently reach the
desired destination – while using the same transport routes
as the employees.
Lanfer Automation
once again certified
The company Lanfer Automation GmbH & Co. KG is again
certified for Siemens Solution Partner Automation Drives.
Expert know-how and excellent knowledge of the sector:
This is what Lanfer Automation repeatedly showed after
successfully passing the examination in different programme
modules.
Self-organised machines and workstations individually
request all parts needed, which makes central sequence planning
no longer complex and time-consuming, as it works
automatically. “If there are any changes, the system will automatically
make a new plan. You do no longer have to plan
in advance, as the software coordinates itself and thus takes
the planning effort off your shoulders,” Christian Prasse of the
Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics summarizes.
Besides, all data are highly available and safely stored
in the cloud.
Guido Faßbender
Managing director
Jonas Selting
Apprentice Electronics Technician
for Automation Technology
Solution Partners – your first choice for first-class solutions.
In industrial environments, you can rely on globally
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services in automation and drive technology that are Siemens
Solution Partner Automation certified. These selected
system integrators stand for future-safe, customized
solutions of highest quality – solutions that will contribute
to a sustainable improvement of your competitiveness.
Lanfer Automation is very proud to still be a certified partner
of Siemens in Germany.
The presentation
at the 2015 Hannover Messe
It was one of the highlights of this year’s trade fair that
took place under the slogan “Integrated Industry – Join the
Network”. At the exhibition stand of the Federal Ministry for
Economic Affairs and Energy, the project participants presented
a simulation that showed the SMART FACE project
in operation. Even though it is still nothing but a research
project and even though SMART FACE is not yet used in
companies, this project is a ground-breaking step towards
Industry 4.0 and shows what will be possible in future.
Photo credits: LinogistiX GmbH, www.smartfactoryplanning.de
Contact
Stefan Lanfer
Apprentice Electronics Technician
for Automation Technology
Lanfer Automation GmbH & Co. KG
Managing director: Guido Faßbender
Hoher Weg 13 ∙ 46325 Borken-Weseke ∙ Germany
Tel.: +49 28 62 / 913 171
Fax: +49 28 62 / 91 36 00
Email: automation@lanfer.de
www.google.de/maps
www.lanfer-automation.de
Lanfer Automation GmbH & Co. KG is a
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« News from
Lanfer Automation GmbH & Co. KG »
for it to be able to handle specific tasks. This promises valuable
synergy effects for everyone,“ Hermann-Josef Raatgering explains.
„Our aim is to gradually expand the network to support
as many companies as possible in realizing their automation
tasks,“ Evelyn Decker adds. It is planned to install a demo robot
cell for developments and demonstrations together with
academic experts and individual network partners at the future
location of the ARC, the economic centre WZG in Gronau.
« Welcome,
Guido Faßbender »
Jan-Hendrick Schöttler
Project manager CAD
« Robotics support network for SMEs –
Lanfer Automation one of the first cooperation
partners »
With a meeting of interested companies and
consultative research partners in spring, the
activities in the new Centre of Automation
and Robotics (ARC) have again picked up
speed.
The ARC is developed by project manager Evelyn Decker in
cooperation with the innovation consultant of the Economic
Development Agency WFG Hermann-Josef Raatgering and is
supposed to be initiator and solutions provider for small and
medium-sized companies in the district of Borken. The ARC offers
those companies an extensive range of support measures
for the implementation of robotics and general automation
technology. “Some members of the network are already using
handling and welding robots and some of them see the need
Since 1st May 2015,
Guido Faßbender has
been the new head
of Lanfer Automation
GmbH & Co KG. After
25 years of work as the
managing director, Alfred
Lanfer decided to
resign from his position.
Together with his family,
the 50-year old
graduate engineer for
automation technology
Guido Faßbender lives in Neuss am Rhein. He is looking
forward to „the possibility to get to know each other, the active
exchange with employees and colleagues, as well as to a good
cooperation.“
We wish Mr Faßbender every success for his new tasks!
Markus Dünne
Project manager Automation,
SPS programmer & GLT
Björn Voßkamp
Chief erector, electronics technician for
automation technology

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« Lanfer Automation: With SMART
FACE at the Hannover Messe trade fair »
for the 4th Industrial Revolution and ready to offer future
Industry 4.0 solutions.
