That the pace of a rowing boat depends on time conformity of the strokes is common knowledge. Who gets out of step loses performance and does need longer to finish. What applies to a rowing team can be transferred to industrial logistics processes. Synchronised material flows between the different supply chain echelons enable an increase in throughput combined with stable processes. This paper is based on research results on the topic of „Synchronised Logistics Processes“, which have been performed at Munich University of Applied Sciences in the last couple of years. Based on already successfully applied traffic dynamics models, the crucial link between synchronisation, productivity and stability of material flows has been investigated thoroughly.
