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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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How to do successful customer portal management (guest article by Klüber Lubrication)

In business relations between us (Klüber Lubrication) and our customers, a digital and efficient exchange of information is nowadays the be-all and end-all for successful cooperation. To ensure this, portal solutions — such as SupplyOn — are used. These usually combine several applications that support data exchange of cross-business and customer-specific processes, from tenders to…
How to do successful customer portal management (guest article by Klüber Lubrication)

Design Thinking: the quest for the “Wow” factor

“How do we generate enthusiasm among our customers?” This is the key question on Sabine Moudilou’s mind. As Manager Supplier Quality at SupplyOn, she is currently looking into the potential for a new audit management solution. For her, this is about more than optimally meeting customer needs. More than covering as many market requirements as…
Anja Weber · June 15, 2022 - Reading time < 5 Min.
Design Thinking: the quest for the “Wow” factor

All good things come in threes: ZF Lake Constance Mobility Summit, Automotive Procurement Forum and Automotive Logistics Forum

Due to the pandemic, numerous important conferences had to be postponed over the last two years – this meant that SupplyOn was represented as an exhibitor at three important automotive conferences in the first half of May. A common theme running through all three events was the current challenges facing the industry, above all the…
All good things come in threes: ZF Lake Constance Mobility Summit, Automotive Procurement Forum and Automotive Logistics Forum

Supplier Community Day: SupplyOn solutions for quality processes at close quarters

Just like last time, we had several surprises for our audience. For the first time, we had a speaker on board from the customer side who presented ZF Friedrichshafen‘s digitalization strategy for feasibility studies in the sourcing process. Secondly, in two video clips, we revealed a potential expansion of the existing service portfolio on which…
Supplier Community Day: SupplyOn solutions for quality processes at close quarters

Supply Chain Act: the first three steps to better assurance

The Supply Chain Due Diligence Act, commonly referred to as the Supply Chain Act for short, puts companies under pressure to act: from January 1, 2023, all companies in Germany with more than 3,000 employees will be co-responsible for ensuring that human rights are respected in their supply chain. Worldwide, 100 million people are affected…
Supply Chain Act: the first three steps to better assurance

Program Increment (PI) 2022-01: new features at SupplyOn

Our development teams have successfully completed the first Program Increment in 2022. According to the SAFe guidelines for agile software development, only one thing is missing: the retrospective. Therefore, we take a step back to review what has been successfully implemented in the past three months. You can find the three greatest innovations here.
Lena Zuber · May 13, 2022 - Reading time < 3 Min.
Program Increment (PI) 2022-01: new features at SupplyOn

“IT’s your chance” — young female talent visits SupplyOn

On April 28, we welcomed keen young girls to SupplyOn as a first-time participant of Girls’ Day 2022. Girls’ Day is a nationwide campaign in Germany in which schoolgirls from the 5th grade onwards have the opportunity to get a first-hand experience of interesting professions in mathematics, information technology, natural sciences and technology (MINT).Along with…
“IT’s your chance” — young female talent visits SupplyOn

Inbound transports: boost transparency and efficiency with fully automated transport notification

The sharp rise in energy prices has a direct impact on transport costs. Especially now, it is extremely important to exploit all available savings potential. Bundling of transports, high utilization of loading capacities and timely transport notifications are important levers to keep the price explosion under control. In addition, reduced inventories demand secure, monitored transport…
Inbound transports: boost transparency and efficiency with fully automated transport notification

How to implement an efficient risk management system

The coronavirus pandemic has posed enormous, unprecedented challenges for companies. Efficient risk management plays a central role in meeting these challenges. It is not so much a question of whether the current situation could have been anticipated and planned for. Rather, the focus is on how companies can now best protect their core processes and…
How to implement an efficient risk management system

Dock/Slot Management enhanced: SupplyOn further expands smart control of time slots at dock terminals

Efficient, intelligent control of loading and unloading processes offers great potential for savings. After all, the costs incurred by manual processes, lack of transparency, long standing and waiting times as well as insufficient loading capacities or poor capacity utilization are considerable.
Dock/Slot Management enhanced: SupplyOn further expands smart control of time slots at dock terminals