Category: SCM Insights

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Why Transport Management should be an important component of your digitization strategy

It’ no longer a secret that Transport Management can reduce costs and increase delivery reliability. Consequently, more and more SupplyOn customers are using our Transport Management Solution (TMS) to consolidate shipments, optimize routes and automatically check freight invoices.These are just three reasons which have the potential to cut freight costs by more than 10%. But…
Why Transport Management should be an important component of your digitization strategy

The ASN is getting smart: save 60 percent time when creating shipping documents

Imagine an intelligent solution for creating shipping documents that learns in the course of a few weeks which packaging rules are effective for which customer and which parts. It then applies them automatically when creating the ASN (Advance Shipping Notification) and thus relieves you of around half of your work. Even complex ASNs, whose creation…
The ASN is getting smart: save 60 percent time when creating shipping documents

Transport ahoy! Securing supply despite high volatility

For more than a year now, logistics and supply chain managers around the world have been struggling with unprecedented challenges. The impact from the first coronavirus-induced shutdowns, when supply chains and transportation networks around the world collapsed, continues to ripple through the industry. High volatility in demand, natural disasters and vessel incidents such as the…
Transport ahoy! Securing supply despite high volatility

Remember suppliers put the “supply” in “Supply Chain”

In North America we’re seeing our clients actively re engage in supply chain digitization projects. One topic that our clients tend to overlook at first is how to get suppliers to buy into these projects. End-to-end visibility is the holy grail everyone is looking for, but it’s impossible without suppliers feeding data into the system.
SupplyOn US · March 17, 2021 - Reading time < 2 Min.
Remember suppliers put the “supply” in “Supply Chain”

Digital and smart control of containers

What makes for an efficient and future-oriented container management system, also known as empties management? What should companies look out for when implementing it? Here are the most important factors.
EUROLOG AG · March 3, 2021 - Reading time < 3 Min.
Digital and smart control of containers

The sense of security we learned from the pandemic

Although the global pandemic continues, we should always keep positive mindsets. I am located in Shanghai, China. New local COVID-19 infected people just appeared in Shanghai after several of months of no infections. But people here are not in panic after experiencing the pandemic ‘war’ last year. Instead we are full of a sense of…
The sense of security we learned from the pandemic

Finance Portal: how to harmonize e-invoicing, dunning and inquiries

Paper invoices are still common with some suppliers. But paper-based invoice processes are not only inefficient as the information needs to be keyed in again in the customer system. Moreover, they are also prone to errors, due to typos or missing information.Why you need to move beyond plain digitized invoices
Finance Portal: how to harmonize e-invoicing, dunning and inquiries

No more out of supply: how capacity management builds resiliency into supply chains

“High demand, low supply”: what a nightmare for supply chain managers. And this doesn’t just happen in boom times. In economically uncertain phases, too, supply bottlenecks are more than painful for businesses. This can currently be witnessed for the microchip shortage the automotive industry (among others) is battling with.Thus, it is all the more important…
No more out of supply: how capacity management builds resiliency into supply chains

Pizza Trackers and Control Towers

Does anyone else remember in 2008 when Domino’s came out with the Pizza Tracker? You could order a pizza and watch as is it moved from order, to being cooked, to being put in a box and ultimately delivered. It was fun and informative for the customer to follow the pizza’s journey to your doorstep.…
SupplyOn US · February 4, 2021 - Reading time < 2 Min.
Pizza Trackers and Control Towers

Usage Reports: Facts and figures

Today in private life people track their own sleep-wake cycle, they count the daily steps they take and log how much they drink on average. These days it’s all about data! Preferably accurate to the decimal point.For us at SupplyOn tangible information is essential as well. Especially when a customer wants to check whether and…
Usage Reports: Facts and figures