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Restarting production: How to ensure the flow of materials

The coronavirus pandemic has turned everything upside down: Plants around the world had to shut down production. As a result, supply chains and thus transport networks often collapsed across the board. This is precisely what is now confronting companies with a major problem when they re-start production: even if suppliers are producing the required materials again, how do these get from the supplier's premises to their plants?Transportation problems are not limited to shipping and air freight, but also to road transport, which has so far been easy to manage. The transport networks that companies could previously use no longer exist for the most part. As a result, the processes with the carriers that used to work well are no longer functioning. So, what to do? (more…)
Restarting production: How to ensure the flow of materials
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Visibility, Analytics & Intelligence: Get full transparency on your supply chain, not just in times of crisis!

Planning, purchasing, logistics and transport management are traditionally separate processes, typically located in different departments. The material planners determine how many parts production requires and order these from the supplier, considering safety stocks. The suppliers operate in their own systems, as does the transport service provider. What, when, in what quantity and at what time is to be delivered usually remains unclear until goods receipt. (more…)
Visibility, Analytics & Intelligence: Get full transparency on your supply chain, not just in times of crisis!
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In times of Corona, how can Track & Trace help to solve the challenges ahead?

The Corona pandemic took us all completely by surprise. Few people expected a "black-swan" event like this. And even the boldest risk scenarios have not foreseen or dealt with the scale of the problem we are currently experiencing.Supply chains have been severely disrupted or even completely collapsed within a short period of time, especially in the automotive and aviation industries. If important suppliers stop producing, warehouses are not working and transports out of "red zones" are not possible, then production cannot be maintained, or only with great difficulty.But not everything has come to a standstill. Where production is still going on, it is now particularly important to know what is happening during transport, how long are the waiting times at the borders, where are the restrictions and what time effects will this have on the delivery. (more…)
In times of Corona, how can Track & Trace help to solve the challenges ahead?
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Optimize your procurement with online auctions

Buyers in the manufacturing industry face a variety of challenges, such as volatile markets, high competitive pressure and ever shorter product cycles – catchword time-to-market – to name a few. Adding to that, manufacturing companies primarily source production components, placing high demands on quality and delivery time. But also the so-called indirect material offers a great potential for optimization. Many are asking how to optimize the entire purchasing process in such times. A promising approach is online auctions. (more…)
Optimize your procurement with online auctions
SCM Insights · Technology

Exploiting the potential of Smart Logistics with Production-to-Supply

It' s nothing new that considerations of optimization focus on excessive inventories and overly high planning or disposition costs. This is all the more true in tougher economic times.This is where the new opportunities of digitization come in: the continuous provision of data from supplier production to transport logistics and even in-house intralogistics is no longer a vision of the future. Even minimizing process costs is now a reality thanks to automation. (more…)
Exploiting the potential of Smart Logistics with Production-to-Supply
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Survey: How to benefit from electronic invoicing

Despite all the buzz over catchwords like Industry 4.0, automation and digital transformation, when it comes to invoicing, we still live in a mainly analogue, non-electronic, non-automated world. Even today, at the close of 2019, the majority of invoices is sent in paper or unstructured formats. Formats that cannot (or hardly) be processed electronically. This has considerable consequences for companies, locking up resources, time and money. To gain a clearer picture on the real effects of e-invoicing, we conducted a scientific survey. (more…)
Survey: How to benefit from electronic invoicing
Industry News · SCM Insights · Technology

“Get the future before it gets you”: full-stack Industry 4.0 solution ONCITE launched

Finally a feasible and scalable digitization solution for industry 4.0One is almost tempted to twist the eyes and simple go on mute it whenever one hears the terms "Industry 4.0", "Internet of Things" and "digitization" as repeatedly as they are mentioned in media and technical discussions. Much has been and is being said and written about it. However, we are finally seeing very practical developments in our industry. (more…)
“Get the future before it gets you”: full-stack Industry 4.0 solution ONCITE launched
Industry News · SCM Insights

Interview: “Standardization and automation create huge opportunities for the rail industry.”

The railway industry is getting more and more digital, using new, innovative technologies in many fields. We spoke with André Truszkowski-Jonas, responsible for Business Excellence at Siemens Mobility, about current trends, the benefits of a rail community and the importance of standards for the industry. (more…)
Anja Weber · September 12, 2019 - reading time < 5 Min.
Interview: “Standardization and automation create huge opportunities for the rail industry.”