Creators, makers, pioneers

More than 12,000 employees, globally active and passionate about innovation — that is the way to achieve both market and technological leadership. We are Körber. Presenting our Group.

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We are Körber

Körber is a leading international technology group that has more than 12,000 employees at over 100 locations worldwide. We are the home for entrepreneurs — we turn entrepreneurial thinking into customers success. Körber AG manages the Group and its four Business Areas: Digital, Pharma, Supply Chain and Technologies.

Insights

The Körber Insights shows the entire spectrum of the Körber world: We give our view of exciting developments and trends, as well as innovations and technologies. We also highlight personalities who drive Körber forward every day with their entrepreneurial spirit and new ideas.

Sustainability

Sustainability

We develop innovative products, solutions and services for a more sustainable tomorrow and introduce the people who make them possible. Find out more in our Sustainability Report 2023.

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Körber pursues ambitious climate targets

In October 2023, we had the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) verify our commitment to achieving net-zero CO₂e emissions throughout the entire value chain by 2040. We would like to introduce you to some of the measures that will help us achieve this ambitious goal.

Group-wide standards for Ecodesign

We were able to advance our Ecodesign initiative decisively in 2023 after creating a group-wide standard for life cycle assessments (LCAs). Find out more about the first LCAs we implemented and the challenges we overcame.

Data and infrastructure protection

We aim to transform information security into a strategic objective and make it a shared concern for all employees. We provide an overview of the corresponding measures and projects in 2023.

Career

Career

Wanted: team players. The know-how, creativity, and dedication of our employees have made us a successful technology company in Germany and worldwide. Now we want to shape the future — with you! We offer exciting positions for experts, young professionals, university students, and high school students.

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"Modern leadership culture has a performance-enhancing effect"

A working climate that promotes innovation, diversity, and the courage to tell uncomfortable truths is more central than ever to a company's success today. In an interview, Gabriele Fanta, Head of Group Human Resources, explains how the new leadership principles at Körber specifically strengthen fruitful collaboration in everyday working life.

What comes after traineeship, Max?

Experience report: After graduating in mechatronics and mechanical engineering, Max Döring became a trainee at Körber. Today, he is Technical Product Manager at our Körber Business Area Pharma.

Procurement and Supply Chain Management

Procurement and Supply Chain Management

Joint future-proof activities are the foundation of sustainable procurement. Körber, as a globally leading technology group, therefore places great value on the optimal purchasing of materials and services.

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Pharma

Strong together: The recipe for success of the Business Area Pharma

How the Körber Business Area Pharma forges ahead with innovations for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries in a close dialogue with customers.

In a production hall for inspection machines in Markt Schwaben near Munich, machines are humming, technicians are milling metal parts, and measurement data are being analyzed at a terminal. While normal operations are running, about 150 customers from the pharmaceutical and biotech industries are finding out about the innovations from Körber. They’ve come from all over the world to find out how deep learning will make production processes more efficient in the future, how open software standards make it possible to connect machines into networks, and how virtual reality can be utilized in traditional mechanical engineering. Here, the future is already the present.

The joy of creating something new

For two days, visitors can experience the principle behind the Körber Business Area Pharma close up: The focus is on the customers. Körber employees work at 25 locations to provide their partners from the pharmaceutical and biotech industries with systems that are precisely tailored to these partners’ needs. This means that in order to create these systems, they search through all the available know-how and select exactly the individual elements they need in a specific case. Their basic motivation is the joy of creating something new and producing individual solutions for their customers.

An eye for details: Christian Scherer, Sales Director Inspections at the Körber Business Area Pharma

That’s what motivates Christian Scherer, for example. He’s been working at Körber for almost 20 years at a unit that specializes in inspection solutions and serialization concepts. After receiving his intermediate school leaving certificate, Scherer completed an apprenticeship in mechatronics. Today he manages the worldwide sales operations for this area of competence. First he learned how the machines work — then he opened up the global markets. Scherer built up the business in India and South America and worked in France and the USA. He has experienced how Körber reinvents itself again and again as it seeks the best solutions for its customers, and he has also contributed to this reinvention process.

Today it’s more important than ever before to know and to understand machines as well as customer needs perfectly. As Scherer puts it, “We are a one-stop shop for our customers.” Companies from the pharmaceutical and biotech sector are searching for solutions that will enable them to react flexibly to the dynamic market. That includes fast, error-free changes of inspection units such as ampoules and syringes, and of their sizes. It also includes Track & Trace solutions and the simple integration of new machines and production networks.

Inventors, implementers, nonlinear thinkers

Körber has decided to utilize a strikingly efficient process: It offers outstanding products that complement and reinforce one another. In addition, it offers know-how regarding how interfaces can be adapted and simplified. In the interaction between the various areas of competence, innovation also results from the clever bundling of outstanding technical and digital solutions.

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Christian Scherer, Sales Director Inspections at the Körber Business Area Pharma

That sounds simple, but in practice it’s a very complex process. According to Scherer, one of Körber’s great strengths is the close communication and the mixed teams that work on projects within this Business Area. “The crucial factors in our relationships with our customers are reliability, communication, and trust.” Creating these factors requires sensitivity. “It’s all about bringing together exactly the right people that a given project needs,” Scherer explains. Experts, inventors, listeners, nonlinear thinkers, implementers — all of them start by acquiring a precise understanding of the customers’ challenges. “The process is a dialogue,” says Scherer. “Together with the customers, we define what a new product should accomplish and what the direction of development should be. We then continuously check these basic assumptions during the implementation process.”

At eye level: At Körbers Business Area Pharma, innovation are created in cooperation with the customers.

Wanting to know more, understanding connections, developing solutions — these are all parts of the philosophy, and Scherer and his colleagues put them into practice and develop them further in every part of the company. That can be seen in the development process of the “Lion” system, a Plug & Produce solution that makes it possible to easily integrate existing or new lines by standardizing the interfaces according to the customer’s requirements. This enhances connectivity and ultimately makes production processes faster and more efficient. “Lion” is just one example of Körber’s holistic approach.

Solutions for the entire sector

Answers that meet the concrete needs of customers often lead to the development of solutions that advance the entire sector. Customers who were tired of not being able to simply combine machines from various manufacturers motivated the engineers from Körber to create an open software standard that makes just such combinations possible.

This future-oriented mindset, as well as the practical interplay within the Körber Business Area Pharma, recently impressed yet another customer from the USA who wanted to have a comprehensive solution from a single supplier. “Together as a team, we were able to offer an inspection machine, a packaging machine, and a conveying system. We presented this system solution as a unit,” says Scherer. Alternatively, the customer could have bought individual machines from different manufacturers. “But this way the customer has one contact person on site for everything, instead of a different company for every question.” That’s what it means to offer innovative solutions from A to Z from a single source.

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Insights shows the entire spectrum of Körber, what we do and how we do it: We give our view of exciting developments and trends, as well as innovations and technologies. We also highlight personalities who drive Körber forward every day with their entrepreneurial spirit and new ideas - always to the benefit of our customers. In this section, you’ll find inspiring content concerning our topic People.

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“What a fantastic joint opportunity!“

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"Modern leadership culture has a performance-enhancing effect"

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Breaking new ground with courage: How Körber is driving digital innovation

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