On Friday 3rd August, the “EUROCOPTER Logistics Center” was inaugurated at an opening ceremony in Donauwörth. Numerous representatives attended this ceremony including Bavarian state authorities, local politicians and members of the Eurocopter Executive Board. This inauguration features an important milestone of Eurocopter’s site development in Donauwörth. Manfred Wenninger, Eurocopter’s Vice President Supply Chain Services and project manager for logistics, opened the event by outlining the goals of the new logistics hub. From now on, all merchandise to and from Eurocopter’s main German production site, including just-in-time delivery of the production materials, will be coordinated at the new Eurocopter Logistics Center located at the north of the factory premises. The center will use state-of-theart technical processes to service not only the factory itself but also the customers, partners, subsidiaries and maintenance centers. The center is equipped with fully automated high-bay warehouses as well as loading and unloading zones for large lorries. The implementation of the above provides a reliable and cost-effective solution for ensuring a steady increase of the site’s productivity, thus allowing Eurocopter to meet the service requirements of its commercial and military customers. “Eurocopter’s goal to achieving optimal efficiency and maximum customer satisfaction can only be reached by merging all our processes in a facility offering sufficient room for growth. This is the reason why Eurocopter decided to enter into a partnership with the Fiege Group, a leading international logistics company whose core expertise lies in industrial logistics solutions,” stressed Dr. Wolfgang Schoder at the inauguration ceremony. With a portfolio comprising of not only logistics services as such, but also pre-production, quality insurance, storage of primary materials as well as customs formalities, Fiege will be supporting an essential part of the Eurocopter supply chain in the future. “This working model will enable us to focus on our core industrial expertise as manufacturers and to devote our efforts in achieving the production ramp-up necessary for optimal customer satisfaction” Schoder added. The newly built center covers a surface area of more than 20,000 m2 and rises to a height of 16 meters in certain areas. It regroups the activities of 10 decentralized locations previously scattered within and outside of the factory premises. The construction work which lasted 8 months, including access routes linking the center to the factory premises, was completed a month ahead of schedule, making it possible to use this time exclusively for dry-run testing. Source: Eurocopter ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- DO Logistics Consulting was responsible for the planning of the logistics facilities as well as the TO-BE processes which were implemented in SAP.

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