My name is Tim Mörtl, I am the managing director here at alpha trading solutions My name is Markus Buertesch. I’m the Head of E-Commerce at Alpha Trading Solutions, I helped set up the division and supervised the Actindo project since the beginning. For over 50 years we have been the most successful entertainment service provider in Germany. Entertainment for us means all CDs, DVDs, Blue-rays or console games that are available at the retail stores, pass through our logistics halls. In the last
few years, we have worked together with our partner Actindo to transform our company into a modular system service provider. This means we have specialized as a distributor for food and non-food articles, as well as for the E-Commerce, which we accompany as a fulfillment service provider. We connect the producer with the retailer and can handle everything from logistics to storage, value-added services, eCommerce D2C, if applicable. We are bringing the product directly to the point of sale, whe
re our team sets up promotions, manages the point of sale or offers returns services on site. Each of these services can be provided as a single module and tailored to the customer's needs. Alpha Trading Solutions often acts as a contract logistics provider for both startups as well as for established companies - regardless of revenue size. For example, on the one hand we work with Tiger Media a startup, for which we do all the logistics, do the service on-site and also take over the sales activ
ity. On the other hand, we also work with Universal and Sony, distribute the CDs and DVDs into the market and also take over the logistics services. Due to the increasing number of packages in logistics, especially in the D2C area we have invested very heavily. For example, into an Auto Store, that does automatic picking and packing with autonomous robots, a high-bay warehouse based on the narrow aisle principle, and into the Actindo system, which connects all warehouse locations and systems for
us. With the Autostore, we are able to scale faster and to pack faster. We are able to shorten the picking times, because here the items are pre-sorted, also overnight, and the items now find their way to the picker, and the picker no longer has to collect the items at the warehouse lot. When we started in the ecommerce space, for different sub-processes we had separate systems, separate solutions individually designed - for product data maintenance, the PIM system, and for invoicing, another s
ystem. aWe've always been looking for a solution that could connect all these solutions. Actindo also helped us to integrate our onlineshop systems with our Leagcy-IT - an IBM solution. With Actindo we have found a system, that helps us orchestrate all these processes and connect our legacy IT systems with the new, modern systems, manage all APIs and open up a new world to us. For us, Actindo was the evolution in the ecommerce sector, the next level in digitalization, reliable processes and work
flows, that enable us to continue to scale further and reliably take the business to the next level. We chose Actindo because it is a standardized system, a standardized solution, which nevertheless allows us to add our individual processes into the system and further optimize them. The partnership with Actindo helps us to scale in these areas, to scale in these areas, especially in the e-commerce module. It's the foundation for this module and with it we can automatically handle all new process
es with one platform.
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