For more information on SMART FACE see:
www.smartfactoryplanning.de/projekt/aktuelles.html
« Help us shape the future »
We would like to expand our team and are looking for:
Lanfer Automation is known for practical solutions in
the field of industrial automation and innovative development
projects, such as the technical responsibility in
the research projects „THINGtelligence“ or „Hub2Move“. At
the joint stand of the Federal Ministry of Economics at
this year‘s Hannover Messe trade fair, Lanfer Automation
presented the project „SMART FACE“ together with the research
partners. They made clear that they are prepared
« New tasks: Kathrin Spaan
goes to Weseke »
Since June, Kathrin
Spaan has been
supporting the
team of Lanfer Automation
located in
Borken-Weseke. Before,
Kathrin Spaan
worked as a commercial
manager for
wm.mediapro, where
she successfully
implemented some
value-added measures.
„I‘m looking
forward to having a
completely new area of responsibility and thus to growing
professionally,“ Mrs Spaan says.
Kathrin Spaan is working in the controlling department
of Lanfer Automation, where she makes use of
her experiences.
Lanfer Automation is looking for people whose skills and commitment
pave new ways to the future.
Guided by the principle „Automatically the best solution“, Lanfer
offers its employees an exciting and challenging job in a
friendly atmosphere. You will work in a modern, expanding
company that stands out for strong innovation. You will enjoy
excellent working conditions, while working independently
and having the possibility to be creative within your area of
responsibility.
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Contact
• Chief erectors
• Electricians/Electronics technicians
• Programmers SW technology
• Dual Bachelor degree programme for Applied
Electrical Engineering
We are looking forward to your application, for more
information see:
www.lanfer-automation.de/unternehmen/karriere
Photo credits: Lanfer Automation GmbH & Co. KG
Lanfer Automation GmbH & Co. KG
Managing director: Guido Faßbender
Hoher Weg 13 ∙ 46325 Borken-Weseke • Germany
Tel.: +49 28 62 / 91 31 19
Fax: +49 28 62 / 91 36 00
Email: automation@lanfer.de
www.lanfer-automation.de
Lanfer Automation GmbH & Co. KG is a
subsidiary of Logata Digital Solutions.

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« eWatch: LogAgency offers
customers transparency »
▶ What happens with my data and when? eWatch gives customers an insight
T
he company LogAgency located in Dortmund focuses
on secure digital business processes. “We
receive data from our customers and process and
transmit it later – it’s thus clear that the customers
also want to know what happens with their data,” managing
director Christian Rybak explains.
Added value for customers
The customers can log in to the web portal “eWatch”
with secure access. This is where their data is stored and
where they have the possibility to filter which information
they would like to get. Rybak: “You can, for instance, filter
by date, supplier or number. This ensures that our customers
quickly get the information requested.” The added
value is thus evident. On the one hand, the customers can
verify whether the invoiced services have already been
carried out. However, what’s even more interesting is that
they also gain direct insight when something’s not running
smoothly. If there is, for instance, a delay in delivery,
you can immediately check when LogAgency processed
the order and when the vendor received it. “In this way, a
time-consuming error search is no longer necessary. With
only a view clicks, you’ll get full insight. With that, we provide
full transparency, which is also why our customers trust
us completely,” Rybak says.
eWatch as a bachelor thesis
This tool was developed by one of Rybak’s students who
also works as a lecturer. Raphael Baginski wrote his Bachelor
thesis about this topic and established eWatch. “Since
1st June 2015, he has also been a part of the LogAgency
team and at the moment, he is writing his master thesis,”
Christian Rybak says.
Photo credits: www.fotolia.de
Contact
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Logata Digital Solutions GmbH
Contact person: Christian Rybak
Mallinckrodtstr. 320 ∙ 44147 Dortmund ∙ Germany
Tel.: +49 231 / 8 78 00 80
Fax: +49 231 /87 80 08 10
Email: c.ryback@logagency.de
www.logata.com.de
Because of the Industry 4.0 strategy, LogAgency was merged
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« Even more security for data exchange:
LogAgency offers electronic invoice
exchange in ZUGFeRD format »
▶ ZUGfeRD: secure, reliable and universal
from these sectors are fully satisfied.” In the B2B sector, too,
the response is increasingly positive. Even though the acceptance
increases significantly, ZUGFeRD is not yet established
in this sector according to Rybak.
ZUGFeRD: Universally compatible
The ZUGFeRD format contains clearly defined rules for
the implementation of structured XML data. The format
determines that all components of an invoice such as sender,
invoice date, invoice number and amounts are always
stored in the same specified field of the XML document.
This guarantees a compatibility of ZUGFeRD invoices with
all invoice-processing softwares. The XML format defined
by ZUGFeRD is based on the international UN/CEFACT
standard – which is why you can also use ZUGFeRD invoices
for international invoicing.
