Progressive workflows for an established company.

Gebrüder Weiss manages logistics spanning the globe with paperless workflows using Adobe Acrobat.

Gebruder Weiss

Established

1823

Employees: 6500

Lauterach, Austria

www.gw-world.com

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Higher team productivity by streamlining collaboration across locations

Products:

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Objectives

Improve the transition of information through digital workflows.

Work with a digital document management system that is powerful, reliable and secure.

Easily integrate solutions into existing system environment.

Results

More efficient business processes with digital document management.

Higher team productivity by streamlining collaboration across locations.

Better customer experiences with both paper and paperless services.

Flexibility and planning predictability with agreement for Adobe Acrobat.

“Adobe Acrobat Pro DC is the best document tool for us because it meets all of our day-to-day operational needs.”

Artur Kalb

Head of IT Services Infrastructure, Gebrüder Weiss GmbH

Strengthening connections between stakeholders

Gebrüder Weiss is by far the oldest transport and logistics company in Austria. Over the past 500 years, it has matured into a global player. While mounted messengers once carried cargo across the Alps, today Gebrüder Weiss connects the flow of goods across Europe, Asia and America by land, sea and air. The company’s 6,500 employees generate turnover of more than €1 billion through the company’s 150 global locations.

The key to the company’s success is a fast, reliable and efficient flow of information. For this reason, the transport and logistics service provider recognised opportunities for digitisation at an early stage and it has driven digital transformation at various levels of the business over the years. The company’s technological process is impressive, including use of depth cameras to automatically determine delivery volume or augmented reality to pick up orders at warehouses.

However, one of the biggest challenges for the company is not just collecting, but also sharing data to strengthen connections between all stakeholders along the supply chain. Gebrüder Weiss increasingly relies on paperless business processes for consistent, error-free information logistics. This allows all stakeholders to access required information through the Internet and intranet.

Today, digitised documents act as a kind of digital messenger that shares information along the supply chain. Therefore, it is important that Gebrüder Weiss implement a uniform document standard for documents that can be displayed on all devices. Adobe Acrobat Pro DC and PDF files are indispensable components of the digitisation strategy at Gebrüder Weiss.

An indispensable standard for digital operations

Since 2001, Gebrüder Weiss has worked with Adobe Acrobat as it transitioned into the digital age. Currently, the company is licensing the solution through an Adobe Enterprise Term Licence Agreement (ETLA), which helps ensure both flexibility and planning predictability.

“Adobe Acrobat Pro DC is the best document tool for us because it meets all of our day-to-day operational needs,” says Artur Kalb, Head of IT Services Infrastructure at Gebrüder Weiss.

From the effective security features, which can prevent people from changing contracts, to the intuitive editing features that allow people to extract, merge or edit PDF files when appropriate, Adobe Acrobat is a constant in daily operations for Gebrüder Weiss.

“Adobe Acrobat Pro DC is one of the most underrated tools available. It allows us to use almost no paper in our daily operations.”

Stephan Jöhnk

IT Service Desk Team, Gebrüder Weiss GmbH

Promoting paperless information logistics

Kalb notes that other strengths of Adobe Acrobat include its high degree of stability and how easily it integrated into the existing Gebrüder Weiss environment. That’s why Acrobat is also the tool of choice for reading and printing documents from the forwarding order and accounting archive. All documents from the transport and logistics business are stored in this archive so employees can access the correct information at any time, regardless of location. If bills of landing, delivery notes or invoices are sent on paper, rather than digitally, they are scanned and text is made searchable through OCR processing. Employees can access the document archive from any environment and display it on their device using Acrobat.

Having documents available digitally removes a significant workload from Gebrüder Weiss employees. Now the correct information is always available within seconds. This helps employees collaborate much easier, even across remote locations.

“Adobe Acrobat Pro DC is one of the most underrated tools available. It allows us to use almost no paper in our daily operations,” explains Stephan Jöhnk, IT Service Desk Team, who receives first-hand feedback from users.

Improving customer experiences through digital document processes

Digitising document workflows increases the efficiency of internal processes at Gebrüder Weiss. It also helps the company improve service for its customers by freeing them from the hassle of paperwork. An example of this is a new Internet portal that provides a seamless and modern user experience for customers to do everything from requesting prices to tracking a delivery.

Digitising logistics information also enables Gebrüder Weiss to establish a paperless order picking system that allows the company to process thousands of small orders per day for global brands such as Nespresso. Anyone reading this text with a cup of Nespresso in one hand may have Gebrüder Weiss to thank for the reliable delivery of their coffee capsule.

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