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Our teams today experience AI as a helpful assistant. The initial skepticism has given way to a constructive spirit of optimism.

Program Manager Digital Transformation

Experience Logistics

AI in Logistics | From Pilot to Measurable Business Value

Our client wanted to integrate AI into their business processes and make the results measurable.

Initial Situation & Pain Points

In mid-2024, the Group pursued numerous AI pilot projects – but without a consistent reference to existing business processes. The following challenges occured:

  • Lack of visibility into end-to-end operations

  • No clear prioritization and common goals

  • Employees had reservations and feared that the AI would replace workplaces instead of supporting them

  • Fragmented initiatives

  • Low scale

  • Hardly measurable business benefits

Our Approach

  • Support in the introduction of cross-departmental process mapping sessions in order to make end-to-end processes transparent and to identify AI potentials in a targeted manner

  • Help in prioritizing top use cases with WSJF and concretizing them in design sprints

  • Making use of the developed AI MVPs for forecasts in disposition and maintenance as well as for automated document review

  • Establishment of change measures so that AI could be used and experienced as a supportive tool

  • Capacity building

Results

  • Cost effects through process automation and better forecasts in pilot areas (double-digit percentages possible).

  • Shorter throughput times and faster decisions in scheduling and planning (clearly noticeable in day-to-day business).

  • New digital services (e.g., proactive customer insights) thanks to improved predictive capabilities.

  • Higher employee satisfaction thorugh reduction of monotonous activities.

  • AI is experienced as support.

  • Permanent alignment: Joint roadmap and governance for scaling further AI use cases.

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