A story seldom told –the development of Leiner on the Austrian market. Now in its fourth generation, Leiner and kika, founded in 1973, are managed as part of a group of companies. Expansion and further development have always been important components that also create lasting success. However, we have no intention of standing still. In recent years, kika has been particularly successful in expanding by opening up new markets in central and eastern Europe. Now Leiner will also expand its locations within Austria. Its long-established strong position on the domestic furniture market is mainly due to the ever-present family flair, which has become an indispensable asset. The company’s close connection to its employees and intensive customer relationships created a unique image that has been preserved to this day.

Since 2005, we have been supporting the Leiner & Kika company with a highly customised solution based on shipping.NET.

The real challenge in this project has been perfecting the perfect route planning for customer delivery and assembly. For this, we used shipping.NET’s route planning and adapted it to the company’s needs. The challenge was to reduce delivery mileage by 15%. In the project analysis, we realised that conventional route optimisation would not achieve this, but rather the intelligent allocation of delivery times.

We therefore opted for a completely new approach, in which we threw away the convention of planning routes by geographical area. Our optimisation calculates routes in real time, taking into account the existing route plan and the next customer the call center employees have to call. This creates a highly adaptive system which still guarantees permanently optimised route planning.

During planning, the system takes into account:

• Operating hours
• Multiple locations/depots
• Special qualifications (carpenter, driver, kitchen fitter)
• Time restrictions (working hours, lunch break, travel time)
• Multi-day assemblies
• Route occupancy

We put our heart and soul into everything to do with “movement” and innovation.

The story started in 1939, when Gebhard Loitz founded the company. His son, Reinhard Loitz, continued the business from 1967 with the same dedication and success. In 2009, Bernd Loitz, partner and managing director from the third generation of the family, is tackling a great responsibility: providing customers with top vehicles, first-class head protection, professional work clothing and optimal customer service. There is no evidence that a Loitz ancestor was part of the invention of the wheel, but there’s no doubt that the family has been moving forward for generations. We also provide a variety of models and optimal customer service for the new Bicycle World exhibition (Fahrrad Erlebniswelt). The exhibition covers over 1000m² of space.

To ensure a trip on two wheels is always a pleasure, you need the right safety equipment, just in case. Helmexpress.com is the Loitz KG online shop and not only offers head protection for bikers, but also protective clothing and a high-quality, reasonably priced leather suit.

Anyone who wants to discover the joy of seeing the world on horseback or enjoy fantastic winter skiing will also find the right head protection at helmexpress.com.

Founded in 1948, Mainmetall is a medium-sized wholesale company for bathroom furnishings, installation, heating and plumbing needs. From our central warehouses, we supply our specialist trade customers every day with an extensive core range of around 38,000 different items. We have a strong team with over 740 employees, including around 90 trainees. We have 15 locations in the Rhine-Main area, 8 locations in Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt and one location in Brandenburg.

Order in the evening, it will arrive on the construction site in the morning. Guaranteed.

This is one of the most important things about what we do, for us and our customers.
We use shipping.NET to increase quality and improve logistical work processes, because this is what we focus on every day. 220 employees take care of picking and delivery of ordered goods in our logistics department. Our team has worked intensively on implementing the new software in our logistics process. Our shipping areas now benefit from features such as paperless loading and unloading as well as 100% digital planning of almost 1,500 daily shipments.

We have been serving our customers since 1960 and have grown continuously. Today, we offer office products and solutions, sustainable take-away packaging for the catering industry, as well as hygiene, cleaning and shipping packaging. As a medium-sized company, we know the value of value-based partnerships with a strong connection to the country and its people.

Good advice and a friendly welcome

Today, everything boils down to one all-important question: What are you paying for? Messerle has always gone and continues to go beyond price expectations. High quality, personal customer and service orientation and an extensive range with constantly increasing sustainable alternatives are part of everything we do. We are well-established in terms of physical locations (specialist shop and showroom in Mäder) and digitally. It’s not about making big gestures here and there, but constantly taking steps in the right direction. Over the years, we have become a multi-certified company with a strong ecological spirit: From Ökoprofit to the Austrian Ecolabel and from ARA [Altstoff Recycling Austria] to our own FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) label.

shipping.net ensures smooth shipping. Its user interface helps manage different shipping partners.

