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The latest version of PipeChain Software suite, version 4.9.5, is now available for all our customers. We have compiled some of the most significant new features and updates included in the new version.

Axis Communications AB, a world leader in network video, digital video surveillance, and PipeChain AB have entered into a partnership to visualize, control and automate Axis supply chain for incoming materials. Axis aims to create a more efficient supply chain through increased collaboration with suppliers, thereby reducing costs.

We see pioneering trends that embrace each other and will push Supply Chain Execution forward.  Some examples are; Demand Driven Supply Chain (adapting supplies to real needs, still hot), Supply Chain Visibility (hotter), OmniChannel Retailing (consumers buy through various channels, such as growing e-commerce, and relate to offers pushed in-store to their smartphones, new and hot).

Even today you find manual order processing and order generation based on bad forecasts, subjective assumptions and outdated re-ordering points. The result is delays, shortages and unnecessary costs.

The lack of order status creates delays and unnecessary costs in the supply chain. Even though most companies are able to take on this challenge, our experience is that they instead focus on internal improvement projects, missing an opportunity to increase efficiencies - and profits.

Pipechain has been asked to deliver an EDI solution to one of Sweden’s largest companies in the recycling industry.

As previously announced, TeliaSonera will discontinue its Telia ISDN Duo service in Sweden. The service will close on 31 December 2014. We wish to inform customers using ISDN services to contact PipeChain should you require alternative solutions.

Web portals are a good first step and provide a quick rollout. But they mean that your partners in the supply chain are working manually in two systems (portal and their own ERP system), leading to higher administration, the risk of manual errors and longer information lead times than necessary.

Pipe Chain launches standardized integration adapters that provide opportunities for your customers and suppliers (business partners) who currently work in order portals to integrate some or all of their messages with their ERP system. Solutions include both local installations and PipeChain’s service (SaaS), and manage multiple integration formats.

Book your upgrade by 06/27/2013 and receive a 10% discount on labor costs!

Twenty plus participants from Sweden and Europe participated. The day began with a tour of the Höganäs production plant and was followed by a presentation of how Höganäs uses Pipe Chain.

We have the great pleasure of inviting you to the PipeChain customer day at Höganäs AB's head office and production plant in Höganäs on May 16. With core expertise in metal powder technology, Höganäs is the world's largest producer of iron and metal products used in many different industries.

Are you lacking system support to efficiently manage delivery forecasts - You are not alone. Most ERP systems lack full support for this and often users only see the last incoming delivery forecast. By using TWIM Schedule as a supplement to your ERP system you solve the problem.

ODEX Enterprise 3 is based on your feedback and brings many of the new features you’ve been asking for. We’ve focused on improving your visibility and auditability of file transfers and data processing, something that we know many mid-size and larger organisations need for various compliance reasons.

PipeChain launches a cloud-based EDI service for fast deployment of supply chain connectivity, with an unique ability to switch to local management later on. The service covers both integration and communication of business related transactions, and is built on technology from our partners Inobiz and Data Interchange.

Haldex – a provider of innovative proprietary solutions to the global commercial vehicle industry – now uses PipeChain for all Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and communication with customers and suppliers in Europe. Following the successful European project, Haldex and PipeChain are looking to find additional synergies in their operations in the United States. The cooperation with PipeChain aims to continuously improve Haldex’ supply chain.

MA-system/PipeChain has organized a number of master theses within the area of inventory management. In the most recent thesis, two engineering students, Erik Björling and Emil Pålsson, from Lund University, have developed a method to simplify how to set safety times based on desired service levels.

Our work on the next release of the PipeChain software suite, version 4.9.3, is in full swing. The next version will in particular include improved functionality to share performance information (KPI´s) with partners in the supply chain, through PipeChain web interfaces and by enhancements of the PipeChain dashboard. Proper performance indicators between yourself and your trading partners are, as you know, fundamental for your Continuous Improvement process in the supply chain.