DB Schenker's services utilizes its rail expertise to deliver rail-focused concepts requiring a wide range of technical, organizational and physical obstacles to be overcome.

DB Schenker Logistics Service can provide you with expert advice and assistance in areas including:

• Analysis and optimization of transports, locations and business processes
• Transport and warehousing logistics, Europe-wide
• Procurement, distribution and in-plant logistics
• Consulting, development and optimization of rail-focused cross-carrier logistics solutions
• Analysis of the market situation in your sector and your market positioning
• Identification of future trends
• Definition of the conclusions regarding the development of your logistics
• Assistance and support in the implementation phase of the concepts we jointly devise

This cuts down the complexity of your operations, and allows you to concentrate on your core business.

Sound analysis as the basis for reliable information:

• Location analyses relating to the number and positioning of warehouses
• Logistical infrastructure of warehouse and production facilities
• Use of equipment
• Organizational rules and processes
• Physical material flow
• Information and communication
• Drawing-up of a bill of quantities and determination of the process costs

If you wish, we can also undertake a preliminary study to provide you with an initial overview which usually gives an indication of the main areas of focus in terms of improvements needed.

Intelligent concepts – enhanced logistics:

• Covering safety and environmental concerns
• Reducing your warehousing tiers and inventory levels by optimizing delivery times and reliability
• Increasing use of rail transport and simplification of processes

Increasing customer demands, ever more stringent restrictions on road freight traffic and a long-term rising trend in transport costs all mean that the time is ripe for alternative logistics concepts.

Cost-benefit studies as a decision-making basis:

• Underpinning our proposed solutions by providing an estimate of costs and so making them comparable to the current status
• Incorporating data from current-status analysis, our own experience, recognized benchmarks and detailed calculations

DB Schenker Logistics Service assists you in implementing your logistics solutions at an operational level based on professional project management.

Our sales staff will be pleased to draw up a detailed, binding quotation for you on request.