Use Cases Liebherr-Aerospace digitizes its supply chain with AirSupply As early as the end of 2012, Liebherr-Aerospace opted to use SupplyOn’s AirSupply solution with its most important suppliers for the processes Demand Forecast, Order, Advance Shipping Notification (ASN), Goods Receipt and partly also Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) – thus being the first AirSupply customer outside of BoostAeroSpace. (more…)
Industry News Supply chain challenges in delivering the next generation of Military hardware The Fall AIA Supplier Management Council Meeting took place from September 24-26th at the Omni Hotel in Ft. Worth, TX. There were over 200 attendees including some of the biggest names in Aerospace and Defense.A new wave of manned and unmanned aerial vehiclesThere’s a lot of new use cases being evaluated for aerial vehicles. (more…)
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…)
Industry News Manufacturing 4.0 in academia & practice: How SupplyOn contributed to the MIM 2019 conference "In the end, it is all about communication": In his opening speech, Prof. Andreas Zaby, President of the Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR), welcomed the more than 750 participants from 51 countries worldwide to the MIM 2019 conference. Likewise, Prof. Dmity Ivanov and Prof. Susanne Meyer, Vice President of the HWR Berlin, who were both the driving forces behind this conference, also emphasized this unique opportunity to learn from each other in the context of modelling, management and control of manufacturing processes. (more…)
SCM Insights 3 Trends for successful digital supply chains Supply chain management is changing fast - and fundamentally. In order to set the right digital course for the future, companies must not only ask themselves which new technologies they want to use but to essentially think about their design. Here, I have compiled the important trends and findings from the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference 2019 in Phoenix, Arizona. (more…)
Industry News Digital procurement in real-time: successful Industrial Track & Trace showcase at Hannover Messe Hannover Messe is the world's leading industrial trade show. An event that is justified in its role as the "Home of Industrial Pioneers". More than 215,000 visitors and around 6,500 exhibitors from all over the world attended the exhibition from April 1 to 5, 2019. This year's motto: "Integrated Industry - Industrial Intelligence". This key theme not only shaped the many facets of the hotly debated trade fair topics, but also represented the core of the innovative use case that SupplyOn presented there. (more…)
Industry News Aerospace supply chains in times of digital change Great interest for an exciting topic: The SCE symposium "Digitization in Aviation", jointly organized by the Bavarian Aerospace Cluster BavAIRia and SPACE, was filled to capacity with around 100 participants. (more…)
Industry News What is driving logistics in the automotive industry? Digitization is in full swingFor some time now, approaches such as artificial intelligence or the Internet of Things have left the scientific and university sphere. Companies in the automotive and logistics industries have begun implementing these approaches with the technological options available today. The successful digitization of industry-specific procurement strategies is making massive progress and continues to serve as a role model and benchmark for other industries.What you could see and hear at the Forum Automobillogistik 2019, which took place on 5-6 February at the BMW World in Munich under the motto "Creating value creation - analogue - digital - in real time", was, as expected, extremely impressive. (more…)
SCM Insights · Use Cases Industrial Traceability: In-depth analysis transcending the boundaries of your production and supply chain Up until now, seamless, end-to-end goods traceability has been more of a pipe dream than a reality. But there’s good news: thanks to the clustering of innovative Industry 4.0 technologies, comprehensive supply chain Track & Trace is now possible – also known as industrial traceability. (more…)
SCM Insights · Technology Interview: “Blockchain offers enormous potential for supply chain management” Ralf Knobloch, the SupplyOn Group’s blockchain expert, has been involved with distributed ledger technology since 2013. As the founder of the “Blockchain Meet-Up Saxony”, he is a great believer in regular dialog between research, science, users and society. We spoke to him about the impact of the new technology and about concrete use cases in supply chain management beyond the blockchain hype. (more…)
