Industry News · Inside 10 years of AirSupply – the supply chain platform of the aerospace industry celebrates Exactly 10 years ago, on 22 November 2011, the SCM solution for the aerospace industry AirSupply went online. On this day, the first transaction between Airbus and the supplier of the first hour, Elektro-Metall Export GmbH from Ingolstadt, was exchanged via the jointly developed AirSupply solution. One year later, Airbus had rolled out its entire supplier base for production materials, consisting of 700 companies. As a result, the previously used individual solution could be switched off at the end of 2012. (more…)
Use Cases SupplyOn’s integrated Purchase-to-Pay process solution enables high invoice auto-booking rates for Airbus Fully electronic processing of all steps from order through to invoice results in highly efficient processes for direct materials, a high level of transparency and a 90 % auto-booking rate for invoices. (more…)
Use Cases Latécoère streamlines its procurement with AirSupply Leading aerospace partner Latécoère decided to streamline and digitally transform its core procurement processes using the industry solution AirSupply. This helped to harmonize and standardize procurement methods within the group, to collaborate with suppliers more efficiently and to react far more flexibly to dynamically changing sourcing needs in these volatile times. (more…)
Use Cases RUAG Aerostructures future-proofs its procurement with AirSupply The aircraft supplier RUAG Aerostructures switched its ordering process to AirSupply. Simultaneously, the company extended it to include digital processes for forecasting and goods receipt. This allows RUAG Aerostructures to submit orders faster in bulk processing and to collaborate more efficiently with its suppliers on delivery dates and quantities. (more…)
Use Cases Leonardo advances its supplier collaboration with AirSupply Leonardo, a major aerospace, defence and security company, wanted to harmonize and improve the digital collaboration with its suppliers throughout the group. By implementing AirSupply, Leonardo benefits group-wide from efficient electronic processes that increase transparency, traceability and responsiveness throughout its supply chain and improve inventory control. (more…)
Industry News How the first virtual Aviation Forum mastered excellence New Patrons and a new now virtual setupAmid the Covid-caused “Lockdown light”, the 10th anniversary of the Aviation Forum had to be celebrated virtually. Prof. Dr. Johannes Walther welcomed about 1,500 participants and 100 partners, sponsors and exhibitors, during times of unprecedented crisis. The core topics of this conference were Digitalization, Sustainability and Partnership. He thanked the three patrons of the event, Airbus COO Dr. Michael Schöllhorn, Volker Thum, Managing Director of the German Aerospace Industries Association and Dr. Michael Haidinger, President of Boeing Germany. (more…)
Industry News 2019 recap: eventful times in Americas’ Aerospace and Automotive industry Aerospace in 2019 and beyondThis was an exciting year in Aerospace! (more…)
Industry News Game-changing transformation of the aviation industry – how the 9th Aviation Forum contributed Now Munich. After 8 years in Hamburg, an alternating pattern of the Aviation Forum location was practiced for the first time: With one year in Munich and the next year again in Hamburg. Once again, this year’s Aviation Forum set a new record: 800 attendants, 145 exhibitors and 55 speakers raised the bar even higher. (more…)
Use Cases Airbus harmonizes its global procurement processes with AirSupply The construction of an aircraft is preceded by a highly complex, sophisticated procurement process. Almost every aircraft at Airbus is unique - and consists of around one million individual parts. Managing this is a challenge in itself. It becomes even more complex when, as at Airbus, almost a dozen locations in Europe and Canada coordinate operational purchasing.In order to act more efficiently, Airbus has developed a four-pillar model in which AirSupply from SupplyOn plays a key role. For the impressive results of this digital transformation, Airbus was selected as one of three finalists of the German Logistics Award 2019. (more…)
Use Cases Liebherr-Aerospace digitizes its supply chain with AirSupply As early as the end of 2012, Liebherr-Aerospace opted to use SupplyOn’s AirSupply solution with its most important suppliers for the processes Demand Forecast, Order, Advance Shipping Notification (ASN), Goods Receipt and partly also Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) – thus being the first AirSupply customer outside of BoostAeroSpace. (more…)
