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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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Easy transfer of inspection certificates with the Advance Shipping Notification (ASN)

We are frequently approached by customers seeking a solution for transferring quality and production data generated by a supplier as part of the manufacturing and quality assurance processes. As an attachment to SupplyOn’s electronic delivery note, the so-called ASN (Advance Shipping Notification) is exactly what they are looking for. Following the transfer, structured electronic certificate…
Easy transfer of inspection certificates with the Advance Shipping Notification (ASN)

Purchasing processes via SupplyOn Sourcing: As simple as possible, as complex as needed

How effective is a sourcing tool that, while it basically covers all conceivable purchasing processes, is so complicated that not all buyers use it, since it requires too much training or because even trained buyers soon forget how to operate it?The company-wide adoption of a sourcing tool is the only effective way to standardize purchasing…
Purchasing processes via SupplyOn Sourcing: As simple as possible, as complex as needed

Successful supplier rollout in China: Strategic onboarding in the Middle Kingdom

January 1, 3:55 a.m. Just back from a New Year’s Eve party and full of excitement, I take a look at the Seeburger EDI monitor and press the refresh button again. Then once more. Then again and again. But nothing happens.4:09 a.m. Still nothing. I’m starting to get a little nervous. My customer in Shanghai…
Successful supplier rollout in China: Strategic onboarding in the Middle Kingdom

Success factor Supply Chain Visibility: Gartner presents SupplyOn project as best practice

Supply Chain Visibility (SCV) is one of the most important success factors when it comes to managing complex supply chains successfully. And it is an initiative at the top of every CSCO´s agenda. Therefore, Gartner has focused a recently published report “Lessons Learned from Supply Chain Visibility Initiatives – Supply Chain Logistics and Transportation” on…
Success factor Supply Chain Visibility: Gartner presents SupplyOn project as best practice

Freight cost invoicing begins with the transport order

Perhaps you’ve encountered the following situation:You’ve negotiated the best conditions with your carriers, but you’re still paying too much for your transport services. And might we presume that you are not able to fully verify the freight cost invoices that you perhaps still receive in paper form from your carriers?Why not approach the situation from…
Freight cost invoicing begins with the transport order

Digital transformation in the aerospace industry

Digital Transformation in the Aerospace Industry: The French business magazine L´Usine Nouvelle has published a comprehensive article about the Digitalization of the Aerospace Supply Chain: The Airbus Group, Dassault Aviation, Thales and Safran extend the usage of AirSupply – the industry platform that has been initiated by these companies in 2011 – to the whole…
Digital transformation in the aerospace industry

True Software as a Service (SaaS) vs. ASP: What are the differences and why does true SaaS provide benefits in an SCM environment?

Over the past few years many companies have shown a growing interest in applying the software-as-a-service concept to a wide range of processes. This can be attributed to the many benefits provided by SaaS compared with conventional software licensing models.
True Software as a Service (SaaS) vs. ASP: What are the differences and why does true SaaS provide benefits in an SCM environment?

Do you also manage complex aerospace supply chain networks?

To successfully manage aerospace supply chain networks, it is essential to tackle special challenges. Efficient processes in complex, international networks require thinking that spans departmental and even corporate boundaries in customer/supplier relationships.This begins with the organization of networks and extends to the planning and execution of processes on through to controlling.Expectations are high when it…
Do you also manage complex aerospace supply chain networks?

How the Berlin AirShow 2016 has set trends towards digitalization of the supply chain

Three, two, one, lift off:The Berlin Airshow (ILA) took off on Wednesday 1st of June at 9.30 with an introductory speech of Volker Thum, Head of BDLI, who highlighted the important role of a strong supplier network for a successful Aerospace Industry. He stressed the effort which is required to maintain the high level of…
How the Berlin AirShow 2016 has set trends towards digitalization of the supply chain

Elbe Flugzeugwerke GmbH turns to AirSupply to digitalize its supply chain

A little over one year ago, Elbe Flugzeugwerke GmbH (EFW) selected SupplyOn’s AirSupply solution to improve the aircraft company’s ordering processes with its most important suppliers.In taking this step, EFW wanted to implement a collaborative ordering process that would enable delivery quantities and dates to be easily and transparently coordinated with its suppliers. Another goal…
Elbe Flugzeugwerke GmbH turns to AirSupply to digitalize its supply chain