Creators, makers, pioneers

More than 12,000 employees, globally active and passionate about innovation — that is the way to achieve both market and technological leadership. We are Körber. Presenting our Group.

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We are Körber

Körber is a leading international technology group that has more than 12,000 employees at over 100 locations worldwide. We are the home for entrepreneurs — we turn entrepreneurial thinking into customers success. Körber AG manages the Group and its four Business Areas: Digital, Pharma, Supply Chain and Technologies.

Insights

The Körber Insights shows the entire spectrum of the Körber world: We give our view of exciting developments and trends, as well as innovations and technologies. We also highlight personalities who drive Körber forward every day with their entrepreneurial spirit and new ideas.

Sustainability

Sustainability

We develop innovative products, solutions and services for a more sustainable tomorrow and introduce the people who make them possible. Find out more in our Sustainability Report 2023.

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Körber pursues ambitious climate targets

In October 2023, we had the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) verify our commitment to achieving net-zero CO₂e emissions throughout the entire value chain by 2040. We would like to introduce you to some of the measures that will help us achieve this ambitious goal.

Group-wide standards for Ecodesign

We were able to advance our Ecodesign initiative decisively in 2023 after creating a group-wide standard for life cycle assessments (LCAs). Find out more about the first LCAs we implemented and the challenges we overcame.

Data and infrastructure protection

We aim to transform information security into a strategic objective and make it a shared concern for all employees. We provide an overview of the corresponding measures and projects in 2023.

Career

Career

Wanted: team players. The know-how, creativity, and dedication of our employees have made us a successful technology company in Germany and worldwide. Now we want to shape the future — with you! We offer exciting positions for experts, young professionals, university students, and high school students.

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"Modern leadership culture has a performance-enhancing effect"

A working climate that promotes innovation, diversity, and the courage to tell uncomfortable truths is more central than ever to a company's success today. In an interview, Gabriele Fanta, Head of Group Human Resources, explains how the new leadership principles at Körber specifically strengthen fruitful collaboration in everyday working life.

What comes after traineeship, Max?

Experience report: After graduating in mechatronics and mechanical engineering, Max Döring became a trainee at Körber. Today, he is Technical Product Manager at our Körber Business Area Pharma.

Procurement and Supply Chain Management

Procurement and Supply Chain Management

Joint future-proof activities are the foundation of sustainable procurement. Körber, as a globally leading technology group, therefore places great value on the optimal purchasing of materials and services.

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Pharma

Körber evolves ecosystem partnership with Microsoft to create more value for customers

To help our customers become more efficient and agile in pharmaceutical production, we transformed our market-leading PAS-X Manufacturing Execution System (MES) offering into a cloud-based solution. The partnership with Microsoft plays a key role here.

At Körber, we are driven by the principle of being the first to do the right thing at the right time. Our focus is on manufacturing and supply chain technology, encouraging an entrepreneurial spirit that catalyzes innovation and industry-changing breakthroughs. By supplementing our portfolio through strategic partnerships, we become more adaptable to customer needs. This is why, at Körber, we invest in business ecosystems. We are building factories of the future by providing end-to-end scalable manufacturing ecosystems that can evolve with increasing demands and the specific needs of our customers. In our Business Area Pharma, we provide high-tech machinery, operating software, and digital solutions to the major global pharmaceutical organizations, as well as many regional companies.

“Our north star is helping our customers create advanced ecosystems that deliver optimum quality — with our solutions as the backbone — that empower employees with intelligent and sustainable processes,” says Dr. Christian Schlögel, Chief Digital Officer at Körber Group. “We are strategic partners with all our customers. Through these relationships, we know that their biggest goals are to maintain supply chain robustness and agility, and ensure regulatory compliance, security, and scalability no matter the company size.”

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Dr. Christian Schlögel, Chief Digital Officer at Körber Group

To help our customers become more efficient and agile in pharmaceutical production, Körber transformed its market-leading PAS-X Manufacturing Execution System (MES) offering into a cloud-based and SaaS solution. This strategic enhancement is designed to meet the rising global demand for pharmaceuticals by facilitating scalable MES deployments and maintenance, while reducing capital and resource expenditure. “We chose Microsoft to offer a service stack that enables greater flexibility and scalability”, Christian Schlögel says.

“Working with a cloud leader like Microsoft that is also respected for security and compliance means that together we create more value for our customers”, adds Kevin Hillman, Head of Digitization at Körber Business Area Pharma. “Microsoft Cloud for Manufacturing helps us connect the dots — the physical and the digital — across factory and supply chain challenges.” This capability is essential for end-to-end production management across the entire product life cycle. It allows Körber to offer the proven, GMP-compliant, on-premises pharma MES in a fully managed, cloud-based version.

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Marianne Janik, CEO Microsoft Germany

Customers report significant benefits offered by PAS-X MES SaaS

„We are proud to support Körber to expand their business with innovative cloud-based solutions that empower their customers to achieve more,” says Marianne Janik, CEO Microsoft Germany. “This is a triple-win-partnership that showcases the value of evolving from simple vendor-supplier relationships to partnership ecosystems. In today’s dynamic and competitive market, this is the key to unlocking new opportunities and creating positive impact.”

Getting closer to the vision of lights out factories

Körber plans to expand on the MES SaaS solution with more Microsoft capabilities. “We will also expand on the use of copilots and cognitive search to make it even easier for operators to interact with the MES. Microsoft Cloud for Manufacturing makes this possible,” says Jens Woehlbier, Chief Executive Officer Software at Körber Business Area Pharma. “We think artificial intelligence offers more potential to the pharmaceutical industry than anything we’ve ever experienced. We are continuing to work with AI in the space of automated systems and all of this is getting us closer to our vision of more efficient, adaptive plants — or lights-out factories — in pharma, and in other areas of business.”

Schlögel emphasizes: “With Microsoft as a key ally, we aim to make more breakthroughs that evolve manufacturing excellence and innovation across all industries — and help pharmaceutical companies deliver the drugs and medicines the world needs now and in the future.”

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Insights shows the entire spectrum of Körber, what we do and how we do it: We give our view of exciting developments and trends, as well as innovations and technologies. We also highlight personalities who drive Körber forward every day with their entrepreneurial spirit and new ideas - always to the benefit of our customers. In this section, you’ll find inspiring content concerning our topic Tech.

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"Our customers know: We can not only handle end-of-line, we can manage ecosystems"

With the PA15, Körber has developed a layer palletizer that meets the requirements of our industrial customers in an energy-efficient and flexible way. In this interview, manufacturing logistics experts Dominik Griefahn and Peter Lambeck provide insights into why the PA15 can serve as the centerpiece of operational pallet logistics.

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Why complex when it can be simple?!

Many provide individual solutions; only a few provide ecosystems. As experts in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry, we at Körber rely on strategic ecosystem partnerships and offer our customers holistic solutions from a single source: everything, effortlessly, in one place.

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Tech

Körber evolves ecosystem partnership with Microsoft to create more value for customers

To help our customers become more efficient and agile in pharmaceutical production, we transformed our market-leading PAS-X Manufacturing Execution System (MES) offering into a cloud-based solution. The partnership with Microsoft plays a key role here.

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Tech

Pioneering information security with AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) provides hackers with new ways to attack organizations. But it also opens up opportunities for companies to better protect themselves against these attacks. Körber is, therefore, investing in AI and advising its customers to follow suit.

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Collaboration is key – the power of B2B ecosystems

At a time when new technologies and business models are rapidly entering the market, complexity increases. Interconnected solutions will allow us to realize our full potential in creating customer value.

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