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Find out first-hand why the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) obliges companies to reuse more and what effects this has on the packaging industry. Discover how you can deal with the new laws and what opportunities arise from them.

Have you always wondered what a typical working day for a software developer looks like? Find out here!

To celebrate the logistics shop's first birthday, today's blog post takes a brief look back at the company's first year and all the exciting things that happened during this time.

After the last blog was about the basic principles for managing B2B reusable objects, this issue deals with an overview of the exciting technologies for reusable management.

The use of reusable use always involves the question of management, i.e. how do I manage all the objects. This blog should therefore be about which different methods exist and which should be used when.

On our journey with the logistics shop so far, we, like any other young company, have benefited greatly from input from outside. In addition to countless valuable tips from coaches, mentors and our customers, we have also picked up a few books. So that other founders can also benefit from this, we have selected a book tip for each of ten categories. In addition, a video has also lost its way into the list.

How interface problems can be overcome in today's IT and system landscape.

The topic of sustainability has come into focus more than ever in recent years. And rightly so! But what exactly does sustainability mean? And why is it so important? In this blog post, we will take a closer look at the topic of sustainability and look at it in particular against the background of load carrier management.

This blog post is about a central problem when using reusable load carriers: the speed of circulation. Using the illustrative example of “beer crate” from a private environment, we will explain what the problem is and how it actually happens. In contrast to the high personnel costs for account management, reconciliation & clarification cases and the costs of buying back load carriers, many are not even aware of the turnaround time as a problem. This is often also due to a lack of transparency due to time delays and an incomplete database. In our experience, this is one of the greatest potential for dealing with reusable properties.

Flat hierarchies and collaboration are important to us for various reasons. We'd like to give you an insight into why.

There are countless types of load carriers and only very few of them have a unique identification. In doing so, it offers numerous added values that far exceed the costs for the label.

Every company that uses reusable load carriers should have packaging management. Depending on the size of the company, a wide variety of solutions are used, from college blocks to Excel and specialized software. However, all these solutions have in common that although they generate exchange accounts, these only exist within the company. This results in complex coordination processes between the individual parties, in which files are sent back and forth and commented on.

Dr. Volker Lange has worked in research at Fraunhofer for more than three decades. And he has also been working on logistics and packaging for almost as long. He has never been bored and dealing with trends and developments on the one hand and the application-specific implementation for companies and society on the other hand always make for an exciting working day. Or as he says: “My work challenges me, learning never stops and is a lot of fun working with many nice colleagues! ”.

How has the partnership between FEGA & Schmitt and the logistics shop revolutionized logistics processes? Here you can find out how the collaboration has led to a comprehensive digitization of exchange medium management in order to increase efficiency and significantly reduce administrative costs.

Find out in our latest blog post how the partnership between EcoCarrier AG and the logistics shop has revolutionized last-mile logistics. This use case shows how the use of digital tools and electrically powered cargo bikes enabled more efficient and environmentally friendly operation.

Probably the most common question we get asked is about our name. This is usually accompanied by an opinion ranging from “That doesn't work at all” to “I never forget him, I think it's great! “That's enough. In this blog post, we will therefore go into more detail about how this name came about.