The customer and staff magazine of the geis group I October 2013 I www.geis-group.com
RFID speeds up fashion Heavy-duty import from Israel
Germany, Poland, Eastern Europe:
Presence expanded in three locations
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New in Poland. The same is true for our new investment in Poland. The country has long been a focus of ours, not only because of its optimal geographic location with connections to our strong regions Germany, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, but also because we continue to see Poland as an important growth market in Europe. Quehenberger’s former national subsidiary with its seven branches and participation in the Polish PSD general cargo cooperation fits in exactly with our idea of a compact, powerful unit. We now plan to systematically expand this new network.
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Dear Readers, Since 1 July, more than 500 new employees at 17 sites have joined the Geis Group: In southern Germany we have taken over the three Logwin branches in Gochsheim, Nuremberg and Ludwigsburg with a total of ten sites and 405 employees. And the Polish subsidiary of Quehenberger Logistics, which employs 88 employees at seven different sites, now also belongs to the Geis Group. A warm welcome to them all!
acquisition, we have also expanded our cooperation with Quehenberger Logistics: In the future, we will offer combined solutions for cargo transport from Germany and Austria to Russia. This will create the basis in Central and Eastern Europe for innovative procurement and distribution concepts of interest to our international customers. We will combine our collective strengths to exploit the potential offered by Eastern Europe. Without doubt, our company has become stronger and bigger through the two acquisitions, with the collaboration extending our network in Eastern Europe. You can rest assured, however, that the proven medium-sized structure of the Geis Group, which is characterized by flexibility, customer proximity and quick decisions, will remain in place.
A strong unit in Europe Optimal strengthening. Whether in Germany or in Poland, all the new sites serve to strengthen the Geis Group. First, there are the former Logwin branches that now do business under the Geis Transport und Logistik GmbH name. The branch offices at Nuremberg and Gochsheim near Schweinfurt increase our regional presence in Franconia, while the Ludwigsburg branch near Stuttgart expands our activities geographically. The new sites of course strengthen us operationally and fit perfectly into the existing Road Services and Logistics Services product portfolio. On this basis we will now expand the sites and their fleets and logistics activities further. Existing Logwin customers can rest assured that we will continue to provide all the services currently provided, and that we will develop them further in their interest.
As usual, more information on these latest developments and other news relating to the Geis Group can be found in Transfer. We hope you enjoy reading it! Yours,
Hans-Georg Geis and Wolfgang Geis, Managing Partners of the Geis Group
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TOP STORY – Presence expanded in three locations
04 Stronger in Germany 06 A new network in Poland 07 Cooperation in Eastern Europe ROAD SERVICES
08 20 years of success as an area contract freight forwarder 08 Top grades at Bischoff 09 A profession with a future: truck driver at Geis 09 “System heart” officially inaugurated
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LOGISTICS Services
10 Logistics for door production expanded 10 Petobel chooses Geis 11 RFID speeds up fashion 11 New Key Account Manager 11 Semikron: New Site Manager Air + Sea Services
12 Heavy-duty import from Israel
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12 Apprentices support “Sternstunden” 13 The new apprentices have arrived! 14 Sporty and athletic 14 Six new authorized signatories at Geis 15 IT with certified security 15 Anniversaries
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Presence expanded in three locations Stronger in Germany, a new network in Poland and cooperation in Eastern Europe: In recent months, the Geis Group has greatly expanded its national and international network. Its aim in doing so is to further increase the Group’s regional and international strengths.
Stronger in Germany On 1 July of this year the Geis Group took over the Nuremberg, Gochsheim/Schweinfurt and Ludwigsburg branches of Logwin Solutions Deutschland GmbH. As a result, Geis gained around 405 new employees. They work at a total of ten sites in the areas of Road Services and Logistics Services and last year generated a turnover of around 105 million euros.
A well-functioning unit. “With these three branches we expand our regional presence. They are profitable and have long-standing relationships with prominent customers”, say Geis-Holding Managing Directors Joachim Fink and Dr. Johannes Söllner. “In addition, they form a wellfunctioning unit. We want all these strengths to continue, as also indicated by the common company name, Geis Transport und Logistik GmbH.”
