4flow AG achieved several national and international awards.

Best Workplaces in Europe 2010

4flow AG has been honored as one of Europe's best employers in the "Best Workplaces in Europe 2010" competition. Among "Companies with up to 500 employees," the leading provider of supply chain consulting, software and network management was ranked sixth, making it the only supply chain company in the top 10 and Germany's second best participant.

The "Great Workplaces in Europe 2010" awardees were announced on May 19, 2010 in Madrid by the Great Place to Work® Institute Europe. A total of 1,300 companies throughout Europe were evaluated to select the 50 best employers from each category. The "Best Workplaces in Europe 2010" competition is carried out by the Great Place to Work® Institute Europe and compares the best companies of 17 national competitions.

MAN Best Practice Award 2009 

The MAN Best Practice Award is annually assigned by the management board of the MAN Group for excellent processes, methods and procedures. The award-winning project was set up to realign the overall container management strategy of the MAN Nutzfahrzeuge Group. The objective of the cooperation between MAN and 4flow consulting was to enable an on-time, cost-efficient and high-quality material supply for the MAN Nutzfahrzeuge Group.
 

The application which has been developed by inet-logistics and implemented by MAN container management and 4flow consulting resulted in significant improvements. The reliability of empties supply has been enhanced. Visibility of empties orders and empties inventory has been increased. Moreover, the IT solution sustainably simplified the overall processing of empties. “By implementing MN-CM we achieved an almost paperless process and about 3,000 users have online access to their container stock levels, container movements and complaints”, comments Dr. Stefan Geis, project manager of MAN Nutzfahrzeuge Group, regarding the award.

Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100 2009

4flow vista and 4flow turn have been included in the prestigious Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100 list in 2009. The honor is presented annually in the United States and distinguishes supply chain solution providers supporting their clients to achieve lasting optimizations in their supply chains.

True to the 2009 motto “Supply Chain Saves The Enterprise,” solutions and technologies were honored which enable companies to meet the critical challenges in the current economic downturn. For corporate executives and decision makers in logistics, the Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100 list provides orientation in the supply chain solutions market, helping them to both respond to the downturn and, more importantly, to position themselves for growth ahead.

4flow vista and 4flow turn allow to make the supply chain manageable, despite complex and constantly changing environments. The 4flow solutions realize this by creating transparency and flexibility and hence revealing need for action as well as possible solutions for decision makers in supply chain management and logistics.

4flow among Germany's and Europe's best employers

4flow was named as Europe's best employers in the Great Places to Work 2008 competition. In the category "small and medium-sized workplaces", including companies between 50 and 500 employees, 4flow ranked third. The company is the only logistics expert among Europe's most attractive places to work.

Futhermore, 4flow AG was named one of Germany's top 3 employers in the Great Place to Work 2008 Germany competition. In the category "comapanies with up to 500 employees", 4flow placed second. Participating in the contest for the first time, 4flow won an overall third place among Germany's best places to work.

More information on the awards can be found here.

"Prize for Innovation 2007 ITK" in the category of logistics

The standard software 4flow turn was awarded the "Prize for Innovation 2007 ITK" of the "Initiative Mittelstand" (initiative for medium-sized businesses) as innovative product in the category of logistics.

The "Prize for Innovation ITK" has been awarded since 2004 and the bestowal takes place at the CeBIT every year. An independent selection committee composed of experts and ITK editors from the initiative for medium-sized businesses, PresseBox® and it-Medien award the Prize for Innovation to companies providing innovative products, services and solutions with a great benefit for medium-sized businesses in particular.

Technology Fast 500 EMEA

As one of few logistics enterprises, 4flow is among this year’s winners of the Technology Fast 500 EMEA. With this nomination, the 500 fastest-growing technology companies of Europe, Middle East and Africa are honored. Companies of the software, telecommunications, Internet, energy and life sciences industry belong to this segment.

On 27 November 2006, the accountancy firm Deloitte awarded the winners of the Technology Fast 500 EMEA awards 2006 in Paris. In this ranking, 4flow AG reaches the position 253, and is one of the few logistics companies among the awarded.

"The convincing growth rates of the Fast 500 companies raise the confidence in the technology sector of the EMEA region remarkably," Dieter Schlereth, executive partner and Industry Leader TMT at Deloitte, comments gladly. "Particularly the software and Internet enterprises benefit from their successfully scalable business models. It is a great pleasure for us that there are five German companies among the EMEA-wide top ten."

Technology Fast 50

4flow is among Germany’s 50 fastest growing technology companies.

In Munich/Germany, the famous Technology Fast 50 Award 2006 was awarded on 26th October 2006 by the audit and consulting firm Deloitte with support of the business magazine ‘Capital’. In this ranking, 4flow AG is on position 35, which is an excellent result, and at the same time it is the only company among the 50 winners focused on supply chain management.

