SCM Insights Dock/Slot Management enhanced: SupplyOn further expands smart control of time slots at dock terminals 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. (more…)
SCM Insights 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. (more…)
SCM Insights Supply chain resolutions 2022: (3) reduce supplier risks With climate change, weather hazards are becoming more likely. And with this, the risks for supply chain disruptions are increasing, too. Resulting large-scale power outages could bring production facilities at suppliers to a standstill. Or their plants themselves could be damaged by severe weather or forest fires. (more…)
SCM Insights Supply chain resolutions 2022: (2) make digital processes a daily habit The pandemic has revealed to businesses all at once exactly where digitization is not yet going so well. Processing paper invoices, for example, suddenly becomes much more complicated when all employees are working from home.The same is true in other areas, as well. (more…)
SCM Insights 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. (more…)
SCM Insights Swap container and load carriers without conflicts – Simply create transparency to reduce costs Disappearing containers, isolated systems and inventories, unnecessary transport costs due to empty rides, chaos in billing container rentals. These are just a few of the challenges faced by the manufacturing industry in the daily management of containers and load carriers. (more…)
SCM Insights Real-time transport visibility: what really matters Nowadays, everything is getting ever more complex and volatile. Today’s characteristic all comes down to "disruption is the new normal". But the key is to defy all odds in the best possible way. To stay agile and resilient. Be it a traffic jam, a shipwreck, a container shortage, a strike, severe weather, a volcano eruption or a pandemic that throws everything into disarray. No matter the cause, companies need to ensure smoothly functioning supply chains. (more…)
SCM Insights · Use Cases Paperless goods receipt: the automatic link between goods receipt and quality processes Traceability, transport optimization, goods receipt and inventory automation are top priorities for most logistics managers. Particularly in sectors where safety is crucial, such as aerospace, the rail industry or plant engineering, high legal requirements apply to the testing and documentation of the materials used. For this purpose, suppliers must hand over various documents, test protocols or certificates along with the material delivery. This documentation is usually either enclosed with the delivered parts in hard copy or sent to the buyer via e-mail.Challenge: scattered and missing informationIt is precisely these differing communication channels that pose major challenges for goods receipt. (more…)
SCM Insights Why Transport Management should be an important component of your digitization strategy It' no longer a secret that Transport Management can reduce costs and increase delivery reliability. Consequently, more and more SupplyOn customers are using our Transport Management Solution (TMS) to consolidate shipments, optimize routes and automatically check freight invoices.These are just three reasons which have the potential to cut freight costs by more than 10%. But what other reasons also speak for integrating Transport Management into your digitization strategy? (more…)
SCM Insights · Use Cases The ASN is getting smart: save 60 percent time when creating shipping documents 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. (more…)
