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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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Christmas AGILE – in the era of globalization (part 3)

How Santa Clause tries to align his Christmas organization with agile principles, you could read in Part 1 and Part 2 last week. It´s not the end of the story yet – find out how the tale of “Christmas AGILE” continues:Monday, November 3rd: Christmas 51 days off03:00 p.m.This Friday was horrible! When First Witch came back from…
Christmas AGILE – in the era of globalization (part 3)

No more retyping of time sheets: Having your suppliers enter their services performed online reduces the cost of your purchasing process

Do you purchase services and find that entering the services performed is not organized consistently and cost-effectively? SupplyOn has developed a solution. The procurement of services is now common practice and offers many advantages, but often the administrative effort required prohibits the cost-effective organization of service provision processes.For example, suppose you have engaged a software…
No more retyping of time sheets: Having your suppliers enter their services performed online reduces the cost of your purchasing process

Christmas AGILE – cherish sprints and backlogs (part 2)

Last week you could read here how Santa Clause tries to align his Christmas organization with agile principles.  Find out how the special tale on Christmas AGILE” continues:Wednesday, October 22nd: Christmas 63 days off8:00 a.m.Our first sprint starts. Yay! Backlog is ready. All wishes are estimated.
Christmas AGILE – cherish sprints and backlogs (part 2)

SAP SRM coupled with SupplyOn can reduce your process costs for the procurement of services and reduce Purchasing’s workload

While catalogs for ordering office supplies via SAP SRM have been an established standard for years, this has not been the case for purchasing complex services.Why is that? In our view, the main reason is that, for office supplies, buyers know exactly how much of anything they need to order.When ordering a service however, it…
SAP SRM coupled with SupplyOn can reduce your process costs for the procurement of services and reduce Purchasing’s workload

Christmas AGILE – this year we are agile! (part 1)

With only four weeks to go before Christmas, we have an insider reveal some secrets about Santa Clause´s Christmas organization. Every Friday until Christmas, you can follow this special Christmas tale and find out along with the story what it means to be agile. Wednesday, October 15th: Christmas 70 days off8:00 a.m.I am going to go to Santa…
Christmas AGILE – this year we are agile! (part 1)

Transportation Control Tower: A powerful tool for industrial companies

The concept of a transportation control tower carries many positive connotations. A control tower has everything under control by maintaining an overview of all that’s going on—or, stated more precisely, a control tower makes it possible to intervene in transports at any time in order to adapt processes and steer them in the right direction.
Transportation Control Tower: A powerful tool for industrial companies

Welcome to the Supply Chain Collaboration Blog!

I am excited to introduce you to the Supply Chain Collaboration Blog!What’s in it for you?Our blog is all about collaboration, because we’re convinced that the ability to collaborate is a crucial factor in a company’s success. In particular, we write about collaboration in the supply chain since that concerns our day-to-day business and we…
Welcome to the Supply Chain Collaboration Blog!

Has the aerospace industry outdistanced the automotive industry?

This seems to be a valid question: The figures reported by aerospace market analysts and managers can only seem a dream scenario for the automotive sector. Annual growth rates of approximately 7 per cent for commercial aircrafts with 150 seats – subsequently doubling the projected number for the next 10 years.The automotive sector, on the…
Has the aerospace industry outdistanced the automotive industry?

Volatility hinders logistics planning – more responsibility for forwarding companies?

In its survey entitled “Market volatility in transport and logistics”, the BME predictably noted at the end of 2013 that it is more and more difficult for forwarding and shipping companies to plan their warehouse and fleet capacities owing to the growing volatility resulting from increasing globalization.In my opinion, the most important findings of the…
Volatility hinders logistics planning – more responsibility for forwarding companies?

Up to 40 percent faster administration during development projects

Excel remains a popular project management tool, despite the fact that it makes it impossible to generate a shared view of the project when you work with external partners – a flaw that is particularly troublesome when projects become more complex. Is every project member working on schedule? Is everyone working with the latest project…
Up to 40 percent faster administration during development projects