A story that life rarely writes – this or something similar is probably the best way to describe Leiner’s development on the Austrian market. Now in its 4th generation, Leiner is managed together with kika, founded in 1973, as a group of companies. Expansion and further development have always been important components that have also led to sustainable success. However, there is still no standstill in sight. In recent years, kika has been particularly successful in the area of expansion by opening up new markets in the CEE region. Leiner will now also expand its locations within Austria. Leiner’s strong position on the domestic furniture market, which it has enjoyed for a long time, is due above all to the family flair that has been present from the very beginning and is now indispensable. The close relationship with the employees and the intensive customer proximity created a unique image that has been maintained to this day.

We have been supporting Leiner & Kika since 2005 with a highly specialized solution based on shippingNET.

The particular challenge in this project is the optimal planning of routes for the area of customer delivery & assembly. To do this, we used the shippingNET tour planner and adapted it to individual requirements. The challenge was to reduce the number of kilometers driven by the delivery staff by 15%. In the project analysis, we found out that this cannot be achieved through the usual optimization of routes, but rather through the clever 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 success story began back in 1939 with the founding of the company by Gebhard Loitz. His son, Reinhard Loitz, continued the business with the same commitment and success from 1967. In 2009, Bernd Loitz, as partner and managing director, is the third generation to take on the great responsibility of providing customers with top vehicles, first-class head protection, suitable clothing and optimum customer service. Whether a “Loitz” was also involved in the invention of the wheel can no longer be determined today, but there is no question that the family has been “moving” for generations.

Model diversity and optimum customer service also apply to the new bicycle experience world. Over 1000 m² of exhibition space is available here.

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 shippingNET to increase quality and improve logistical workflows, because this is our daily focus. 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.

ShippingNET ensures smooth shipping. Different shipping partners are processed via a user interface.

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.

Austrian Post uses a highly individualized installation of shippingNET, the “Post-Labelcenter”, as its Austria-wide customer shipping system for parcels. After an implementation of less than 6 months, we were able to go online with the first version and have now connected more than 3,900 customers. More than 14 million parcels are sent each year using the PLC system. In addition to the high availability of the cloud solution, the simple connection of additional customers, provision of flexible interfaces and data services, as well as the centralized management of logistics networks and their number ranges and labelling formats are particularly important.

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 business, Pöttinger takes its responsibility towards future generations and the environment very seriously: It is its task to develop agricultural technology and to promote agriculture in all its aspects – ecological, economic and social. The rapid and long-term availability of parts is a key criterion for farmers and contractors. To be able to guarantee this, regional proximity to customers is important, as is cross-generational availability and, above all, a modern and efficient shipping concept.

The company relies on shippingNET’s shipping module to send its products 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.

The Fa. Scheffknecht is one of the first customers in western Austria. With shippingNET, we were able to put a modern logistics platform into operation for the company’s customers and delivery partners. The Fa. Scheffknecht uses the warehouse module to manage a modern high-bay warehouse with over 2,000 pallet spaces and a block warehouse with over 4,500 m2. More than 40 vehicle combinations are currently managed for logistics and transport services with the shippingNET forwarding and transport module. This allows us to flexibly solve a wide variety of transport tasks and meet the most diverse customer requirements. The professional hazardous goods management system from shippingNET is an important support here.

SCHMIDT’S is a supra-regional B2B company with over 130 years of family tradition and is one of the oldest and most successful family businesses in the stationary hardware wholesale trade in Europe.
Furthermore, the traditional Vorarlberg-based company SCHMIDT’S has also strengthened its online presence by acquiring a majority stake in the German online retailer “markenbaumarkt 24 GmbH” in order to exploit new growth potential in the future. The aim is to catch up with the really big competitors and gain a leading position as an online DIY store.
The goals set will be achieved with experienced employees in the areas of logistics, online marketing, web development, customer service and sales. The plan is to create further secure jobs.

Launch of the company’s own “at” store website www.markenbaumarkt24.at is 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.

We have been supporting Schrack Technik since 2012 with a highly specialized solution based on shippingNET.