A high-tech Austrian model company. A Tyrolean forge of innovation:
In over 25 years, Naturabiomat GmbH has become one of Europe’s top specialists in microplastic-free, certified compostable packaging and garbage bags. The Tyrolean family company’s winning idea sounds simple at first: Develop products that are sustainable, renewable, compostable, recyclable and free of microplastics.
Their know-how is now in demand all over Europe.

Ontime Logistics is a leading player in individual logistics solutions and offers sea and air freight as well as express logistics. Competence, reliability and punctuality are our core values and make transport routes safe and transparent for business partners.

In 2001, the owners set themselves the task of redefining “quality in the transport and logistics sector”. The company now employs around 100 people at its headquarters in Bergheim, in the Austrian province of Salzburg, and at locations in Linz, Innsbruck and Vienna. It has clients in the automotive, electronics, pharmaceuticals, medical technology, plant and mechanical engineering sectors, as well as from the film and media sectors.

Austrian Post is the country’s leading logistics and postal service provider. Its main business areas include the transport of letters, direct mail, print media and parcels. The Austrian Post branch network is one of the largest private customer networks in the country and offers high-quality products and services in post, banking, telecommunications and energy to customers throughout Austria. By providing Austria’s population and economy with reliable, nationwide postal services, the company makes a vital contribution to maintaining and securing the country’s communications and logistics infrastructure. Austrian Post is also active through subsidiaries in eleven European countries, primarily in parcels and logistics, as well as unaddressed deliveries.

The company uses a highly customised shipping.NET installation, the “Post-Labelcenter”, as its nationwide parcel customer shipping system. After an implementation period of less than 6 months, we went online with the first version and have now connected more than 3,900 customers. The PLC system is used to send more than 14 million parcels every year. In addition to the high availability of the cloud solution, particularly important are the simple connection of other customers, the provision of flexible interfaces and data services, as well as the centralised management of logistics networks and their number ranges and labeling formats.

We offer fulfilment solutions that far surpass classical, professional processing. You can choose from the logistical core and value-added services according to your needs and we will create a corresponding overall concept for you.

“Concentrate on your core business and use our clever outsourcing options.”

Post Systemlogistik oversees the entire logistics chain – from goods receipt, storage, order picking and packaging to shipping and returns management – all from a single source. In addition, you benefit from professional supplementary services such as advertising media logistics and value-added delivery. Outsourcing pays for itself!”

The family company Pöttinger is a partner you can count on: innovative, committed and reliable. We have proven this for more than 140 years. Customer proximity is not just a buzzword at Pöttinger, it is an active force in all of our business relationships.

As a family company, Pöttinger feels it has a moral duty towards future generations and the future of our planet: We see it as our duty to develop agricultural technology and to promote all aspects of agriculture – ecological, economic and social. Rapid, long-term part availability is a key criterion for farmers and contractors. The crucial factors to guaranteeing this are regional proximity to customers, availability across generations, and, most of all, a modern and efficient shipping concept. The company uses the shipping.NET shipping module to ship its items worldwide.

Pöttinger has a small parts warehouse and a pallet warehouse with a storage area of 6,000m2. More than 100,000 different items – from the smallest seals to complete device frames. It ships up to 800 customer orders every day. That’s 3.5 million different items, or more than 3,000 tons of goods shipped every year. 95% of the parts ordered leave the warehouse on the same day.

If there is one thing in Scheffknecht’s history that has remained constant, it is that the company is always looking to the future and focusing on customer requirements. From the company’s foundation to the present day, everything revolves around values including customer proximity, quality, innovative spirit, and a sense of responsibility and tradition. And that is why the history of Scheffknecht is also that of a forward-looking family of entrepreneurs who remain true to tradition while always focusing on the future. Learning from history – that’s what the company has been doing for over 80 years. Because, among other things, the sum of many experiences is the basis of Scheffknecht’s immense know-how for the future.

Scheffknecht was one of our first customers in western Austria. With shipping.NET, we provided a modern logistics platform for the company’s customers and delivery partners. Scheffknecht uses our storage module to manage a modern high-bay warehouse with over 2,000 pallet spaces and a block warehouse with over 4,500m2. The shipping.NET forwarding and transport module currently is used to manage logistics and transport services for over 40 vehicle combinations. This enables us to flexibly solve a wide variety of transport tasks and meet our customers’ wide-ranging requirements. shipping.NET’s professional dangerous goods management function is an important tool for the company.

