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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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Secure supply despite reduced capital lockup – how is this possible? (Part 1)

The question above is probably much older than the term “supply chain management”, which first appeared at the beginning of the ’80s, became more pervasive in the ’90s and an established management term by the turn of the century.There is no need to speculate about the point at which this issue began to be addressed…
Secure supply despite reduced capital lockup – how is this possible? (Part 1)

The BVL’s 32nd German Logistics Convention in Berlin takes a look at the bigger picture

This year’s German Logistics Convention was held from 28 to 30 October. The motto was “A moving world” and the organizers proved an acute awareness of the economic and the overall political situation: although at the time the motto for the convention was decided on, such developments as the refugee issue and the extraordinary occurrences…
The BVL’s 32nd German Logistics Convention in Berlin takes a look at the bigger picture

Digital collaboration in the railway industry – optimized with RailSupply

Thorsten Fülling, Director of Consulting at SupplyOn GmbH, gave Privatbahn Magazin #05/2015 an interview on the subject of “Collaboration between suppliers and production companies in the railway industry“.Mr Fülling, what are the greatest challenges in the supply chain at present between suppliers and production companies in the railway industry?The biggest challenge for the railway industry stems…
Digital collaboration in the railway industry – optimized with RailSupply

e-invoicing begins with the order

Today, everybody is talking about Industry 4.0 and the digitalization of the supply chain – and yet the majority of invoices are still being sent in paper form or in unstructured formats that cannot easily be computerized.Many companies wishing to implement an e-invoicing solution focus solely on the invoicing process instead of considering the process…
e-invoicing begins with the order

Attractive side-effect of using SupplyOn: Optimized internal cooperation

SupplyOn aims to optimize the various processes with suppliers in the supply chain – in other words, cross-company collaboration. But following its successful introduction, more and more companies discover that SupplyOn also has a very positive effect on processes between internal departments – thus improving not only cross-company but also internal collaboration. Hence a more…
Attractive side-effect of using SupplyOn: Optimized internal cooperation

Industry 4.0 – use the potential for success today!

There’s no doubt about it: Industry 4.0 – frequently also referred to as the Internet of Things – will become the dominant issue of the next few years. But the subject is full of pitfalls. On the one hand, it is obvious that players must act quickly in order not to be left behind and lose market shares.…
Industry 4.0 – use the potential for success today!

RailSupply on track for success

Our supply chain management solutions originally focused on the automobile industry. However, now that the aviation industry has shown an interest in our solutions and is already successfully making use of our AirSupply product, the railway industry is now right on track for our services: RailSupply is already in demand and there are a number…
RailSupply on track for success

‘Keep on Flying – Made in Germany’ – 10th BDLI Regional Forum in Friedrichshafen

‘Keep on Flying – Made in Germany’ was the motto of the 10th BDLI Regional Forum held recently in Friedrichshafen. Under sweltering temperatures – even in the early morning – the day began with a choice of visits to local aviation companies, such as Airbus Defence & Space in Immenstaad, Diehl Aerospace in Überlingen, Liebherr…
‘Keep on Flying – Made in Germany’ – 10th BDLI Regional Forum in Friedrichshafen

Me purchasing, you logistics – the organizational and procedural separation of corporate functions leads to sub-optimum results from the point of view of the supply chain

Although the discipline “Supply Chain Management” combines aspects of purchasing and logistics from a procedural point of view, both functions exist in the majority of manufacturing companies as separate organizational units. This fact has generally been taken for granted up to now without questioning the overall aspects.The Supply Chain Management Faculty of the University of…
Me purchasing, you logistics – the organizational and procedural separation of corporate functions leads to sub-optimum results from the point of view of the supply chain

51th International Paris Air Show Le Bourget, France: The biggest Air Show of the World is the place “to be” for big and small aerospace players

Visibility to suppliers and clients is crucial for producing aerospace companies who want to successfully manage their supply chains and approach their customers. For sure, there are only few events which allow to meet during a very limited time so many business partners in one location. If, in addition we talk about the world’s biggest…
51th International Paris Air Show Le Bourget, France: The biggest Air Show of the World is the place “to be” for big and small aerospace players