Creators, makers, pioneers

About 13,000 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 around 13,000 employees all over the world. We are the home for entrepreneurs —we turn entrepreneurial thinking into customers success. Körber AG manages the Group and its five Business Areas: Digital, Pharma, Supply Chain, Technologies, and Tissue.

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.

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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Tissue

E2E or: The end of all silos in Industry 4.0

Rami Jokela, Chief Sales Officer (CSO) of the Körber Group

How end-to-end (E2E) solutions take transparency and efficiency to the next level through comprehensive system integration along the entire product cycle.

The distance a roll of toilet paper travels from its creation to its use is long. First, the necessary raw materials have to be produced, purchased, transported and adjusted. From this, paper machines produce the base paper, which in the next step is processed into a toilet paper roll, packaged and transported to the warehouse. From there, the finished roll finally reaches its destination, usually the bathroom at home, via retail centers, supermarkets or drugstores.

The efficiency potential along the entire value chain is correspondingly diverse. For example, if you want to achieve greater sustainability in waste avoidance, material use and energy consumption, you have to keep an eye on raw material extraction and procurement as well as transport and logistics, production and distribution. Optimization in all these areas is interdependent - and yet so far, they have mostly been managed, evaluated and optimized in isolation.

lThe highest optimization potential for customers today no longer lies in individual products, but in a functioning ecosystem.r

Rami Jokela, Chief Sales Officer (CSO) of the Körber Group

The emphasis is on so far. This is where E2E comes into play, which has been the great promise of Industry 4.0 for years. E2E, which stands for end-to-end, describes nothing other than the end of all process silos - and not just horizontally, i.e. along the areas within each silo. "Particularly vertically, i.e., concerning and connecting all digital and physical processes within a product cycle, E2E can provide a quantum leap in transparency and efficiency," says Rami Jokela, Chief Sales Officer (CSO) of the Körber Group. "The highest optimization potential for customers today no longer lies in individual products, but in a functioning ecosystem."

Ecosystems do have the highest customer value today

Since last year, this promise has already become reality in many places. Körber is currently working on E2E solutions with customers in the tissue sector, as well as business cases in the Körber Business Areas Pharma, Supply Chain and Tobacco. Interest is great - and has increased significantly in the wake of the Corona pandemic. 

On the one hand, this is due to the largely exhausted optimization margin within the specific value chain - companies are therefore increasingly looking for new ways to advance their future business in the era of 4.0, in which almost everything is integrated, automated and connected. On the other hand, the digitization push resulting from COVID-19 has strengthened the willingness worldwide to create a comprehensive ecosystem for digitized manufacturing planning that integrates all levels and players - regardless of which provider the customer prefers. The high innovation momentum in the technology areas of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation, cloud computing and 5G network is doing the rest. Whereas data exchange between business units used to take months, it is now possible within seconds.

An E2E model along the value chain in the Körber Business Area Tissue

The decisive factor in implementation is an integrated solution approach that enables the smooth compatibility and networking of all areas involved. As a strategic partner with comprehensive process expertise, Körber offers customized E2E models "from a single source" - from physical manufacturing and operating systems to cloud and AI-based monitoring models. "Synchronizing data and software, apps and interfaces in industrial manufacturing is a highly complex task that also requires new thinking in management and business units," explains Rami Jokela.

This is another reason why most E2E projects at Körber start with a C-level workshop. "A collaborative and agile workshop situation at the beginning is essential for success. As a first step, we focus together on working with the business units of our customers involved to identify their goals and needs, peculiarities and developments along the entire value chain," says Rami Jokela. "From this, we then develop an approach to increase production efficiency with AI solutions."

There is enormous potential in the medium term for the use of AI in production and logistics in particular, says Rami Jokela. "If technological innovation here continues at such a pace as it has recently, in a few years digital avatars, human-like bots, could manage the production process of large factories largely autonomously - and thus ensure far greater freedom from errors, process reliability and a smaller environmental footprint by streamlining equipment and processes. That would then already be the next quantum leap for Industry 5.0."

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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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Inspiring the future - how Körber is driving tomorrow's technology solutions

What products will we be using tomorrow? Körber attempts to answer this question with the Future Induced Innovation (FI²) method.

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Tech

UCS – Conductor in the warehouse

With its Unified Control System (UCS), Körber introduces an unprecedented software solution for bundling and orchestrating multiple warehouse technologies.

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People, Tech

“What a fantastic joint opportunity!“

Lars Hornung and Wiek de Winter are part of the team that has developed a joint product offering for the Business Areas Pharma and Supply Chain.

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Tech

Harnessing the power of ecosystems for long-term growth

Why a collaborative ecosystem approach as a business model is becoming more and more fundamental to the global tech and industry sector. And what it takes to build it up successfully.

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With data flowing, production is running

No need to fear Pharma 4.0: We are here to support customers shaping digitization tailored to their individual needs and capabilities.

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