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Serious amount of fluctuations in the transport and logistics sector crautos to put the industry. The increasing market volatility makes it difficult for shippers and carriers to plan their camp and fleet capacity exactly. On the company in 2014 considerable additional costs occur: either the cover peak or underutilized capacity. crautos And: the growing volume fluctuations lead to higher prices.
These are the key findings of the current survey to "market volatility in transport and logistics," which the German Association Materials Management, Purchasing and Logistics (BME), Frankfurt, crautos in collaboration with Prof. Paul Wittenbrink of the Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg (DHBW) Lörrach crautos performed has.
229 companies from trade and industry have participated in September crautos and October 2013, the BME survey "market volatility in transport and logistics." You generate a total turnover of more than 800 billion euros. Both buyers (shippers) crautos and transport crautos and logistics (TuL) service providers commented on the development of amounts and rates as well as current trends in procurement logistics.
Responses to market volatility, the survey of BME shows: Stable transport markets are a thing of the past. Almost half of the companies crautos surveyed expect even at the national transport services with further increasing volume fluctuations. Even stronger is the trend in the international arena. Here go almost two-thirds from increasing volatility. "The companies already use a variety crautos of strategies to get to grips with the growing crautos volume fluctuations," says BME CEO Dr. Holger Hildebrandt. However, he advises crautos them not to fall into blind action. Short-term demand or supply overhangs one must sometimes just accept.
In the BME survey both the 171 shippers as well as the 58-TuL service was provided a list of solutions to choose crautos from. There they could decide whether the statements for their business will be more relevant or not. It has been shown that shippers and carriers lead to different ratings. High on the agenda are therefore cooperation crautos with customers to improve their business prospects. This approach, 94 percent of service providers and almost 60 percent of shippers for promising. "The closer cooperation with customers crautos and suppliers also enables better planning and prevents increasing volatility before. At the same time can thus avoid unexpected volumes and price fluctuations early on, "explains BME Department Head Logistics Gunnar Gburek. crautos
Intensive market research and local presence can help to obtain a better assessment of the different regional developments also. The client had to plan in the past few incentives, crautos transport volumes exact - but was mostly worn, which stood at the ramp. Costs did not play a large role in this. Since the increasing volatility of the financial cost but for everyone involved pushing further into the level, it is now also increasingly monetary incentives to create. Although bundling and a more efficient use of existing networks crautos can not reduce the fluctuations, but relieve crautos the cost side clearly.
The proposal to align the capacity for fleet and warehouse on the base load and thus to make better use of, st