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Christian Kastl

Manager Industry 4.0

It’s exciting to live in the digital age. We will see a lot of new developments which will drive new business models. I’m interested in the fields of Industry 4.0, Smart Factory und Smart Logistics and in my blogs, I try to bring some light in the big space of new solutions and trends in this fields.

Posts by Christian Kastl:

SCM Insights

Why Transport Management should be an important component of your digitization strategy

It' no longer a secret that Transport Management can reduce costs and increase delivery reliability. Consequently, more and more SupplyOn customers are using our Transport Management Solution (TMS) to consolidate shipments, optimize routes and automatically check freight invoices.These are just three reasons which have the potential to cut freight costs by more than 10%. But what other reasons also speak for integrating Transport Management into your digitization strategy? (more…)
Christian Kastl · June 8, 2021 - reading time < 2 Min.
Why Transport Management should be an important component of your digitization strategy
SCM Insights

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…)
Christian Kastl · April 23, 2020 - reading time < 3 Min.
Visibility, Analytics & Intelligence: Get full transparency on your supply chain, not just in times of crisis!
SCM Insights

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…)
Christian Kastl · April 9, 2020 - reading time < 4 Min.
In times of Corona, how can Track & Trace help to solve the challenges ahead?
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…)
Christian Kastl · March 2, 2020 - reading time < 2 Min.
Exploiting the potential of Smart Logistics with Production-to-Supply
SCM Insights

InSight, InControl: Real-time position and quality monitoring for production material transports

A materials controller needs up-to-date information at all times for production planning purposes. He needs to know whether the goods required are going to arrive at the plant in time – and whether they will do so in an intact state, a very important point when it comes to sensitive components. And all this preferably in real time, of course. But this is a lot more than what most track-and-trace solutions have to offer. (more…)
Christian Kastl · July 10, 2018 - reading time < 5 Min.
InSight, InControl: Real-time position and quality monitoring for production material transports
Technology · Use Cases

Increasing supply reliability and quality with Sensor Clouds

A leading aerospace supplier has further optimized its inbound supply chain with SupplyOn. As part of an innovative industry 4.0 project, sensor tracking was used to implement the real-time monitoring of deliveries. This not only aims at continuously determining location, but also the early detection of quality defects during transport due to excessive temperatures or moisture. (more…)
Christian Kastl · January 16, 2018 - reading time < 4 Min.
Increasing supply reliability and quality with Sensor Clouds