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The deal covers multi-site connectivity with hundreds of global trading partners and includes all PipeChain solutions for Automation, Collaboration, Visibility and Continuous improvements of the customer’s Supply Chain.

Today, one of the most exciting topics in the supply chain debate is IoT (Internet of Things), in connection with for example “supply chain visibility end-to-end” and “Industry  4.0”,where industrial robots and other automation systems are connected and capable of reacting to market demand and responding accordingly.

Now you can easily reach the major OEMs and Tier 1 players in the global automotive industry. There are over 100 global partners connected to PipeChain TCS™, PipeChain’s cloud based integration network.

Haldex – a provider of innovative proprietary solutions to the global commercial vehicle industry – has for more than two years been using PipeChain´s cloud-based EDI service TCS™ for all business integration and communication with customers and suppliers in Europe.

Now you can easily reach the major OEMs and Tier 1 players in the global automotive industry. There are almost 100 global partners connected to PipeChain TCS™, PipeChain’s cloud-based integration platform.

Odette1 Sweden welcomes you to learn more on EDI for supply chain collaboration in the automotive industry. The training course we are offering builds on reviewing various business processes aligned to the information exchange structure being used between EDI parties in the automotive industry. 

CTEK has chosen PipeChain TCS ™ (TradeCom Services) to manage all EDI communication with its customers, OEMs and resellers. The implementation is already complete with some customers, and others will be connected continuously.

MMOG/LE is a tool that was jointly developed by the European and US automotive industries  through the Odette International and AIAG organizations. MMOG/LE will soon be available in Japanese industry.

Whether it’s customized and complicated or following established industry standards, whether it’s electronic or e-documents, or even paper, it doesn’t matter. PipeChain’s cloud based “pipe” for 100% e-invoicing, PipeChain TCS™ Invoicing, covers 100% of your needs. Ask one of our customers who have run the service since many years.

You can now visualize your business transactions with customers and suppliers, in combination with selected add-on data from your ERP system, in a unique visibility tool from PipeChain.

Support for older versions will be ending from the last quarter of 2014. Therefore, we recommend planning for upgrading to the latest version of TWIM as soon as possible.

PipeChain is an exhibitor at the annual Logistik & Affärssystem ( Logistics & ERP) conference in Värnamo, Sweden on May 14. The theme for the conference is "Outsourcing" and a number of speakers will talk about this subject.

Chalmers University Professors Stig-Arne Mattsson and Patrik Jonsson describes in their latest publication, "Best practice in inventory management in Swedish industry", guidelines for how companies can improve their inventory management.

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.

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.