Wincor Nixdorf for Aldi Nord, Germany



Heribert Stöcker,
Senior Project Manager,
Wincor Nixdorf.

Mass rollout was unsettling but successful.

They were tempestuous – and, at the end, very successful – days for Heribert Stöcker, a Senior Project Manager at Wincor Nixdorf in Hilden, during a mass rollout of reverse vending systems. The painstaking planning of the installations in Aldi stores and the daily coordination of 35 technical teams and 35 logistics teams was one of the most strenuous tasks that he had ever taken on in his 28 years at Wincor Nixdorf. “Sometimes we were really happy that we were able to work around the opening hours of the stores from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.,” grinned Stöcker.

  • Customer: Aldi Nord
  • History: stretches back to the 1940s
  • Market position: leading hard discounter
  • Business area: grocery retailing. Also significant non-food retailer
  • Operations: 2,500 stores in Germany alone with additional markets in France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain and the U.S.