SSI Schäfer founds start-up for logistics optimization in Graz

Digitalization partner SSI Schäfer founds start-up for logistics optimization in Graz

2024-05-22 Source: SSI Schäfer | Translated by AI 2 min Reading Time

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The start-up Supplybrain offers data-supported software tools that, in addition to logistics software, optimize key areas of the supply chain, increase efficiency, and reduce operating costs.

SSI Schäfer announces the founding of the start-up Supplybrain. The newcomer's ideas are expected to help raise the level of logistics processes in companies. Software and artificial intelligence assist in this. Read more about it here...(Image: SSI Schäfer) — SSI Schäfer announces the founding of the start-up Supplybrain. The newcomer's ideas are expected to help raise the level of logistics processes in companies. Software and artificial intelligence assist in this. Read more about it here...
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In everyday logistics, companies are confronted with many uncertainties that they must react to quickly and efficiently to avoid additional costs. However, the services of the newly founded innovation start-up Supplybrain, under the umbrella of the SSI Schäfer Group, hit the logistical nerve of many companies exactly. With the establishment of Supplybrain GmbH, SSI Schäfer is investing in the expansion of its own technology and digitalization expertise in the field of intralogistics. The start-up, led by Managing Director Mario Traar, comprises a team of around 10 employees and is based at SSI Schäfer in Graz, Austria.

What the new SSI Schäfer start-up offers

To optimize the supply chain, Supplybrain offers market-ready products with different approaches. For example, using a digital twin allows you to simulate alternative paths to quickly recognize which variant would be the most efficient if, for example, employees in picking are absent due to illness or order structures change massively due to changing market conditions.

Another key service is the optimization of the maintenance strategy towards predictive maintenance. The optimal maintenance window is determined by the AI-supported (AI = artificial intelligence) evaluation of the usage data of the plant components. The improvement of energy efficiency is also one of the services of the new SSI Schäfer start-up. Especially in view of the rising energy prices, the optimization of component usage plays a special role, it continues.

Logistics optimization on a solid basis

According to Traar, Supplybrain stands for the "intelligent" use of data, which accumulate in large quantities in the warehouse and are often not sufficiently used as a basis for decision-making. Users benefit from products and services that can be seamlessly integrated into their company's existing software. In addition to intralogistics software, the possibilities offered by Supplybrain, based on artificial intelligence, simulation algorithms, and real-time analysis of the processes, provide short-term and ultimately solid decision-making bases for optimizing the various areas. To this Traar notes: "The future of logistics is not a constant expansion and a coexistence of various systems, but rather the consistent networking and seamless integration of additional systems."

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