XML data embedded in a pdf file
yet, it also offers extended possibilities for the use and processing
thanks to the “invisible” XML data contained. “ZUG-
FeRD is another standardised and easy to implement solution
for the creation and processing of electronic invoices,”
managing director Christian Rybak summarises.
▶ XML data are embedded in a pdf file
An invoice created in the ZUGFeRD format consists of a
pdf file that serves as a visualisation and a container for the
machine-readable, structured XML data. These XML data
are linked to the pdf file as an annex. This allows you to
use a ZUGFeRD conform invoice as a standard pdf file and
Photo credits: www.thinkstockphotos.de Monkey Business Images, vinnstock
Since January, LogAgency has also been offering a
SaaS-based solution for the creation, receipt and
further processing of electronic invoices in the
ZUGFeRD format – in addition to the already existing
solutions for electronic invoicing.
ZUGFeRD stands for “Central User Guide of the Forum
for Electronic Invoicing in Germany” and is a standard developed
by the forum for electronic invoicing in Germany
that contains a uniform data format for the exchange of
structured data. “Since 2010, LogAgency has been involved
in the development of the ZUGFeRD standard,” the managing
director of LogAgency Christian Rybak explains. This
standard is developed to contribute to the process optimisation
in the field of invoice processing and to allow for
a fast, comfortable and easy electronic invoice exchange
between companies, public administration and consumers.
Rybak: “The introduction of such a standard has not
only been forced by the federal government in recent years,
but also requested by public institutions, municipalities
and ministries. This is where ZUGFeRD is used; it has
clearly established itself in the market and our customers
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Contact
Logata Digital Solutions GmbH
Contact person: Christian Rybak
Mallinckrodtstr. 320 ∙ 44147 Dortmund ∙ Germany
Tel.: +49 231 / 87 00 80
Fax: +49 231 / 87 80 08 10
Email: c.ryback@logagency.de
www.logata.de
Because of the Industry 4.0 strategy, LogAgency was merged
with Logata that was then renamed into Logata Digital Solutions GmbH.

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« Le‘Mac -
22 storeys equipped by LEBO »
It‘s probably one of the most award-winning building
projects that have been realised in Kenya in recent years:
Le‘Mac. A vision. The skyscraper of the decade, according to
the website. The door producer LEBO from Bocholt equips
the entire construction project with its products.

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▶ Le‘Mac - a magnificent building in the centre of Nairobi
Andreas Rogall
Manager
Katrin Klein-Schmeink
Apprentice as industrial management
assistant
Mareen Egeling
Apprentice as industrial management
assistant
At the end of July, 1,125 high-quality door elements
and handles in different versions were
shipped from Rotterdam to Kenya. „In August,
the doors reached their destination where they
are currently installed,“ manager Burkhard Hessing explains.
The first occupancy is planned for the end of 2015 and the
beginning of 2016.
Visitors from Kenya
In 2013, Burkhard Hessing could already establish first contact
with the investors from England and Kenya. „At that time,
LEBO was represented at the largest construction trade fair
in the Middle East, the Big 5 in Dubai. Here, we had first conversations
about the projects in Nairobi,“ says Hessing. The
investors of Le‘Mac are not only responsible for the finances.
They also play an important part in the planning of the building
they invest in. This means that bathrooms were personally
selected in Germany, while the matching tiles were
ordered in Spain, for example. The African investor also had
a close look on the quality of the indoor elements in Bocholt
and chose the design himself. The LEBO team from Bocholt
supported him in the perfect adaptation of the technical
components to the requirements on site.
Cedric-Leon Decreßin
Apprentice as wood mechanic
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It‘s the first time that the doors will bear a label. Hessing:
„There will be small plates in the frame rebates with „LEBO
Germany” written on them. In this way, we won‘t just
spread our products, but also our name around the world.“
▶ Wellness right on your doorstep
Le‘Mac - a skyscraper in Nairobi
„Setting new
impulses“: Burkhard
Hessing joins the
management board
of LEBO
For more than two years, Burkhard Hessing has been working
as the export manager of Lebo GmbH. After 14 years
of work in a company in Südlohn in the woodworking
industry, the 46-year old father of two sons came to Bocholt
on 1st May 2013. In summer 2015, the man from
Stadtlohn became part of the management beside Maximilian
Löhr.
According to Burkhard Hessing, there’s currently a real
building boom in Kenya. “This is also why there are many
foreigners in Kenya, as well as in the country’s biggest city
Nairobi. An apartment complex like Le’Mac offers highest
standards of living and everything you need is just around
the corner,” says Hessing. The building is 22 storeys high
and has a lot to offer apart from the luxury apartments
on the eighth to the twentieth floor: four underground
parking levels, stores, a café on the ground floor and a
“Sky Club” on the 21st and 22nd floor. Here you can find
restaurants, a swimming pool, a fitness studio, as well as a
wellness and spa area.
