Logistics more digital
From autumn 2021 the service provider Albert Craiss will be the new logistics partner for the production needs in Austria of the German technology corporation Siemens. To this end Albert Craiss is having a logistics centre built in the eastern Austrian town of Weiz.
The firm Albert Craiss GmbH, which is headquartered in the southern German town of Mühlacker, has been mandated by the German technology corporation Siemens to supply production materials to and organise dispatch logistics for its production plant in Weiz (Austria). The news from the Swabian logistics service provider is that it will subsequently also take over the inbound and outbound logistics activities there, through its newly-established subsidiary Craiss Generation Logistik Austria GmbH & Co.
The company Unger Stahlbau, from the town of Oberwart in the Austrian federal state of Burgenland, will be the general contractor for the buildings required. The third partner in the jointly-founded new real estate company Craiss-Unger-Temmel (CUT) is the Weiz-based enterprise Hagen Temmel. Jörg Schneider, the contract logistics managing director with Albert Craiss, pointed out that "we have many years of experience in supplying the automotive and spare parts industries, and thus have the resources to run innovative production logistics services. Specifically, we have the professional employees and suitable expertise in the digitalisation of complex logistics processes."
A broad range of services
The logistics service provider will initially start to implement inbound logistics for the major German customer’s plant in Weiz, where it manufactures large electricity supply facilities.
Craiss’s range of tasks there will see it manage intra-logistics processes for inbound goods, consolidate and store suppliers’ parts, check technical quality, supply plants through shuttle lorries, manage internal last mile activities and supply goods to production stations. A second stage will see the firm transport finished products to the logistics centre, prepare goods for dispatch, pack machine parts for dispatch overseas and start international outbound logistics dispatching in the first quarter of 2022.
Construction work commenced
Craiss will ensure that the new logistics centre, currently coming up on a 48,000 m² plot near the plant, is tailored precisely to Siemens’ needs. According to Craiss the 18,000 m² logistics area will be home to modern infrastructure and be equipped with cranes and special equipment, including heavy ground conveyors, differentiated shelving technology to handle slim material flow processes and technical added-value services.
Schneider expects the new facility to be completed in autumn 2021, and to become operational at that time. The move will initially see roughly 50 jobs created in the new Craiss location, for commercial, trade and technical employees.
Entering the Austrian market
The new contract represents Craiss’s entry into the Austrian market for industrial contract logistics services. The German firm from the state of Baden-Württemberg has already been active for many decades as a transport logistics partner for numerous Austrian customers.
The company’s new location in the Austrian state of Styria is one of the prongs in Craiss’s growth strategy in the contract logistics field. It simultaneously adds technical quality control and ocean-proof packaging for heavy industrial goods to its service portfolio in the production logistics segment.
