Use Cases The art of manufacturing electronic vehicles: Seres Automobile lays the foundation for its supply chain together with SupplyOn The production of electric vehicles must be based on smart manufacturing. This is a holistic, new business model which takes user needs into account. Therefore, it must also innovate, change and improve the entire supply chain system.Huang Lei, Vice President Chongqing Sokon Industry GroupAs Vice President of the Chongqing Sokon Industry Group, Huang Lei is pursuing a clear goal: to build a complete supply chain system from scratch for the intelligent production of the new electric vehicle. (more…)
Industry News Smart Construction Machines. The digital construction industry in 2025. Smart Construction Machines. The digital construction industry in 2025.This was the motto of the 2nd Construction Equipment Forum, which took place this time in Mannheim. Professor Dr. Johannes Walter, host and head of IPM, opened the event. With approx. 400 participants, 73 partners and sponsors as well as approx. 60 exhibitors, the Construction Equipment Forum has grown considerably compared to the inaugural event one year ago in Hanover. In addition to the IPM Institute as organizer, the companies Wacker Neuson, Ammann, Bosch and STRABAG are founding partners and sponsors of the event. (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 Inspirations and innovations for the financial transformation of the automotive industry in China Outside, a constant stream of vehicles and cold temperatures prevailed; inside, innovations in the automotive industry were debated in a warm atmosphere. That was the "2019 Automotive Industry Supply Chain Innovation and Financial Transformation Forum", which took place in Beijing on October 25, 2019. (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…)
Industry News The future of the mobility industry is digitized and automated As the 6th Railway Forum impressively demonstrated, digitization and automation are the predominant topics in the railway industry. And this is true at all levels: From infrastructure technology and supplier management to the customer experience, everything is to be digitized and automated in the future. Under the patronage of Deutsche Bahn, around 1,400 experts from the railway industry met in Berlin at the beginning of October to discuss the current challenges of the future and their possible solutions. (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…)
Industry News Supply chain challenges in delivering the next generation of Military hardware The Fall AIA Supplier Management Council Meeting took place from September 24-26th at the Omni Hotel in Ft. Worth, TX. There were over 200 attendees including some of the biggest names in Aerospace and Defense.A new wave of manned and unmanned aerial vehiclesThere’s a lot of new use cases being evaluated for aerial vehicles. (more…)
Industry News · SCM Insights Interview: “Standardization and automation create huge opportunities for the rail industry.” The railway industry is getting more and more digital, using new, innovative technologies in many fields. We spoke with André Truszkowski-Jonas, responsible for Business Excellence at Siemens Mobility, about current trends, the benefits of a rail community and the importance of standards for the industry. (more…)
Industry News Manufacturing 4.0 in academia & practice: How SupplyOn contributed to the MIM 2019 conference "In the end, it is all about communication": In his opening speech, Prof. Andreas Zaby, President of the Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR), welcomed the more than 750 participants from 51 countries worldwide to the MIM 2019 conference. Likewise, Prof. Dmity Ivanov and Prof. Susanne Meyer, Vice President of the HWR Berlin, who were both the driving forces behind this conference, also emphasized this unique opportunity to learn from each other in the context of modelling, management and control of manufacturing processes. (more…)