Supply Chain Day - an initiative of the Bundesvereinigung Logistik (BVL)

Supply Chain Day

Logistics and supply chain management is more than just transport, warehousing and transshipment. On Supply Chain Day, companies in the industrial, trading and logistics sectors provide the public with an opportunity to look behind the scenes and experience the wide variety of logistics activities. Institutes showcase their research projects and educational establishments present their courses and curricula. The motto for Supply Chain Day is "Logistics paves the way". All companies and institu-tions active in the field of logistics and supply chain management can organise events; all events are free of charge for visitors but registered may be necessary.

Allowing people to take a look behind the scenes into areas that are normally "off limits" highlights the variety of logistics and supply chain management activities and tasks, helping to make the public more aware of what logistics is and what logistics does. Logistics and supply chain management are indispensable, for example, when it comes to producing goods or filling retailer shelves with the required products. Logistics facilitates targeted and cost-effective cooperation between different corporate divisions, different companies and different sectors – not just nationally but also internationally and world-wide. Logistics is a core field of expertise in many European countries; it is a key eco-nomic factor, a job motor and a future-oriented sector we should encourage people to take an interest in.

Whether you are a company or an institute, you can publish details of your event on these webpages easily and conveniently. You yourself organise your event. These pages also offer interested visitors the opportunity to register for an event of their choice with ma-ximum ease. Discover the diversity of logistics and supply chain management!

Supply Chain Day is always on the third Thursday in April and was initiated by German based BVL International with the support of various associations and organisations.

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Logistics is …

Logistics is …

…when flowers imported from other countries only begin to bloom when they're in the shop - despite the long transport distances.

…when a car buyer puts together exactly the features he or she wants in a new car - all the way through to the colour of the iPod – and when the car is delivered with these exact features and at the exact time promised when the customer placed the order.

…when a retail chain is able to offer a totally new product range every week in many thousand outlets.

…when a wallpaper producer with a single production plant and a single warehouse is able to market his products worldwide.