Survey: How to benefit from electronic invoicing
Matching themes: eInvoicing, invoicing process, Purchase to Pay, Study
Despite all the buzz over catchwords like Industry 4.0, automation and digital transformation, when it comes to invoicing, we still live in a mainly analogue, non-electronic, non-automated world. Even today, at the close of 2019, the majority of invoices is sent in paper or unstructured formats. Formats that cannot (or hardly) be processed electronically. This has considerable consequences for companies, locking up resources, time and money. To gain a clearer picture on the real effects of e-invoicing, we conducted a scientific survey.
Game-changing transformation of the aviation industry – How the 9th Aviation Forum contributed
Matching themes: Aerospace, AirSupply, Digital Supply Chain, digital transformation
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. Read more
Airbus harmonizes its global procurement processes with AirSupply
Matching themes: Aerospace, AirSupply, procurement
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. Read more
Two days of e-invoicing insights in Vienna
Matching themes: AirSupply, eInvoicing, P2P
This year, we had for the first time our own booth at the E-Invoicing Exchange Summit (EXCS19) in Vienna. During this event, we had the opportunity to engage in many highly interesting discussions with invoicing experts from all over the world on the current trends in e-invoicing. Read more
The future of the mobility industry is digitized and automated
Matching themes: Digital Supply Chain, Railway Industrie, Railway industry
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. Read more
“Get the future before it gets you”: Full-stack Industry 4.0 solution ONCITE launched
Matching themes: Edge Computing, Industry 4.0
Finally a feasible and scalable digitization solution for industry 4.0
One is almost tempted to twist the eyes and simple go on mute it whenever one hears the terms “Industry 4.0”, “Internet of Things” and “digitization” as repeatedly as they are mentioned in media and technical discussions. Much has been and is being said and written about it. However, we are finally seeing very practical developments in our industry. Read more
Liebherr-Aerospace digitizes its supply chain with AirSupply
Matching themes: Aerospace, AirSupply, Digital Supply Chain
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. Read more
Supply chain challenges in delivering the next generation of Military hardware
Matching themes: Aerospace, Defense, Digital Supply Chain
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 vehicles
There’s a lot of new use cases being evaluated for aerial vehicles. Read more
SupplyOn sets the stage for agile development in the next six sprints
Matching themes: agile organization, Lace Team, SAFe
“I have two user stories here with a total of 12 Story Points, which I cannot take care of in my team,” Martin Weber, Product Manager, says to his colleague. “It is part of a feature of SupplyOn Project Management, and your team knows all about it. Is there a chance you can help out?”
Conversations like this are the heartbeat of our PI (Program Increment) planning. Just recently, around 100 colleagues from 16 agile Scrum teams met again near Munich Airport to plan software development for the next twelve weeks. Read more
Why SAFe will make us a future-proof partner for our customers
Matching themes: agile organization, Lace Team, SAFe
In an increasingly complex world, established organizations reach their functional limits and have to come up with new coping strategies. So does SupplyOn, a trusted and successful company network that connects more than 65,000 businesses worldwide. Read more