SCHMIDT’S is a national B2B company that, with a family tradition going back more than 130 years, is one of Europe’s oldest and most successful family companies in wholesale stationary hardware. In order to exploit new growth potential in the future, the traditional Vorarlberg company SCHMIDT’S has also strengthened its online presence by acquiring a majority stake in the German online retailer “markenbaumarkt 24 GmbH”. They want to catch up with the really big players and fight for a leading position as an online hardware store.
The goals will be achieved with the experienced employees in logistics, online marketing, web development, customer service and sales. The intent is to create more secure jobs. SCHMIDT’S launched its own Austrian domain shop website www.markenbaumarkt24.at at on June 30, 2021.

The Vorarlberg company is headquartered in Bürs and employs around 720 people at 14 locations. It generates sales of 190 million euros.
SCHMIDT’S holds a significant stake in Carl Steiner Handwerks- und Industriebedarf GmbH & Co KG and is the owner of HB-Technik in Hall in Tirol, SCHMIDT’S Handels AG in Liechtenstein and the two German companies Hans Jiricek GmbH in Geisingen and V+V Kunststoffe in Holtum, Langenfeld. SCHMIDT’S is 100% family-owned. SCHMIDT’S product range: construction by-products, fittings, tools, machine tools, occupational safety, civil engineering products, welding accessories, storage and safety technology, screws, fastening technology, hardware and garden/motorist products.

The Schrack Technik Group is a leading technology group of companies specializing in products and solutions for power and data distribution. The core areas of the company are networking, optimisation and security of energy and data. Starting from Austria, the company established a strong market presence in Central Europe by creating a network of its own subsidiaries.

Since 2012, we have been supporting Schrack Technik with a highly specialised solution based on shipping.NET.

The special challenge in this project was to automate the determination of the optimal shipping partners for each shipment and the resulting cost reduction for the company. Thanks to the adjusted billing module, Schrack has a better overview of finances and can improve all its processes. The clarity and standardisation of the application mean that shipping.NET can serve a large number of freighters without third-party software. Furthermore, the fully automated packaging process optimises and simplifies daily employee tasks.

Since 1907, SKF has been a global technology provider and manufacturer of seals and ball, roller and anti-friction bearings. Over 46,000 people are employed at 140 locations in 32 countries, of which around 900 are employed by “SKF Österreich AG” in Austria alone.

An initial joint project with SKF Österreich AG in August 2013 saw the successful introduction of the shipping.NET storage module as a warehouse management system in the company’s component warehouse in Steyr. The reason for introducing shipping.NET as the new WMS was the software’s flexibility when connecting to different ERP systems, which facilitated the planned switch to SAP. Other successfully implemented project goals included connecting a driverless transport system directly to the WMS and reduced time between assembly tender and component delivery to the production channel.

The project also included standardizing the returned goods process and the simplifying consignment warehouse management with shipping.NET’s automatic processing of necessary removals by SKF. As a follow-up project, shipping.NET was also brought in as a warehouse management system at the Steyr site in 2016. The main aim here was to standardise processes in the two storage units (component storage and raw material storage).

As an association of medium-sized Austrian freight forwarders, Systempo offers its customers transport services at the highest level. With its Austria-wide network and clever service models, Systempo ticks all the boxes for customer logistics needs.

A “classic” IT solution would mean that each freight forwarder’s depot has to have its own expensive database server, along with the associated problems of data synchronisation and high personnel and maintenance costs. Not so with the logistics platform shipping.NET. It is a cloud-based solution that is available to all Systempo forwarders. Partner forwarders only need PCs with a dedicated internet line. Since the forwarders usually already have these available, the only hardware costs were for purchasing a few scanners for recording the track & trace data.

In addition to the enormous advantage of generating logistics data online, meaning that the forwarding agents do not incur any hardware costs, forwarding agents and their customers also benefit from online shipment tracking. It is easy to operate with input screens and mouse. No training is needed. If a forwarding agent wants to find out more about a shipment, they just need to click a few buttons: place of dispatch, shipment, status. And all the information appears on the screen in a second.

Integrated online logistics form the basis for coordination between forwarding agents and the Systempo scheduling service’s efficiency. This not only involves fleet utilisation and avoiding costly empty runs, but also providing rapid services such as “NxtDay” with guaranteed delivery throughout Austria within 24 hours, or “NxtDay 1030” with delivery by 10.30 a.m. the next day. These solutions also increase customer satisfaction. Other services from Systempo include “cash” for shipments with cash on delivery, dangerous goods transports and a parcel service with continuous shipment tracking.

Why did Systempo choose ondot solutions?
ondot solutions offered a low-cost online solution that was perfect for what we wanted.

