21. June 2012
German Managers award Barkawi with top position

A recent survey shows: German managers believe none other than Barkawi Management Consultants have as much competence in matters of distribution logistics and aftersales services. The competition falls starkly behind.

 

2. May 2012
Barkawi Management Consultants opens office in Vienna

The Supply Chain management consulting firm Barkawi opened an office at the beginning of Mai 2012 in Vienna, Austria. Andreas Tengler who last worked at Czipin Consulting will take up his position as managing director of the new office. He brings many years of management and consulting experience at international industrial corporations with him.

 

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The Barkawi Service-Times provides trends, insights and up-to-date information from the world of After Sales Services and the Spare Parts Business.

 

The first edition in 2012 of the Service-Times comes with an Interview with Isabelle Cronemeyer, Vice President Sales Excellence at Conergy, giving insights into the importance of the Service Business in a difficult market environment for new product sales.

 

31. January 2012
Barkawi Management Consultants grows continuously

German Supply Chain Experts successful with internationalization strategy. Role of supply chain management becomes more and more important for business success

25. January 2012
Logistics – Pitfall for Germany‘s renewable energy plans?

Offshore wind report shows: infrastructure and logistics know-how need to develop significantly to ensure the turnaround towards renewable energy production

The plan of the German government to increase renewable energy pro-duction includes the goal of a production capacity from offshore wind parks of 10 gigawatts until 2020 to replace the national nuclear power production. Currently there is a capacity of less than 0.5 gigawatts in place.

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Half-baked logistics concepts and communication „by acclamation“: offshore wind logistics might turn out to be an unpredictable blind flight. RWE Innogy GmbH, a German company specializing in renewable energy, even states, “Compared to onshore logistics, offshore logistics is like a journey to the moon.”

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The Barkawi Service-Times provides trends, insights and up-to-date information from the world of After Sales Services and the Spare Parts Business.

 

The second edition of the Service-Times comes with an Interview with Hans-Werner Albrecht, General Manager Global Service at Pentax.

 

Jochen Lehmann, Saman Kitvarametha and Christoph Beuter provide insights into their project business, hot topics and trends the way we observe the Services and After Sales Markets.

 

8. September 2011
Wind Energy Study: € 22 Billion Logistics Market Volume in Europe until 2020

The logistics industry in steep ascent:  According to a recent study conducted by Barkawi Management Consultants the market volume for onshore wind farm logistics amounts € 22 billion between 2012 and 2020. Germany and Spain, which represent the countries with the largest markets for wind energy still have very high growth rates; this is where the most important west European economies will be in the lead.

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Whenever experts in the field of Supply Chain Management or Logistics write articles or books on their subject matter, they mainly focus on ways to improve the design of processes. While doing so they often lose sight of the company’s structural organization, into which the respective processes have to be embedded. This is a problematic procedure because the neglected structure can either facilitate and further processes or restrict them.