BASF Business Services GmbH is a wholly-owned group company of BASF SE, whose service portfolio ranges from managing and operating supply chain and logistics, designing and optimizing business processes throughout the value chain to the consulting, development and operation of IT systems. 1,700 of the approximately 2,000 employees work at the Ludwigshafen site (as of December 31, 2015). BASF Business Services, whose headquarters are located in the south of Ludwigshafen, has 14 sites in Europe. The BASF subsidiary is certified according to the international quality management standard ISO 9001:2008 and through BASF SE is certified according to the international information security management standard ISO 27001:2013.