The understanding of the logistics of the b2b international network AG is the reliability and quality.

QUALITY AND RELIABILITY            

Experience from former projects show that optimizing logistics can only generate cost savings if the following strategies are applied:  Centralizing the control of logistics within the company to bundle demands. Co-operation with freight carries and other companies to reduce costs of the buying department and optimise resources such as storage area and shipping space (i.e. Collaborative Forecasting and Replenishment). The concurrence of orders from different departments is useless if information technology is left to chance. If uncontrolled growth is given way not only couriers and parcel services block parking space and docks but also the synergies through concentration of demands are inhibited(higher level of buying/consumer power) In most cases simple intranet solutions are enough to help coordinate logistic demands from different departments. Co-ordination of outgoing freight or combining shipping help to reduce shipping costs. Automatic matching systems identify combination possibilities autonomously. Integration of these systems in the ordering processes is reasonable. Beside the direct effects improved processes will be the result because information concerning the orders will be given to all departments (Master data, evaluation of suppliers, credibility of supplying). In the most extreme the whole process of regaining can be outsourced (Vendor Management Inventory).

Simply speaking the main targets of logistics are,
 

• the adequate amount
• of fit goods
• in time
• with the right quality
• cost efficient
• to the right place
• with appropriate information

    

given to all participants. Mainly in the „just-in-time“ production – which is today’s standard – information plays the decisive role.
 
Logistics (materials) combines all steps of the production process. It means all activities of the physical space and time bridging of goods and people including their re-arranging.
 
Precisely b2b defines logistics as integrated planning, organizing, steering, execution and controlling of the whole flow of material and goods with the associated flow of information – starting with the supplier, within the various value-added levels in the company itself (production and/or levels of distribution) up to the delivery to the customers including disposal of waste materials and re-cycling.