AMAZON DISTRIBUTION GMBH, logistics center LEIPZIG
With about 75,000 square meters of storage space, the online retailer Amazon has been operating one of Germany‘s largest logistics centers in Leipzig since 2006 – the Amazon Distribution GmbH. Media products, toys, items for home and garden, home entertainment electronics, and much more are shipped from Leipzig to many destinations around the globe.
The Canadian distributor of electronic components Future Electronics has established one of its three global logistics centers just north of Leipzig – the Future Electronics EDC Services GmbH. The fully automated small parts warehouse can store more than 66,000 articles in its 255,000 containers. With about 140 employees, the Leipzig site has been supplying all Future Electronics customers in the EMEA region (i.e. Europe, the Middle East, South Africa) since July 2010.
Source: Mercateo AG
MERCATEO AG, LEIPZIG SITE
The Mercateo AG operates Europe’s leading online procurement platform for business clients in the internet. In addition to Munich and Köthen, the company is also active with 50 staff members at its corporate site in Leipzig. The standard range encompasses ten million products – from stationery and office supplies all the way to warehouse and lab equipment. In addition, the company’s more than one million customers can individually link their own framework agreement suppliers to the Mercateo platform while also benefiting from a modular system of e-procurement functions.
Source: momox GmbH
MOMOX GMBH, logistics center LEIPZIG
The Berlin-based momox GmbH officially inaugurated a logistics center in Leipzig in late 2011. After an expansion in 2013, the location has become the company’s largest warehouse with 50,000 square meters of floor space. momox purchases used books, CDs, DVDs, games, and electronics on-line
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Dr. Michael Süß
Vice President Engineering, TomTom Telematics
»The Leipzig site, which emerged from the acquisition of the datafactory AG corporation in 2005, is the technological center of TomTom Telematics. The primary reason why we selected this location as our corporate site was the favorable environment for business setups in Leipzig.«
Germany’s first innovation lab for logistics - "Logistics Living Lab" Leipzig
The interaction of IT systems for complex logistics services is tested in the Logistics Living Lab. Germany’s first innovation lab for logistics is funded as an integral part of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)’s Innovation Initiative “Entrepreneurial Regions.” The lab is being developed and implemented at Leipzig University’s Information Systems Institute (IWI).
