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ToShift exists because the same mistakes keep repeating.

Manufacturing firms roll out one system after another, waiting for progress that never comes. André Käber has spent decades learning why, and built ToShift to change it.

André Käber
"I've spent 25 years in logistics technology. I've built companies, led transformations, and seen plenty of expensive failures up close."
André Käber, Founder

The journey

From Wismar to world-class logistics systems

André grew up in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and studied transportation economics in Wismar. That's where his fascination began: how complexity turns into elegance, and how a single broken process at a factory gate can ripple through an entire supply chain long before anyone realizes where it started.

At Philips Semiconductors he learned global supply chains from the inside; at SAP, the gap between logistics platforms and the physical reality of operations. In 2008 he founded Leogistics, building solutions for transport, warehouse, yard, and collaboration for clients like BMW, BASF, Beiersdorf, Nestlé, Airbus, and Volkswagen. Out of Leogistics grew the SaaS platform myleo/dsc, with thousands of users.

One pattern ran through all those years: companies bought transformation as a project. Fixed scope, fixed deadline, a go-live, as if logistics had an ending. It doesn't.

That's why ToShift exists: the operating system for continuous industrial transformation. We design how operations actually run, embed AI as a decision layer, and stay. Because the work that matters begins after go-live.

The realization

It was never the technology

After hundreds of transformations, one finding was impossible to ignore: companies invested millions in systems like ERP, WMS, TMS, and MES, and productivity stayed flat. According to Gartner, labor productivity is historically low and stalled, and technology alone won't lift it.

The real gap sits between people, processes, and organization, held in place by a project mindset that no longer fits a world of constant change.

"Few companies fail for lack of technology. Almost always, what's missing is the connection between people, processes, and organization."

André Käber

Why ToShift

Not another consulting company

We're not the 35th implementer on the market. Traditional projects tend to leave organizations right where they started; we create clarity before you commit, build change into the company as a lasting capability, and let our results be the measure, not our billable hours.

Conscious transformation means changing with intent instead of just keeping pace with technology. We use AI to take the load off people, not to replace them: it handles the time-consuming work that adds no real value and frees them for what matters.

We don't advise transformation. We are the operating system for it.

That's what "The Conscious Trans­for­ma­tion Company" means. It's how we work.

Let's talk.

If transformation is not a buzzword for you but a responsibility, we'd like to hear from you.

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