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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

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.
Dock/Slot Management enhanced: SupplyOn further expands smart control of time slots at dock terminals

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: (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.
Supply chain resolutions 2022: (3) reduce supplier risks

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.
Supply chain resolutions 2022: (2) make digital processes a daily habit

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

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.
Jens Rese · August 11, 2021 - Reading time < 3 Min.
Swap container and load carriers without conflicts – Simply create transparency to reduce costs

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…
Anja Weber · July 15, 2021 - Reading time < 6 Min.
Real-time transport visibility: what really matters

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…
Paperless goods receipt: the automatic link between goods receipt and quality processes

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…
Why Transport Management should be an important component of your digitization strategy