Kuehne+Nagel and Sysmex enter into strategic partnership in the healthcare sector
- 10,000 m² of contract logistics space for medical technology and reagents
- Supply coverage across the entire EMEA region
Kuehne+Nagel has opened a new distribution centre for Sysmex Europe SE and Sysmex Deutschland GmbH, dedicated to diagnostic instruments and reagents. As part of its growth strategy, Kuehne+Nagel is further expanding its commitment to healthcare contract logistics.
With the 10,000 m² healthcare distribution centre in Hamburg, Kuehne+Nagel provides Sysmex with a broad range of services. These include direct-to-customer deliveries in parts of Europe, supply across the entire EMEA region, and same-day dispatch of urgent air freight export orders. The medical products are stored across three temperature zones. A key feature is the device configuration centre, which includes specialised rooms for configuring, pre-assembling, testing, and dispatching customised solutions.
The growing medical technology market demands high standards of quality, safety, and flexibility in logistics. Kuehne+Nagel’s HealthChain quality label ensures that all regulatory, industry-specific, and customer-specific standards are met with the highest quality. This is also a top priority for Sysmex: for over 50 years, the company has been developing diagnostic instruments and is one of the world’s leading providers in in-vitro diagnostics, especially in the field of haematology, haemostasis and urinalysis.
“In a spirit of partnership, we have succeeded in developing a distribution centre focused on efficiency and growth, which is of strategic importance to both companies,” explains Tobias Jerschke, Managing Director of Kuehne+Nagel Germany.
“Our collaboration with KN enables us to tackle two critical dimensions of our supply chain strategy: we continue to generate synergies from integrating the logistic flows of our Sysmex companies in Europe while we prepare ourselves for the expansion of our product portfolio, that will require a more modern logistics system,” says Stefanie Schaal, Board Member of Sysmex Europe SE and Sysmex Deutschland GmbH.
“This logistics centre, tailored to our processes, enables Sysmex to successfully continue the strong growth of recent years in the EMEA region,” adds Alexander Staffeldt, who has led the project on behalf of Sysmex.
With more than 82,000 employees at almost 1,300 sites in close to 100 countries, the Kuehne+Nagel Group is one of the world's leading logistics providers. Headquartered in Switzerland, Kuehne+Nagel is listed in the Swiss blue-chip stock market index, the SMI. The Group is the global number one in air and sea logistics and has strong market positions in road and contract logistics. Kuehne+Nagel is the logistics partner of choice for 400,000 customers worldwide. Using its global network, logistics expertise and data-based insights, the Group provides end-to-end supply chain solutions for global companies and industries.