Geis Transport und Logistik GmbH Employees: 405 Turnover 2012: 105 million euros Branches: Gochsheim, Nuremberg, Ludwigsburg Sites: 10 Total area: 97,000 m² Logistics and transshipment area: 61,500 m² Fleet: 50 own trucks
Klaus Stäblein and Erik Lassen have been incorporated into the management of the company. Both have for many years steered the fortunes of key Geis companies in the areas of Road Services and Logistics Services.
Rapid investment. Immediately after the takeover the Geis Group began investing in the new sites – both in existing logistics projects as well as in the fleets, including in industrial vehicles, trucks and trailers as well as in the expansion of real estate. Thus, in the future all the vehicles will display the Geis logo. “The mood among the staff is very positive”, say Klaus Stäblein and Erik Lassen. “We work with highly motivated teams!” —
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The new sites – an overview Gochsheim – transportation, logistics and more From Gochsheim near Schweinfurt the Geis Transport und Logistik GmbH manages another five sites. Headed by Helmut Blanke, the Gochsheim main branch is primarily active in the sector Road Services. It offers domestic and European part- and full-load shipment services as well as regular and groupage services. In addition, the branch is an area contract freight forwarder for companies in the automotive industry with respect to their procurement logistics.
Site Schweinfurt Hafenstraße At Schweinfurt’s port on the river Main, Geis Transport und Logistik GmbH runs a supplier warehouse with an area of 5,400 square metres. Warehousing, distribution and procurement logistics as well as value-added services are some of the services offered on site. Site Schweinfurt Röntgenstraße This site is dedicated to container management. Empty containers are stored and processed inside the 5,500 square metres hall. The production lines of an automotive-industry customer are also supplied with products from here. Site Knetzgau Around 25 kilometres east of Gochsheim lies Knetzgau. Here Geis manages the on-site logistics for a soft drinks manufacturer. Employees distribute the products as part- and full-loads to the grocery sector directly from the production line.
Nuremberg: transshipment and high-bay warehouse under one roof From Ipsheimer Straße in the West of Nuremberg Geis organizes European groupage, part- and fullload transports and also provides warehousing services at a 5,800-pallet-capacity high-bay warehouse. Also on offer are just-in-time and just-in-sequence procurement and distribution logistics, as well as customs management. Key sectors are healthcare, automotive and brown and white goods. The main branch for two additional sites, it is managed by Werner Schelter. Site Nuremberg Edisonstraße The motto of this second site in Nuremberg is ‘full-service contract logistics’. On- and off-site logistics, packing, shipping and customs management are among the services on offer. Site Amberg Geis Transport und Logistik GmbH offers Europe-wide Road Services at its Amberg site, including JIT and JIS procurement and distribution logistics as well as CEP services.
Ludwigsburg: Individual transport and logistics solutions
Managing the three branches (from the left): Peter Reinhold, Helmut Blanke and Werner Schelter.
Gochsheim is one of three Geis Transport und Logistik GmbH branches.
The Ludwigsburg site provides both road and logistics services. Managed by Peter Reinhold, it offers customers a full range of national and international distribution and procurement logistics, warehousing logistics and in-house logistics, including outsourcing projects. In addition, the Ludwigsburg team offers media logistics, with overnight delivery of magazines and newspapers. The branch has more than 5,100 square metres of warehouse space and 32 loading gates. —
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Sites Schwebheim On an area totalling around 28,000 square metres, the two Schwebheim sites, which are situated in their immediate vicinity, provide warehousing, procurement and distribution logistics. Employees also process products locally for automotive suppliers and provide other valueadded services, ranging from quality control through assembly to packing.
The Geis Group‘s new sites strengthen its presence in southern Germany.
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At its 6,000 square metres warehouse in Tychy, Geis PL also undertakes dangerousgoods logistics.
A new network in Poland On 1 July 2013, the Geis Group also took over the Polish subsidiary of Quehenberger Logistics. This means Geis now has a new network of seven sites and 88 employees in Poland.
