VDA President Mattes becomes a juror
Bernhard Mattes, President of the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA), Berlin, has accepted the invitation to the jury of the Logistics Hall of Fame.
The Pallet Pioneers
Founder of logistics for humanitarian organisations
Pioneer of intermodal transport
Moderniser of Inland port logistics
Outsourcing trendsetter and innovator of automotive logistics
Revolutioniser of ecommerce and logistics. Founder of Amazon
Founder of the international postal services
Inventors of assembly line production
Launcher of parcels services and founder of UPS
Inventors of the barcode
Fighter for the cooperative idea in logistics and founder of dedicated industry insurer KRAVAG
Initiator of the system concept and pioneer of storage logistics
Pioneer of vehicle logistics
Inventor of express logistics and founder of FedEx
Paved the way for Internet commerce and modern logistics
Successful entrepreneur and source of stimuli for logistics
Founder of holistic and process-oriented logistics
Leading managerial figure and a key source of stimuli for modern logistics
Inventor of the forklift truck
Inventor of the truck and pioneer of modern freight transport
Pioneers of contract logistics
Mover of European road freight transport
Logistics research guru
Leading material flow expert and co-founder of industrial logistics
Statistician of logistics
Leading entrepreneurial figure and logistics benefactor
The father of containerisation
Inventor of kanban
Founder of scientific logistics research
Inventor of groupage transport by rail
Founder of the German logistics movement
The man who organised the Berlin Airlift
German automotive logistics guru
Bernhard Mattes, President of the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA), Berlin, has accepted the invitation to the jury of the Logistics Hall of Fame.
Andreas Scheuer, Federal Minister of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, has assumed patronage of the Logistics Hall of Fame. In addition, as a member of the jury, he will future determine who will be inducted to the world´s pantheon of logistics.
Panel decides which projects submitted for the Lynn C. Fritz Medal for Excellence in Humanitarian Logistics will be presented to the jury. Award is designed to recognize organizations that value supply chain management and to encourage them to undertake projects that will have impact. The start date for online applications is in March 2023.
Pallet pioneers inducted into the World Hall of Fame. Neil Humphrey honored as TRATON Logistics Leader of the Year 2022. Logistics Hall of Fame awards new sponsor award from 2023: Lynn C. Fritz Medal for Excellence in Humanitarian Logistics.