Dachser Invests in Sustainability Research

Dachser pledges to endow a Professorial Chair in Sustainability in Logistics & Supply Chain Management at the European Business School (EBS) in Wiesbaden. The first incumbent will be Prof Julia Wolf.

“In making this commitment we wish to generate fresh impetus in the logistics industry and society as a whole to work even harder to tackle the issue of sustainability,” says Bernhard Simon, spokesman for the Dachser management.

“The Chair will make it possible to explore a range of issues connected to sustainability and logistics in a comprehensive and focused way, in an international context,” explains Prof Julia Wolf.

The Chair, which was created in January 2010, has an extensive research brief. It is proposed to explain scientifically how logistics strategies can be successfully geared towards sustainability; how sustainability targets can be measured and therefore monitored and how the implementation processes should be structured. A further work area is collaboration with industry.

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