With the prize, which awards Germany’s 50 fastest growing technology companies, outstanding business achievements are appreciated. In Germany, there is a total of more than 59,000 enterprises in the business segment of technology, which includes software, telecommunications, Internet, media, energy and life sciences. This year, more than 500 of these companies applied for the German Fast 50 Award.

“These companies combine initiative, innovation and a willingness to take risk with technical authority,” comments Dieter Schlereth, acting partner of Deloitte in the actual issue of ‘Capital’. The top 50 companies have a great deal in common: almost all of them are brilliant concerning team spirit, clear and fast decisions, excellent technology and sophisticated marketing. Furthermore, on the managerial level, continuity is profitable: even after years, most of Germany’s economy’s stars of growth are still led by their founders. “The will to success is decisive,” adds Frank Huelsberg, partner for technology, media and telecommunication at Deloitte.

Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100 2006

4flow vista named to the prestigious Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100 in 2006. In the U.S., the top 100 Supply & Demand Chain solution providers are honored annually.

The Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100 enables companies in the field of Supply Chain Management and logistics to take on the leadership within their industry. In the year 2006, the editors focused the criteria on innovation. 4flow is one of the two European vendors that qualified for 2006’s top 100.

The business magazine Supply & Demand Chain Executive identified the leading providers of supply chain technologies that are at the forefront of innovation. "The corporate executives and line-of-business leaders who rely on the magazine want to know not only what the state of the art is today, but what will be the cutting edge of supply chain transformation and enablement tomorrow," explains Andrew K. Reese, editor of the Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine.

National Prize for transport logistics

In 2005, the National Prize for transport logistics was announced for the first time. In the course of the award ceremony, two National Prizes, one special prize and nine nominees were awarded. The National Prize of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology (bmvit) is awarded to point out excellent logistics projects and their professional and innovative potential.

4flow – in co-operation with MAGNA STEYR Fahrzeugtechnik AG & Co KG as well as inet-logistics GmbH – was nominated for the National Prize 2005 in category B: 'Products/ system solutions used at the market'.

The transport management module (TMM) used by MAGNA STEYR since February 2004 is an integrated, web-based IT solution for transportation planning (scheduling), transportation control (operations), container management and accounting (freight costs clearing) integrating logistics service providers and suppliers directly and within one technical system. The aim of TMM was to replace manual processes and isolated applications within the transportation management of the Magna group in order to double the manufacturing capacity which is based on order volume. This could only be achieved by a massive change of processes and with the help of an own and highly integrated IT solution. This solution enables a trans-sectoral and inter-company optimization of the total process.

The jury consists of  experts of the categories traffic, transport and logistics, and media. The jury and the president of the jury are suggested and announced by bmvit.

These are the reasons the jury gave for the nomination of MAGNA STEYR and 4flow for the TMM: 'The TMM demonstrates a successful and, an in Austria partly unique system solution. It shows that the reorganization of transport mangement from manual processes and isolated applications to automatic and integrated systems is possible efficiently. When applying the system, reductions in transportation costs and process durations as well as a massive shift to carriage by rail were achieved rapidly.'

e-logistics award

4flow won the famous e-logistics award of AKJ Automotive on March 17th 2004 for the application of the logistics software 4flow vista at MAGNA STEYR Fahrzeugtechnik AG & Co KG.

The integrated transportation management solution for MAGNA STEYR was awarded at the awards show at Castle Halberg near Saarbrücken. The awarded transportation management solution is based on the software application 4flow vista and was implemented for transportation planning and inet-logistics for transportation control.

Applying our solution, MAGNA STEYR reduces its transportation costs  significantly – up to more than 2,5 million euros per annum!

The project was realized together with 4flow, Berlin, and inet-logistics, Wolfurt/Austria, in a consortium managed by Nexolab, Munich.

For further information on the project in general, on the preconditions at MAGNA STEYR, on the awarded solution (in particular regarding transportation planning and organization, management of loading equipment and freight costs clearing) as well as on the total benefit of the project and the application of 4flow vista, please see our 4flow newsletter of March 2004 or go to Publications.

Project of the month

The team 'Project Future' of the Senate’s administration department for economy, employment and women – unit media, information and communication business Berlin – awarded the 4flow AG as project of the month of November 2001.

'To make flow' – that’s the eponymous motto of the 4flow AG. The start-up company from Berlin combines logistic know-how with modern information technology within its innovative corporative concept. The three business areas – consulting, software and content for the designing of logistic networks – address to large and medium-sized companies in the automotive, aviation, consumer goods, food, trade and wholesale trade, electronics and logistics service provider industry.

Industrial and trading enterprises move increasing commodity and information flows which become more and more different. Very complex relations between suppliers, places of production, warehouses, shipment and customers are created. These logistic networks continue growing constantly through mergers, takeovers and entrepreneurial reorientations; constant adjustments are necessary. That is where 4flow sees a big chance. Because only a frictionless flow of goods and information within the whole company guarantees cost advantages within the increasing competition. 4flow develops these advantages for its customers with new logistics concepts and innovative planning software.

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