Advantages of a Membership

Experience our Network!

As a member, you are invited to various interesting free presentations, company tours and regular informal meetings in your region, where you can meet supply chain management decision-makers and company representatives from your area. Interested individuals who want to find out more about the work of BVL are also welcome at these events.

BVL event calendar >>

Secure the know-how of tomorrow's logistics experts

Members can publish offers for internships, degree thesis placements and career entry opportunities for logistics graduates in the online exchange free of charge.

Online career exchange >>

First Hand Information

As a member, you receive first-hand information from the world of logistics and BVL, such as details of working groups and committees. And the "Call for Papers" provides you with an opportunity to become actively involved – by profiling new topics, presenting successful logistics concepts from your own company and applying to hold a presentation at one of our events.

Preferential Member Rates

Preferential member rates for the International Supply Chain Conference in Berlin or our one-day forums. Non-members pay up to € 200 more for the International Supply Chain Conference!

Virtual Exchange

with other members in the online community at www.bvl.de/globalscm-net

Special Rates for Vocational Training

The BVL Campus also offers special member rates for participation in seminars and training courses. You can find more information on our academy at www.bvl-campus.de

LOG.series

Membership includes subscription to the LOG. series, a multi-tier communication concept in German language consisting of the LOG.Kompass magazine, the monthly LOG.Letter and the weekly LOG.Mail. 

MyBVL Extranet

As a BVL member, you enjoy access to the MyBVL Extranet, a protected area on the Internet where you can find exclusive information on such things as presentations and BVL Chapter events as well as the updated list of members. By way of the community you have the possibility to network with other members - 24/7 and around the world.

The BVL Sponsor Network

The sponsor network gives students an opportunity to establish personal contacts with representatives of logistics companies at an early stage. The sponsors can be individuals or companies – and the scope of sponsorship can be agreed on an individual basis, ranging from payment of the BVL membership fee and the arrangement of contacts all the way to in-house internships or support and supervision during the preparation of degree theses.

If you are a student and would like to be accepted into the sponsor network of if you would like to become a sponsor then simply contact Andrea Wührmann.

You can find more information on the advantages of BVL membership for students at www.bvl.de/student.

European Level

BVL is also active on European level through its work in the European Logistics Association "ELA" in Brussels. Members receive ELA's specialist online magazine "SupplyChainStandard" free of charge; you can find the required access data in our "MyBVL" Extranet.

Research Projects

We offer interested member companies the opportunity to become actively involved in research projects.

Research at BVL >>