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10 HAVI LogIstIcs Is cuttIng edge. Video conferences; communicator; webcams, laptops and mobiles; applications such as virtualization software; and – last but certainly not least – we make first steps with techniques like cloud computing. HAVI Logistics provides what a global player needs and supports its employees by offering them up-to-date information technology "extra" empowering them to deal with overcrowded offices and traffic jams and establish a sound work-life balance. These tools are already widely used at HAVI Logistics and are especially valued by employees e.g. returning to work after maternity or childcare leave. They are one of the many reasons for the high employee retention rate at the company. In addition, implementing these techniques throughout HAVI Logistics offers possibilities for cutting costs for hardware, licenses and office space. cLoud computIng is a good example of this trend. The basic principle is very simple: as Internet connections get faster and faster, more and more data and programs are now stored on central servers in the Internet instead of on computers at the individual work places. This means users can now access their data at any time and place per cellphone or PC; the computer user is surrounded by Company News woNDerful New "Home office," "Thin Clients" and "cloud computing" are buzz words familiar to worlD everyone who lives and works in the modern world. Nevertheless, many companies are still skeptical about these IT innovations. While such companies wait for proof of the practicality of these innovations, HAVI Logistics has already been using the latest information technology – and deriving the associated benefits – for quite some time. a "digital cloud" of data. The associated cost flexibility is another important advantage of cloud computing for HAVI Logistics. With cloud computing we could save up to 80 percent of space and 60 percent of electricity and air-conditioning costs at our computing centers. Furthermore, the company is charged only for the server capacity it actually requires at the cloud computing providers. This means that we do not have expenditures for resources we do not use. It is not only the HAVI Logistics employees working at home offices or in the IS sector who use cloud computing. The virtual workplace is also available, for example, to our Shared Service Center in Prague in the Czech Republic. Nor does the use of “virtual workspace” require a thin client; it is possible from every PC regardless of its location. eVeryone benefIts from this technology, which is expected to eliminate problems such as installation of updates at overly long intervals, applications that do not work right due to local circumstances, the need for on-site support, uncontrolled installations, and a failure to have all the right licenses in place. And when it comes to the preferred location and the particular PC in use, we can satisfy the preferences of our employees without running a security risk: in general all suppliers of online data storage space break down the data entrusted to them into non-readable fragments via a complicated encoding procedure. Only after the user has logged on with his or her user ID and password does the software reassemble the desired files. To achieve even more security, the data are distributed among several servers around the (wonderful new) world for storage.
stars of germaNy gauDi oN the go, germaNy-wiDe! gAudI Is one of tHe most sIgnIfIcAnt InnoVAtIons in the history of HAVI Logistics. Starting out as a test in 2007, GAuDi has advanced steadily until it attained the status, at the beginning of this year, of one of the most important services offered by HAVI Logistics. GAuDi is now at the rollout phase in Germany. Over the years we have revised the concept several times to bring it into line with the requirements of our customers. tHe VIsIon of gAudI is to completely relieve the McDonald’s restaurants of all logistics tasks by providing one big service package. The restaurants do not have to order anymore since HAVI Logistics is taking over this responsibility. In addition, we handle goods reception and inventory management. We bring the goods into the restaurants, put them on the shelves, and carry out shelf-life rotation and even inventory counts. During our test phase in 2008, it finally became clear that there was a keen interest in all parts of the German franchisee community in Company News 11 At the beginning of this year, HAVI Logistics Germany and S.T.I. Freight Management transported a very delicate load to Los Angeles. The very fragile goods had to be delivered to L.A. at very short notice. Nothing special for our experts, you might think? Well, in this case it was, because the load was the eye catchers for a McDonald's ad starring Heidi Klumm. A styLIsH gALA eVenIng Is just gettIng stArted. Everybody who is anybody has been invited. The photographers are lining up to get the best shot of the evening. A limousine glides up. All eyes are on the car as people wait with bated breath to see the next great star. The door opens and… a little dog jumps out. The onlookers are sorely disappointed and also puzzled: there’s no sign of a star anywhere. The next camera shot shows Heidi Klumm accompanied by Germany's next Top Models Sara, Mandy and Marie. They smirk about the trick they played on the photographers as they enter a McDonald's restaurant. Heidi and their three beauties are advertising the McDonald's campaign launched in Germany in June called "Stars of America." Maybe the advertising boards (called standies), a menu board and a panorama display that we flew in especially from Germany were not the center of attention, but they were definitely eyecatchers. On 12 February of this year, HAVI Logistics Germany was commissioned to transport the extremely fragile and bulky items to America. The advertising boards had to arrive in L.A. within only ten days, and this deadline was not negotiable because the ad was going to be filmed on a fixed date. While HAVI Logistics procured the standies, boards and displays within the shortest time, S.T.I. planned every aspect of the tricky airfreight operation and helped HAVI Logistics complete the customs formalities. to tHe greAt sAtIsfActIon of our customer, the advertising materials arrived on time for the start of filming. As usual, McDonald's could be sure that HAVI Logistics and S.T.I. would make an excellent job of transporting fragile materials, even at short notice. So for us, the real stars in this story are not Chicken Wrap & Co. but our colleagues in HAVI Logistics Germany and S.T.I. taking over the responsibility for the store orders for all articles. It was decided that HAVI Logistics should handle this first element of GAuDi. Other elements of GAuDi – e.g. the provision of mere physical services for the restaurants such as goods reception and inventory management – are not appreciated by every franchisee. Therefore, we decided to back away from the idea of offering GAuDi as one big package only. We will go for a modular approach to meet our customers' needs even better. tHe moduLe “gAudI pusH” wAs born. With the introduction of this module, order responsibility became part of our standard service and mark-up package. HAVI Logistics has committed itself and literally promised the franchisee community in Germany that we will take over the order responsibility for all inventory-controlled items step by step. For promotional items and Happy Meals, we have already been doing this for the total market for the last two years under the name “Pool&Push.” Now we will take over frozen and chilled items and other ar- gauDi the havi logistics solution ticle groups will soon follow. In-store logistics – the second module of GAuDi – is offered only to those restaurants which are ready to pay separately for it. todAy we have about 110 McDonald’s restaurants in Germany which simply do not order frozen and chilled items anymore: we do that for them. Every week we increase this number by five to ten restaurants. Other material groups are expected to follow later. With today’s infrastructure we can only do frozen and chilled items for 500 McDonald’s restaurants at a maximum. This is why we plan to implement SCR5 in parallel. SCR5 represents the next generation of supply chain tools and was developed by our sister company HAVI Global Solutions. SCR5 is the planning tool which will enable us to push all inventory-controlled items for all restaurants in the market. However, the time frame is tight. We have to have SCR5 available in Germany before the end of 2009 in order to fulfill the commitment we have made to the German market.
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