Foundation as a guest on the Rhenus Podcast

Foundation as a guest on the Rhenus Podcast

Markus Sandbrink, the Rhenus Group’s Chief Information Officer, and Andreas Nettsträter, the CEO of the Open Logistics Foundation, are guests in the podcast “Logistics People Talk”, powered by Rhenus. They emphasize the benefits provided by open source to establish de-facto standards and how competitors can confidently and successfully share ideas.

Jochen Thewes passes on the baton to Dr. Stephan Peters

Jochen Thewes passes on the baton to Dr. Stephan Peters

With a significant increase in the number of member organisations, the Open Logistics Foundation has made the transition from the build-up to the growth phase earlier than expected. As agreed upon already when the Foundation was established in December 2021, this transition is accompanied by a reorganisation of the Foundation’s Board of Directors: Jochen Thewes, CEO of DB Schenker, hands over the chair to Dr. Stephan Peters, a member of the Board of Rhenus.

Open Logistics Foundation featured on the new BVL-Podcast: “There is a huge need for a European harmonised solution!”

Open Logistics Foundation featured on the new BVL-Podcast: “There is a huge need for a European harmonised solution!”

Andreas Nettsträter, CEO of the Open Logistics Foundation, and Ingo Müller, Department Head Prototyping & Testing at Dachser, one of the founding companies of the foundation, talk about the importance of “Open Source in Logistics and Supply Chain” in the new episode (#135) of the podcast of the Bundesvereinigung Logistik (BVL), The Global Supply Chain Network.

First components made available in the repository

First components made available in the repository

Researchers at Fraunhofer IML have now made results of software and hardware developments from development projects of the “Silicon Economy” research project available in the repository of the Open Logistics Foundation.

“First step towards a platform economy”: Open Logistics Foundation established

“First step towards a platform economy”: Open Logistics Foundation established

Today, Dachser, DB Schenker, duisport and Rhenus established the Open Logistics Foundation in Berlin. The purpose of the non-profit foundation is to build a European open-source community aiming to promote digitalization in logistics and supply chain management based on open source and standardize logistics processes through de facto standards.