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Rethinking the Digital Product Passport: Why SupplyOn Is Making Material Master Data a Strategic Backbone

Rethinking the Digital Product Passport: Why SupplyOn Is Making Material Master Data a Strategic Backbone

Global supply chains are at a turning point. What was long considered an operational discipline is increasingly evolving into a data-driven management task under regulatory pressure.Sustainability requirements are becoming increasingly stringent, data requirements are growing exponentially, and companies must manage both across complex, international supplier networks. At SupplyOn, we are observing this transformation across all…

“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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Why SAFe will make us a future-proof partner for our customers

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.
Why SAFe will make us a future-proof partner for our customers

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.
Anja Weber · September 12, 2019 - Reading time < 5 Min.
Interview: “Standardization and automation create huge opportunities for the rail industry.”

A close-up experience of e-mobility made in China

SupplyOn has its roots in the European automotive industry. This makes it all the more exciting to closely observe and support the dynamic developments in China. China is considered a forerunner in the field of electromobility, with numerous start-ups in this space. One of them is Seres, a subsidiary of the Chongqing SOKON Industry Group,…
A close-up experience of e-mobility made in China

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…
Manufacturing 4.0 in academia & practice: How SupplyOn contributed to the MIM 2019 conference

Delivering (even) better service with Design Thinking

For us in China, too, Design Thinking is becoming an increasingly important approach to bringing products, solutions and services even closer to the customer. This is because Design Thinking opens up new perspectives and enables innovative solutions by addressing people’s essential needs.
Delivering (even) better service with Design Thinking

3 Trends for successful digital supply chains

Supply chain management is changing fast – and fundamentally. In order to set the right digital course for the future, companies must not only ask themselves which new technologies they want to use but to essentially think about their design. Here, I have compiled the important trends and findings from the Gartner Supply Chain Executive…
Anja Weber · July 24, 2019 - Reading time < 5 Min.
3 Trends for successful digital supply chains

3 Use cases how companies benefit from Smart Logistics Data

Transport damages to goods, delays in delivery, poor delivery reliability: These are three typical use cases in which Smart Logistics Data helps to identify and counter risks well in advance.
3 Use cases how companies benefit from Smart Logistics Data

5 Common invoicing problems and how to solve them

If you believe what you read in the headlines, we’ve already arrived in the brave new digital world. But when it comes to the subject of invoicing at least, the world is currently far less digital and “brave” than it could be. What’s the problem? What problems do companies face in the invoicing process? And…
Anja Weber · July 9, 2019 - Reading time < 7 Min.
5 Common invoicing problems and how to solve them

Interview: “Blockchain could create completely new rules for digital collaboration between companies”

In an interview at the end of last year, SupplyOn Group blockchain expert Ralf Knobloch spoke about the potential offered by blockchain technology in the area of supply chain management. This time we talked to him about the criteria he uses to carry out an advance assessment regarding the suitability and cost-effectiveness of a possible…
Anja Weber · June 12, 2019 - Reading time < 8 Min.
Interview: “Blockchain could create completely new rules for digital collaboration between companies”

Facts, insights & trends: Transport industry moving forward at transport logistic 2019

The transport logistic 2019 trade fair in Munich, which takes place every two years, once again lives up to its claim as the world’s leading transport and logistics event:
Facts, insights & trends: Transport industry moving forward at transport logistic 2019