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Plattling-based T.Con GmbH & Co. KG has established a sales location in Austin, Texas. In founding its first international branch, the SAP consultancy has reached a key milestone towards further internationalization of its business. T.Con is already active in 35 countries with project collaborations. The SAP Gold Partner is specialized in guiding businesses in the mill industry through the digital transformation and helping them open competitive advantages and market benefits. North America has a large number of mills and companies producing film, paper, board, felt, textiles and metal; T.Con can offer these companies an SAP and process expertise that is unique worldwide. “We have already completed more than 20 successful projects in the United States, for example, with clients such as Perlen Packaging”, explains Stefan Fiedler, a Managing Director at T.Con GmbH. “We are now making additional investments in this market, as we would...

thyssenkrupp Materials Services is continuing its digitalization offensive with the introduction of a flexible IT infrastructure for smart, agile management of all processes along the supply chain. Material deliveries, customer purchase orders, order execution, transportation logistics – the digital accelerator Desca can process and forward millions of datasets in seconds. And it’s customers who benefit the most: With Desca, Materials Services is shortening order lead times, optimizing warehousing logistics and paving the way for new supply chain services. So the system truly lives up to its name: Desca stands for Digital Extended Supply Chain Accelerator. Driver of “Materials as a Service” strategy Desca is an important element of thyssenkrupp Materials Services’ strategy. Under its “Materials as a Service” approach the western world’s biggest materials distributor guarantees its customers access to global supply markets combined with...

/ins The Weland group has acquired the company Kodverkstan. The acquisition means that Weland Solutions now completely owns the WMS (Warehouse Management System) Compact Store, which was previously developed together with Kodverkstan. It is the new company Weland Software that handles Compact Store. Since 1999, when the two companies began to cooperate, approximately 400 customer installations of Compact Store have been made. "The main reason for the acquisition is that we are growing rapidly outside Sweden, so we want to have Compact Store completely in our own ownership. We have also built a new software team," says Björn Karlsson, CEO of Weland Solutions. “We are also pleased with the expertise that will now be available at Weland Solutions’ IT department.” Compact Store version 2.0 will be launched later this year. According to Björn Karlsson, the new version will have a more modern interface, while it will be even more...

Swedish IT company has developed a very precise weather and wind data product portfolio to help aircrafts fly as economically and comfortably as possible – without the airlines having to invest in any new equipment. In a recent real-life test, Norwegian Air Shuttle reduced CO2-emissions by 2 000 tons in three months’ time last autumn, by using Avtech’s services in the company’s fleet of 106 Boeing 737-800 aircrafts. “We saved from one to eighty kilograms of fuel per flight, the average being 22 kilos, purely by optimizing the descent phase of the flights”, says Norwegian pilot and project manager Stig Patey. “The 10K weather grid makes it possible to avoid unfavourable winds at given altitudes during the flight and to start the descent phase at exactly the right moment. Our pilots have reportedly been very pleased with the easy to use service that in real life proved to be much more accurate than the standard weather systems.” All of...