The special challenge in this project was the automated determination of the optimal shipping partner for the shipments and the resulting cost reduction for the company. Thanks to the customized accounting module, there is a better overview of the finances and the possibility of improving all the processes involved. Thanks to the clarity and standardization of the application, shippingNET can serve a large number of carriers without third-party software. Furthermore, the fully automated packaging process optimizes and simplifies the daily tasks of the employees.

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.

In a first joint project with SKF Österreich AG, the shippingNET warehouse module was successfully introduced as a warehouse management system in the component warehouse at the Steyr site in August 2013. The basis for the introduction of shippingNET as the new WMS was the flexibility of the software when connecting to different ERP systems, which should facilitate the planned changeover to SAP. Other successfully implemented goals of the project were to connect a driverless transport system directly to the WMS and to shorten the time between the assembly tender and delivery of the components to the production channel.

In addition, the returned goods process was standardized as part of the project and the management of the consignment warehouse was simplified by automating the necessary withdrawals by SKF using shippingNET.

As a follow-up project, shippingNET was also introduced as a warehouse management system in the raw materials warehouse at the Steyr site in 2016. One of the aims here is to standardize the processes in the two warehouse units (component warehouse and raw materials warehouse).

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 have required a separate, expensive database server for each depot of each freight forwarder, including the associated problems of data synchronization and high personnel and maintenance costs. Not so with the shippingNET logistics platform. There is a cloud-based solution here, which is available to all Systempo forwarding companies. The individual partner forwarding agents only need PCs with a dedicated Internet connection. As these were generally already available, the hardware costs were limited to the purchase of 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 isn’t there actually a product that doesn’t need another plastic bottle or can, that is good for you and is so small?
that I can throw it into the neck of a water bottle?”

That’s what Martin thought, and while he was pondering his thoughts in spring 2016, he came up with the idea of a big thing that is very small: the microdrink – the best fruit and plant extracts compressed in the form of a small cube.
All you need is fresh water. No sooner said than done.
And so Martin, his friend Christoph, his brother Henry and an incredible team turned this vision into reality.

Waterdrop grew rapidly and the right shipping solution was found with shippingNET. The quick and easy connection to the existing ERP system (Oracle NetSuite) and the uncomplicated/intuitive work in shippingNET were convincing.
At the start with shippingNET in May 2021, shipping was handled by the service providers DHL, DPD and Hermes, a lot has happened since then and Waterdrop ships several thousand parcels a day within Europe.

With shippingNET’s quickly connected shipping solution, many services from different shipping service providers are covered.

Wenzel logistics GmbH is a medium-sized transport and logistics company operating successfully throughout Europe with around 130 employees and four locations in Premstätten, Werndorf, St. Michael and Vienna. The range of services offered by Wenzel logistics includes intermodal transport, road transportation by truck and warehouse logistics. For more than 15 years, the private company has been offering its customers a comprehensive range of transport and logistics services, from acceptance of goods to storage, transportation and delivery, as well as tailor-made solutions for special projects.

National transportation has been a focus of Wenzel logistics GmbH from the very beginning. Wenzel logistics relies on shippingNET modules for full and part load transportation as well as for general cargo logistics. As a member of Systempo, the connection to this network is handled fully automatically by shippingNET. As a result, cooperation with the excellent general cargo network of 12 medium-sized partners in Austria runs with the highest quality and cost efficiency.

With the shippingNET delivery app, shipment tracking is documented paperlessly until the recipient takes delivery of the goods. This creates transparency, saves costs and ultimately boosts competitiveness in a tough market.

In warehouse logistics, shippingNET’s warehouse module is used at a total of 3 warehouse locations with over 25,000 m2 of storage space and an additional 40,000 m2 of open space. Special emphasis is placed on the ability to access the stock and monitor it via the Internet.

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 Fa. Würth relies on the shippingNET shipping module. With shippingNET, a wide variety of shipping partners such as DPD, Gebrüder Weiss, Dachser, Nox e.t.c. are connected via a standardized user interface. Wherever the goods are to be dispatched, data capture, labeling and notification are carried out via shippingNET. Every day, more than 3,000 parcels are sent throughout Europe in this way.
The central shipment tracking system from shippingNET is a huge advantage for keeping track of all shipments at all times.