The Siemens Digital Industries (DI) business division has announced that trans-o-flex has come first out of 18 providers in the current forwarder ranking. The evaluation, which has been conducted for only the second time, relates to the most recently completed Siemens financial year from October 2024 until September 2025. In the same ranking of the previous year, trans-o-flex came in 7th place out of 19 providers. “The latest result is outstanding not only because we came top, but also because we have made such a big leap,” said Martin Reder commenting on the evaluation. “We are proud of this success, and I thank our entire workforce, because this is the result of continuous quality work towards which everyone at trans-o-flex has made a contribution.”
Siemens DI has made very transparent the criteria by which the forwarders evaluated and how the individual criteria are weighted. Sustainability, for instance, counts for 15 per cent of the evaluation.
There are five precisely disclosed criteria that are included in the evaluation. The physical flow of the consignments accounts for only 15 per cent of the evaluation. The information flow, which is weighted most heavily at 40 per cent, is of much greater importance to Siemens DI. A leading position in the ranking is therefore only possible if status reports are collected without errors and feedback is provided to the customer quickly. Other criteria included in the assessment are proactive support at 20 per cent, sustainability aspects at 15 per cent, and value flow (invoice management) at 10 per cent.
The evaluation of the logistics by DI is a component of the overall DI evaluation and feeds into Siemens AG’s evaluation of suppliers. “It won’t be easy to defend our top position,” says Reder. “But buoyed by this success we can pull it off!”
Siemens Digital Industries uses its transport service provider ranking as a basis for regularly readjusting the distribution of volumes among its service providers. As a result, trans-o-flex can receive a larger volume based on its performance in the ranking.
