#07: Tom Schmitt Board Member - Contract Logistics and Global Chief Commercial Officer for DB Schenker
Tom Schmitt Board Member - Contract Logistics and Global Chief Commercial Officer for DB Schenker, which is one of the top 3 global 3PL companies in the world with operations in 140 countries. As the Management Board Member responsible for the $3bn+ Contract Logistics business, Tom is in charge of a global team of 22,000 logisticians with continued and accelerated profitable growth. In the first year of Tom’s leadership, DB Schenker Contract Logistics grew by 17 percent topline and saw a 20 percent growth to the bottom line.
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Some highlights of the podcast:
- Top strategic directions that Schenker is trying to achieve in the next years. The top goals in the company by 2020.
- Contract Logistics. Where does Tom see the emerging markets?
- How DB Schenker customers expect them to use all the information, data, that we have to their advantage. Using big data and capacity planning.
- The importance of – People, service, profit in that sequence.
- Talking about left brain and right brain. How to access both types of thinking.
- Advice for a 23-year-old finishing collage – Think of your first move and your second move as an option expanding move.
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