Deutsche Post opens DHL innovation center
Deutsche Post World Net has opened a DHL Innovation Center in Troisdorf near Bonn in a bid to develop marketable, innovative products from logistics trends of the future.
The center also forms an umbrella organization for all areas of technical innovation management that the company has been exploring. What Deutsche Post is calling ‘the laboratory of the future’ plays a key role in the group’s strategy to become the world’s most innovative logistics company. Chairman Dr Klaus Zumwinkel stressed this in his address at the opening ceremony: “Today, we are the largest logistics company in the world. But size alone is no measure of success. What counts is our customers’ satisfaction. This is why we will amaze our customers with even newer and more future-oriented products.”The projects at the DHL Innovation Center are being conducted jointly with partners. The innovation partners from the business world include IBM, Intel and SAP. The center also maintains research partnerships with the logistics institutes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston and Zaragoza, and the German Fraunhofer institutes.
