Tasks
To ensure just-in-time delivery of service and maintenance components and supply content for the Saint-Gobain online ordering catalog. Delivery must be made within one working day after order is placed. RS Components has more than 85,000 deliverable products that can be ordered online from its distribution center in Bad Hersfeld.

Preparation
As a content provider for the Saint-Gobain e-procurement system, RS Components provides information tailored to Saint-Gobain’s exact needs in the desired format. New content is made available prior to the respective RS catalog period, which ensures that the printed catalog and the electronic RS catalog have identical content at all times. The purchasing system gives Saint-Gobain’s employees access to all items available from RS, even those ordered in small quantities, at all times.

Contractor
RS Components GmbH is the German subsidiary of the internationally active RS
Components Group, which is based in England. It supplies professional users with electronic, electrical, electromechanical and mechanical components for research and development, design, repair and maintenance on short notice and with a high degree of reliability, even in small quantities.

Internet
www.rsonline.de  

Brief Description

• E-procurement for Saint-Gobain Sekurit Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG’s production facilities in Stolberg
• RS Components GmbH to provide year-round and just-in-time distribution logistics for workshop, maintenance and service supplies for plants and machinery used to manufacture laminated safety-glass windshields

 
Customer's Benefits

• Process costs minimized by e-procurement platform
• Management of purchasing processes was streamlined by the system that RS Components set up for the customer
• Production procedures are more reliable due to minimum downtimes, which are the result of faster deliveries and increased adherence to delivery deadlines.
• High availability of entire range of products at the RS warehouse

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