With that, Le’Mac forms a great contrast to the local way of
living in East Africa and surely is an incomparable building
project.
However, he will also continue to work for the export department:
„One of the goals I personally want to achieve
is the internationalisation of the company,“ Burkhard Hessing
explains. Moreover, he wants to continue the successful
development of the last years.
Photo credits: Lebo GmbH
Contact
We wish Mr Hessing every success for his new task.
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Lebo GmbH
Management: Maximilian Löhr (chairman of the
board), Burkhard Hessing, Andreas Rogall
Händelstraße 15 • 46395 Bocholt • Germany
Tel.: +49 28 71 / 9 50 31 00
Fax: +49 28 71 / 9 50 31 09
Email: mail@lebo.de
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« Istanbul: An apartment building
equipped with LEBO doors »
▶ Pashador: A large-scale project in istanbul
▶ All apartments are equipped with LEBO doors
In these days, “Pashador” – an apartment building in Istanbul
– is getting ready for occupation. “Since the end
of 2013, we have been working together with a Turkish
building contractor who wants to realise own building
projects together with us and who is also interested in selling
our high-quality door elements as an importer to additional
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▶ 1,300 doors were fitted in Istanbul
Andreas Rogall: A new
manager of LEBO
Sebastian Tenbrock
Machine operator Homag
Since May 1st 2015, the graduate engineer for mechanical
engineering and production technology Andreas Rogall
has been working as a works manager at Lebo GmbH in Bocholt.
Before he changed the sector and gained a foothold
in the door manufacturing industry, the 47-year old qualified
engineer had been working in the car industry for
twenty years. “As the works manager, I had the task to successfully
establish a production system similar to the ones
used in the automotive industry,” Andreas Rogall explains
and adds: “For my job at LEBO, I hope that the different departments
will work closely together as a team. Moreover, I
hope for the right mix of expertise and new ideas.”
Since 1st September, Andreas Rogall has joined the management
board and now manages Lebo GmbH together
with Maximilian Löhr and Burkhard Hessing.
The company LB GmbH wishes Mr Rogall every success for
this new task.
The first joint project
is called “Pashador”
The construction project includes retail stores, food
shops, restaurants and penthouses above the rooftops
of the city. “We delivered 1,300 white doors. Throughout
the entire construction phase, there was a show apartment
next to the building to show the exact room arrangement
of the apartments.
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Photo credits: Lebo GmbH
Contact
Lebo GmbH
Marcel Dekrmanji
Special area employee
(DCT)
Alexander Overbeck
Apprentice in wholesale and foreign trade
Management: Maximilian Löhr (chairman of the
board), Burkhard Hessing, Andreas Rogall
Händelstraße 15 • 46395 Bocholt • Germany
Tel.: +49 28 71 / 9 50 31 00
Fax: +49 28 71 / 9 50 31 09
Email: mail@lebo.de
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« Interesting discussions, fine food and
entertainment for the little ones:
The summer party of LEBO »
« The drilling line: a documentation »
▶ A relaxed atmosphere at LEBO in Bocholt
▶ You could also treat yourself to some fine food
▶ Goal wall shooting and a bouncy castle
Summer temperatures, the smell of grilled meat
and small groups having animated discussions –
this is how you can best describe this year‘s LEBO
summer party on the premises on Händelstraße
was like. „Every two years, we invite our employees and their
families to a summer party, if possible,“ explains Karoline
Wolf from the marketing department of LEBO. „During the
daily business, you mainly stay in your department which is
why you often don‘t know what the others are actually doing
to make LEBO what it is today: a modern company that
belongs to the leading door manufacturers of the industry.
The summer party offers our employees the possibility to
learn more about the company,“ Wolf continues. While the
kids were playing on the bouncy castle and at the goal wall,
the adults had the possibility to make a guided tour around
the company.
Who actually
does what?
Every day, you spend much of your time at work and every
day, you meet the same people without knowing what
they are actually doing. „The summer party can also help
to establish contacts and to get to know each other – also
across departments. „It‘s easy to get into conversation in a
relaxed atmosphere with a cold beer at hand and grilled
specialties,“ Wolf says.
LEBO’s production halls were already upgraded at
the beginning of this year. A new, more modern,
more efficient and more precise drilling line was
bought. The drilling line had been preassembled
at the manufacturer’s site, before one piece after the other
was mounted and finally put into operation in Bocholt.
