XSTAFF Services
Integrated logistics services from a single source
XSTAFF offers it network members a complete and high-quality service portfolio, from procurement support and consultation on distribution logistics, all the way up to customs processing and reverse logistics. Whether as a modular, individual service or a custom, complete solution, we make sure that your goods and commodities reach their destination reliably and punctually. Thanks to open communication and ongoing information, you always know where your cargo is currently located, and thus can react to any disruptions quickly and flexibly.
Sourcing Support
The procurement of resources to ensure productivity is a central task for every company. Making sure these procedures can be designed to be as effective and efficient as possible needs comprehensive market and industry skills. As long-term experts both in trade matters and handling logistical processes, we are happy to provide you with our expertise. Need help generating tenders, evaluating offers, or filing a contract award recommendation? Ask the experts at XSTAFF. We’ll find the best solution for you.
Quality Management
Optimized processes in logistics lead to more efficiency and a higher quality of service. With a state of the art, IT-supported quality management, XSTAFF and its partner companies illuminate all processes in the supply chain and remedy any problems or conflicts quickly and completely. This requires not just the consideration of international quality standards like the ISO 9001 or the selection of certified network partners for quality assurance measures, but also random extractions and inspections in production and shipping.
Legal Advice
The global, cross-border transport of items and goods is subject to many national provisions and international regulations that are constantly changing, and raise the requirements for companies in the supply chain. XSTAFF knows exactly where these problem fields for the logistics industry lie. Through our partners, we can offer customers comprehensive and competent consultation in all fields of international transport of goods – from insurance and bank law, to contract design and management, all the way up to risk management. This way, we lay a solid foundation for your company’s success.
Special Logistics Solutions
Planning to ship goods with unusual dimensions? Or a special transport for explosive items? Not a problem for the experts at XSTAFF. We can find our customers a solution for nearly every logistical challenge along the supply chain. We’ll develop the perfect supply chain for you and, as part of a careful selection process, identify the contractors that will perform the assigned task with high professionalism and engagement. You can learn about the status of your order any time via modern IT systems. Benefit from the experience and flexibility of XSTAFF. We’ll find a solution.
Supply Chain Event Management
In spite of long transport routes, goods often need to be brought to their destination in the shortest amount of time possible. That’s because every day counts, and perfectly scheduled logistics are indispensable. In these cases, you are in the best of hands with XSTAFF. With the custom, best possible combination of various transport carriers, we plan the ideal supply chain for your order. Our international network takes care of the rest with committed partners onsite and smart IT solutions that facilitate the optimum use of available capacities. That way, the on-time delivery of your goods at optimal conditions becomes a reality.
Customs Clearance
To make sure the global exchange of goods can run smoothly and quickly, professional customs processing is essential. XSTAFF and our commissioned partners know exactly what the individual customs regulations are in the respective countries, and are happy to help in word and deed with questions on shipping processes across national borders. That way, you’re always up to date on local regulations, and can ensure long-term compliance with legal statutes in customs law issues.
Transport insurance
Things do not always run smoothly when shipping or transporting goods. On their way to the recipient, transported goods are exposed to different and not always calculable risks. However, the potential financial consequences and damage that such hazards pose to entrepreneurs can be enormous. It is therefore particularly important for companies in the logistics sector to take appropriate precautions.
Transport insurance protects companies from risks and high follow-up costs. When booking relevant services via XSTAFF, it is easy and uncomplicated to take out additional transport insurance for shipping. Even during the ordering process, we offer you the option of adding our tailor-made transport insurance to your booking so that your goods are optimally protected. Do you have any questions? Please do not hesitate to contact us, we will help you.
Air freight
Today, customers demand complex transport solutions for their goods along the supply chain. This often requires the intelligent and individual combination of different modes of transport. In order to meet this requirement, we at XSTAFF have also expanded our service portfolio. With XSTAFF by AIR (XBA), we have also been offering global air freight services and solutions since 2020.
In cooperation with experienced and highly competent partners worldwide, XSTAFF now offers complex solutions and services in air freight. These include air freight services, full and partial charter services, the transport of critical shipments, so-called on-board courier services, air freight-related ground services (AOG = Aircraft on Ground Services) and handling perishable and dangerous goods.
Pre- and post-carriage logistics
When transporting goods and goods, the focus is often only on the main leg, i.e. the transport of goods and goods between two transshipment points. The transport of the goods from the sender to the main means of transport, generally referred to as the pre-carriage, as well as the on-carriage, i.e. the downstream transport of the goods by the receiving forwarder to the destination at the final recipient of the shipment, are at least as important. Here, too, any delay or disruption costs time, money and trust.
We make sure that your shipment arrives at its destination on time and without disruption. To do this, we keep an eye on the entire supply chain and not just individual components. We also take care of the upstream and downstream processes and combine the individual steps of the supply chain into a holistic solution. You can concentrate on your core competencies while we bring your shipment safely and undamaged to your destination. Just like you are used to from us.
Reverse Logistics
Whether discontinued items, excess stock, or swap stocks – instead of warehousing hard-to-sell items and writing them off as a financial loss, you can hand them in to secondary sellers, thus ensuring the value of your investment. The experts at XSTAFF will develop intelligent concepts for cost- and time-intensive returns processing with profitable sales for your stock, which will be implemented in close collaboration with our network partners. That way you can not only optimize your material flows, but also close the value chain in a sustainable way – no sitting on leftover stock guaranteed!
Distribution Logistics
The requirements for distribution logistics of international commercial enterprises have risen dramatically. Goods and commodities need to be launched and brought to the end consumer even more quickly – with as low costs as possible, but with rising quality standards. XSTAFF offers you the opportunity to execute your transports worldwide efficiently and effectively. As commercial cargo owners, our consultants use smart combinations of suitable transport carriers to design the optimal flow of goods for you. Carefully selected and committed contractors implement all customized solutions for supply chain management so that you achieve the best possible results for your company.
Intercontinental rail freight transport solutions from Asia to Europe
For a long time, rail freight transports only played a subordinate role in the movement of goods from Asia to Europe. With the construction and expansion of the New Silk Road and due to the corona-related capacity bottlenecks in shipping, this has changed fundamentally in recent years. In 2020 alone, according to the management consultancy Roland Berger, around 878,000 standard containers were transported on the rail links of the new Silk Road, and the trend is rising.
Transport by train is also playing an increasingly important role in our transport solutions. Whether as a direct connection from Asia to Hamburg or Duisburg or as a partial solution of an intermodal concept in which different modes of transport are meaningfully connected with each other: Rail connections are an integral part of our network. Wherever it seems appropriate for cost and / or time considerations, we use this mode of transport to get your goods to their destination – safely, reliably and on time.
Intercontinental truck land transport from Asia to Europe
The times in which truck transports in Asia-Europe traffic were largely limited to upstream and downstream processes for sea or air freight transport have been over since the corona crisis at the latest. In view of the major bottlenecks in the sea and air freight sector, goods and goods from the Asian production facilities are now also brought to Europe by truck over the New Silk Road.
A solution that we at XSTAFF have had in our portfolio for a long time, also due to the short transport times. In just 14 days and thus twice as fast as by sea, the shipment reaches Germany, for example, where it can be delivered directly in door-to-door traffic. In addition, goods that are classified as dangerous goods can also be transported unrestrictedly on this route. It is this flexibility that still makes the truck indispensable as a means of transport and thus at the same time an important part of the XSTAFF service portfolio.