Supply Chain Management is about making the flow of goods, services and information between companies within the supply chain more efficient. No matter what method you use to automate the flow of information between companies, the connection between the data interchange and physical logistics –the distribution of materials and goods – is critical within the manufacturing industry and commerce.The ability to pack, mark and load the goods in the right way is one thing, delivery notification in the right way is another. Everything must be connected for goods to be traced from packing to delivery via transport, to incoming goods and in many cases from delivery directly to production. We have the expertise to give you complete control.

Integrated or stand-alone

PipeChain’s solutions have an application support in the form of system modules for logistics related functions that are needed for working with delivery monitoring, production planning and transport administration. Important functions are product marking, article counting, transport management, weights, packaging, article number and transport document printing. Our system covers requirements that ordinary business systems often lack; it is either partly or completely integrated with an overriding business system or freestanding.

Customer order controlled production

Our logistics solutions also manage just-in-time deliveries. A growing number of industries work with customer order controlled production, which means that inbound products must be individually adapted. This often results in an enormous range of variation with a large quantity of article numbers. Stock keeping has to be minimal with a buffer stock which only corresponds to a few hours’ production. Deliveries are sometimes sent at minute intervals. All units must be marked and packaged uniquely and delivered in the exact order for supplies to go directly to production. Our solutions make this possible.