ILL within ALSO DANUBE microeconomic assessment Dr. Ralph Gallob, 27 th Mai 2003

© ILL 2 Motivation Objective of ALSO DANUBE Increasing efficiency and reliability of the Danube waterway for industry and trade Innovation for achieving the aim  build up IT-Systems to integrate companies …  integration of logistics processes … … along the whole supply chain Remaining Question qualitative and quantitative evaluation of investments into IT- and logistics infrastructure

© ILL 3  Efficient bundling of resources  Objective view (bird`s eye view) for evaluating the chain Innovations Improved infrastructure  Port ILL  Waterway (RIS)  Transparency Integration of all partners along the whole supply chain Integration of IT-systems  Neutral (public) operator  Automatic process control  Efficient data exchange

© ILL 4 Proceeding for evaluation Development of a new evaluation method, regarding the supply chain from the bird`s eye view Innovation of evaluation method: system view Thus increasing efficiency for the (a) whole system as well as for (b) individual companies … can be evaluated Logistic costs  transport tariffs costs plant railway (Linz) Tariff ship costs plant railway (Krems) stock/inventory costs Handling costs (infrastructure, personal)

© ILL 5 alternative means of transport 1 ship  21 wagons  42 trucks  Max. loading weight (for truck) is 25 to  Truck queues at loading, unloading  Partly special permits (for trucks) necessary  Truck-convoys, environmental impact

© ILL 6 Benefits of ALSO – for ILL Automatic system disposition by means of information pool – flexibility of personal pool Efficient bundling of resources, especially at trans-shipment points Efficient resource management in the case of deviations Shorter waiting times (=lower safety buffer) Better resource planning by integration of the partners and IT-networking

© ILL 7 Benefits of ALSO – for system planning and managing logistics chain enables to overcome the shortcoming integration of IT-system leads to more transparency and thus higher efficiency of the resources Disadvantages of ship can be compensated by better IT-systems Potential for cost reductions is higher than 30%, The cost reduction potential for the supply chain Linz-Krems (ca. 100 ships per year) would be more than 40 middle class PKW p.a.

© ILL 8 Benefits of ALSO – context Trans-shipments [to] in Linz Port of Linz (total)Port of ILL (voestalpine, ILL,...)

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