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The Digital Product Passport (DPP) is coming – and here’s what you need to know

The Digital Product Passport (DPP) is coming – and here’s what you need to know

The European Union wants to promote the circular economy and will therefore gradually introduce the Digital Product Passport (DPP) for various product groups by 2030.It will start in February 2027 with the battery passport, which will then be mandatory for all batteries with a capacity of more than 2 kilowatt hours. This will be followed…

“Success as a Service”: Supplier Onboarding at SupplyOn

“Success as a Service”: Supplier Onboarding at SupplyOn

Supplier Onboarding is the first and most important step for successful digital collaboration with your business partners via SupplyOn. But what does it take to get started smoothly? Here we show you in words and pictures how we successfully bring our customers and their suppliers on board through expertise, communication, and experience.Why Supplier Onboarding is…

Four reasons to reshore and diversify your suppliers

Four reasons to reshore and diversify your suppliers

In 2025, global trade has gone from unpredictable to adversarial. Dramatic tariff peaks and valleys on Chinese goods. Painful U.S.–EU duties and countermeasures. Pendulum swings on steel and aluminum levies. And volatile conflicts in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia all at once.Procurement and supply chain executives understand that diversified sourcing is now a strategic…

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Advanced analytics: from data-driven to outcome-driven analytics

 The obsession to know the futureHuman beings have been and always will be obsessed with knowing the future with the wonder that if they know what will happen they can make better decisions and achieve better results.In business, the obsession is the same. In the last 15 years of my working experience, I have seen,…
Advanced analytics: from data-driven to outcome-driven analytics

Job responsibility and part-time work: is both feasible at the same time?

Different phases of life come with different needs. In order to facilitate work, family and private life, we offer our employees various part-time options — from classic part-time, usually starting at 20 hours, to temporary interim part-time. Consequently, we offer many of our job opportunities also on a part-time basis.Ferdinand joined SupplyOn in the summer…
Job responsibility and part-time work: is both feasible at the same time?

Hold your breath, please! Suppliers get Deep Dive Sessions on SupplyOn solutions

Have you ever heard of Deep Dive Sessions? No? That’ s exactly how I felt. Since I have nothing to do with scuba diving, I thought it had nothing to do with me as a trainer. But I was wrong about that. Why? Let me tell you…
Hold your breath, please! Suppliers get Deep Dive Sessions on SupplyOn solutions

Supplier Community Day: suppliers decide on the next SupplyOn feature

A 90-minute game, eleven skilled players and a worldwide audience: Soccer vibes at the Supplier Community Day — yet there are still two months to go until the World Cup 😀 Click here for the match report:
Lena Zuber · August 31, 2022 - Reading time < 3 Min.
Supplier Community Day: suppliers decide on the next SupplyOn feature

Four steps to achieve 100% compliance in purchasing

Compliance — this buzzword is currently being used in an almost excessive manner. Today, everything and everyone must be “compliant”: Every company, every single employee from the assembly line worker or the clerk to the management, as well as suppliers and service providers.
Four steps to achieve 100% compliance in purchasing

Four tips for successful product development and why user experience is key

The user experience (UX) — i.e. all aspects of how a user interacts with a product — is a key decision-making factor when purchasing software solutions. Sounds like a hypothesis at first. But it is already commonplace today and will become even more important in the future. Why? I will try to explain this in…
Four tips for successful product development and why user experience is key

Program Increment (PI) 2022-02: improvements and new functionalities in SupplyOn solutions

Once again, our development teams have been very busy during the past Program Increment (PI). In the following, you will learn all about the biggest innovations in the different SupplyOn solutions.
Lena Zuber · August 5, 2022 - Reading time < 3 Min.
Program Increment (PI) 2022-02: improvements and new functionalities in SupplyOn solutions

Certificate Management and Artificial Intelligence

If autonomous vehicles driving with artificial intelligence were used, would the problem with speeding cars in built-up areas be completely solved? And who is liable if such a vehicle causes an accident? Does facial recognition in public spaces serve general safety or does this result in a surveillance state? You only have to watch the…
Certificate Management and Artificial Intelligence

Supplier Info Event: reducing the CO2 footprint in the supply chain

Inspiring speakers at the last Supplier Info Event: In addition to Markus, CEO of SupplyOn, we also had Achim as Head of Purchasing & Supplier Management Sustainability from Schaeffler and Sandra as Expert Sustainability in the Supply Chain from ZF Friedrichshafen on board.
Lena Zuber · July 15, 2022 - Reading time < 3 Min.
Supplier Info Event: reducing the CO2 footprint in the supply chain

Keeping the ball rolling: SupplyOn at Charity Company Championship 2022

On Saturday, July 2, 2022, we didn’t take care of services and systems for a change. Instead, we kicked the ball around for a good cause. SupplyOn took part in the Charity Company Championship.
Keeping the ball rolling: SupplyOn at Charity Company Championship 2022