With this appointment, Robin Otto, 44, brings nearly 20 years of experience in international contract logistics, including 13 with French companies. Thanks to his multidisciplinary background, he brings both knowledge in business administration and knowledge in real estate, particularly in the development of location strategies.
Holder of an MBA in Business Administration from the Ecole Supérieure de Berlin, Robin Otto began his career in 2002, within Arvato SCM Solutions, as head of business development. In 2007, he joined the German management of the GEODIS Group as Business Development Director. In 2013 he was appointed Business Development and Solutions Design Director for Northern Europe. In 2018, he took on the role of Deputy General Manager Contract Logistics for Northern, Eastern and Central Europe.
In 2019, he joined the ID Logistics Group as Deputy Managing Director of ID Logistics Germany, in charge of business development. Since its arrival, ID Logistics Germany has won several new clients, particularly in the field of e-commerce, retail and consumer goods.
“Robin brought a lot to ID Logistics in his role as development manager for our subsidiary in Germany. Today at the head of ID Logistics Germany, Robin will put his qualities of innovation and entrepreneurship into action to take ID Logistics Germany to a new dimension. I am convinced that it will put ID Logistics in the top tier of contract logistics companies in Germany,” says Eric Hémar, President of ID Logistics.
“With our new head office in Griesheim, we have taken an important step in the establishment of ID Logistics in Germany. We are pursuing ambitious plans and will consolidate and expand the successful development of the past three years,” underlines Robin Otto, Managing Director ID Logistics Germany.
ID Logistics Germany: expertise and development at the heart of the strategy
Present in this market since 2013, following the acquisition of the company CEPL (400 employees, 3 sites: Gemersheim, Weilbach or Mittelstadt), ID Logistics has continued to develop and, from 2019, joined the Top 5 providers specializing in e-commerce.
Recognized in the country for the quality of its services and solutions for the retail, home furnishings, e-commerce and cosmetics industries, ID Logistics Germany now has 3,800 employees, spread over 10 sites, i.e. more than 530,000 m² of warehouses.
Initially present in the cosmetics sector with clients such as Coty, Yves Rocher and Nobilis, the company quickly established itself on the e-commerce market. Thus, for 5 years, ID Logistics has supported the e-commerce logistics of the global furniture giant on its Dortmund site and also manages a 156,000 m² logistics platform in Salzgitter. It also supports the German e-commerce leader on several sites and offers different types of services for this client (order preparation, packaging, cross-docking and distribution, etc.).
This successful growth is the result of several factors:
- Services including integrated omnichannel solutions in the B2B and B2C sector
- Strong mastery of e-commerce processes, particularly information systems
- A range of industry-specific value-added services
- Significant investment capacity, particularly in shuttle or mechanization
“As an agile and innovation-driven company, Germany offers us and our customers real opportunities for growth. The Group’s strategic priorities in Germany lie both in the existing contract logistics environment, in our main markets and in our ability to support and integrate operations. Our main goal is to make our customers more competitive. », concludes Robin Otto, Managing Director ID Logistics Germany
ID Logistics press release.
