Category: SCM Insights

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Sourcing Cycle Time: Why RFx-to-Award decisions take too long

Sourcing cycle time describes the time between an RFx and the final award decision. In direct materials sourcing, this RFx-to-award phase is where delays most frequently occur – and where negotiated savings quietly erode.Savings rarely disappear at the negotiation table. They disappear in the weeks between RFx and award, when prices shift, capacities change, engineering…
Sourcing Cycle Time: Why RFx-to-Award decisions take too long

Four reasons to reshore and diversify your suppliers

In 2025, global trade has gone from unpredictable to adversarial. Dramatic tariff peaks and valleys on Chinese goods. Painful U.S.–EU duties and countermeasures. Pendulum swings on steel and aluminum levies. And volatile conflicts in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia all at once.Procurement and supply chain executives understand that diversified sourcing is now a strategic…
Four reasons to reshore and diversify your suppliers

“Success as a Service”: Supplier Onboarding at SupplyOn

Supplier Onboarding is the first and most important step for successful digital collaboration with your business partners via SupplyOn. But what does it take to get started smoothly? Here we show you in words and pictures how we successfully bring our customers and their suppliers on board through expertise, communication, and experience.Why Supplier Onboarding is…
“Success as a Service”: Supplier Onboarding at SupplyOn

Geopolitical risk: Steer your supply chain through turbulence

Trade tensions, export bans, and regional conflicts are rewriting the rules of global supply chains. One spark, whether a tariff, a blockade, sanctions, or a new law, can derail production, inflate costs, and fray customer trust overnight.Companies must be ready to shift suppliers and adapt their cost structures quickly. SupplyOn’s AI-driven platform empowers you to…
Geopolitical risk: Steer your supply chain through turbulence

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

Reduce costs: optimize production timing and quantities depending on demand and capacity

In today’s competitive economy, the efficient management of production processes is a key success factor. Companies are faced with the challenge of planning production times and quantities in such a way that they both meet demand and minimize costs. But how can this balancing act be achieved?In this article, we look at how matching demand…
Reduce costs: optimize production timing and quantities depending on demand and capacity

Key takeaways from the webinar: How Bosch Rexroth runs modern Demand Capacity Management (DCM) in 2025

In our recent webinar, “How Bosch Rexroth runs modern Demand Capacity Management (DCM) in 2025,” key experts from Bosch Rexroth provided comprehensive insights into managing today’s increasingly complex and volatile supply chains. Here are the extensive highlights from the session, which offer valuable lessons and practical strategies for other manufacturing companies:1. Comprehensive Integration of Digital…
Key takeaways from the webinar: How Bosch Rexroth runs modern Demand Capacity Management (DCM) in 2025

The future of companies is integrated planning: why S&OP and IBP need external data sources

Just recently, I attended the S&OP Summit in Amsterdam – the leading conference on Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP). My aim was to find out about the new possibilities and developments in S&OP and IBP so that I could show SupplyOn customers the added value of integrating planning and execution. Strategic planning has always been…
The future of companies is integrated planning: why S&OP and IBP need external data sources

Pack-to-Stock: Pack today, ship later

Packing goods for shipping poses greater challenges for suppliers than might be assumed at first glance. In terms of processes and systems, this step is usually linked to delivery, but this is only the case in reality in a few cases. Many companies pack directly after the manufacturing process or quality control and then store…
Pack-to-Stock: Pack today, ship later

S&OP and IBP: two industry trends?

Sales and operations planning (S&OP) has come a long way since its origins in the 1970s as a production planning tool. Today, as supply chain technology advances, S&OP is evolving into a more integrated approach. By expanding into areas like product management, demand planning, capacity management, finance, and corporate strategy, S&OP has transformed into what…
S&OP and IBP: two industry trends?