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fter setting up our nationwide networks in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, our increased involvement in Poland is now the logical continuation of our strategy for Eastern Europe”, explain Managing Partners Hans-Georg Geis and Wolfgang Geis. “After all, the Czech Republic and Slovakia have especially close commercial contacts with Poland. This is especially true for the transport and logistics sector.” Previously the Geis Group had two Geis Cargo International Poland Ltd. branches in Poland and focused mainly on air- and sea-freight.
The close links between the Polish company and the national companies in the Czech Republic and Slovakia are reflected in the management: The new Managing Director is Michal Martinovič, who has occupied the same position at Geis CZ and Geis SK for years. Deputy Director for Finance is Luboš Scheinost, who is also responsible for finances at Geis CZ. Adam Kwiatkowski, one of the Polish directors at Quehenberger, will provide continuity as Geis PL’s new Deputy Director of Operations.
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Forwarding and logistics. Geis
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is now expanding its range of services significantly, offering its customers both national and international Warschau Terespol Road Services such as cargo and Małaszewicze groupage transports as well as logistics services. Geis PL has a 6,000 square metres warehouse in Tychy in the south of the countMłyny ry. The other six sites are located in Małaszewicze, Młyny, Terespol, Warsaw, Wrocław and Zielona Góra.
Nationwide coverage. As part of the acquisition, the Geis Group has also acquired the company’s share in the PSD – Polski System Dystrybucji general cargo partnership. PSD will allow Geis PL to have nationwide coverage with respect to general cargo transports.
Adam Kwiatkowski, Deputy Director of Operations at Geis PL.
Goal: Full-service. Currently the new team is focusing on integration into the Geis Group. Hardware and software systems are being reconciled and transports retimed. Geis now plans to expand the forwarding and logistics areas. “We want to conclude integration into the Geis Group by sometime next year”, says Michal Martinovič. “Our goal is for customers to and from Poland to be able to enjoy the same high level of service as the one already enjoyed by customers in the countries in which the Geis Group is active.” —
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“We are continuing to see great growth potential in Eastern Europe. By combining our common strengths, we want to develop this potential together with Quehenberger.” Joachim Fink
The cooperation area extends from Germany and Austria as far as Russia, with Quehenberger Logistics focusing from its base in Austria on SouthEastern Europe, including Romania and Bulgaria as well as Russia, Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus. The Geis Group from its base in Germany will cover the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland.
Standardization across the entire network. The jointly-operated 15-country cargo network resulting from this cooperation will have standardized products, processes and information technology. “This basis will allow both partners to carry out all types of procurement or distribution operations”, says Quehenberger co-owner and CEO Christian Fürstaller. Geis Managing Director Joachim Fink adds: “In future we will be able to offer our international trade and industry customers innovative concepts that we already implemented in highly-developed markets, anywhere in Central and Eastern Europe.”
Geis Managing Director Joachim Fink (left) and Christian Fürstaller, Quehenberger CEO and co-owner
Continued independence. Cooperation in the cargo area in Central and Eastern Europe is a strategic field that both companies want to develop together. The partnership, however, will remain limited to this area. Both companies will continue their existing cooperations with companies in Southern, Western and Northern Europe. They will also continue to work independently in the areas of transportation management and contract logistics. —
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Besides agreeing on the takeover of Quehenberger’s Polish subsidiary by Geis, both companies have also agreed to intensify their strategic cooperation in the international cargo area. In future, therefore, Geis together with the Austrian logistics provider will offer customers an all-round solution for procurement and distribution logistics in Central and Eastern Europe.
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Cooperation in Eastern Europe
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For the past 20 years the Geis Group has been an area contract freight forwarder for Daimler AG at its site in Bad Neustadt. Geis also carries out work for Daimler in Nuremberg. At both sites the successful cooperation between the two companies is continuing, and the contract has been extended for another five years.
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rom airbags to spark plugs: Nowadays external suppliers on average supply around 80 percent of all vehicle components. As an area contract freight forwarder, the Geis Group organizes the reliable and on-time transportation of the goods from suppliers in specific areas to the car manufacturer’s production plants.
Geis delivers components to Daimler from more than 500 suppliers, collecting the items the day after the order is placed. The items are then generally transshipped in the terminals in Bad Neustadt and Nuremberg, with groupage consignments up to around 2.5 tonnes being consolidated before being forwarded to the plants. Exceptions are directly-driven partial loads (so-called milk runs) and full loads.
