Faculty of Civil Engineering Transport Economics Centre 8/27/2018 KASSETTS Knowledge-enabled Access of Central Europe SMEs to Efficient Trans-national Transport Solutions Tomislav Letnik University of Maribor Faculty of Civil Engineering Transport Economics Centre

Objectives & Means KASSETTS aims at: 8/27/2018 Objectives & Means KASSETTS aims at: optimising transport and logistics activities, increasing the competitiveness of SMEs and, lowering the environmental impact of transport, through: the development of powerful ICT tools for collaborative logistics, the creation of a permanent network of stakeholders and the formation of an EU operative ICT network of logistics brokers The project is implemented through the CENTRAL EUROPE Program co-financed by the ERDF.

The Logistic Broker Not a new logistic operator neither a 3PL or 4PL. An intermediary subject between manufacturing companies and transport providers. Supported by a network platform enabling the broker: to organize transport demand, assist manufacturing companies by planning efficient transportation solution, to make use of economics of scale.

The Logistic Broker The broker constantly collects scattered orders coming from associated manufacturing SMEs, Plans transport missions more times per day by: comparing this demand with offers of logistics operators, computing and submiting optimized transport solutions to user SMEs and transport operators. Periodically sends pro-forma invoices to improve visibility of transport costs and services.

Benefits: optimisation of regional, national and trans-national transports cost savings for user SMEs less kilometres run by vehicles (with decreasing transport emissions).

The Modena case (Emilia Romagna) Manufacturing SMEs are facing problems with transport services on a daily basis rising from: small shipments (LTL) infrequency of their shipments ITL and CAP Modena (Consorzio Attività Produttive) decided to improve transport efficiency by providing the Logistic Broker Solution. The role of broker is played by one recruited person using ICT logistic broker tools. Link: http://www.mo.brokerlogistica.net/

The Modena case (Emilia Romagna) Results: The average cost saving for SMEs were around 20%, 30% less kilometres run by vehicles and reduced number of transport routes by 37%.

The Consortium Lead partner: Institute for Transport and Logistics Foundation, Italy Project partners: University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Institute of Logistics and Warehousing, Poland University of Maribor, Slovenia Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation , Germany Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia Bács-Kiskun County Foundation for Enterprise Promotion v sodelovanju z The South Great Plain Regional Development Agency, Hungary CDV - Transport Research Centre, Czech Republic

Thank you for you attention! For further information... Visit: www.kassetts.eu Contact us: tomislav.letnik@uni-mb.si