Retrans | Research & Education on Transport Logistics

Why

Logistics?

The volume of goods transported by truck, ship and rail across the EU is around 2,100 billion tonnekilometres per year – in other words, the Eiffel Tower could, for example, be transported 5,200 times around the world. These transports must be planned economically and in a way, that conserves resources.

Who makes
it possible?

Apprenticeship

Business logistics clerk

"The warehouse, which is regarded as an important hub between suppliers and customers, is your place to work! You don't have a classic office job and as a specialist in warehousing you take care of the shortest possible storage times, low storage costs and fast delivery to customers."

Apprenticeship: 3 years
School: 9-10 weeks of blocked lessons/apprenticeship per year
Completion: apprenticeship-leave examination (LAP)
admission requirement: 9-year compulsory school attendance and apprenticeship in a training company
Further education opportunities: Apprenticeship with school leaving exam and study is afterwards possible

Further Details

Possible areas of activity:
- You take care of the goods in the warehouse - take them in and thus have a lot of contact with people.

- You control, store and dispatch the goods - you deal with the optimal storage conditions, monitor the stock level and participate in the creation of operational storage concepts.

- You enjoy working with modern information and communication media, IT systems and technical equipment - precise planning is particularly important in the warehouse.

- You also enjoy working with figures, accounting and evaluating statistics and data.

Possible companies:
Commercial, industrial, trading companies (medium to large companies) Forwarding agencies and transport companies

For further information, follow the links hereafter:
Career Information Computer (German)
AMS Career Video (German)
Professional encyclopedia (German)
Schools and further education in Austria (German)

Apprenticeship

Forwarding merchant

"Transporting bananas from Africa and mobile phones from America to Austria or delivering Austrian beer to America - as a forwarding merchant - you know how to ship goods all over the world and master different challenges - also in an international environment."

Apprenticeship: 3 years
School: 9-10 weeks of blocked lessons/apprenticeship per year
Completion: apprenticeship-leave examination (LAP)
admission requirement: 9-year compulsory school attendance and apprenticeship in a training company
Further education opportunities: Apprenticeship with school leaving exam and study is afterwards possible; combination with freight forwarder (apprenticeship) possible (duration: 4 years)

Further Details

Possible areas of activity:
-You plan routes, organise means of transport (e.g. trucks, inland waterways, trains or aeroplanes) and set appointments. Your goal is to ensure the optimal handling of the transport for your customers.

- You prepare quotations, take on orders and calculate transport costs.

- You have a lot of contact with people - you advise customers about their choice of means of transport (costs, transport duration, insurance, packaging, etc.) and master written and telephone communication, often foreign language skills (especially English) are required.

- You coordinate and supervise the loading and unloading as well as the transport and take care of the customs clearance.

- You process complaints and prepare invoices, delivery notes and freight documents.
- You need a high degree of coordination skills and must be able to cope well with time pressure (e.g. in the Christmas business).

Possible companies:
Small, medium-sized and large forwarding companies (also abroad), transport and export departments of industrial and commercial companies

For further information, follow the links hereafter:
Career Information Computer (German)
Professional encyclopedia (German)
Schools and further education in Austria (German)

Apprenticeship

Freight forwarder

"Procurement, handling, storage and transport of goods and merchandise. With all these subject areas you are dealing with as a freight forwarder or logistician".

Apprenticeship: 3 years
School: 9-10 weeks of blocked lessons/apprenticeship per year
Completion: apprenticeship-leave examination (LAP)
admission requirement: 9-year compulsory school attendance and apprenticeship in a training company
Further training opportunities: Apprenticeship with school leaving and study is afterwards possible; combination with forwarding merchant (apprenticeship) possible (duration: 4 years)

Further Details

Possible areas of activity:
- You plan routes, organise means of transport (e.g. trucks, inland waterways, trains or aeroplanes) and set appointments. Your goal is to ensure the optimal handling of the transport for your customers.

- You are responsible for the warehouse management.

- You have a lot of contact with people – dealing with a variety of customers’ needs.

- You calculate logistics services.

- You elaborate logistics concepts.

- You need a high degree of coordination skills.

Possible companies:
Small, medium-sized and large forwarding companies (also abroad) Transport and export departments of industrial and commercial companies

For further information, follow the links hereafter:
Career Information Computer (German)
Professional encyclopedia (German)
Schools and further education in Austria (German)

School education with school leaving exam

"You don't want to do an apprenticeship but still want to learn more about logistics? Various vocational colleges in Austria offer a wide range of logistics courses. While commercial academies (HAK) or higher federal colleges for economic professions (HLW) mostly have a commercial focus, polytechnics (HTL) offer a technical focus. In the curricula of the schools, you can learn more about the training contents."

Duration of training: 5 years
Admission requirement: fulfilment of 8-year compulsory schooling, partial admission procedure
Further education opportunities: Studying at a university or university of applied sciences

Further Details

After graduating, you can already start your career in logistics in a company.
- Trainee programs give you the opportunity to apply your previous knowledge and gain practical insights into what is happening in the company.

- Depending on the focus of your training, you will have the opportunity to work in different departments of companies. (especially English) in demand.

- As a sales clerk, for example, you can already be responsible for processing customer orders including transport organization.

- Your language skills will also give you the opportunity to gain a foothold in international companies.

- You enjoy working with numbers - then you have the opportunity to apply your knowledge in the accounting department of a logistics company.

