Design Thinking: the quest for the “Wow” factor
Matching themes: Design Thinking, Product Design, product develeopment, quality management
“How do we generate enthusiasm among our customers?” This is the key question on Sabine Moudilou’s mind. As Manager Supplier Quality at SupplyOn, she is currently looking into the potential for a new audit management solution. For her, this is about more than optimally meeting customer needs. More than covering as many market requirements as possible in a new solution. It is about the “Wow” factor. I.e. something that users themselves may not even have thought of — but that noticeably improves their daily workflow in one fell swoop. Read more
All good things come in threes: ZF Lake Constance Mobility Summit, Automotive Procurement Forum and Automotive Logistics Forum
Matching themes: automotive industry, compliance, visibility
Due to the pandemic, numerous important conferences had to be postponed over the last two years – this meant that SupplyOn was represented as an exhibitor at three important automotive conferences in the first half of May. A common theme running through all three events was the current challenges facing the industry, above all the dramatic supply bottlenecks and the question of how to make supply chains resilient, as well as the climate crisis and the issue of how to achieve sustainable and CO2-neutral production in the future. Read more
Supplier Community Day: SupplyOn solutions for quality processes at close quarters
Matching themes: Community, Lieferantenkollaboration, supplier collaboration
Just like last time, we had several surprises for our audience. For the first time, we had a speaker on board from the customer side who presented ZF Friedrichshafen‘s digitalization strategy for feasibility studies in the sourcing process. Secondly, in two video clips, we revealed a potential expansion of the existing service portfolio on which our product managers are currently consulting. But first things first. Find out more about the highlights of the last Supplier Community Day below:
Supply Chain Act: the first three steps to better assurance
Matching themes: due diligence, ESG, Risk Management, supplier risks, sustainability
The Supply Chain Due Diligence Act, commonly referred to as the Supply Chain Act for short, puts companies under pressure to act: from January 1, 2023, all companies in Germany with more than 3,000 employees will be co-responsible for ensuring that human rights are respected in their supply chain. Worldwide, 100 million people are affected by modern slavery, almost 80 percent of whom are children. The law aims to give these people a better future and contains a catalog of eleven internationally recognized human rights conventions. Read more
Program Increment (PI) 2022-01: New features at SupplyOn
Matching themes: enhancements, Neuerungen, PI, SAFe
Our development teams have successfully completed the first Program Increment in 2022. According to the SAFe guidelines for agile software development, only one thing is missing: the retrospective. Therefore, we take a step back to review what has been successfully implemented in the past three months. You can find the three greatest innovations here. Read more
“IT’s your chance” — young female talent visits SupplyOn
Matching themes: Girls Day, jobs at SupplyOn
On April 28, we welcomed keen young girls to SupplyOn as a first-time participant of Girls’ Day 2022. Girls’ Day is a nationwide campaign in Germany in which schoolgirls from the 5th grade onwards have the opportunity to get a first-hand experience of interesting professions in mathematics, information technology, natural sciences and technology (MINT).
Along with many other organizations and companies, we at SupplyOn opened our doors to give girls an insight into the versatile occupational field of IT and to spark their enthusiasm for it. The response was overwhelming: within a very short time, all the places were booked up. Read more
Inbound transports: Boost transparency and efficiency with fully automated transport notification
Matching themes: Inbound Supply Chain, transport management
The sharp rise in energy prices has a direct impact on transport costs. Especially now, it is extremely important to exploit all available savings potential. Bundling of transports, high utilization of loading capacities and timely transport notifications are important levers to keep the price explosion under control. In addition, reduced inventories demand secure, monitored transport handling to prevent delays from leading to costly production losses.
This means logistics managers need not only immediate, i.e. real-time, information about delays during transport. Moreover, they need quick answers to questions such as: “Which materials are affected by the delay?” Or: “What was damaged during transport?” Read more
Dock/Slot Management enhanced: SupplyOn further expands smart control of time slots at dock terminals
Matching themes: Dock Slot Management, transport management
Efficient, intelligent control of loading and unloading processes offers great potential for savings. After all, the costs incurred by manual processes, lack of transparency, long standing and waiting times as well as insufficient loading capacities or poor capacity utilization are considerable. Read more
A Supplier Community Day full of surprises
Matching themes: Community, Lieferantenkollaboration, supplier collaboration
Yet again, a global audience at the Supplier Community Day — but all the attendees have one thing in common: They are SupplyOn Administrators. They play a key role at SupplyOn and that’s why our latest Supplier Community Day has focused on exactly this target group. Read on to find out all about the event and its two highlights.
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A SupplyOn solution exclusively for suppliers: The Supplier Forum
Matching themes: Community, supplier collaboration
The Supplier Community comes together — regardless of the time, place and apart from online events. But how do they do so? In the Supplier Forum! The forum will be available 24/7, worldwide and exclusively for suppliers on the SupplyOn platform. Here, for the first time, they have the opportunity to communicate with each other. Find out how networking via SupplyOn works here.