SCM Insights Inbound transports: boost transparency and efficiency with fully automated transport notification The sharp rise in energy prices has a direct impact on transport costs. Especially now, it is extremely important to exploit all available savings potential. Bundling of transports, high utilization of loading capacities and timely transport notifications are important levers to keep the price explosion under control. In addition, reduced inventories demand secure, monitored transport handling to prevent delays from leading to costly production losses.This means logistics managers need not only immediate, i.e. real-time, information about delays during transport. Moreover, they need quick answers to questions such as: "Which materials are affected by the delay?" Or: "What was damaged during transport?" (more…)
SCM Insights How to implement an efficient risk management system The coronavirus pandemic has posed enormous, unprecedented challenges for companies. Efficient risk management plays a central role in meeting these challenges. It is not so much a question of whether the current situation could have been anticipated and planned for. Rather, the focus is on how companies can now best protect their core processes and increase the resilience of their operations. (more…)
SCM Insights Dock/Slot Management enhanced: SupplyOn further expands smart control of time slots at dock terminals Efficient, intelligent control of loading and unloading processes offers great potential for savings. After all, the costs incurred by manual processes, lack of transparency, long standing and waiting times as well as insufficient loading capacities or poor capacity utilization are considerable. (more…)
SCM Insights Supply chain resolutions 2022: (4) secure material demands The new year begins just as the old one ended, with material shortages everywhere. Now, another factor is adding to the woes: Omicron.After all, delivery problems are not just a matter of whether sufficient raw materials and upstream products are available to meet demand. (more…)
SCM Insights Supply chain resolutions 2022: (3) reduce supplier risks With climate change, weather hazards are becoming more likely. And with this, the risks for supply chain disruptions are increasing, too. Resulting large-scale power outages could bring production facilities at suppliers to a standstill. Or their plants themselves could be damaged by severe weather or forest fires. (more…)
SCM Insights Supply chain resolutions 2022: (2) make digital processes a daily habit The pandemic has revealed to businesses all at once exactly where digitization is not yet going so well. Processing paper invoices, for example, suddenly becomes much more complicated when all employees are working from home.The same is true in other areas, as well. (more…)
SCM Insights Supply chain resolutions 2022: (1) ensure transport flow Transport woes have not eased with the turn of the year. Rising consumer demand, container shortages, congestion at or closures of major ports in the U.S. and China, significantly fewer airline movements and, last but not least, an ever-increasing driver shortage have led to significant bottlenecks in shipments and a massive increase in freight rates. (more…)
SCM Insights Swap container and load carriers without conflicts – Simply create transparency to reduce costs Disappearing containers, isolated systems and inventories, unnecessary transport costs due to empty rides, chaos in billing container rentals. These are just a few of the challenges faced by the manufacturing industry in the daily management of containers and load carriers. (more…)
SCM Insights Real-time transport visibility: what really matters Nowadays, everything is getting ever more complex and volatile. Today’s characteristic all comes down to "disruption is the new normal". But the key is to defy all odds in the best possible way. To stay agile and resilient. Be it a traffic jam, a shipwreck, a container shortage, a strike, severe weather, a volcano eruption or a pandemic that throws everything into disarray. No matter the cause, companies need to ensure smoothly functioning supply chains. (more…)
SCM Insights · Use Cases Paperless goods receipt: the automatic link between goods receipt and quality processes Traceability, transport optimization, goods receipt and inventory automation are top priorities for most logistics managers. Particularly in sectors where safety is crucial, such as aerospace, the rail industry or plant engineering, high legal requirements apply to the testing and documentation of the materials used. For this purpose, suppliers must hand over various documents, test protocols or certificates along with the material delivery. This documentation is usually either enclosed with the delivered parts in hard copy or sent to the buyer via e-mail.Challenge: scattered and missing informationIt is precisely these differing communication channels that pose major challenges for goods receipt. (more…)