“The drilling line is a huge investment and an important
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Contact
step of this year. This is why we asked wm.mediapro for
a documentation that captures this milestone,” marketing
manager Karoline Wolf says. You can see the respective video
when clicking on the picture. More information on
the drilling line can also be found in the first issue of LB
Plus.
Photo credits: wm.mediapro GmbH
Lebo GmbH
Management: Maximilian Löhr (chairman of the
board), Burkhard Hessing, Andreas Rogall
Händelstraße 15 • 46395 Bocholt • Germany
Tel.: +49 28 71 / 9 50 31 00
Fax: +49 28 71 / 9 50 31 09
Email: mail@lebo.de
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« 1 Project - 3 Films»
▶ Clean and with a clear message: The first film about the mall
For your information:
the logistics mall
The logistics mall is the first independent software as a
service (in short: SaaS) cloud platform for logistics IT –
away from expensive and inflexible in-house solutions
and to a cloud-based use of the logistics mall. The logistics
mall allows its users to flexibly and exactly map
their business processes.
The logistics mall brings together software and service
providers as well as users in a virtual marketplace. After
the customization, the user only pays for what he really
uses - without initial investments in the infrastructure
required and always based on the latest technologies.
Existing web applications can be easily adapted for the
use in the logistics mall. To guarantee compatibility and
quality, Logata GmbH offers software providers every
support required, such as templates or programming
examples.
Film Nr.1
wm.mediapro realises logistics mall films and
thus shows its comprehensive range of services.
When the managing director of Logata Dirk Meyer contacted
the film-makers, he already had several films in his mind
that show how the mall works, what advantages it offers
and on what innovative processes this virtual marketplace
is based. „We didn‘t want the film to be unexceptional. I had
films in mind that not only deliver the contents, but also get
stuck in your mind. Films that work alone, but that can also
be used in the context of presentations and lectures to optimally
explain the matter,“ Dirk Meyer says.
Project team: mall
IBrainstorming - one of the most important processes,
where the production of powerful films is required and an
essential part of a film-maker’s work. „We intensively studied
the topic first to make sure that we become creative
and get good ideas. Understanding the mall as well
as its advantages and special qualities is essential for the
As a virtual marketplace for logistics software and services,
the logistics mall ensures that applications can
already communicate with each other today. With
standardised business objects we make sure that applications
do not remain isolated. In future, it will also
be possible to use atomic process modules to create
individual process chains with the help of the Logistics
Process Designer (LPD).
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development of a good film,“ production manager Peter
Wecking explains. The team consisting of him, Torsten
Hänsch and Niklas Bußmann spent several hours in the
conference room, where they developed and discarded
ideas before thinking in another direction while always
focusing on the requirements of the customer – with success.
„We wanted the first film to get stuck in the peoples‘
minds. Good, powerful images, a distinctive voice and
the message: We take many things for granted. We often
don‘t realise what clever ideas it takes to get simple things
working. We put all of that into a clear film and build a
bridge to the mall,“ explains Torsten Hänsch who wrote
the text for the professional speaker and put together the
matching images, sounds and music. Here, we have only
delivered the idea, the framework. The images were taken
from a provider of stock images,“ Hänsch explains.
Animation: The BUS system
While the project team was developing the first film,
another group was already working on an animation that
should explain the BUS system as the basis of the mall:
film 2. The animation clearly shows how the mall works.
Individual elements, such as the user portal in which all
customer information is stored, and the selected software
packages obviously exchange information through the
gateway. „The aim of this project was to make something
purely virtual visible and comprehensible. I have chosen
▶Acting, tracking and animations: Film 3
▶ An animation explains the BUS system
Film Nr.3
Film Nr.2
clear forms and the movement of the individual elements
shows the variability,“ explains Frederik Syberg who created
the animation. In combination with good music and
an off-text in plain language written by Torsten Hänsch,
he created a one-minute film. „I‘m very satisfied with the
result. This animated film allows you to quickly and easily
explain how the system works,“ says Meyer.
Actors wanted: Film 3
The shooting of the third film of the project also required
standard camera equipment, light and actors. „The basic
idea for this film came from our customer Dirk Meyer.
He wanted to show the difference between daily business
operations done with the mall and those done without.
On the basis of this idea, we then developed the script
in close cooperation. So in fact, we wanted to have two
similar films in one – the first one without the mall and
the second one with the mall,“ production manager Peter
Wecking explains. They have been working on the script
for weeks, and in close cooperation with the marketing
manager of LB GmbH Emilia Balda who accompanied the
shooting. The film was shot at different locations within
the group of companies. Employees took over the role of
actors and had to be briefed accordingly. This huge effort
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the shooting locations were prepared and everything had
to be in the right place – from the biro through to the
crease in the shirt nothing was left to chance. The crew set
the lights, operated camera and sliders for camera movement
while also monitoring the shots on a screen.
