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Daniel Adelhardt

Vice President Product Management & Development

My vision is to advance supply chain digitization with leading-edge solutions. Together with my division, I am therefore developing innovative, cloud-based applications for transport and supply chain processes. We combine technological trends from the fields of Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Integration & API Management to optimize business processes for Industry 4.0, Smart Factory & Logistics.

Posts by Daniel Adelhardt:

Ad hoc, dynamic – yet efficient: automating outbound transports

Transport bottlenecks, delivery delays, and volatile logistics costs have put more than just the inbound supply chain to the test in recent years. Outbound logistics faces the same challenges. But the solution has to be different. The actual outbound processes have their own specific characteristics. They typically run on different technical systems and are often…
Ad hoc, dynamic – yet efficient: automating outbound transports

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…
How to implement an efficient risk management system

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.
Supply chain resolutions 2022: (4) secure material demands

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.
Supply chain resolutions 2022: (1) ensure transport flow

Transport ahoy! Securing supply despite high volatility

For more than a year now, logistics and supply chain managers around the world have been struggling with unprecedented challenges. The impact from the first coronavirus-induced shutdowns, when supply chains and transportation networks around the world collapsed, continues to ripple through the industry. High volatility in demand, natural disasters and vessel incidents such as the…
Transport ahoy! Securing supply despite high volatility

How to better cope with demand volatility

The coronavirus crisis has revealed a long-standing challenge for suppliers even more clearly: How reliable are the demand forecasts they receive from their customers? High volatility and uncertainties in demand forecasting are not limited to pandemic times. Even in the “normal state”, the originally reported requirements can differ considerably from the materials actually called off.…
How to better cope with demand volatility

3 Use cases how companies benefit from Smart Logistics Data

Transport damages to goods, delays in delivery, poor delivery reliability: These are three typical use cases in which Smart Logistics Data helps to identify and counter risks well in advance.
3 Use cases how companies benefit from Smart Logistics Data

How to avoid missing supplies with Smart Logistics Data

Missing supplies, i.e. delayed, deficient, and completely absent deliveries, are a serious and recurring problem for companies. But what can you do? And how can you ensure that ordered goods actually arrive on time?Smart Logistics Data – that is, the intelligent collection, enrichment, and usage of data relevant to the logistics process –  promises relief.
How to avoid missing supplies with Smart Logistics Data

Why comprehensive data consolidation is the basis for efficient risk management

Nowadays, everyone is preaching that data is the new oil. But unlike oil, it’s not (just) the sheer output volume that matters here. What really counts is the efficient use of this data so as to draw the right conclusions in terms of the supply chain reliability.
Why comprehensive data consolidation is the basis for efficient risk management

Smart Logistics Data: the intelligent supply chain

A supply chain has to be agile, robust and resilient. Capable of anticipating potential risks and responding in advance, detecting problems early on and flexibly circumventing them.All this requires the intelligent use of data. But how can we really make data “smart”?
Smart Logistics Data: the intelligent supply chain