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8 | loGistiCs serviCes Solar logiSticS in the whole of europe Since May of this year, Geis supports international solar company SCHOTT Solar AG, based in Mainz, with the logistics management of photovoltaic products. he services that Geis provides to SCHOTT Solar at its Erlangen-Frauenaurach site include loading and unloading trucks and containers, warehousing, distribution, customs management and continuous quality control. The goods arrive at the Logistics and Technology Centre in Frauenaurach from a manufacturing plant. Geis then distributes them to wholesalers throughout Europe. The employees process up to 30 loads of the sensitive solar components per day at goods inwards and outwards. Geis also runs, via Czech subsidiary Feico, daily scheduled round-trip deliveries between SCHOTT’s Alzenau plant near Frankfurt am Main and the company’s plant in Valašské Meziříčí in the east of the Czech Republic. “In solar logistics, business fluctuates greatly on a daily basis. The goods we deal with are also highly sensitive”, explains Hans-Peter Schneider, Sales Manager of Geis Industrie-Service GmbH. “Thanks to our longstanding experience, the challenges in this area have become routine for us by now. Our broad expertise and high degree of flexibility mean that we can guarantee our customers the best-possible quality at all times.” — Siemens Healthcare’s ‘Supplier of the Year’ Geis Ersatzteil-Service GmbH has been awarded “Supplier of the Year 2011” by Siemens Healthcare CS ML. The prize was awarded for outstanding performance, reliability and flexibility. Since 2007, Geis Ersatzteil-Service GmbH has run the World Distribution Centre (WDC) in Neu- Isenburg for Siemens Healthcare. In the logistics hub with 25,000 square metres, Geis employees organize the worldwide distribution of and returns logistics for spare parts. Inside the WDC, Geis permanently stores around 36,500 different spare parts for distribution to Siemens engineers around the world – ranging from tiny electronics components to the four-tonne hoist used to repair CTs. — photo: sCHott solar siemens awards Geis (from the left): dr. Frank debus (siemens), Christian sörgel (Geis industrie-service GmbH), Harald Maier (siemens), Michael pierer v. esch (siemens), Hans-Jürgen König (siemens) and Jochen Maul (Geis industrie-service GmbH)
Expert Dialogue 2011: A fresh breeze for contract logistics Once again this year the Geis Group presented “Innovations live”: Under this motto, Geis invited logistics industry executives to Erlangen- Frauenaurach and Nuremberg to experience, both in theory and practice, innovative contract logistics. The location was the Geis Group’s new Logistics and Technology Centre in Frauenaurach Industrial Park. This is where Geis, among other things, is implementing an outsourcing project for Siemens Enterprise Communications. “The customer has outsourced not only the entire distribution and spare parts logistics to us, but also the configuration of telephone systems”, said Geis Managing Director Dr. Johannes Söllner. soluTions for invenTory and cosT reducTion. The subsequent presentations by experts took place in the Hotel Schindlerhof in Nuremberg. The topics on the agenda were returns management, inventory financing and European distribution. Using the example of global telecommunications solutions, Dr. Andreas Knierim, Senior Vice President Supply Chain Management and Global Customer Interface at Siemens Enterprise Communications GmbH & Co. KG, outlined the logistical demands that would need to be met in the future. The second expert lecture focused on inventory management and financing. Dr. Uwe-Peter Hastedt, Managing Director of MHB Group, presented an off-balance-sheet solution for inventories. “This solution will allow the Geis Group to free up the balance sheets of its customers by a significant degree as an additional logistical service”, said Dr. Hastedt. “meTropolis same-day” for norThern europe. The final talk was given by Thorsten Gensmer, Partner and Director of Miebach Consulting, who discussed how logistics service providers can optimize their networks in Northern Europe to be more service-oriented. His innovative solution is called “Metropolis Same-Day”, and involves same-day delivery to the regions surrounding metropolitan areas. Dr. Johannes Söllner was once again very happy with the high level of interest in this year’s expert dialogue, and is therefore not excluding the possibility of holding the event again next year as a means of bringing a fresh breeze to the contract logistics sector. — loGistiCs serviCes | 9 Fred Hayes, vice president of supply Chain at avaya (left) presented the supplier award to dr. Johannes söllner a Strong 10-year alliance Communications company Avaya and the Geis Group look back on a decade of successful cooperation, now crowned with an award. eis and Avaya recently celebrated the 10 th anniversary of their successful cooperation at the site where it has taken place – the Avaya Logistics and Technology Centre in Dietzenbach near Frankfurt am Main. This is where 125 Geis employees take care of the entire logistics for new materials, spare parts and returns for Avaya, while another 55 Avaya employees are responsible for order processing and the core telephone-configuration business at the same site. In April Avaya also awarded an Supplier Award to the Geis Group at the “1 st Avaya Supplier Day” in Singapore. Geis Managing Director Dr. Johannes Söllner has overseen the cooperation since it was launched ten years ago: “Our joint success is due to the combination of our strengths, which complement each other perfectly. Up until now we’ve been a strong unit, and want to continue being so in the future too.” The foundations for this have already been laid, with the two companies recently agreeing to extend their cooperation by several years. —
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