▶ Easy and fast information
After two days of shooting, they had everything in the
can. Each scene was repeatedly shot – the position of the
camera was repeatedly changed to make sure that they
can choose the perfect shoot and switch the perspective
during one scene in the post production. „This is how the
final version of the film was developed in a few days – and
without a speaker,“ production manager Peter Wecking
explains. „In the post production, Torsten Hänsch, Niklas
Bußmann and Thomas Reiser added carefully selected
music and integrated important keywords in a modern
way using tracking,“ Wecking says.
The films in action
„I‘ve already used the films for presentations. They make
it easier for me to explain the matter in an interesting, comprehensible
and modern way. Moreover, the films have
gone down well with my target audience so far,“ Dirk Meyer
sums up.
For the wm.mediapro team, large projects that rope in the
entire team and that often last several months always represent
an interesting challenge. Wecking: „It was just great to
have the possibility to approach a subject with three different
kinds of films. This allows you to show your skills.“
Contact
Photo credits: Screenshot „Young girl with balloon“: www.istockphoto.com;
VIA Films/wm.mediapro GmbH
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wm.mediapro GmbH
Managing director: Ann-Kathrin Löhr
Schlavenhorst 88a ∙ 46395 Bocholt • Germany
Tel.: +49 1 73 / 2 82 71 34
Email: ann-kathrin.loehr@wm-mediapro.de
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« wm.mediapro accompanies
start of Fehrenkötter test »
About the Company:
▶ Joachim Fehrenkötter
The forwarder Fehrenkötter is carrying out a longterm
test with seven different long-distance trucks.
A camera crew of wm.mediapro GmbH was also
present for the kick-off. Managing partner Joachim
Fehrenkötter and production editor Torsten Hänsch told us
what those tests are about and how the cooperation between
Fehrenkötter Transport & Logistik and wm.mediapro
was like.
LB Plus: Mr Fehrenkötter, why do you regularly carry out
such consumption tests?
Joachim Fehrenkötter: The tests help us to see which product
of different commercial vehicle manufacturers meets
the requirements of our fleet. Each fleet manager is of course
convinced of „his own“ brand and every commercial vehicle
▶ Torsten Hänsch
manufacturer surely focuses on the advantages of the own
and the disadvantages of other brands. Those tests give us
a neutral position to decide on what vehicles suit our fleet
best. This is really exciting, but also requires a lot of work.
LB Plus: How were wm.mediapro and thus the moving
images integrated into this test?
Joachim Fehrenkötter: The test included a separate comparison
of fuel consumption. Here, it was very important for us to
capture the meticulous work and to have it available for future
presentations.
LB Plus: Were there any special challenges during the
shooting, Mr Hänsch?
Torsten Hänsch: Beside some takes on the company grounds,
we also wanted to film the trucks on the road.
As one of the leading agricultural machinery and vehicle
logistician in Europe, Fehrenkötter Transport &
Logistik GmbH is working for most of the manufacturers
and sales companies of agricultural engineering,
transporters and trailers throughout Europe. Beside
specialised industry solutions for agricultural machinery
transports, vehicle transports and special transports,
we offer a large number of logistics services
that range from interim storage to the outsourcing
of complete departments. As a second main pillar,
Fehrenkötter Personaldienstleistungen GmbH has
been offering its customers reliable personnel placement
and temporary employment solutions since
2002. The family business founded in 1929 employs
about 600 employees. Apart from the headquarters in
Landbergen, Münsterland, the company has subsidiaries
in Nürtingen (Baden-Württemberg), Gütersloh,
Ibbenbüren Warendorf and Senden. Our fleet consists
of 180 own trucks for the transport of loads as well
as agricultural machinery and vehicles of all kinds. At
peak times, we use a further 150 vehicles from external
carriers for our customers.
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We had already known the test track in the run-up to the test
and so we had looked for positions along the route where we
could film the trucks best. Every minute counted and so we
had to quickly set up the camera to be ready when the vehicles
arrived and to quickly pack it away and change the position
afterwards. Filming the weighing and filling up of the vehicles
on the company grounds required our full concentration, too,
because you cannot just repeat a filling process for the camera.
LB Plus: Why do you think moving images are important
and helpful?
Joachim Fehrenkötter: Humans are visual learners. The saying
„A picture is worth a thousand words“ speaks for itself.
Commercial vehicles in particular have many emotional aspects
that we wanted to emphasize with powerful images
by wm.mediapro.
