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The Corona pandemic or the accident of the container ship "Ever Given" have shown how vulnerable the supply chain of many companies is. In particular, when demand for certain items increases rapidly or there are delivery and production bottlenecks, the necessary flexibility and responsiveness is often missing.
The communication of all relevant information between companies and their suppliers is of central importance for successful supply chain management. But what does the exchange of supply information look like today? REMIRA asked this question about 150 purchasers from small and medium-sized companies as well as from large industrial and trading groups during the Conference Days of the HUSS publishing house.
An EDI connection brings numerous advantages in the daily exchange with partners and suppliers. However, for many small and medium-sized companies, setting up an EDI infrastructure involves too much effort. In our blog post, you will learn about the advantages and basics of the classic EDI connection as well as modern alternatives. This allows you to integrate both suppliers with and without EDI infrastructure. Learn how these solutions work and which additional advantages they enable you to achieve compared to the full EDI connection.
REMIRA sticks to its strategic expansion course: One week after the purchase of Nicando Software GmbH, the company also acquires the Dutch supply chain specialist Outperform. With the acquisition and integration of the cloud-based solution for sales & operations planning, REMIRA is strengthening its position on the international market. At the same time, the provider of supply chain solutions for production, trade and logistics is thus expanding its presence in North America.
OUTPERFORM Planning has been selected by Pearson VUE to provide a demand planning solution for exam registrations at their test centers. Some of the major deciding factors have been the simple and straightforward user interface that delivers on the claim "Excel or better". In addition, the demonstrations during the evaluation period confirmed the scalability of the application to handle large data volumes from day one.
Silberline will replace their existing spreadsheets driven sales and budget planning process with Outperform Planning. The current spreadsheet based process is time consuming and error prone due to the collaboration required amongst the different personnel based around the world. Which also lead to fewer update cycles than what the business desired. With Outperform Planning, we will have a solution to look forward, measure and adjust in a much shorter timeframe; which results in the rest of the organization reacting swiftly to the needs of the marketplace. The implementation timeline is set to be fairly aggressive so as to have it in time for the 2015 budgeting process to take advantage of the intuitive and collaborative environment of Outperform Planning solution. We are very excited to work with Silberline and welcome them as a customer. The focus will be on the Sales in S&OP.
Outperform Planning’s supply planning capabilities provide the King and Prince Seafood organization with a long term, cost optimized look at their production capabilities, and allows them to build accurate supply plans that effectively balance their manufacturing capabilities over the long run while satisfying customer demand. Supply planning effectively manages difficult constraints like long lead times and batch sizing / changeover considerations providing an accurate outlook on manufacturing capabilities that extends nearly 2 years into the future.
In recent years, LogiMAT has become the most important intralogistics trade fair in the REMIRA Group calendar. In 2020, the leading trade fair will not take place due to the ever-increasing coronavirus. The companies of REMIRA Group regret the cancellation of LogiMAT. For REMIRA, Stat Control, LOG:IT and TIA A3 Forecast, however, the health of all trade fair visitors and employees is paramount.
Although digitalization is currently regarded as a must-have of logistics, the reality of inventory management is different: Instead of modern digital technologies, many buyers still rely on spreadsheet software such as Excel & Co. Above all, the digital transformation of procurement offers companies the opportunity to optimize their added value and generate growth. At LogiMAT, REMIRA will be showning strategies for Purchasing 4.0 and how LOGOMATE can be used to put it into practice.
Wilson Electronics had a dual challenge of managing inventory levels and complex bills of material with components that phase in and phase out of production. Most of their components have long lead times adding uncertainty to the planning process.