Regardless of the route chosen, the supplied parts are always delivered within time windows that have been precisely coordinated with the plants. These are very tight at just 60 minutes. From its sites in Bad Neustadt and Nuremberg, Geis supplies required components to 14 Daimler sites as well as to the various external warehouses and companies that form part of the company’s manufacturing network. The logistics service provider transports around 1,000 tonnes each day. “We are proud that Daimler has entrusted this work to us for the past two decades”, says Klaus Stäblein, Managing Director of Hans Geis GmbH + Co KG. “And we are doing everything to ensure that our customer remains satisfied in the coming years, so that our very good customer relationship is maintained for decades to come.” —
Top grades at Bischoff the Bavarian State Prize during a ceremony at the State Vocational College in Hof.
The three commercial apprentices working for the Geis Group’s subsidiary Spedition Bischoff in Naila belong to the best in their vocational-college class: They recently completed their training with outstanding results, one even with distinction. 21-year-old Sabrina Grünzig, a trainee forwarding and logistics service specialist, was awarded the top grade of 1.0 in her diploma. For this reason, at the end of July the government of Upper Franconia handed her
Delighted with their success (from the left): Sabrina Grünzig, Saskia Groß and Julian Thüroff.
Besides Sabrina Grünzig, two other trainee forwarding and logistics service specialists, Julian Thüroff and Saskia Groß, also obtained top grades. “We congratulate Sabrina, Julian and Saskia very much on their great success and are delighted that they will continue to work for Bischoff”, says Mareen Stuth, Head of Vocational Training and Education. —
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Profession with future: truck driver at Geis Truck driving is a profession that often still suffers from a poor image. Wrongly, in the opinion of Volker Kindler, Head of Personnel Management at Geis in Bad Neustadt. He wants to do away with prejudices and inspire young people to train as professional truck drivers. Mr Kindler, why are young people not keen to become professional drivers? The most commonly-held prejudices against the job are probably that it is not particularly challenging because it involves driving and not much more, and that your workplace is limited to your cab. Anyone who believes all this, however, has a completely wrong image of the profession. Unfortunately, many people do seem to have this image, especially young people. As a result, logistics service providers are having to struggle with a huge shortage of skilled workers in this important area. How can you persuade school graduates to take up an apprenticeship as a professional truck driver at Geis? Drivers have a very varied job and carry a lot of responsibility. Transporting goods is naturally the core task, but there’s still a lot more to it – for example, route planning, securing loads, customer contact and vehicle maintenance. These diverse tasks require thorough and high-quality training – and that is exactly what we offer.
Volker Kindler, Head of Personnel Management
How is the training at Geis structured? It lasts three years and content-wise is divided up into three: At the driving school, apprentices at the age of 17 acquire a Class B driving licence, followed by a Class CE driving licence at the age of 18. The practical content is taught locally by the company. Here apprentices primarily work as drivers, but they also work in the transshipment hall and in the workshop. They learn the theory at vocational college, which they attend every four weeks. We also offer our apprentices excellent training opportunities through our own transport training academy. And if they complete their training successfully, the chances of being taken on are very high! Thank you very much for talking to us! The following Geis sites train professional truck drivers: Bad Neustadt, Gochsheim (from 2014), Kerzell near Fulda (from 2014), Kürnach, Naila, Nuremberg, Ohrdruf
Branch Manager Rastislav Petrík with Hans-Georg Geis and Wolfgang Geis (from the left) at the symbolic handing over of the key.
“System heart” officially inaugurated At the end of June, the Geis Group officially opened its new, combined transshipment centre. The terminal in Zvolen houses both a cargo hub and a transshipment hall for parcels, and replaces the existing logistics facility in Banská Bystrica 20 kilometres away.
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t the ceremony the Geis Group welcomed around 300 guests, including guests of honour Miroslav Kusein, the Mayor of Zvolen, and Reinhard Wiemer, representative of the German Embassy in Slovakia. As part of the ceremony, Managing Partners Hans-Georg Geis and Wolfgang Geis presented the site’s new manager Rastislav Petrík with a symbolic key to the logistics terminal. In his opening speech, Wolfgang Geis described the new hub as a “historic milestone” in the further development of the Geis Group in Slovakia. Guests were given a tour of the impressive state-of-the art facility. —
A colourful programme of events: Slovakian children livened up the logistics terminal with traditional dances.