Torsten Hänsch: The right camera set-up, a beautiful incidence
of light, precise cutting and the right music to underline
the facts - this is how we brought out the emotional
aspects during the postproduction.
LB Plus: How did the cooperation with wm.mediapro begin?
Joachim Fehrenkötter: wm.mediapro GmbH supports
the DocStop project, a project that offers medical assistance
during transport operations. I‘m the chairman of the
association behind DocStop. This is how we got in contact.
During the shooting of the DocStop image film, we
were impressed by the professionalism and friendliness of
the team.
▶ Another project wm.mediapro is involved in: DocStop
▶ Ready to be tested: The trucks on the company grounds
LB Plus: Do you plan other joint projects?
Joachim Fehrenkötter: After DocStop, this test and a joint
film project with wm.mediapro and Daimler, we definitely
want to make a film about our driver‘s handbook.
We believe that new drivers will rather watch the complete
film than reading our 50-page handbook.
LB Plus: Thank you very much.
Photo credits: Fehrenkötter/wm.mediapro GmbH
Contact
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wm.mediapro GmbH
Managing director: Ann-Kathrin Löhr
Schlavenhorst 88a ∙ 46395 Bocholt
Tel.: +49 1 73 / 2 82 71 34
Email: ann-kathrin.loehr@wm-mediapro.de
www.wm-mediapro.de

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« The early years: From a one-man business
to a freight forwarding company »
1952
1955
1951 - 1958
the building rather resembled a small shed,” Löhr describes. He
talks about the nucleus of the company.
The successful development continued and soon the first
transhipment facilities were built on a leased area of the German
Federal Railway. Opposite to the Siemens premises, a small
office building of 60 square metres and a transhipment point of
approximately 300 square metres were created. Here, you can
still find one of the logistics locations of the group of companies.
“There also was an end-loading ramp that was not only used for
day-to-day operations, but also for loading cattle when a circus
came into town or when there was a funfair. At that time, the
animals were still brought from one place to the other by train,”
Hans-Wilhelm Löhr explains.
1956
1958
We meet Hans-Wilhelm Löhr,
shareholder of LB GmbH and eldest
son of the company founder
Hans-Hubert Löhr, in his office on
Gut Baarking where the headquarters of the group
are located. Today, more than 800 employees are
working for the company.
In 1951, Hans-Hubert Löhr started the business
as a one-man operation. “In the early stages, the
company was run by my father alone. He did the
first businesses from the private flat of my grandfather,”
Hans-Wilhelm Löhr explains. There was for
instance a customer who posted a shipment of
500 kg and the company founder then organised
his partners and contacts by phone to get the delivery
to its destination.
One year after the foundation of his company
called Westmünsterland Spedition, Hans-Hubert
Löhr already took on his first employee.
1955 – the first registered office
During the first years, the number of employees
continued to grow. Business was doing well. “The
desk in my grandfather’s flat had soon become
too small and so my father rented the first offices
where the goods depot of Bocholt was located later.
At that time, there was no dispatch facility and
The late 1950s – 40 employees
and the “Villa Hügel”
In 1956, during the time of the bourgeois-democratic revolution
in Hungary, many Hungarians who fled from the unrest
in their home country came to Bocholt. “They lived in a camp
in the city forest,” Löhr remembers. “They were really nice guys
that I also knew from school.” At that time, Hans-Hubert Löhr
bought an office cabin from the former VW factory that had
stood in Peenemünde on the Baltic Sea before. The previously
built office building had already become too small. Among the
refugees, there were many well-trained engineers, architects and
craftsman who were hired on the spot to rebuild the office cabin
in Bocholt. Löhr: “I can clearly remember it. The new building
was made of wood, painted white and stood on a tiny hill. There
were roses planted all around it and many people called the
house “Villa Hügel”.” In 1958, Hans-Hubert Löhr already employed
40 people and the first wagon of break bulk cargo went from
Bocholt to Hamburg.
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« One day in the life of... »
... Maike Schmeing and Vanessa Aders, apprentices
Eight o’clock
08:00 a.m. – Each working day of Maike and Vanessa starts
with a look into the mailbox. “On some days, we do have
a lot of emails. The mails are read and answered as fast as
possible,” explains Maike who is also responsible for the
email inbox of her department.
08:30 a.m. – It’s time for Vanessa to deal with the key figures
of the day. Each day, the apprentice determines those
guide values and makes them available for the employees.
Half past eight
Nine o’clock
09:00 a.m. – Each day at nine o’clock, the employees and
apprentices meet for the “Office Floor”. “The employees of
the sales and administration department meet in a central
conference room to discuss single processes and problems
that may have come up and to find possible solutions,”
Vanessa explains.
