Tuesday, October 26, 2021

DB Schenker with three other logistic companies launch Open Logistics Foundation

 DB Schenker, Dachser, duisport and Rhenus established the Open Logistics Foundation, a non-profit foundation in Berlin to build a European open-source community aiming to promote digitalization in logistics and supply chain management. 

Not only is a technology initiative like this unique in logistics to date, but the founding members are also taking on a pioneering role as to the future topic of open source. On the foundation's establishment, the board members were appointed. Jochen Thewes (Chairman), CEO of DB Schenker, Dr. Stephan Peters (Vice-Chairman), Member of the Board of Rhenus, and Stefan Hohm (Vice-Chairman), CDO of Dachser, were elected to the Executive Board. The Advisory Board is made up of Prof. Dr. h. c. Michael ten Hompel (Chairman), Managing Director of the Fraunhofer IML, and Markus Bangen, CEO of duisport, as well as Jakub Piotrowski CIO/CDO of BLG Logistics Group.

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