10 | logistics services self market segment in Erlangen-Eltersdorf. In May, employees of Geis Industrie Service GmbH also took over the in-house distribution logistics in one of three shifts at one of JELD-WEN’s largest German plants.
JELD-WEN’s Oettingen plant is visible from
The platform warehouse is Oettingen’s second tallest building.
Logistics for door production expanded Just one year after the start, the Geis Group and JELD-WEN Door Solutions have already expanded their collaboration: Geis is now also logistics service provider at the company’s production plant in Oettingen (Bavaria).
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ELD-WEN Door Solutions is part of the American JELD-WEN Group, the world’s largest supplier of doors and windows. Since last year, the Geis Group has run JELD-WEN’s national distribution centre for the Do-It-Your-
afar, as its platform warehouse is the second tallest building in the locality after the church tower. The plant went into operation 40 years ago, and JELD-WEN has produced more than 20 million internal doors here. Currently, the production volume is just under one million doors per year. Production in Oettingen is focused on highquality interior doors and a full range of technical doors, for example for the areas of fire protection, safety and noise protection.
The primary task of the on-site Geis employees is to receive the finished doors from the production lines using front-cabin forklifts, and to temporarily store them on shelves. They then pick the doors and pack them on pallets as ordered by the customer or another JELD-WEN site. Depending on the order, frames are also picked and packed with the doors. These come from the factory in Mittweida (Saxony) and are sent from there or the ErlangenEltersdorf warehouse to Oettingen. Finally, Geis employees prepare consignments for distribution throughout Germany and Switzerland. “I am delighted that we’re now also supporting JELD-WEN with its internal distribution logistics”, says Götz Gaudlitz, Division Manager of Geis Industrie Service GmbH. “So far the collaboration has been running perfectly.” —
Petobel chooses the logistics experts of the Geis Group Petobel.de contains everything you need for your pets. The Geis Group takes care of the logistics. Petobel (www.petobel.de) launched in mid-September with a range of around 6,000 articles, to be expanded in the coming months to around 10,000. The Geis Group will take care of the logistics for the innovative online shop for pet food and accessories at its warehouse in Nieder-Olm near Mainz, where Geis already organizes Granini’s logistics. The facility meets the highest hygiene standards and is certified for food logistics. To ensure that Petobel customers are completely satisfied, at the warehouse Geis takes care of inventory management, same-day order processing, and packing and shipment
of the items. To this end, it has installed shelving and IT interfaces and invested in packaging technology. On initial delivery of the products, Geis first of all records all the master data, such as the size and weight of the goods, including the EAN. It also continuously logs expiration dates and lot numbers. Anyone who shops at www.petobel.de therefore not only benefits from an intuitive order process and fair prices, but also from secure and fast delivery thanks to Geis’s many years of logistical experience. “We’re delighted to have acquired Petobel with its professionally-managed online shop as a customer”, says Dr. Johannes
Söllner, Managing Director of Geis Holding. “I am sure that we will also meet the challenges in this new area and satisfy the customer at all levels.” —
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New Key Account Manager Since 1 August 2013, Marco Weißensel strengthens the Key Account Management at Geis IndustrieService GmbH in Nuremberg.
RFID speeds up fashion Short collection cycles and changing trends nowadays characterize the fashion industry, with speed being of the essence. For international fashion label Drykorn Geis now uses RFID technology, thereby speeding up goods inwards and goods outwards enormously.
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he Geis Group has taken care of warehousing for Drykorn at its logistics centre in Kürnach near Würzburg since May 2011. Each delivery season, Geis picks and packs around 140,000 articles. For the fashion label, Geis employees take care of goods inwards, quality control, storage, individual packing and pricing for fashion store chains and goods outwards. Using the new RFID gate, Geis has sped up goods inwards in particular. As in the past, employees continue to unload the boxed goods from the containers. However, since late July, the Drykorn articles now run over a conveyor line fitted with RFID readers. As each item has a corresponding tag, the readers can determine in seconds which items in which sizes, styles and colours are contained in each box without opening it.
