Quehenberger pushing contract logistics in Central and Southeastern Europe
The consequent development of an efficient location network in Central – and South-Eastern Europe is increasingly paying off for Quehenberger Logistics. The company, based in Strasswalchen near Salzburg, has been able to considerably expand its contract logistics projects in various countries such as Romania, Croatia, Macedonia and Slovakia.
The international roll-out for customers entering new markets in cooperation with Quehenberger Logistics contributes to the current expansion course, CEO Christian Fürstaller explains. Moreover, the company was very successful in cross-selling, as regular customers in transport business also tend to implement their contract logistics business with the same logistics partner. In this context, the combination of standardised processes and customised IT solutions with individual, flexible variations adapted to the respective customers and markets leads to success. The group-wide Competence Centre for Contract Logistics, gathering all information and merging it into the project design, provided the basis therefore, according to Fürstaller.
With approx. 100,000 m² of warehousing space in Romania, Quehenberger Logistics focus on their core industry sectors Fashion, Retail, Consumer goods and Tyres. In 2017, a newly built central warehouse has been put into operation for a big Romanian textile retailer. The distribution within Romania and to Bulgaria and Moldova starts from this warehouse.
Additionally, the company operates the e-commerce warehouse of a renowned German shoe retailer for Romania and Bulgaria. The construction of a central warehouse for the same customer in Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey is in progress. In autumn 2017, Quehenberger Logistics is going to open a new warehouse for a globally operating brewery group in Timisoara.
Quehenberger has also considerably expanded its activities in Croatia, Slovenia and Macedonia. For Christian Fürstaller this is a logical step towards sustainable growth: “Central – and Eastern Europe is our core business area.“ In Croatia, Quehenberger operates already five warehouses with approximately 400 employees in the greater area of Zagreb and serves among others the store logistics of an international food retailer.
Expanding their contract logistics business, the company responds to the customers’ expectations on successful outsourcing, which are prone to change with the dynamics of the markets. The focus isn’t on undifferentiated cost savings but rather on an efficient support in the successful handling of performance peaks and the precise administration of ever-decreasing order processing times.
“An external partner can cope with these situations in a better way than the company’s internal organisation, which is usually less experienced in dealing with such flexible solutions. Finally, this results again in cost savings but also in a higher performance quality“, Fürstaller explains. Hence, his company is already planning new projects in Budapest, Bucharest, Sofia, and Zagreb.
