ZF brings in SupplyOn to gain real-time transparency for overseas transport at the material number level
Matching themes: Asset Tracking, Material Visibility, Track & Trace
Technology company ZF provides its customers worldwide with components for just-in-sequence production. Material bottlenecks due to supply delays quickly lead to major production problems. For critical overseas transport that is prone to delays, ZF has teamed up with SupplyOn to implement a system that continuously monitors the transport status at the material level and in real-time. It provides advance notice of delays, thus ensuring stable production processes. Read more
What does a Product Owner actually do at SupplyOn? Dominik Halamoda describes his working day
Matching themes: agile organization, jobs at SupplyOn, SAFe
In the new series “How does your working day look like?”, employees from a broad range of fields are giving insights into their daily work. The first is Dominik Halamoda, Product Owner at SupplyOn, who answers the most important questions about his tasks and the company in an interview. Read more
Smart Construction Machines. The digital construction industry in 2025.
Matching themes: construction equipment, Digital Supply Chain, digital transformation
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. Read more
2019 recap: eventful times in Americas’ Aerospace and Automotive industry
Matching themes: Aerospace, automotive industry, Digital Supply Chain
Aerospace in 2019 and beyond
This was an exciting year in Aerospace! Read more
Inspirations and innovations for the financial transformation of the automotive industry in China
Matching themes: China, Digital Supply Chain, digital transformation, Golden Tax
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.
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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