Features at a glance:

• Parcel scanning in all depots
• Status recording at shipment and parcel level
• Collection orders
• Clearing with different delivery rates
• Management of various loading devices
• Track & Trace

For more than 50 years, and with personal dedication, Spedition Traussnig has ensured the safety of customers’ goods and satisfaction. By continuously adapting the company to market situations and growing steadily and sustainably over the years, it is now the largest independent forwarding company in the Austrian province of Carinthia and is 100% family owned. Its services includes comprehensive general cargo handling throughout Europe, a large range of part and full load solutions, intercontinental sea freight and Trans-Siberian railway transports, provision of complex storage and handling logistics solutions – all tailored to the needs of each individual customer.

Today’s TRAUSSNIG Spedition GmbH was founded in 1962 by Josef Traussnig as a sole proprietorship. Gerhard Traussnig took over the company with three employees in 1983 and completed the company’s transition from a classic freight carrier to a freight forwarder and provider of overall logistics concepts along the entire supply chain. Since March 2021, the company and its approx. 110 employees has been managed by Philipp, a member of the Traussnig family’s third generation of company managers.

At the six locations in and around Austria, Spedition Traussnig offers its customers a large number of tailor-made transport and logistics solutions and, depending on their needs, a wide range of additional services. It specialises in the responsible management of goods requiring careful handling. They specialise in the storage and transport of pharmaceutical, thermal and hazardous goods. The company employs state-of-the-art technology and well-trained staff to ensure the safety of its customers’ goods.

“Why has nobody thought of a product that doesn’t need another plastic bottle or can, that is beneficial and is so small that I can drop it in the neck of a water bottle?”

That’s what Martin thought and while he was thinking about it in spring 2016, he had a big idea for a little thing: The Microdrink – the best fruit and plant extracts compressed into a small cube. Just add fresh water. Enjoy.
And so, Martin, his friend Christoph, brother Henry and an incredible team turned this vision into reality.

Waterdrop grew rapidly and found the right shipping solution with shipping.NET. The company was impressed with shipping.NET’s quick and easy connection to their existing ERP system (Oracle NetSuite) and its easy/intuitive use.
When shipping.NET launched in May 2021, Waterdrop used DHL, DPD and Hermes for shipping. Much has changed since then and Waterdrop ships several thousand parcels a day across Europe. With the quick-connecting shipping solution from shipping.Net, many services can be covered by different shipping service providers.

Wenzel logistics GmbH is a successful medium-sized transport and logistics company operating Europe-wide with around 130 employees and four locations in Premstätten, Werndorf, St. Michael and Vienna. Wenzel logistics offers services including intermodal transport, truck transport by road and warehouse logistics. For over 15 years, Wenzel has been offering its customers a comprehensive range of transport and logistics services, from acceptance of goods to storage and transport to delivery, and customised solutions for special projects. National transport has been a core focus of Wenzel logistics GmbH from its very beginning.

Wenzel logistics uses shipping.NET modules for full and partial loads as well as for general cargo logistics. The company’s Systempo membership means shipping.NET manages the connection to this network. Cooperation with the excellently positioned general cargo network of 12 medium-sized partners in Austria runs with the highest quality and cost efficiency.

The shipping.NET delivery app provides paperless shipment tracking documentation up to goods receipt. This creates transparency, saves costs and ultimately boosts competitiveness in a tough market.

In warehouse logistics, the company uses the shipping.NET warehouse module at three warehouse locations with over 25,000m2 of storage space and an additional 40,000m2 of open space. The company sees inventory status access and online monitoring as essential functions.

Würth is a specialist in trading assembly and fastening materials for professional use. The product range includes approx. 100,000 items, ranging from screws, screw accessories and dowels to tools, chemical-technical products and occupational safety. Customers include domestic and international craft and industrial companies, which are looked after by more than 470 sales representatives.

Würth Austria was founded in Vienna in 1962 as Würth’s second foreign company. In 1999, the company relocated its headquarters to Lower Austria. The company employs around 800 people.

The Würth company uses the shipping module from shipping.NET. shipping.NET connects a wide variety of shipping partners such as DPD, Gebrüder Weiss, Dachser, Nox, etc. via a standardised user interface. No matter where the goods are destined for, Würth uses shipping.NET for the data collection, labeling and notification to send more than 3,000 parcels throughout Europe every day.
shipping.NET central shipment tracking is an enormous advantage for keeping an eye on all shipments at all times.