Hans Christian Ettengruber
Managing director, Unitechnik
How did business perform in 2016?
Business for Unitechnik was constant on the services provided by Unitechnik. On the project side of our business we feel a slight slowdown because of reduced budgets or cancelled budgets for projects that have been planned.
What was your greatest challenge this year and how did you overcome it?
To identify the customers, that are willing to invest in spite of an economical downward trend. Those will be the winners, when the economy will pick up again. Then those customers have their supply chain well organised and their cost reduced to give them a competitive edge.
What do you predict will be the key trends and events that will shape the regional logistics industry in 2017?
Customers are more likely to go for automation in projects as they now see the benefit of it; the utilisation and analysing of in house data will become more common; warehouse management systems will be the tools to use more comprehensively.
What will be Unitechniks big news in 2017?
We are planning to increase our service part of the business, so customers can achieve higher availabilities with the systems we have provided for them.