Due to the considerable growth of the company a logistics network spread over 12 locations was formed in Germany which was simply no longer able to meet the extraordinarily high demands VW requires of its logistics operations. The ambitious goal for overcoming this was to deliver a unified standard of quality and service for all locations and every customer which was delivered by the "Depot Network Optimizing Plan for Germany". Some sales centres were closed down and 7 strategically important locations were extended and improved instead and provided with an unified and optimised material flow concept. The VW locations Köln, Dieburg and Ludwigsburg were modernised and extended by TGW Transportgeräte GmbH.