Matti Manner, COB at Jakamo Asymmetric data creates unplanned non-value adding ‘muda’ In for-profit businesses, value propositions and business strategies aim to make end customers perceive higher value and willingness to pay for it more than the combined value creation and value delivery costs are. These costs add up...
Beneq, a Finland-based nanotechnology company, is a leading supplier of Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) equipment and thin-film coating services, and world’s premier manufacturer of thin-film electroluminescent displays. ALD solutions improve the performance and durability of electronics and optics. They are the invisible advantage in emerging semiconductor, IoT, 5G and...
Viessmann is one of the leading European manufacturers of commercial refrigeration, renowned for their energy efficiency and sustainability together with ease of use and maintenance. The refrigeration products are manufactured at Viessmann factories in Germany and Finland and are represented by local sales offices in 18 countries throughout...
David Brown Santasalo combines almost three centuries of gearbox manufacturing experience with a global service presence close to key industrial regions. The company is one of the world’s leading mechanical power transmission brands. At the heart of David Brown Santasalo’s business is a rich gear engineering heritage encompassing...
It is amazing how much non-value added work manufacturing companies are still doing nowadays in purchasing and supply chain management. As a part of Jakamo’s business design and user research processes, we are conducting a lot of interviews, observations and co-design workshops in our customer companies in the...
Elematic Oyj is a leading one-stop-supplier for precast concrete technology. Their customers are in the business of manufacturing precast floors, walls, frames and foundations – or even all of them. Elematic provides the widest portfolio of precast manufacturing solutions worldwide. The company was founded in 1959 and has made...
ARNON is a provider of industrial electrification and automation for customers – machine, equipment and system providers in the marine, mining and renewables energy industries. Company has six sites located in Nordics and Poland and is now aiming for a leap in procurement performance. Using Jakamo’s standard order...
Stera Technologies is an international mechanics and electronics contract-manufacturer. Stera Group employs over 800 professionals on their six factories in Finland and Estonia. The company is known as a modern player using the latest technology in their production. Stera Technologies offers customized contract manufacturing for mechanics, electronics and...
Raumaster is a renowned supplier of advanced material handling systems and equipment for wood processing and energy industries. Today company is regarded as a global leader in its line of business. Raumaster employs over 300 professionals and their turnover is around 150 million euros. Raumaster wanted to make a...
Deloitte published an interesting survey study (2019) which proves that organization with superior supply chain capabilities performs significantly better on both revenue growth and EBIT measures when compared to the industry average. The results are outstanding: 79 % of organisations with superior supply chain capabilities achieve revenue...
The latest organization research has recognized the role of digital organization design as a crucial part of strategic management. In management literature, connectivity may be seen as an existing capability for at least two decades. But when the software started to move into the cloud the design...
Leif Bohlin, CEO at Unifaun, has joined Jakamo’s board of directors. He has spent his whole career within the field of supply chain both in the manufacturing and consultancy industry. For the last 20 years, he has been providing SaaS-solutions for the supply chain. “We need to understand that...
We had a great privilege to arrange the third Friction Free Roundtable Meetup this time together with Alfa Laval at the city of Lund in Sweden. The Friction Free Roundtable is a forum facilitated by Jakamo where supply chain executives and leaders from the manufacturing ecosystem meet peers to share new ideas, visions, concepts and ways of...
Digital transformation has become nearly an obsession during the latest years and every company would like to become digital – also in the manufacturing industry. But what we mean when we talk about digital transformation? Here is our short definition, and an explanation of what actually is changing. Digitization...
Timo Rossi is leading the user-centric strategic design operations at Jakamo. He is a sustainable development-oriented design & business strategist, patent-awarded innovator and interdisciplinary designer specialized in product & service design, concepts, business models and value chains. “When you are solving a very complex supply chain information sharing and collaboration...
The second Friction Free Meetup was arranged as a C-Level Manufacturing Roundtable at Slush on 5 December 2018. The meetup gathered ten thought leaders from manufacturing ecosystem and it was co-hosted by Jakamo and Microsoft. The topic of the meetup was: Changing the status quo in the manufacturing ecosystem –...
Tick tack tick tack… faster, faster, faster! Time has become our most important resource in everyday working life. How do you spend your hours? How does your team spend their time? Are all working routines, especially for white-collar workers, designed to create value for the customers? Or are some...