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Digitalization is advancing in many areas, one of which is logistics. No-code platforms and other digital solutions can help optimize processes in everyday work. The former are online modular systems that provide predefined elements to simplify and expedite the creation of digital applications. Even without in-depth IT knowledge, employees can digitalize analogue processes on their own without spending time programming. These and other digital aids are in use in the DACHSER network as well.

Digital aids are already in use in the DACHSER network.

No-code platforms don’t require the user to have any programming knowledge; they just need to know the processes and have a certain aptitude for digital solutions. These platforms are used mainly for designing website applications and mobile apps. As more and more employees are motivated to improve their digital skills, market researchers assume that the number of applications developed on no- or low-code systems will increase rapidly in the future.

Citizen development also at DACHSER

DACHSER also uses no- or low-code platforms in its network to develop prototypes and digitalize minor processes directly in individual branches. This decentralized capability frees up development capacity in IT and motivates employees to tackle analogue challenges and optimize processes on their own.

“Away from the clipboard”: The DACHSER initiative is a prime example of citizen development, aided by the competent support of its partner smapOne. smapOne provides a digital modular system that enables users to transfer paper-based processes into a digital world without any programming effort. </span>
DACHSER makes particularly useful and popular “smaps” available to the entire organization on a central marketplace, called the company templates, and strategically develops them further.</span>
In addition to the abovementioned modular systems, DACHSER employs other digital aids, too. For example, the translation gadget Pocketalk, which can translate an input language into one of 113 output languages in real time, was introduced as part of the Idea2net project Digital Documents. </span>
The device is particularly popular with drivers, as it helps them communicate and cooperate. Depending on the target language, Pocketalk shares the translation out loud and/or displays it on the screen. It is now in use at numerous DACHSER branches in Europe.</span>
Translations also play an important role in day-to-day office business. To eliminate language barriers in correspondence and speed up translations, DACHSER started using the online translation service DeepL this year. DeepL uses an artificial neural network to translate entire input texts in their original layout into more than eleven languages. </span>
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