Maike Schmeing and Vanessa Aders are apprentices at Lanfer Systemhaus. Maike started her apprenticeship in
August 2014, Vanessa one year before in August 2013. Since they started their apprenticeships, both of them
have supported the single departments of the IT service provider. When they have completed their apprenticeships,
they’ll be office management assistants.
“During our apprenticeship, we go through all departments, ranging from internal sales, via financial accounting
through to administration. In this way, we get to know each field of work, which helps us to better assess our
strengths and personal preferences,” explains Vanessa Aders who, in the last year of training, feels most at home in
the administrative department. “I have already been working in the internal sales department and I’m keen to know
how it will be like in the other departments,” Maike Schmeing says. Twice a week, the two are in school and when
they are in the apprenticing company, there’s a lot to do for them. We spent a day with the apprentices.
Half past nine
09:30 a.m. – Most of the morning, Maike deals with everything
important for the internal sales department. She
writes quotations, updates Excel lists to ensure a perfect
overview in all areas and she is also responsible for order
creation – everything in close consultation with her trainer
Peter Zimmermann. In the office next-door, Vanessa prepares
bills to be made out using the respective accounting
programme and deals with the post of the day. Before her
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▶ In 2016, Vanessa Aders will
complete her apprenticeship
▶ The apprenticeship of Maike
Schmeing ends in summer 2017
Three o’clock
03:00 p.m. – Manager Peter Tiemann asked Maike for her
assistance. “This is just one reason why the morning maintenance
of the Excel lists is so important. With the data collected,
I can provide the sales department with all comparative
figures – which I will list now,” Maike says and sets to work.
Quarter past four
04:15 p.m. – Before Maike and Vanessa can call it a day, they
take care of the outgoing mail and bring all verified invoices
to the financial accounting department. “The financial accounting
department is on the floor above, which is also
where all outgoing mail is collected. We always take turns
doing this,” Vanessa explains and adds with a smile: “Today,
it’s Maike’s turn.”
One o’clock
01:00 p.m. – In the early afternoon, Maike is busy ordering
goods. “The services provided by Lanfer Systemhaus also include
the setting up of complete workplaces. Ranging from
computers via printers through to mice, the customer gets
everything from our company,” the apprentice explains.
At the same time, Vanessa heads off to the Open Innovation
Center. The so-called OIC offers a multifunctional conference
room with a wall consisting of nine high-resolution
screens. “The OIC is located on Gut Baarking – in the headquarters
of LB GmbH – which is only a few minutes walk from
our offices on Schlavenhorst,” Vanessa explains. As soon as
she has arrived, she prepares the room for a meeting: She
moves and sets the tables, makes some coffee and organises
some other drinks. Vanessa: “The meeting will start right
away, which is why I’ll also switch on the PC and prepare the
wall for the presentation.”
Half past four
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Lanfer Systemhaus GmbH & Co. KG
04:30 p.m. – Time to go home. After all tasks of the day are
done, the two leave the office and go home.
Apprentices: Vanessa Aders & Maike Schmeing
Schlavenhorst 88a • 46395 Bocholt • Germany
Tel.: +49 28 71 / 2 34 63 17 • Tel.: +49 28 71 / 2 34 63 15
Email: vanessa.aders@lanfer-systemhaus.de • maike.schmeing@lanfer-systemhaus.de
www.lanfer-systemhaus.de
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« Imprint »
It’s all in the mix –
we know the recipe
Head of Marketing Editor Graphic Artist
Emilia Balda
Tel.: 0 28 71 / 2 34 63 53
Fax: 0 28 71 /23 46 43 53
E-Mail: emilia.balda@logata.com
Lisa Fastring
Tel.: +49 28 71 / 23 82 03 20
Fax: +49 28 71 /2 19 27 99 93
Email: lisa.fastring@wm-mediapro.de
Louisa Kampshoff
Tel.: 0 28 71 / 2 34 63 56
Fax: 0 28 71 / 23 46 43 56
E-Mail: louisa.kampshoff@logata.com
Publisher:
Editors:
Head of Marketing:
Editor:
Graphic Artist:
Pictures:
Logata GmbH
Hans-Wilhelm Löhr,
Matthias Löhr (v.i.S.d.P.)
Emilia Balda
Lisa Fastring
Louisa Kampshoff
detailed photo credits can
be found in the corresponding
article
Logata Digital Solutions GmbH
Schlavenhorst 88a
46395 Bocholt • Germany
Tel.: 0 28 71 / 2 34 63 50
Fax: 0 28 71 / 23 46 43 50
E-Mail: emilia.balda@logata.com
www.logata.com
The diverse team