Inside the World’s Largest Parts Hub For Daimler Truck in Halberstadt
The Halberstadt GPC represents one of the largest aftersales logistics commitments in the commercial vehicle industry.
Daimler Truck’s Global Parts Center in Halberstadt has completed phased commissioning and entered full operation, supplying up to 300,000 spare parts lines to Mercedes-Benz truck dealers across 170 countries. The facility completed its transition from the previous Germersheim site on 22 June 2026, having begun gradual commissioning in summer 2024.
Parts leave Halberstadt for 20 regional Parts Centers, which supply around 3,000 dealers globally. The 260,000 square-metre facility is served by around 2,600 suppliers and uses an AutoStore small-parts system alongside a 40-metre automated high-bay warehouse. Day-to-day operations are managed by DP World on behalf of Daimler Truck.
In a statement, Andreas Spreter, Head of the Daimler Truck Global Parts Center Halberstadt, said: “Yesterday, we transitioned the last markets and customers from the previous site in Germersheim, and we now supply the entire world exclusively from Halberstadt. This is a major milestone for us. We are currently working at full speed to stabilise and optimise the processes and systems to continuously enhance the performance of parts logistics at this site. This is how we intend to meet our customers’ expectations—true to our motto: ‘Trucks you can trust.'”
The site runs without fossil fuels, heated by electric heat pumps and powered by a 22 MWp photovoltaic system expected to generate over 20 million kW/h annually. Output exceeds on-site consumption, with surplus fed to the grid and additional storage capacity planned.
Up to 300,000 different items – from the smallest screw to the complete truck cab – are delivered from the new logistics location to vehicle dealers in over 170 countries around the world. The Global Parts Center thus plays a crucial role in ensuring international supply chains. Flexible and efficient spare parts logistics is an important success factor for Mercedes-Benz Trucks and its customers worldwide: fast and comprehensive parts supply enables vehicle fleets to maximize uptime and minimize downtime.
From Halberstadt to the World: Aftersales Parts for Mercedes-Benz Trucks
Around 2,600 Mercedes-Benz Trucks suppliers deliver their parts to the logistics site. In accordance with the three-tier aftersales logistics process, replacement parts from the GPC are distributed to a total of 20 regional Parts Centers worldwide. The Parts Centers in turn supply the dealers. Around the globe, close to 3,000 dealers keep replacement parts in stock for Mercedes-Benz trucks customers.
The new building in the Halberstadt East Industrial Park will have a gross floor area of around 270,000 square meters with around 260,000 square meters of logistics space in the first phase of construction. That's more than 35 soccer fields. Two large, parallel-arranged halls – each approximately 200 meters wide and 600 meters long – house the inbound and outbound goods areas respectively. Additional smaller buildings are located on the premises, such as the empties and recycling halls and the office building.
Thanks to state-of-the-art warehousing and conveyor technology, all vehicle parts are available for immediate retrieval in an automated high-bay warehouse and an equally automated small parts warehouse. The high-bay warehouse, with a footprint of approximately 10,000 square meters and a height of 40 meters, is directly adjacent to the hall. All parts are stored in wire mesh containers, which are automatically transported to and retrieved from the high-bay racking on two levels via electric floor conveyors (EFC). In total, around 70,000 wire mesh containers can be stored in a space-efficient manner in the high-bay warehouse. Directly within the high-bay warehouse area, a total of 21 stacker cranes take over the wire mesh containers and transport them to their respective storage positions.
The small parts storage area is the AutoStore. In this section of the hall, a total of approximately 160,000 gray bins is arranged side by side and stacked on top of each other in a framework known as the Grid. The small parts are stored sorted within the bins. On top of the Grid, 56 robots operate in a fully automated manner, processing multiple orders simultaneously and delivering the required bins to the employees. In operation, the warehouse self-optimizes, as bins containing frequently requested parts remain at the upper levels of the Grid, while bins with less frequently requested parts are positioned in the lower levels.
Throughout the entire GPC, so-called dynamic storage management is applied, which optimizes warehouse space and processes. This approach does away with fixed sorting and fixed storage locations for parts. Parts to be stored are assigned to a location by the system, and the exact storage position of each replacement part is recorded in the GPC's logistics system.
DP World, a globally operating logistics company, manages the day-to-day operations at the GPC on behalf of Daimler Truck. This includes, among other things, the execution of logistics processes in goods receiving and dispatch as well as in the parts warehouse. The company has extensive experience across the entire supply chain and maintains – despite its global structure – a clear regional focus.