Possible companies:
Entry positions in various departments (accounting, purchasing, shipping, customer service, etc.) of logistics service providers, freight forwarders or trading companies is possible. Entry into trainee programs of companies with a logistics connection

Further information:
Professional encyclopedia (German)
Schools and further education in Austria (German)

Bachelor’s study programme

Study with focus on logistics

"You would like to deepen your knowledge about logistics during your studies but you are not sure in which area? Different Austrian universities and technical colleges offer logistics studies with economic or technical focuses and integrate national as well as international contents. By offering different specializations and electives, you can individually design your studies according to your wishes! In addition, part-time studies offer the opportunity to put the acquired knowledge directly into practice."

Duration of training: 6 semesters (3 years)
Institution: University/University of Applied Sciences
Type of organisation: full-time or part-time
Graduation: Bachelor of Arts (BA) or Bachelor of Science (Bsc)
Admission requirements: higher education entrance qualification (e.g. Matura/Abitur, university entrance qualification or professional maturity), partial entrance test (potential test and/or interview)
Continuing education opportunities: Continuing master's studies at a university or university of applied sciences

Further Details

Your field of activity depends above all on your chosen focus. Here is a brief insight into possible fields of activity:
- Due to your extensive know-how you can work in different departments (purchasing, warehouse technology,...).

- You can contribute to the company's success as part of a project team in the field of logistics or as support for projects in other areas of the company.

- By working with modern IT systems you can create extensive calculations and statistics and thus evaluate business processes and derive measures for optimisation.

- You enjoy presenting your project concepts - communication with customers or business partners (also in English) is also easy.

- You can work on international location projects and thus, for example, ensure that new warehouse locations of your company are placed at strategically optimal locations.

- You can plan and implement transports with the help of different means of transport such as trucks or trains.

- Your area of application can also be the warehouse, in which you can use evaluations to ensure optimal inventory management.

- Companies that deal with warehouse automation, transport and conveyor technology or container management are also potential employers.

Possible companies:
Internationally and nationally active companies from different industries - depending on your major field of study, Consulting

Further information:
Logistics studies in Austria (German)
Studies with a focus on logistics (German)

Master’s study programme

Study with focus on logistics

"Thinking beyond departmental and company boundaries and optimising logistics processes. Sounds like an exciting challenge to you. As part of a corporate network, you are in a leading position with many different departments and national or even international partners. Your training gives you the opportunity to work in different areas or departments of a company. As a manager you will make a decisive contribution to the success of the company".

Duration of training: 4 semesters (2 years)
Institution: University/University of Applied Sciences
Type of organisation: full-time or part-time
Degree: Master of Arts (MA) or Master of Science (Msc)
Admission requirement: Bachelor's degree with elements of business administration, entrance test depending on university/college
Further training opportunities: Doctorates Studies at Universities

Further Details

Your field of activity depends above all on your chosen focus. Here is a brief insight into possible fields of activity:
- As a manager, you lead a team and coordinate work tasks.

- You will coordinate the logistics chains within the company or beyond its borders.

-The management of projects in the field of logistics or the support of projects from other divisions is also a possible field of activity for you.

- By using modern IT systems, you can create extensive calculations and statistics and thus evaluate business processes, derive optimization measures and implement them.

- The daily communication with customers or business partners (also in English) is easy for you.

- Due to your know-how you can also find solutions for the problems of companies as a consultant in a consulting firm.

- Through your work in an international company, regular business trips at home and abroad can also be part of your everyday work.

- Your place of work can also be the research and development department where you work on innovative solutions in the field of transport, logistics and traffic for the future.

- As a manager you can handle stress well and keep track of the many different tasks.

Possible companies:
Internationally and nationally active companies from different industries - depending on your major field of study, consulting, founding a company

Further information:
Logistics Studies in Austria (German)
Studies with a focus on logistics (German)

How is it
done?

Daily - around the clock - worldwide: Thanks to smooth transport planning, the optimum interaction of the different transport modes and the use of the latest technologies, your goods arrive at the right time in the right place and quantity.

What is
needed?

The basis for smooth, resource-saving transport planning is know-how and knowledge. High-quality teaching and learning opportunities on the various transport modes and their use are needed in order to be optimally prepared for the demands of the profession.

We impart
knowledge

Then please visit our information pages on the various transport modes (combinations). Here you will find an interesting range of materials such as case studies, presentations, exercises and specialist lectures, transport school labs and much more. Free of charge and without registration.

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NEWS - Next Generation Inland Waterway Ship and Logistic System
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Value and Professional Profiles in Logistics
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Logistics in general
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Logistics Trend
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Fresh view on Traffic Infrastructure
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exercises

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LOGISTIFY - Game 3: Professions
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Case Study "Vienna's Delicate"
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solutions

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What is
Logistics?

Supermarket

Procurement

Production

Packaging

Transport

Distribution and close delivery

Supermarket

Vienna’s delicate

Why

Logistics?

Who makes
it possible?

Apprenticeship

Business logistics clerk

Apprenticeship

Forwarding merchant

Apprenticeship

Freight forwarder

School education with school leaving exam

School education with school leaving exam

Bachelor’s study programme

Study with focus on logistics

Master’s study programme

Study with focus on logistics

How is it
done?

What is
needed?

We impart
knowledge

Would you
like more?

Our
general teaching materials

Filter

type of teaching material

Topics:

film

slides

document

link

exercises

solutions

Partner of

An initiative of

What isLogistics?

Supermarket

Procurement

Production

Packaging

Transport

Distribution and close delivery

Supermarket

Vienna’s delicate

Why

Logistics?

Who makesit possible?

Apprenticeship

Business logistics clerk

How is it done?

What is needed?

We impart knowledge

Would you like more?

Our general teaching materials

Filter

type of teaching material

Topics:

film

slides

document

link

exercises

solutions

Partner of

An initiative of

What is
Logistics?

Who makes
it possible?

How is it
done?

What is
needed?

We impart
knowledge

Would you
like more?

Our
general teaching materials