The Drykorn articles now run over a conveyor line fitted with RFID readers.
Goods inwards now works faster too, with 100%-quality assured. Employees simply push the packed consignments through the RFID gate, and a few seconds later the IT system reports whether the order has been executed correctly. Drykorn uses the RFID system not just in the warehouse but throughout its entire supply chain. Drykorn tags are attached to the clothes during production, and accompany the goods through the warehouse and into the stores. Everything has to be quick so that the latest fashions are always on the shelves. —
The 35-year-old has worked for Geis since 2003. Initially he was responsible for site and project management for Stürtz, one of the company’s customers in Würzburg, and supported project rampups in Germany, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Since 2010, Weißensel, who has a Master’s in Business Administration, has managed the AREVA sites in ErlangenEltersdorf and Offenbach. As a new Key Account Manager, Marco Weißensel will in the future also be the contact for clients, site managers and project managers when it comes to the analysis, presentation, planning and implementation of new and complex logistics solutions. —
Semikron: New Site Manager On 1 July 2013, Sascha Weniger was appointed Geis Industrie-Service GmbH’s (GIS) new Site Manager at Semikron in Nuremberg, where GIS is responsible for the customer’s in-house logistics. As the new Site Manager, the 46-year-old acts as an interface between Semikron and Geis. Sascha Weniger also directs and coordinates all processes, ensures that the set targets are implemented, and oversees further development of the site. A business graduate (WFA) and certified trade manager, Sascha Weniger has longstanding experience as a manager of national and international logistics projects. He previously occupied managerial positions at Baur Fulfillment Solutions in Burgkunstadt and the Klinkhammer Group in Nuremberg.
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Heavy-duty import from Israel Three special armoured vehicles weighing around 100 tonnes in total – for a manufacturer of mine clearance vehicles SDV Geis recently successfully organized a transport from Israel to Germany.
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fter taking care of standard shipments by air and sea as well as export projects to Kabul and Mogadishu for this customer, this was our first import project from Israel for them”, says Daniel Panic, SDV Geis’s Site Manager at Villingen-Schwenningen, who oversaw the project together with Torsten Salewski from the sales department.
vehicles including cars and attachments on three flat racks, two 40-foot open-top containers and two other standard containers were then taken to the port of Ashdod, where they were divided up and shipped to Hamburg. On arrival, SDV Geis Villingen-Schwenningen, in close cooperation with Sven Boysen, Group Leader Ocean-Freight Gateway in Hamburg, oversaw the unloading and onward transportation of the vehicles by rail and low loader. One month after the transport operation was initiated, the vehicles arrived on time at the customer in Southern Germany, where they were checked, serviced and prepared for their new use.
The tight time schedule and the transport After two months of preparation, the operation began at the end of August in Ein Yahav in Israel following handover of the freight. Using a crane commissioned by SDV Geis, the approximately 30-tonne tracked armoured vehicles were lifted onto a low loader. The three XXL mine-clearing
route, which involved the low loaders and crane vehicles having to travel through deserts and over unpaved roads to the Jordanian border region, made the operation somewhat of a challenge. But despite the difficult conditions, the SDV Geis Villingen-Schwenningen team once again proved its skill and expertise. —
Apprentices support “Sternstunden” Apprentices at Geis’s headquarters in Bad Neustadt regularly feed pennies into their piggy bank. When in June many areas in Germany were inundated with floods, they decided to help and donate the money to “Sternstunden e.V. – Wir helfen Kindern”, the organization that helps children in need around the world. The management rounded up the amount to 500 euros. The money went to the “Hochwasserhilfe Bayern” (“Flood Relief Bavaria”) emergency relief fund, which is helping to reconstruct and renovate facilities for children. —
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The new apprentices have arrived!
The new apprentices at the company’s headquarters in Bad Neustadt…
The first few weeks are already behind them: In August and September, a total of exactly 100 apprentices entered the exciting world of logistics and began their training at Geis sites. As in previous years, the largest group of apprentices this summer are the 52 apprentices training to become forwarding and logistics service specialists, followed by 26 warehouse logistics specialists. A relatively new group this year are the trainee professional truck drivers, which number nine.
