Jan Stočes
Aimtec
Jan drives business growth by identifying and exploiting new opportunities and coordinates activities between different teams to make the best use of them. He focuses primarily on the strategically important German market. At Aimtec, he was present at the inception of cloud services and led the entire Integration division for several years. He therefore has extensive experience in the automotive industry, EDI, logistics, and corporate project management.
He has this to say about the ongoing digital transformation: “An enormous shift in the perception of new technologies has taken place in the last several years. What was inadmissible in the past is demanded by our customers today, and that’s a good thing. The cloud is a nice example – several years ago, companies were reluctant to put their data on the cloud, while today it’s common. As the integration of supplier and customer chains rises, the digitalisation of industry advances and a new generation arrives, we can look forward to even greater adoption of technological innovations.”
Aimtec Integration Platform: An Effective Solution for EDI, WebEDI and System Integration
In the globalised, interconnected world of industry today, flexibility and effectiveness are crucial for staying competitive. And tools that go beyond just handling ordinary operations and further streamline your processes are essential. Aimtec Integration Platform is a comprehensive solution for managing and optimising electronic data interchange and integrating internal systems.
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Migrating to SAP S/4HANA: Harness the potential of EDI for supply chain optimisation
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Three tips for EDI migration in the automotive industry without a hitch
Electronic Data Interchange systems are the lifeline of communications in the automotive industry. Companies have a vested interest in keeping the systems robust and up-to-date. Migrating from legacy systems to the cloud early on can streamline processes and save money. Despite all the advantages, EDI migration comes with some risks. Aimtec, an automotive industry digitalisation partner with more than twenty-six years of experience working with suppliers and manufacturers throughout the entire automotive value chain, provides three tips for successfully migrating your EDI system.
Moving to the cloud is just a matter of timing
Alexander Schrödel is responsible for IT at Rehau Industries. The company, which supplies polymer solutions for automotive, construction and other industries, has extensive experience in EDI. Schrödel himself sees the electronic exchange of data as a condition that allows the group to do business in the volume and time required. "It is a great challenge to achieve automation in the entire process chain and to start perceiving and optimizing the EDI process as a whole and not just as a queue of orders," says the German manager in an interview with Jan Stočes, Director of Cloud & Integration Solutions at Aimtec.
EDI could be with us for the next 15 years, says RAPA's IT chief
Thomas Schott has been responsible for IT at Rausch & Pausch (RAPA) for six years. However, he has been gaining experience in information technology for much longer. In the early 1990s, he was there when reputable suppliers in the automotive industry were beginning to implement electronic data interchange (EDI) systems. "This topic has been a constant presence in my professional life for thirty years," says the German manager.
Without EDI, Industry Would Not Be Where It Is Today
No matter whether you supply components to an automaker regularly or have only sent it a one-off shipment of office supplies, you’ve definitely heard of EDI. Electronic data interchange is a commonplace part of enterprise systems in a variety of areas today – and in automotive especially. And yet the story of EDI is utterly Hollywood-worthy – the Cold War, running across the city with diskettes, a boom alongside the Internet, and even disappearing people and a transition to the world of the future and unknown technologies. Electronic data interchange is sometimes thought of today as a mere necessity – a mere market requirement. But it’s important to keep in mind that it is one of the key factors for success in industry, that it enables faster and more precise manufacturing and logistics and that many of the products we use every day could not have been born without it.
