The key to competitiveness
Logistics is one of the expanding sectors in Germany. Studies indicate that employment in the logistics industry will increase by about 20 percent by the year 2020. The reasons for this include such current trends as the increasing globalization and the way companies are concentrating on their core competences: transports are becoming more frequent and are needed for longer distances. With the creation and development of worldwide corporate networks, the supra-regional procurement of goods and merchandise and the global distribution of end products, logistics are increasingly becoming a key factor in enhancing the competitiveness of companies. Contract logistics (logistics contracted out by production companies to service providers) are considered to be the area with the most growth potential. To synchronize the flow of goods, companies are using innovative information and communication technologies.
Bavaria – logistics on the move
The search for efficient logistics solutions is also a matter of location.
In terms of logistic competence, Bavaria offers excellent framework conditions:
On the strength of its geographical location at the crossroads between Western and Eastern Europe, the transit state Bavaria has a natural advantage. Its proximity to the developing markets in the East and South-East of Europe as well as its great political and economic stability mark it out as a center for logistics. In addition to its central location, the excellent infrastructure, the availability of a well-qualified workforce and well-priced offers of industrial space ensure that in the technologies important to the logistics industry Bavaria is one of the German states with the highest level of logistics competence: - approx. 200,000 employees in the logistics sector
- home to two German Top Ten logistics companies (Dachser and DPD)
- 15 percent of the labor force employed in the key sector of logistics in Germany come from Bavaria
Logistics in Bavaria
Bavaria benefits from supra-regional and state-wide logistics activities. These include in particular transport logistic, the biggest and most important European trade fair for transport and logistics held every two years in Munich, as well as eProcure in Nuremberg and Logistik Innovativ in Prien on Lake Chiemsee. The strong position of Munich and Nuremberg Airports in the prospering air cargo sector is also a plus point.
Market and partners for logistics
For a business location such as Bavaria with a strongly export-oriented industry, an efficient, cost-effective and fast logistics system is a decisive success factor that makes a big contribution to competitiveness in international markets. More than 8,000 companies from the manufacturing industries offer a huge market for service providers operating in the logistics sector.
The logistics sector is supported in Bavaria by a wide range of networks: Attractive research environment for logistics
Bavarian universities and universities of applied sciences offer numerous research and study courses, in which emphasis is placed on various aspects of logistics: - Chairs and courses in economic science, for example at the universities of Augsburg, Bamberg, Bayreuth, Eichstätt, Erlangen-Nuremberg, Technical University of Munich, Regensburg, Würzburg, and the Universities of Applied Sciences of Augsburg, Hof, Kempten, Neu-Ulm and the Bundeswehr University in Munich. The universities cover a widely diversified range of courses and research from international logistics through supply chain management all the way to new technologies for order processing in the haulage sector.
- Logistics topics are also addressed in technical and industrial engineering faculties of the Technical University of Munich as well as of the Universities of Applied Sciences of Neu-Ulm and Rosenheim.
- The universities attach great importance to cross-discipline study courses and cooperation, in particular with information science and informatics. The institutions in Bamberg, Bayreuth and Erlangen-Nuremberg offer courses placing emphasis on information technology.
The Universities of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Regensburg and Technical University of Munich are working in the Research Cooperation “supra-adaptive logistics systems” (ForLog) on a convertible and adaptable network for material and information flow in the automobile industry.
Well-qualified workforce for the logistics sector- Industrial engineering courses at Bavarian universities
placing emphasis on aspects of logistics - Logistics training courses (three years) at Bavaria’s vocational schools
- Skilled worker for warehouse management
- Haulage clerk
- professional driver
- Advanced logistics courses at six Bavarian Chambers of Commerce and Industry
- Purchasing and logistics clerk
- Inventory management clerk
- Certified master of inventory management
- Specialist in transport economics
- Industrial master in road traffic
Optimal environment
“From Bavaria to all corners of the world”
- Central transport situation:
Logistics companies handle nearly all the traffic from the North-West of Europe
to Austria, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia as well as to places further to the South
and South-East passing through the international transport turntable that
is Bavaria.
- Excellent transport infrastructure:
Optimal conditions are guaranteed by the more than 136,000 kilometers of roads,
an efficient rail network, inland waterway transport on the Rhine-Main-Danube
canal and the international airports
of Munich and Nuremberg.
All the European business centers can therefore be reached in less than four
hours.
- Bavaria – a top location for entrepreneurs:
With its efficient, state-of-the-art business structure and a wide-ranging
industrial structure covering some 240 sectors, Bavaria is now one of the
rapidly expanding growth regions of Germany and continental Europe.
- Logistics locations throughout the State:
Bavaria offers outstanding logistics locations in all parts of the state thanks
to its central location in Europe and the many easily accessible and highly
developed industrial regions, ports (with trimodal transport connections)
and airports.
Bav arian initiatives and programs in the logistics sector
Bavaria was quick to recognize the potential offered by logistics and at an early stage had already developed a wide variety of activities to boost its status as a logistics location.
The following deserve particular mention - promotion of freight villages (GVZ), in Nuremberg, Ingolstadt and Regensburg,
- development of municipal and state ports,
- studies and pilot projects for more efficient management of freight transport, especially in the fields of city logistics and combined transport and
- support of trans-alpine and other cross-border rail freight traffic.
Logistics locations in BavariaInformation material
In the company database “Key Technologies in Bavaria” you will find information about logistics companies operating in Bavaria.
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