Case Study
Driving efficiencies in transport planning
Körber Supply Chain At a glance Responsible for supplying books to a vast network of high-street and online retailers, freight business BOOXpress was keen to improve efficiencies. To understand the scale of the logistic requirements, its parent company, Libri, stores around a million books at its logistics center in Bad Hersfeld, with its entire catalog exceeding 10 million titles. Almost every single night, BOOXpress distributes books from Libri via a hub-and-spoke network to trans-shipment points throughout Germany and Austria. The products are then distributed regionally from each of these points. Supplying everything from the smallest individual shipments to huge Euro pallets, the logistics vary considerably, making planning and control essential. Project goals • Establish