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SupplyOn Product Management

This profile features blog posts by our esteemed former colleagues in Product Management and Product Development.

Posts by SupplyOn Product Management:

Illuminate your supply chain: Discover the power of SupplyOn Supply Chain Locations

The biggest risks are the ones you don’t see. In today’s complex and volatile global market, companies are grappling with issues such as geopolitical tensions and strict regulations. At the same time, unexpected disruptions often hide deep within multi-tiered supplier networks.Supply chain transparency has never been more critical – or more elusive. Many risks go…
Illuminate your supply chain: Discover the power of SupplyOn Supply Chain Locations

Intelligent support: More than just a hotline

Since its launch more than six years ago, the SupplyOn Support Center has been very popular among users. With more than a million clicks per year, it offers users a comprehensive range of help pages, tutorial videos and individual customer portals. But that’s not all – the support portal is constantly evolving and setting new…
Intelligent support: More than just a hotline

Observability: A step towards 100% SLA availability

In today’s digital world, high service level agreements (SLAs) are a key competitive advantage. When using internet platforms, customers expect them to operate without interruption. For many businesses, even short downtimes can have serious consequences. Of course, no technology is immune to failure. So 100% availability is a very ambitious goal. A key component in…
Observability: A step towards 100% SLA availability

How you benefit from a central procurement solution when having various ERP systems in place

Many companies operate historically grown multi-backend system landscapes. Mergers and acquisitions, international expansions, new sites and plants, different update cycles, etc. have multiplied the number of ERP systems within the organization over time. This in itself is not a problem. However, if you wish to use a central procurement system for all your plants and…
How you benefit from a central procurement solution when having various ERP systems in place

Software engineering: Don’t slice the elephant – create a paradise

Often when someone thinks about software engineering, he gets the recommendation to slice the elephant. E.g., you want to design a nice e-commerce pet shop, you need to cut it into individual slices.But for me, slicing the elephant sounds quite strange: An elephant in slices is still difficult to handle – even then those slices…
Software engineering: Don’t slice the elephant – create a paradise

Digitalization in procurement – the eighth BME e-solution conference in Düsseldorf

On March 14 and 15, 2017, the eighth e-solution conference sponsored by the German Association for Supply Chain Management, Procurement and Logistics (BME) was held in Düsseldorf. This event is one of the largest gatherings for e-procurement and e-sourcing in the German-speaking world.
Digitalization in procurement – the eighth BME e-solution conference in Düsseldorf

Easy transfer of inspection certificates with the Advance Shipping Notification (ASN)

We are frequently approached by customers seeking a solution for transferring quality and production data generated by a supplier as part of the manufacturing and quality assurance processes. As an attachment to SupplyOn’s electronic delivery note, the so-called ASN (Advance Shipping Notification) is exactly what they are looking for. Following the transfer, structured electronic certificate…
Easy transfer of inspection certificates with the Advance Shipping Notification (ASN)

Good bait catches fine fish – part 3: How to write a specification for testers

We saw in the past blogs, how a specification for customers and specifications for developers look like. But we write specifications even for testers. But what is needed for testers in a specification?
Good bait catches fine fish – part 3: How to write a specification for testers

Good bait catches fine fish – part 2: How to write a specification for developers

In my recent blog we saw, how a specification for customers can look like. A specification needs to fulfill many different requirements and at the same time it has to be understood by the customer, testers, and of course also the developer. Which information do developers need?Developers want to know what they have to implement. Usually they want to…
Good bait catches fine fish – part 2: How to write a specification for developers

Famous Easter eggs

 Famous Easter Eggs – based on this title, you would assume that now something comes about Farbergé eggs or other lovely things like those. But I don’t want to tell you about that. Instead I want to tell something about Easter eggs created by developers.
Famous Easter eggs