Automotive Logistics Solutions

Our worldwide network for procurement, distribution and aftermarket logistics ensures your components and vehicles reach their destination. We offer a range of storage services and transport modes, including road, rail, ocean, or air freight. We also provide eco-friendly transport solutions, consulting services, and 3PL/4PL concepts.

We have facilities in all of the major sourcing and shipping locations around the world - complimented by a team of industry specialists who are experts in the Automotive Industry. Our customer portfolio includes many of the world’s largest OEMs, Tier 1, Tier 2 suppliers.

DB Schenker is uniquely positioned to offer services that include transportation and distribution, consolidation and deconsolidation, along with supply chain management solutions for every market around the globe.

For the Automotive industry, DB Schenker provides global expertise in our customers’ supply chain challenges including:

Automotive supplier park operations that include KANBAN inventory replenishment schemes and JIT deliveries to line side
Customized, cost-effective, integrated, and intermodal logistics solutions for components, spare parts, and finished vehicle shipments along the supply chain.
A worldwide network for production logistics, distribution, CKD and SKD, and finished vehicles logistics.
Subassembly of sophisticated components, with production control and quality assurance systems to keep production running.
Pre-delivery inspection centers for storage and vehicle repair.
Spare-parts warehousing services offering the full spectrum of aftermarket requirements.
International resource pool to assist start-ups anywhere in the world.

No matter where in the world your shipments need to go, they will reach their destination quickly and reliably. And with our policy of continuous improvement, you can be sure to stay ahead of your competition. Whether you’re entering a new market, planning a new production facility, or simply need a logistics partner to optimise your supply chain, our customised solutions can meet your exact requirements.

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Contract Logistics

DB Schenker is one of the leading and fastest growing global logistics service providers. With our innovative industry solutions and worldwide consistent first class operations, we are and we will be the supply chain partner of choice for the best companies globally.

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Ocean Freight

DB Schenker’s ocean freight ships more than 5,500 containers a day to ports all around the world, making us a top forwarder for your ocean freight shipments.

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Road Freight

DB Schenker is one of the leading providers of Road and multimodal transportation in the world. Since 1872, when Gottfried Schenker commenced his business with a single truck until today, with over 140 years of delivering logistics solutions, DB Schenker leads in providing reliable transportation services.

In Asia Pacific, DB Schenker is one of the largest transport providers, we have expertise across many industries. Our services cater from the simplest to the most complex of needs, with a comprehensive range of solutions able to be customized to your requirements.

Our inLAND services are available both through our efficient road transport network and our domestic multimodal (including rail, water and air) solutions. Using our own fleets, controlled networks and partners, which are all optimized by ensuring the best people, processes and technology available, DB SCHENKERroad is able to take care of your supply chain needs reliably day by day.

LANDbridge is our international road transportation service available across the Asia region, bringing transport solutions from key locations throughout China and the South East Asia region. Offering a range of options, our expertise across the geographies and regulatory considerations of countries in Asia Pacific, allow for an integrated transport service which is delivered seamlessly.

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Air Freight

Intermodal Solutions

Get the timeliness of air freight and the cost-effectiveness of ocean freight with DB SCHENKERskybridge - a logistics product that combines the best of both.

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Air Freight

Flight Operations

Use DB Schenker’s track record of success to synchronize and optimize your supply chain by letting DB Schenker handle your transport needs.

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Special Products

Sensor Technology (Smartbox)

The DB SCHENKERsmartbox family creates synergy in your supply chain by utilizing a well-established network of cooperating partners, making this service unique within all modes of freight forwarding transportation.

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eSchenker: It's so easy

eSchenker is our most advanced logistic solution yet. It incorporates all eServices into one portal, giving you maximum support at every stage of your supply chain. From tracking and scheduling to booking and reporting, eSchenker has your logistics covered.

Tracking

The easy-to-use eSchenker tracking tool gives you real-time information about the location and status of your shipment, and its current estimated time of delivery. Allocation of a tracking number means that you can access detailed shipment data online without having to log in. Our tracking technology has now been upgraded with an even more detailed overview and status information for each of your shipments.

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Logistics Orchestrator

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Taking aftermarket logistics to the next level

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Partnering with Magento

DB Schenker is offering a powerful new extension to equip small and mid-size merchants at Magento, one of the world's leading providers of e-commerce platforms. The Partnership evolved from increasing customer demand for web-shop order tracking.

Logistics automation at its best

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DB Schenker is now responsible for MediaMarkt Sweden's logistics for online sales and store deliveries from the Arlandastad logistics center near Stockholm.

Empowering global e-commerce

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DB Schenker provides its customers with access to over a hundred marketplaces globally by partnering with leading SaaS platform provider, ChannelAdvisor.

Inventing the digitized warehouse

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DB Schenker and Cisco, the worldwide leader in networking for the internet, are collaborating to change the face of the logistics industry.

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Learning by gaming: Virtual Reality as a boost for employee training

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Serious Gaming: In collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics DB Schenker has developed an employee training course as a VR digital game.

Exoskeletons

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DB Schenker has extensively investigated the use of exoskeletons at several logistics locations in Germany, in order to relieve warehouse personnel of physically-demanding tasks in the long term.

Supporting the Alpaca Industry in Peru

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Since the Inca Empire and dating back to 5000 B.C., the lives of alpacas have been preserved and extended by using their wool to create clothing and other materials. Found primarily in the Peruvian Andes, over four million alpacas are tended by thousands of Peruvians who are living far away from modern life.

Mobile Malaria Project

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The Mobile Malaria Project team, led by Dr. George Busby from the University of Oxford, has travelled over 7,500km with a modified Land Rover Discovery across Africa to exchange with local experts on the challenges in malaria control and to teach African scientists how to use the latest technology in this field.