Driving supply chain excellence: Siemens Digital Logistics teams up with SimPlan
Siemens Digital Logistics has entered a strategic partnership with SimPlan AG in the DACH region, aiming to accelerate the synchronization between manufacturing and supply chain management. This collaboration focuses on maximizing the capabilities of Siemens’ Supply Chain Suite (SCS), a critical component of Siemens Digital Industries Software. Together, they offer businesses in the region advanced tools to optimize logistics processes, enhance transparency, and drive efficiency.
Unlocking the potential of Supply Chain Suite
Supply Chain Suite (SCS) is designed to streamline logistics, making processes leaner, faster, and more efficient. It consolidates data from various IT systems, providing a holistic, data-driven view of the supply chain. With SCS, companies can plan, simulate, and optimize their logistics networks using a digital twin approach, which helps secure valuations and realize optimization potentials.
The software’s configurable platform allows businesses to map custom process chains, plan alternative network architectures, and improve operations by optimizing routes and consolidating shipments. This results in a more efficient supply chain, reducing costs and improving delivery accuracy.
Key use cases: network and transportation optimization
The partnership highlights two major use cases that align with SimPlan’s expertise, offering customers robust tools for decision-making and performance enhancement.
Network optimization allows businesses to evaluate and refine their supply chain networks using digital analysis and simulation. This use case addresses challenges such as supply chain complexity, scalability, and dynamic market conditions. Companies can find practical solutions to optimize service levels, manage capacities, and reduce costs and emissions within their networks. By leveraging this use case, businesses can achieve significant cost savings, enhance service quality, and improve delivery times while gaining increased transparency and visibility into their logistics operations.
Transportation optimization focuses on enhancing the efficiency of transportation networks. This use case helps companies improve shipment consolidation, optimize routes, and reduce transportation costs. It tackles challenges like inventory and delivery optimization, route planning, and fleet management. By optimizing order planning and fleet usage, businesses can lower transportation expenses, improve on-time delivery accuracy, and balance warehouse and fleet utilization, leading to a more agile and sustainable supply chain.
The strength of the Siemens and SimPlan partnership
The collaboration between Siemens Digital Logistics and SimPlan combines cutting-edge technology with deep industry expertise. As an official Siemens Digital Industries Software distribution partner, SimPlan provides extensive support and consulting services for Supply Chain Suite. By leveraging the advanced capabilities of Supply Chain Suite in-house, companies can potentially reduce or even eliminate the need for costly external consultants, making high-level supply chain optimization more accessible and cost-effective. By uniting Siemens’ software with SimPlan’s project experience, this partnership is paving the way for more efficient, sustainable, and resilient supply chains that are equipped to meet the demands of the future.
