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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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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

How the PNAA mastered the momentum

Mastering the Momentum – this was the topic for this year’s Pacific Northwest Aerospace Association Conference (PNAA Conference), which just finished today at Lynnwood, State of Washington, in the Northwest of the United States – very close to Seattle and even closer to the Boeing Everett plant, where the aircraft Boeing 747, 777 and 787…
How the PNAA mastered the momentum

Realizing savings potential for indirect purchases

In many organizations, the optimization of procurement processes and the resulting savings are primarily sought and found in the purchasing of direct materials. Some people still underestimate indirect purchasing and fail to appreciate its significance: “How can I possibly optimize buying a pencil?”But indirect materials involve much more than pencils, pens, and coffee machines. There…
Realizing savings potential for indirect purchases

SupplyOn enables requests for quotations with SAP SRM

Requests for quotations for indirect materials are on the increase, but the related processes are often not continuous. Many companies wrestle with incompatible media because their process, from sourcing to ordering, uses disparate technologies. A lot of them purchase indirect materials using a standard SAP SRM system. Here, detailed workflow rules enable the person creating…
SupplyOn enables requests for quotations with SAP SRM

Supply bottlenecks in the procurement of spare parts are a thing of the past

Especially in the procurement of spare parts, there are often shortages in the supply chain. The main reason is that ordering and delivery processes are usually manual – i.e., once orders are placed by fax or e-mail, they disappear in a black box until delivery. During that time, you can’t tell whether the supplier has…
Supply bottlenecks in the procurement of spare parts are a thing of the past

Are you collaborating already, or do you just exchange data?

In spite of the continuing spread of the Internet and the associated improvements to companies’ electronic networks, business processes are still largely based on the exchange of unstructured data by e-mail or even fax.This may well surprise us, particularly as the fourth industrial revolution, ‘Industry 4.0,’ was proclaimed some time ago,
Are you collaborating already, or do you just exchange data?

Merry Christmas and see you next year!

If the hectic pace before Christmas and gray weather get you down, do yourself a favor and give yourself a short break under palm trees – just like we did at the SupplyOn Christmas party: “Christmas in the Caribbean” was our motto this year. I have to admit it sounds a bit strange at first,…
Merry Christmas and see you next year!

Christmas AGILE – can Christmas Day be saved? (part 4)

How Santa Clause tries to align his Christmas organization with agile principles, you could read in Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 last week. Find out how the story of “Christmas AGILE” ends:Tuesday, November 11th: Christmas 43 days off12:50 p.m. I am sitting in our Christmas Lunch Area and thinking. The morning runs like expected.…
Christmas AGILE – can Christmas Day be saved? (part 4)

Highlights from the Aviation Forum 2014 in Hamburg – brief and to the point

Storm or no storm – this was one of the crucial questions when the Aviation Forum 2014 started – as in 2013, storm “Xaver” was the reason why many participants of the Aviation Forum had to leave earlier.This time, everybody was lucky: the predicted storm staid an announcement without consequences. So there were no time-wise…
Highlights from the Aviation Forum 2014 in Hamburg – brief and to the point