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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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Industry 4.0, M2M and the Internet of Things and Services in the automotive industry: The next generation of e-business?

Many articles today deal with Industry 4.0 and communication between machines and production facilities across company boundaries.In the related area of the Internet of Things and Services, key players in the automotive industry are hard at work describing application models intended to provide added value, in particular for road users. In terms of information technology,…
Industry 4.0, M2M and the Internet of Things and Services in the automotive industry: The next generation of e-business?

Good bait catches fine fish – part 3: How to write a specification for testers

We saw in the past blogs, how a specification for customers and specifications for developers look like. But we write specifications even for testers. But what is needed for testers in a specification?
Good bait catches fine fish – part 3: How to write a specification for testers

AUMOVIO leads the way: Full control of inbound transport management

Do you have full control of your inbound freight—even before the forwarder has been actually commissioned?Do you know the actual volumes on your individual supplier and plant routes? Do you also know the available service levels and forwarders for these volumes?Do you have streamlined processes in place for checking freight invoices or possibly even a…
AUMOVIO leads the way: Full control of inbound transport management

Good bait catches fine fish – part 2: How to write a specification for developers

In my recent blog we saw, how a specification for customers can look like. A specification needs to fulfill many different requirements and at the same time it has to be understood by the customer, testers, and of course also the developer. Which information do developers need?Developers want to know what they have to implement. Usually they want to…
Good bait catches fine fish – part 2: How to write a specification for developers

Success factors when introducing a global transport management organization

The successful use of a transport management system (TMS) requires an operations model – one that takes a global approach to establishing and controlling global activities in the area of transport management and includes the organization, processes and IT. Without an operations concept like this, any savings resulting from network optimization projects, the introduction of…
Success factors when introducing a global transport management organization

Quality challenges in aerospace need to acknowledge the human factor, supported by procedures and tools

The “Quality 2015” event of Management Circle at Düsseldorf (March 10 – 11, 2015) was a high-quality experience: Almost 100 participants did a good investment, being able to learn how quality experts from research / different industries opened their “treasure chests” and shared openly how they managed quality challenges mostly inside their organizations, sometimes even…
Quality challenges in aerospace need to acknowledge the human factor, supported by procedures and tools

Famous Easter eggs

 Famous Easter Eggs – based on this title, you would assume that now something comes about Farbergé eggs or other lovely things like those. But I don’t want to tell you about that. Instead I want to tell something about Easter eggs created by developers.
Famous Easter eggs

Quality 2015 – answers to new quality challenges need to acknowledge the human factor, supported by procedures and tools

The “Quality 2015” event of Management Circle at Düsseldorf (March 10 – 11, 2015) was a high-quality experience: Almost 100 participants did a good investment, being able to learn how quality experts from research and different industries opened their “treasure chests” and shared openly how they managed quality challenges mostly inside their organizations, sometimes even going…
Quality 2015 – answers to new quality challenges need to acknowledge the human factor, supported by procedures and tools

Agile requirements – highlights from the Ellen Gottesdiener workshop

Agile Requirements – Creative Collaborative and Colorful Discovery – was the title of a workshop held on March 16, 2015, at the RE Conf (Requirements Engineering Conference) in Munich. Coach Ellen Gottesdiener (founder of EBG Consulting) is a renowned pioneer in the field of collaborative partnerships for Requirements Engineering and Management. During this workshop we experienced…
Agile requirements – highlights from the Ellen Gottesdiener workshop

Mitigating supply risks: Integrating suppliers and transportation service providers using the SupplyOn notification portal to ensure process reliability

When it comes to procurement and logistics, all business enterprises at the global level are faced with similar challenges. Procurement and material supply processes are becoming more complex, yet at the same time inventory costs have to be reduced while improving material handling.In order to achieve effective, sustainable improvements in this environment, precisely coordinated, mutually…
Mitigating supply risks: Integrating suppliers and transportation service providers using the SupplyOn notification portal to ensure process reliability