Posts by Cornelia Staib:
Deutsche Aircraft moves one step closer to fully integrated future-proof digital supply chain with SupplyOn
Matching themes: aerospace, AirSupply, digital supply chain
Innovative German new-purpose aircraft OEM Deutsche Aircraft GmbH partners with SupplyOn to develop a state of the art digital management system for its supply chain, aligned with its 100% paperless, full digitalisation objective. Read more
10 years of AirSupply – the supply chain platform of the aerospace industry celebrates
Matching themes: aerospace, AirSupply, digital supply chain
Exactly 10 years ago, on 22 November 2011, the SCM solution for the aerospace industry AirSupply went online. On this day, the first transaction between Airbus and the supplier of the first hour, Elektro-Metall Export GmbH from Ingolstadt, was exchanged via the jointly developed AirSupply solution. One year later, Airbus had rolled out its entire supplier base for production materials, consisting of 700 companies. As a result, the previously used individual solution could be switched off at the end of 2012. Read more
The dawn of a new age of mobility — the rail industry met in Berlin to discuss future issues
Matching themes: Railway industry
1,400 participants and around 150 exhibitors from 60 countries followed IPM’s invitation and headed to Berlin for the 7th Railway Forum at the beginning of September. In addition, around 1,000 virtual visitors came to attend the presentations on screen. For many of the participants, it was the first on-site conference since the outbreak of the pandemic more than a year and a half ago. Read more
The ASN is getting smart: Save 60 percent time when creating shipping documents
Matching themes: artificial intelligence, ASN
Imagine an intelligent solution for creating shipping documents that learns in the course of a few weeks which packaging rules are effective for which customer and which parts. It then applies them automatically when creating the ASN (Advance Shipping Notification) and thus relieves you of around half of your work. Even complex ASNs, whose creation often takes more than a quarter of an hour, can be created in less than 5 minutes in the future. Read more
Which enhancements have been deployed in the last three months? The results of the Product Increment (PI) 2020-4
Matching themes: enhancements, PI, SAFe
As an important part of our agile software development, we not only plan the next steps at the end of each quarter, but we also look back: What has been developed? Which progress did the different development teams achieve? What has actually been implemented?
Here is a summary of the most important enhancements from PI 2020-4: Read more
What has been developed in the last three months? The results of the Program Increment (PI) 2020-3
Matching themes: enhancements, PI, SAFe
As an important part of our agile software development, we not only plan the next steps at the end of each quarter, but we also look back: What has been developed? Which progress did the different development teams achieve? What has actually been implemented? Read more
The future of the mobility industry is digitized and automated
Matching themes: digital supply chain, Railway industry
As the 6th Railway Forum impressively demonstrated, digitization and automation are the predominant topics in the railway industry. And this is true at all levels: From infrastructure technology and supplier management to the customer experience, everything is to be digitized and automated in the future. Under the patronage of Deutsche Bahn, around 1,400 experts from the railway industry met in Berlin at the beginning of October to discuss the current challenges of the future and their possible solutions. Read more
Interview: “Blockchain offers enormous potential for supply chain management”
Matching themes: Blockchain, digital supply chain, digital transformation
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. Read more
A convincing industry approach: SupplyOn’s Rail Community boosts the efficiency of the railway industry
Matching themes: digital supply chain, RailSupply, Railway industry
The Swiss Federal Railways (SBB), with around 34,000 employees, a transport network of over 3,000 kilometers and almost a half billion passengers per year, is the national railway company of Switzerland, consisting of the four divisions Passenger Transportation, Cargo, Infrastructure and Real Estate. In 2016, the division Passenger Transportation took the initiative to transition the ordering process, until then carried out with high manual effort by email and fax, to a continuous digital process using the RailSupply solution from SupplyOn. The goal of this changeover was to significantly streamline the SBB’s purchasing and procurement logistics. Read more
Mastering challenges in customer communication
Matching themes: digital supply chain, supplier collaboration
Many suppliers are still a struggling with unstructured processes when collaborating with customers despite the digital era. TEMA-Fischer GmbH solved this problem many years ago with ZF Friedrichshafen AG in an exemplary way and now handles the most important processes via SupplyOn. This is now also the case with their order processes for Siemens. Every additional customer who takes the same approach to collaboration will increase the benefits for the machining specialist. Read more