Final week, on the Additive Manufacturing Customers’ Group (AMUG) Convention in Chicago (March 10-14), Würth Additive Group (WAG) launched its new stock administration platform, Digital Stock Companies (DIS). WAG is a part of Würth Trade North America (WINA), itself a division of Würth Group, the world’s main distributor of fasteners and certainly one of Germany’s largest non-public firms.
DIS’s tagline encapsulates the groundbreaking thought behind the platform: “At all times in Inventory”. Both by way of in-house printers linked to DIS, or by means of WAG’s personal community of contract producers, WAG’s clients can observe half availability, change out-of-stock components, and keep on prime of their provide chains digitally and in real-time.
In a presentation on the exhibition corridor flooring at AMUG, WAG’s CEO, AJ Strandquist, defined the platform and demonstrated its ease-of-use. With WAG staff members strolling across the sales space carrying tablets, Strandquist famous how customers obtain stock alerts by way of push notifications and entry step-by-step directions for printing components.
In a press launch about Würth Additive Group’s launch of Digital Stock Companies, the manager VP of Würth Trade for Asia-Pacific, Africa, and the Americas, Larry Stevens, stated, “Managing tens of millions of various SKUs throughout 4 continents has geared up me with each the data and firsthand challenges of stock administration. Our expertise has demonstrated how digital stock, complemented by our world-class Vendor Managed Stock (VMI) applications, considerably aids our shoppers instantly on the manufacturing facility flooring. With the launch of Digital Stock Companies, the Würth Group reaffirms its dedication to offering top-tier bodily and digital stock options on a worldwide scale.”
Strandquist stated, “We deeply recognize the Würth Group’s vital funding in advancing our subsequent era of stock administration instruments for our clients and their ongoing help in spotlight growth throughout the [AM] indsutry. Equally, we’re indebted to the [AM] group for his or her invaluable help and steady suggestions all through our [DIS] growth. Our choice to announce DIS at AMUG stems from our want to introduce an answer that not solely serves this group’s instant wants but in addition fosters the enlargement of trade purposes, encourages the expansion of future customers, and creates new income alternatives for [AM] mental property.”
I’d been trying ahead to the DIS launch for a while main as much as AMUG, and WAG delivered. It’s not straightforward to evoke ardour a few subject that, on the floor, appears so mundane. Strandquist makes it look straightforward, thanks largely to the staff at WAG, together with DIS challenge supervisor Victor Kurtz, world director of expertise and technical merchandise, Mikhail Gladkikh, AM lead technologist — and AMUG Dino — Ed Tackett, and world advertising lead Katelyn Lennon. You additionally actually needed to recognize the staff’s dedication to the bit, with a lot of the WAG staff in purple jumpsuits and the sales space format designed to seem like a store flooring.
Moreover, the tagline, “At all times in Inventory”, is among the finest I’ve heard in awhile, however in the end this isn’t one thing that may succeed due to advertising prowess, alone. It’s a product that can solely achieve success within the palms of the suitable group. With that in thoughts, I like DIS’s odds. In fact, it additionally doesn’t harm that the mum or dad firm has the most effective logistical networks on the planet to faucet into. Somebody goes to make an thought like this work. WAG could have all the suitable substances.
Pictures courtesy of Würth Additive Group
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