NFDA Sees Würth’s Logistics in Action
4/10/2015 1:01:00 AM
FEATURE
In 1999, there was a 302-acre wooded property on the edge of Bad Mergentheim, Germany. By 2014, Würth Industrie Service GmbH & Co. KG was operating 551,650 sq ft of logistics space and 8.1 miles of conveyor belts on the property, processing 7,800 tons of product per month there.
The relatively-new Würth Group company was based on logistics from day one. Each of the current 1,367 employees spends one Saturday a year working in logistics. That is to emphasize logistics to all employees. “Here is the value we generate,” marketing director Martin Jauss explained. “And this way administrative people know what to do. They know what to talk about with a customer.”
Jauss gave the National Fastener Distributors Association a tour the day before Fastener Fair Stuttgart opened.
Jauss explained that Würth Industrie is an example of an advantage the privately-held, Würth family business has. The Würth Group decided the idea for a company supplying c-parts for assembly technology was good, and Würth was able to invest “out of our own pockets.”
We can grow without limits, Jauss said.
Würth Industrie Service is one of more than 400 Würth Group companies in 80 countries with 66,044 employees.
Jauss said the “small entities can react to market and customer needs.”
Together the Würth companies topped the EUR 10 billion (US$10.97b) sales mark for 2014. Künzelsau, Germany-based Würth Group sales rose from EUR 9.75 billion for 2013 to EUR 10.12 billion in 2014.
Würth Industrie’s portion of the 2014 Würth Group sales was EUR 387 million (US$424.5m).
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