… at Bischoff in Naila …
In total more than 300 trainees are currently completing eight different types of apprenticeships at Geis, including four students who are completing dual-degrees in logistics management in Fulda or Bachelor’s degrees in logistics in Nuremberg and four students of SDV Geis at the Frankfurt, Freiburg and Stuttgart sites.
High retention rate. “Our new apprentices have made a good choice, because an apprenticeship at Geis is not only sound, it is also an investment in their future”, says Volker Kindler, Head of Personnel Management. “We are very proud of the fact that we train our employees ourselves, carefully promote their skills, and generally try to take them on at the end.”
… in Kürnach …
The very high retention rate at Geis sites is proof that the apprentices are also extremely keen to be kept on. At the company’s headquarters in Bad Neustadt, for example, all commercial and industrial apprentices who successfully completed their apprenticeships this summer were offered permanent employment.
… at SDV Geis in Hamburg and …
The countdown to 2014 has begun. Although demographic change is making it increasingly difficult to find apprentices, this year Geis once again succeeded in filling almost all the vacant positions in line with its requirements. “Only companies that take training seriously can instil confidence in young people”, says Volker Kindler. At Geis preparations for the coming year are therefore already in full swing. In September a “Training Day” took place at its headquarters in Bad Neustadt, at which interested young people could find out more about the different apprenticeships, internships and work-study programmes on offer. Via ausbildung.geis-group.com applications for the summer of 2014 are already being accepted for all Geis sites. —
… at Geis Industrie-Service in Nuremberg.
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Sporty and athletic! The “Challenge Roth” Triathlon.
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erner Dettenthaler (swimming), Stefan Zechentmayer (cycling) and Erwin Kraus (running) from Geis Eurocargo in Nuremberg covered a total distance of more than 220 kilometres in the “Challenge Roth” triathlon in mid-July. Thanks to their combined efforts, the three made it to the end. After almost twelve hours they completed the relay competition and thus achieved a very good result. In preparation, the trio together with 23 other colleagues from Geis Eurocargo a few weeks earlier also took part in the Nuremberg FunRun. In bright sunshine they all successfully completed the nearly ten-kilometre-long route along the MainDanube Canal.
Geis shows it has stamina: This summer, a large number of employees once again displayed their sporting ability at the WÜ2RUN company run in Würzburg, the City Run in Bad Neustadt, the Nuremberg FunRun and the triathlon in Roth. The Hans Geis GmbH took part in the Sparkassen City Run in Bad Neustadt for the third time in a row, and with 62 runners even represented the second-largest group at the event. The team sweated for a good cause: As more than 2,500 runners took part, the local savings bank lost its bet and donated 10,000 euros to children’s nurseries in Rhön-Grabfeld. … and at WÜ2RUN.
The Geis teams at the Sparkassen City-Run …
In early July, 25 employees from Hans Geis GmbH in Kürnach and from Geis Industrie-Service GmbH in Würzburg took part in the WÜ2RUN in Würzburg – the second time the companies have participated in the race, with the number of runners more than doubling since last year. —
Six new authorized signatories Over the past few months, six executives of the Geis Group were appointed authorized signatories. Jochen Geis On 16 May, Jochen Geis was appointed an authorized signatory of Geis Transport und Logistik GmbH in Bad Neustadt. The 30-year-old has worked as an Assistant Manager at the Geis Group since 2009.
Helmut Blanke On 24 June, Site Manager Helmut Blanke was appointed an authorized signatory for Geis Transport und Logistik GmbH in Gochsheim. The 50-year-old joined Logwin in 2008 and has worked for the Geis Group since the acquisition of the Logwin sites on 1 July.
Werner Schelter On 24 June, Site Manager Werner Schelter was appointed an authorized signatory for Geis Transport und Logistik GmbH’s Nuremberg site. The 59-year-old joined Logwin in 1997 and switched to Geis following the takeover on 1 July.
Sebastian Seehofer Sebastian Seehofer has been managing the Hans Geis GmbH site in Bad Neustadt for the past year. The 44-year-old was appointed an authorized signatory on 4 July of this year.
