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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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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

Supply Chain Excellence Forum 2015: Joint efforts to improve the supply chain – from correction to anticipation

For the second consecutive year, Aerospace supply chain managers from BavAiria, but also from other clusters/associations like SPACE and Niedersachsen Aviation met at the Aerospace Industry Park of Oberpfaffenhofen to discuss how to manage the challenges of Tier n in the German Aerospace industry.In their welcome address, Mr Gundel and Mr Schwarz from the BavAiria…
Supply Chain Excellence Forum 2015: Joint efforts to improve the supply chain – from correction to anticipation

Industry 4.0, M2M and the Internet of Things and Services: What are the challenges?

Many studies have examined the opportunities afforded by Industry 4.0, M2M and the Internet of Things and Services. And all of them show that networking aspects of life that are completely independent at this time will yield opportunities that would have read like something from a science fiction novel just ten years ago.But, as I…
Industry 4.0, M2M and the Internet of Things and Services: What are the challenges?

Good bait catches fine fish: How to write a specification that wins over the customer

There is a nice German proverb: Good bacon catches mice. You might think – “So what?” Right, but in German bacon is called “Speck” – pronounced “Shpec” – which can be used as a short word for specification. Therefore I originally called this blog with a spec you catch mice.Unfortunately that wordplay doesn’t work in English quite well.…
Good bait catches fine fish: How to write a specification that wins over the customer

Highlights from the 29th Annual Commercial Aviation Industry Suppliers Conference in Beverly Hills

Valuable traditions need to be cultivated, especially in challenging times. This is definitely true for the SpeedNews in Beverly Hills: For the 29th year, SpeedNews held its Annual Commercial Aviation Industry Suppliers Conference in Beverly Hills, California, on March 2-4, 2015.Aircraft and engine manufacturers shared about the status of their current programs and industry experts,…
Highlights from the 29th Annual Commercial Aviation Industry Suppliers Conference in Beverly Hills