Business intelligence consulting by ebp-consulting

Digital logistics & Industry 4.0

We support our customers in preparing, analyzing, and visualizing the information that is important to them, and we transform their domain questions into data models. To this end, we contribute our logistics expertise and our analytical data competence to the projects, so that processes are continuously optimized and thus competitive advantages can be generated.

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Digital logistics & Industry 4.0

The digitalization is fundamentally transforming logistics and is increasingly important for the future competitiveness of companies. By digital logistics we mean the use of digital technologies for planning, controlling, executing, and optimizing logistical processes along the entire supply chain.

Connected supply chains, rising customer demands, and volatile markets require precise control and quick responsiveness. Transparent processes enable end-to-end visibility of the entire process chain. Companies can thus identify bottlenecks early, minimize risks, and make decisions based on up-to-date data.

Digitalization enables this process transparency as the ability to capture and analyze relevant information and data flows.

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Our consulting focuses in Digital Logistics

  • Transformation of logistical questions into data models
  • Preparation of our clients’ data basis: data acquisition, data plausibility, and data cleansing
  • Data preparation and data integration into the overarching data model
  • Customer-specific visualization, business intelligence
  • Automated views for specific reporting of logistics domains
  • Data integration of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies into operational logistics
  • Real-time-ish monitoring and visualization of material flow and provisioning in intralogistics and production
  • Analytics as a Service (AaaS); implementation and support of digital processes for our clients in the cloud
  • Identification of optimization potentials through digitalization in our clients’ logistics
  • Organizational embedding of digital business processes, derivation of role profiles per user group, and linking as a responsibility model (RASIC)
  • Change management in the organizational transition to digital processes

Project success in digital logistics does not rely solely on technological implementation. For acceptance of the digital transformation, it is essential to involve end users in the processes from the start. These process experts and their integration into the project work, as well as their feedback, determine the transformation’s success.

Logistics consulting in Stuttgart, Munich and Dortmund

Advantages of working with ebp-consulting

  • Transparency and control: You gain a holistic view of your processes.
  • Efficiency and cost reduction: Automated processes and data-driven decisions lower your operating costs.
  • Planning support: Validate planning premises based on data rather than experience.
  • Competitive advantage through innovation: Use IoT and BI to detect trends early and respond flexibly.
  • Flexibility and agility: Increased responsiveness to market changes or disruptions.

Our approach to digitalization

Logistics consulting with big data analytics applications

With our systematic consulting approach, we combine technological expertise with deep understanding of logistical processes. We support companies with practical solutions in all phases of digital integration/transformation to make the opportunities of digital logistics usable for you through Big Data, Business Intelligence, and IoT technologies.

  1. Analysis and goal definition: Structure the domain question and jointly define target metrics with the eventual users
  2. Data architecture and data model: Identify data needs, design and build the data architecture and the data model
  3. Business Intelligence and visualization: Develop BI dashboards and reporting structures for data-driven decision-making
  4. Implementation and capability building: Implementation support, employee training, Analytics-as-a-Service

Further Consulting Focus Areas as a logistics consultancy:

  • Production logistics planning

  • Material flow planning

  • Tendering of logistics services

    • New tender for contract logistics & intralogistics
    • Outsourcing of warehouse logistics & intralogistics
    • Tender management for logistics services
    • Planning, preparation & implementation of tenders for warehousing & transportation services
    • Service-independent tendering
    • Market research of potential logistics service providers and large network of logistics service providers
    • Compilation of customer requirements and development of the service description
    • Preparation of specifications / Request for Quotation (RFQ)
    • Structured, possibly multi-stage tendering process for contract logistics & transport logistics
    • Communication with the logistics service providers (3PL)
    • Systematic assessment and evaluation of service provider offers in terms of costs, degree of fulfillment & quality
    • Creating transparency and comparability of service provider offers
    • Identification of gaps in the offer, pitfalls & risks
    • Accompaniment & support in discussions with providers
    • Transfer of the tender to the implementation / realization phase

  • Logistics benchmarking

  • Lean logistics principles

    • Digitalization of logistics through the development of data models to map technical issues
    • Data procurement and integration into the overarching data model
    • Data preparation, plausibility checks and cleansing
    • Analytics as a service (AaaS)
    • Performance of regular data analyses by our ebp experts
    • Identification of optimization potential in logistics
    • Reducing costs and increasing performance in logistics

  • Containers and packaging

  • Spare parts logistics

  • Waste disposal logistics

  • Monitoring in intralogistics

Success through digitalization

Our clients from various industries, for example Automotive & Retail, have already completed many projects successfully. These include:

  • Container optimization using Big Data Analytics
  • Monitoring and improvement of process quality based on defined error patterns
  • Stock optimization through preconfigured inventory optimization tools
  • Big Data Analytics to measure delivery quality (e.g., punctuality, quantity, quality of goods)
  • Increased inventory and process transparency through IoT solutions and accompanying Business Intelligence
  • Monitoring of supply status on the shop floor and control of line supply

Competitive advantages in digital logistics arise especially from the combination of Big Data, Business Intelligence, and IoT. These technologies enable continuous data-supported optimization of processes, leading to more efficient and cost-effective logistics and production.

Challenges of digital logistics & Industry 4.0

As Industry 4.0 progresses, logistics is increasingly becoming a highly interconnected, data-driven system. The aim of providing information and digitally mapping processes end-to-end leads to new challenges, because in addition to the professional requirements, the technological requirements must also be mastered.

Process transparency is a central challenge. In many companies, data sources have grown historically, are stored decentral and are usually not fully integrated. These data silos must be connected so that the information is usable for operations.

IoT devices, sensors, and machines represent new digital data sources. This data must be structured, prepared, and brought into an operational context. Without well-thought-out data models, the data are available but not usable.

The shift to digital logistics requires a high level of organizational and change management capability. Technological solutions alone do not create transparency; they must be integrated into existing processes and actively used by employees and process owners.

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With our expertise in IoT and Business Intelligence, we will collaboratively design your digital logistics processes that not only work but also create direct value when integrated into your organization.

Digitization thus becomes an active driver of your logistics—not just an operational support process.

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