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Stina Berghaus is Content Manager at REMIRA.
The product portfolio of screw and fastening parts wholesaler WEWO comprises more than 600,000 different parts. The company guarantees immediate product availability for around 40,000 items. Reliable procurement planning and scheduling are required to ensure that the right quantity is always in stock. The employees are significantly supported in this by the LOGOMATE inventory management software from REMIRA.
Sustainable food production as an overriding goal: Producing companies are faced with the challenge of having to operate sustainably and yet profitably. However, these two factors do not necessarily have to be mutually exclusive. Instead of investing in expensive and numerous production machines and constantly increasing storage and production space, it is worth taking a look at the optimization of existing resources. How can a company produce as efficiently as possible given the circumstances? Integrated Business Planning (IBP) is playing an increasingly important role in the food industry in particular. In this blog article, we explain why this is the case and how the approach works.
High energy and fuel prices, raw material shortages and uncertain supply chains: The situation in food logistics remains tense. The German organic food retailer Alnatura is also feeling the effects. Fabian Meyer, Head of Logistics & Supply Chain Management at Alnatura, explains how the company, which has been using REMIRA LOGOMATE inventory management software for many years, is dealing with the challenges.
The challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic have increased dramatically, especially for companies in the hygiene and medical products sector. In these times, optimal scheduling is essential for the company's success. But even before Covid-19 had logistics under control, Kruse Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, headquartered in Neumünster, which sells goods and services in the cleaning, hygiene, disposable and medical products sectors, was looking for inventory management software. This was intended to automate the previous manual scheduling and at the same time improve delivery capability.
REMIRA has appointed finance expert Ralph Hartwig as its new CFO with effect from June 1, 2024. This completes the management team of the software provider, which was reorganized at the end of 2023 and consists of CEO Dirk Bingler, Mario Raatz (CSO), Dennis Dreibrodt (COO), Elena Peter (CTO Commerce) and Oliver Jenneskens (CTO Supply Chain). The focus is now on transforming the internationally active software company from a product to a platform provider for AI-based supply chain planning and unified commerce. In addition, the management team wants to further drive growth and company integration within the group.
Effective planning is essential for companies to be able to adapt value chains to volatile markets. In supply chain management in particular, a cross-functional process is necessary to coordinate supply and demand and all parties involved. Supply chain planning, inventory management and other supply chain management functions are often planned and implemented independently of each other. Sales & Operations Planning and Integrated Business Planning have established themselves as planning approaches at this point. In this blog post, we will explain the differences, similarities and potential of the two approaches.
With around 50,000 items and five stationary stores, of which the location in Mühlheim-Kärlich alone covers more than 4,000 square meters, INTERSPORT KRUMHOLZ is one of the largest retailers in the German INTERSPORT network. To digitalize and simplify its store processes, the sporting goods retailer decided to introduce the REMIRA INSTORE app in mid-2019. This was accompanied by the goal of increasing the consulting capacity on the sales floor, reducing waiting times for customers and making processes faster, more efficient and more cost-effective. As a result, customers benefit from a significantly optimized shopping experience and employees can carry out all services - from stock queries to the checkout process - directly on the sales floor.
With Rijk Zwaan Australia, another 4 users have stepped on board for their daily job of demand forecasting and replenishment planning. Demand Planning is now supporting 38 users in The Netherlands (Benelux), Spain (including Morocco), France, Italy, UK, Germany RZ GmbH (covering Germany, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania), Poland, Portugal, Israel (managed by RZ Export) and Australia. Subsequent roll outs scheduled for July this year will be to RZ Export for South Korea, Greece, Malaysia, Thailand, Japan and Iran and to Hungary.
Nearly a year after turn ing off all other systems and using only Outperform Planning to manage their S&OP process, King and Prince Seafood has been able to achieve most of the targets they set out to as part of the implementation project. There is now a single tool that provides a complete and detailed view of their supply chain that was not possible before.
Baltic Beverages Holding (BBH) a joint venture between Carlsberg and Scottish & Newcastle used Outperform Network Analysis to evaluate the current capacity allocations in their supply chain network, including production, transportation and storage capacities.
We are launching a series of YouTube videos, showcasing what our intuitive supply chain management app can do.
Sales planning at CALIDA, a long-established Swiss lingerie manufacturer, has become even more complex in recent years due to the increase in online retail. Nevertheless, the company has been able to rely on REMIRA’s TIA A3 sales planning software and successfully drive its omnichannel strategy forward. The decentralization of sales planning was a decisive step in this process.
Complete stocktaking in just one shift: Centrotherm, a company based in Brilon, Germany, known as a developer, manufacturer and distributor of gas flue systems for condensing boilers, has already relied on sample stocktaking in the past. With REMIRA, however, Centrotherm was able to reduce the counting effort even further: Their SaaS software STATCONTROL Cloud in combination with a counting app ensured greatly reduced warehouse closing times at Centrotherm.
Optimized warehouse stocks, improved product availability and a significant reduction in time-consuming tasks for employees have all been achieved thanks to the introduction of the LOGOMATE inventory management software at DURAL. After successfully implementing the program at all its international locations, DURAL is now able to ensure centralized, transparent coordination of all orders at its company headquarters in the German Westerwald region.
REMIRA is setting the course for future development of the company: On November 1, Dirk Bingler (48) will become the new CEO of the supply chain and omnichannel software expert headquartered in Dortmund. The previous CEO Stephan Unser (62) moves to the top of the REMIRA Advisory Board as Chairman, where he will support management in Germany and Italy in the further expansion of REMIRA.
