At this point we want to thank our present members for the excellent collaboration. Our success is mainly due to their support and willingness to cooperate.

For the reason of the different possibilities to join the Association for Network Logistics (see also membership) we have divided our members in following 3 categories:

• Companies (Unternehmen)
• Personal Members (Persönliche Mitglieder)

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Logistics costumers

I.) Producing companies are classified according to their requirements for logistics. Therefore two criteria were chosen with which the requirements to operational logistics can be measured. Demand structure: 3 different classifications of production processes are defined by the Supply Chain Operations Reference Model (SCOR): Developer (engineer to order) describes every type developing products triggered by an order. Classical examples are:

•   Assets constructor
•   Make-to-stock producer: Products are produced in big lots. Logistic decisions are mostly based on production lots.
•   Made-to-order producers: If only one example of a product is produced we talk about made-to-order production. The service is repeated in the same way.

Company size (EU Definition):

•   Small (up to 50 employees)
•   Medium (51 - 250 employees)
•   Large (from 251 employees)

II.) Trade B2C (retail) are companies distributing commodities to private households. B2B (wholesale) are companies distributing commodities to buyers other than households. Mail-order businesses are companies achieving the predominant part of their turnover through mail-order of goods triggered by a customer order instead of sales in a retail shop. III.) Service providers perform jobs within an economic system, which don?t serve the production of commodities.

Logistics experts/-suppliers

I.) Integrated logistics service providers

• Distribution centres are characterised by storing, sorting, commissioning, packaging and shipping of goods at a certain point of time (connection of the production and the consumption point).
• Added value service providers carry out value adding processes on the product. It can be a preliminary or a downstream service; for instance a warehouse infrastructure with production capacity, quality control, planning and control,?

II.) Logistics technology suppliers
Talking about logistics technology equipment, facilities, conveyors and systems are meant, which support the conveyance, the storage, the packaging, the shipment, the control, the measuring and the commissioning of goods.

•   Conveyor, storage and loading techniques, commissioning systems
•   Packings and packaging technique
•   Packaging material / mean / additives, packaging machines
•   Controlling and testing techniques / identification and marking

III.) Transport - transhipment - storage (TTS) logistics service provider
Logistics includes all activities associated with the interplant transport, the transhipment and the storage of goods.

• Hauliers professionally take on the procurement of the transportation of cargo through carriers (e.g. railway, truck, ship) or ocean carriers of seagoing vessels for someone else?s account (sender) on his own behalf.
•   Carriers professionally take on the transport of goods for others, either ashore, on inland waterways or by air. In the maritime business the carrier is called an ocean carrier.
•   Infrastructure providers are organisations which focus on the allocation of logistics estates, equipment (e.g. harbour) and infrastructure facilities (e.g. rails).

IV.) Service providers in the logistics sector

•   Specialised service providers offer immaterial goods or services especially / solely for the ? or in the ? logistics sector.
•   IT solution suppliers offer IT solutions (hardware as well as software) in the broader sense.
•   Consultant: consulting of companies through freelance management consultants

V.) Education and research facilities
Education and further training in Upper Austria

•   International Logistics Management (Steyr School of Management)
•   Institute for Industry and Production Economy (University of Linz)
•   College of Business Administration Perg (specialising in Logistics Management and Forwarding Business)
•   HTBLA Neufelden
•   HTBLA Vöcklabruck (Higher Education for Economic Engineering)

R&D facilities are organisations dealing with the research and the development of topics relevant to logistics

•   International Logistics Management (Steyr School of Management)
•   Institute for Industry and Production Economy (University of Linz)
•   Profactor (sector Supply Chain Management)

Associations and organisations
  Berufsförderungsinstitut (BFI)
  Bundesvereinigung Logistik (BVL)
  European Logistics Association (ELA)
  Wirtschaftsförderungsinstitut (WIFI)


If you need any further information or any documents, we are at your disposal with our available information at any time or we find the right contact for you.