Peter Reinhold On 24 June, 61-year-old Peter Reinhold was appointed an authorized signatory of Geis Transport und Logistik GmbH in Ludwigsburg, where he is the Site Manager. Peter Reinhold joined Logwin in 2011, before switching to Geis on 1 July following the company’s takeover of the Logwin sites.
Markus Rudert On 25 July, Markus Rudert was appointed an authorized signatory of Bischoff International GmbH in Naila. The 46-year-old is the Sales Manager there, and has worked for the Geis Group since 2007.
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Anniversaries Over the past few months, nine Geis employees have celebrated their 25th anniversary with the company, and three have even celebrated their 40th anniversary.
Tanja Knauer began working for Bischoff in Naila on 15 August 1988 as a trainee forwarding merchant, and today works as an Administrator in the third-party billing area.
Whether real-time tracking or paperless picking: in transport and logistics nothing nowadays works without modern IT systems. But the more significant they become, the more important are security and maximum availability. Because of this, the Geis Group has for years been placing a strong emphasis on IT security. And this security is now even certified.
Vasilije Miskovic joined Geis’s customer Knorr-Bremse as a forklift driver on 20 June 1973. In 2006 he switched to Geis IndustrieService GmbH in Oberschleißheim, where he works in the Knorr-Bremse dispatch department.
Silke Marschner After her apprenticeship at SCAC (Deutschland) GmbH, Frankfurt, which she began on 1 September 1988, Silke Marschner now works as an Administrator in the air-freight import billing department at SDV Geis.
Karl Skoruppa joined Militzer & Münch as a trainee forwarding merchant on 1 September 1973. Today he is responsible for trade customer service at Geis Logistics + Trade in Hof.
Armin Haas began his apprenticeship at Hans Geis GmbH in Nuremberg on 1 September 1988. Today he works for the successor company SDV Geis as an Airfreight Export Administrator and mainly looks after large customers.
The good news first: so far there have not been any problems with the system’s availability – not in forwarding or in logistics. And it’s supposed to stay that way. This is down to, among other things, its Group-wide ISMS (Information Security Management System). With its defined rules and procedures, it is designed to ensure ongoing information security and thus the smooth running of business processes in the company as well as their continuous improvement. Since August this year, the ISMS of the Geis Group has been certified according to ISO 27001 by TÜV Rheinland. The ISMS process at Geis is based on the PDCA cycle (Plan, Do, Check, Act). This constantly repeating loop leads to continuous quality improvement of the system and data security. As part of the ISMS, Geis with the help of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) has defined all core processes and incorporated them into process instructions. Geis has also introduced a risk management system to evaluate all IT assets. It enables potential risks to be identified early on and appropriate measures to be implemented. It also includes an emergency management system, with clear guidelines and rules of conduct for emergency situations. The entire ISMS procedure is regularly checked using internal audits to determine reliability. —
Roland Schuberth began working as a truck driver for Bischoff in Naila on 8 October 1973 and now undertakes short-haul deliveries. Michael Kausche began his apprenticeship as a forwarding merchant at Bischoff in Naila on 1 August 1988. Today he heads the short-haul scheduling department. Veronika Sellmann began her apprenticeship as a trainee forwarding merchant at the head office in Bad Neustadt on 1 August 1988 and now works as a Service Administrator at Salz. Andrea Fleckenstein began working for Bischoff in Naila on 8 August 1988 as a trainee forwarding merchant, and today manages the consolidated freight department.
Petra Steinl began working for Gorenje on 12 September 1988 and joined Geis IndustrieService GmbH via Häring GmbH in 2001. Since then, she has been responsible for order processing and administration within the Gorenje project.
Martin Bühler started working as a clerk for Jacky Maeder GmbH in Freiburg on 1 October 1988. Today at the successor company, SDV Geis, he works as an Airfreight Import Manager and Quality Management Officer.
Anne-Christine Feyerlein began working for Geis Eurocargo in Nuremberg as an International Transport Administrator on 1 October 1988. She then became an import group leader, and today works in the international accounting department.
The Geis Group would like to say a big thank you to all of them!
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