Kuehne+Nagel wins CDQ Good Practice Award 2025 for the innovative use of GenAI
At the yearly award show in Hamburg on November 26, 2025, Kuehne+Nagel received the “CDQ Good Practice Award 2025” for its use of GenAI in the management of business partner master data.
Master data of business partners is the foundation for reliable operations, reporting, and analytics. With the use of GenAI, the Kuehne+Nagel team has transformed the way millions of data records are managed. What had traditionally been a manual, slow, and time-consuming task, is now an automated, scalable solution. By employing large language models, substantial improvements in data quality are achieved at scale.
The enhanced quality creates cascading benefits, including improved operational efficiency, superior shipment visibility, accurate reporting and analytics, and reduced compliance risks. The automated approach dramatically reduces implementation cost and shortens timelines from years to weeks while maintaining superior standards.
On stage from the left: Prof. Dr. Christine Legner (University of Lausanne, head of CC CDQ), Sebastian Rabe, Dr. Andreas Nohn, Andreas Kleine and Ankit Singh from Kuehne+Nagel, Prof. Dr. Frederik Möller (Technical University of Braunschweig), Dr. Richard Lehmann (CC CDQ).
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.