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 Business North America (WINA), itself a division of Würth Group, the world’s main distributor of fasteners and one in every of Germany’s largest personal corporations.
DIS’s tagline encapsulates the groundbreaking concept behind the platform: “All the time in Inventory”. Both through in-house printers linked to DIS, or by means of WAG’s personal community of contract producers, WAG’s clients can monitor half availability, change out-of-stock elements, and keep on prime of their provide chains digitally and in real-time.
In a presentation on the exhibition corridor ground at AMUG, WAG’s CEO, AJ Strandquist, defined the platform and demonstrated its ease-of-use. With WAG workforce members strolling across the sales space carrying tablets, Strandquist famous how customers obtain stock alerts through push notifications and entry step-by-step directions for printing elements.
In a press launch about Würth Additive Group’s launch of Digital Stock Companies, the manager VP of Würth Business for Asia-Pacific, Africa, and the Americas, Larry Stevens, mentioned, “Managing tens of millions of various SKUs throughout 4 continents has geared up me with each the information and firsthand challenges of stock administration. Our expertise has demonstrated how digital stock, complemented by our world-class Vendor Managed Stock (VMI) packages, considerably aids our shoppers immediately on the manufacturing facility ground. 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 mentioned, “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 improvement inside the [AM] indsutry. Equally, we’re indebted to the [AM] neighborhood for his or her invaluable help and steady suggestions all through our [DIS] improvement. Our determination to announce DIS at AMUG stems from our want to introduce an answer that not solely serves this neighborhood’s quick wants but additionally fosters the enlargement of trade functions, encourages the expansion of future customers, and creates new income alternatives for [AM] mental property.”
I’d been wanting 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 matter that, on the floor, appears so mundane. Strandquist makes it look straightforward, thanks largely to the workforce at WAG, together with DIS mission supervisor Victor Kurtz, international director of expertise and technical merchandise, Mikhail Gladkikh, AM lead technologist — and AMUG Dino — Ed Tackett, and international advertising lead Katelyn Lennon. You additionally actually needed to recognize the workforce’s dedication to the bit, with a lot of the WAG workers in crimson jumpsuits and the sales space format designed to seem like a store ground.
Moreover, the tagline, “All the time in Inventory”, is among the greatest I’ve heard in awhile, however finally this isn’t one thing that may succeed due to advertising prowess, alone. It’s a product that may solely achieve success within the arms of the proper group. With that in thoughts, I like DIS’s odds. After all, it additionally doesn’t harm that the father or mother firm has among the best logistical networks on the planet to faucet into. Somebody goes to make an concept like this work. WAG could have all the proper components.
Photographs courtesy of Würth Additive Group
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