Industry Links

Taking aftermarket logistics to the next level

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.