Supply Chain Management      

Successful supply chain management starts in the defining stages for new products. At WEIDMANN PLASTICS TECHNOLOGY the supply chain planning is an integrated and essential  aspect in each new customer project.

Our professional supply chain management guarantees an optimal logistics structure, with centralized and local production and distribution centers, all with fully integrated EDI links between customers and supplier. Our infrastructure allows just-in-time shipments and, with our local logistics centers, just-in-sequence shipments as well.

Highlights of our supply chain department:

• EDI links with customers, suppliers  and shipping companies/forwarders. Today we use EDIFACT, VDA, ANSI, GALIA for communication protocols.
• Today our EDI system handles 98.000 external EDI messages per month
• Fully integrated bar code utilization for internal and external material flow management.
• Highly efficient documentation management (deliveries and custom documents) allows a shipping output of up to 12.000 deliveries per month.
• Wireless printing stations.
• Packaging planning department.
• Global supplier base.