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2011 Sponsors
Premier Sponsor
GEFCO engineers your productivity in automotive logistics. GEFCO is specialised in automotive logistics for 60 years and ranks – with a turnover of €3.4 billion – among Europe’s 10 leading transport and logistics groups. GEFCO is present in 29 countries and covers 150 countries worldwide. With 9,400 employees in Western, Central and Eastern Europe, South America, China and India, GEFCO thrives on the challenges of the global automotive industry. Today GEFCO covers every aspect of automotive logistics on a global level for car manufacturers, parts suppliers and the two-wheeler industry, both inbound and outbound. The company’s vision is to create value added and generate savings for its automotive customers with multimodal supply chain engineering and optimization.
Inbound logistics - GEFCO can engineer integrated flow based solutions for complex inbound supply chain requirements, combining services provided by its different divisions in transportation, contract logistics, reusable packaging management, customs and tax representation as well as global part supply and sourcing. GEFCO; one of the world leaders in automotive logistics.
Outbound logistics - GEFCO, in addition to its traditional activities of shipping vehicles from assembly plants to storage centers and then distributing these to dealers and leasing companies, provides pre-delivery inspection for dealers, reconditioning and repairs for used vehicles and offers customised special transport services.
Gold Sponsor
LOHR Automotive is part of LOHR Industrie, a French privately held group based in Alsace near Strasbourg, world specialists in the design and production of transport systems of goods and persons.
- Road transport, with the car-transporters under Lohr Automotive: Lohr historical activity - world leader.
- Rail transport, with Modalohr (combined rail-road transport).
- Public Urban transport, with Translohr (tram on tires) and Neoval (automatic people mover, in cooperation with Siemens Transportation Systems).
- Logistics transport.
The group has factories in Turkey, Serbia, China, India, United States and Mexico.
Silver Sponsors
Founded in 1977, ARAL Srl. is the oldest, all-round-service PDR company, as we know them today. ARAL was the first company to employ a complete team of PDR technicians, mobile and ready to go where solutions are needed. We offer complete turn-key solutions to Automotive Manufacturers, Logistic- and Insurance Companies. Servicing a minimum of 10000 cars annually.
When the highest level of quality and the most efficient management is in demand, we have the solution and are ready to provide it.
Weather its large or small volume, our mobile team of professionals handles Spot Repair, Hail Damage as well as Contamination and Paint recovery.
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….. Our best work is never seen!
For more than 30 years Ballsystem have led the field of automotive paintless dent repair. Utilising a unique method, our team of highly qualified and experienced technicians operate globally, repairing vehicles damaged by hail stones or impaired through manufacturing and yard management processes.
Via the Ballsystem Academy, we also offer training courses and integrated logistic solutions.
Hail Damage repair, manufacturing defects, spot and smart repair, integrated logistic solutions, training, consulting.
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CargoTel provides the leading web-based software products specifically for the automotive logistics and transportation industries. We provide flexibility in screen setup and report generation, without additional programming. Our cost effective pricing makes it affordable for large or small companies. Whether it is our highly configurable and scalable Transportation Management System (TMS), Yard/Compound Management Solution (YMS), our Smartphone-enabled wireless tracking and communications, or our wide ranging EDI and systems interface capabilities, look to CargoTel to streamline your business.
Groupe CAT strives to provide all players in the automotive industry with complete and tailor-made logistics solutions. In 2010, our clients placed more than 2.5 million vehicles, 250.000 motorcycle and over 23 millions parcels, to transport throughout their strategic markets. They chose CAT for the reliability, performance and comprehensive range of services we offer across two areas of expertise: Vehicle Logistics and Cargo Logistics. With a strategic, global and powerful network and a turnover of 1.05 000 M€ in 2010, CAT is at the moment one of the European leaders in term of transport and automotive logistics.
As a specialist in transport logistics, INFORM offers software solutions for real-time optimisation by means of intelligent planning and decision-making. The highly developed software solutions use advanced mathematical technology and thereby process complex situations and large amounts of data in a short period of time.
With more than 25 years of use, SyncroTESS is the logistics management system available for the automotive industry.
IT-solutions for finished vehicle distribution
SyncroTESS provides a full-service package for carriers, compound operators, auto terminals, OEMs and everyone involved in finished vehicle logistics.
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Strategic planning with network modelling and long term planning
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Short term VIN-based scheduling with event management and tracking
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Real time control of each VIN with event management, position-, hold- and damage tracking
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Web-based contract- and order-management for carriers and service providers
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Yard management to optimise use of space and resources in all processes such as stacking and routing, PDI, bypack, inspection and maintenance at the plant, distribution centre or port
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Transport Management to optimise transport via rail, road or sea across several transport levels, taking into account capacities and requirements at the different hubs
With SyncroTESS they are able to master this complexity to an optimum and to achieve possible savings which lead to returns on investment in an average of 9 to 18 months.
INFORM’s 350 plus employees take care of numerous customers all over the world, including container terminals, passenger airports, financial service providers, manufacturing companies, wholesalers, storage and handling centres and transport companies.
Founded in 1989, TES bv is the expert in the field of worldwide inspection services of (new) cars for damage at every stage in the logistical transportation process for car manufacturers, carriers and transport insurers, among others. Each stage of the transport operation involves risk, no matter how good its preparation and execution. Inspections are essential, if only to ascertain that no damage has occurred. The results of investigations and recommendations are indisputable due to TES's independent position as specialised loss adjusters.
We ensure:
- that audits, damage assessment and settlement are handled professionally
- timely advice, which means prompt possibilities for (the suggested) improvement which results in less damage
- our added value to your professionalism.
Vehnet is one of the world's leading specialists in Yard Management software. Our uniquely configurable, scalable and flexible solutions are designed to deliver enhanced visibility and control, helping reduce costs and improve productivity through greater efficiency.
Customers worldwide rely on our software to link into the supply chain, synchronise resources and optimise yard management operations.