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Leipzig, September 2023

We are pleased to inform you that the companies ORSOFT GmbH, GEFASOFT GmbH and New Solutions GmbH were merged in August 2023 and registered in the Commercial Register HRB 28318 on August 31, 2023 under the name Germanedge Solutions GmbH.

The registered office of the company Germanedge Solutions GmbH:

Postal address: Martin-Luther-Ring 13 in 04109 Leipzig, Germany.
Phone: +49 341 2308900
E-mail: info@germanegde.com

This strategic decision was made in order to combine our forces and to be able to offer you, as a valued customer, an even more comprehensive portfolio of services in the context of the digital factory.

“The origin of Germanedge lies in solving problems in the factory and supply chain with appropriate software products. Long-term partnerships with our customers are the basis of our thinking and actions. With the merger, we are now taking the next step. The combined product portfolio will provide our customers with a single point of contact for end-to-end solutions. Through the larger organization we get additional capabilities to accompany our customers. Especially in the area of software development there are enormous synergy effects.”
– Christian von Stengel, CEO of Germanedge –

All business relationships will continue unchanged. All rights and obligations from the existing agreements will be seamlessly transferred to Germanedge Solutions GmbH as the legal successor. All services and products you use will continue to be available after the merger. Of course, all your customer information will continue to be handled in accordance with applicable data protection regulations after the merger.

We would like to assure you that we will do our utmost to make the transition as smooth as possible and pay the utmost attention to your interests in the process. If you have any questions or if anything is unclear, our contact persons will be happy to help you at any time.
If you have any further questions about the merger, please feel free to send an e-mail to: info@germanegde.com. We will then forward your inquiry accordingly.

We thank you for your trust and look forward to a continued successful cooperation with you as a valued partner of Germanedge Solutions GmbH.

Leipzig, April 2023

SAP SE confirms that

• the interface software /ORSOFT/MS41 for the product ORSOFT Manufacturing Workbench 8 of ORSOFT GmbH has been certified for deployment on SAP S/4HANA On-Premise and SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition, release 2022 via the SAP integration scenario Add-On Deployment for RISE with SAP
• the interface software /ORSOFT/MW11 for the product ORSOFT Manufacturing Workbench 8 of ORSOFT GmbH has been certified for deployment on SAP NetWeaver 7.50 via the SAP integration scenario Add-On Deployment for SAP NetWeaver

Since 2005, the ORSOFT interface has been repeatedly certified by SAP. This is a great confirmation for the continuous quality of our software.
Many thanks to the whole team for the excellent work!

Leipzig, March 2023

With the appointment of Hartmut Friedrich – Managing Director of ORSOFT GmbH – as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) of Germanedge, the two companies continue to grow together in the areas of sales, product development and administration. In addition, Andreas Lüth, Managing Director of QDA SOLUTIONS GmbH, was appointed Chief Operations Officer (COO) and Dr. Jörg Kastrup, Service Director of New Solutions GmbH, was appointed Director Products to the Management Board of Germanedge.

Christian von Stengel, CEO of Germanedge: “These additions to our leadership team will extend our capabilities tremendously, including our products, people, and operations, in what’s becoming an exciting and fast-paced way to model the Digital Factory. Hartmut, Andreas and Jörg are proven industry experts and have long been working as managing directors for our affiliate companies. We are happy to have them on board to elevate Germanedge to a world-class operational organization.”

Germanedge is the grouping of four software specialists – ORSOFT, QDA SOLUTIONS, New Solutions and GEFASOFT – combining the extensive know-how in production planning, quality management, production management and connected worker. What made them to become partners in the last years? The constant thrive for innovations.

With Germanedge, we have set out to create an enterprise that is keenly focused on modelling the future of digital production with the latest technologies. Whether with the Edge.One platform, the No Code-Low Code Editor or Composable Applications: the Digital Factory works without silos, without loss of efficiency. Or as we say: No Gaps – No Boundaries.

With this step, we will exclusively communicate through our new Germanedge email address in the future.

Leipzig, March 2023

After almost three decades with the company, Dr. Wilmar Mögling stepped down from the Board of Directors led by two heads on 31 March 2023

Dr Wilmar Mögling is an SAP expert to the core – and he has played a decisive role in shaping the success of ORSOFT and Germanedge. After starting his career as an SAP consultant, the doctor of sinology quickly took on additional positions in technical project management and business development.

Dr Mögling was also a decisive driver of the internationalisation efforts since the beginning of the 2000s. He has decisively promoted the development of relationships with international customers and partners. From 2017 to March 2023, he was Managing Director of the Leipzig-based system vendor for advanced planning and supply chain management alongside Hartmut Friedrich. He was also active in the management of the Germanedge Group.

CEO Hartmut Friedrich commented on Mr. Mögling’s retirement, saying: “Wilmar has been an exceptional leader and an invaluable member of our team for the past 30 years. His expertise, dedication, and unwavering commitment to our company have been truly remarkable. We wish him all the best in his retirement and thank him for his many years of service.”

Leipzig, December 2022

Implementing a software-aided S&OP infrastructure is a complex process holding a whole lot of traps in store. The Gartner® Infographic: Step-by-Step Guide to an S&OP Transformation provides a helpful to-do list and illustrates the individual project steps vividly and soundly. The report is a must-read for all decision-makers or project managers who are engaged in any relevant S&OP projects.

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Gartner, Inc., incorporated on June 1st, 1990, is an information technology research and advisory company. The Company works with clients to research, analyze and interpret the business of information technology (IT), supply chain and marketing within the context of their individual roles. The Company operates through three segments: Research, Consulting and Events.

Leipzig, November 2022

The role of packaging in the supply chain is unfortunately often underestimated. Yet the collaborative planning and management of packaging supply chains offers countless opportunities to better respond to current market conditions and to put supply networks on a solid base – for packaging manufacturers as well as packaging users in many industries.

Read more about advanced analytics for optimizing packaging logistics:

Whitepaper “Modelling an optimal digital packaging supply chain”
Up-to-date trend information about packaging supply chains and a look at all the topics from a specific planning perspective. On top, a customer from the packaging industry gives valuable insights into how he has successfully dealt with vendor managed inventory and the associated end-to-end planning of packaging supply chains.

Product Bundle “Software-aided optimisation of packaging logistics with the aim of efficiently designing end-to-end packaging supply chains”
Our product bundle highlights several important tools of the ORSOFT Enterprise Workbench (EWB) and ORSOFT Manufacturing Workbench (MWB) from the aspect of optimising packaging supply chains and packaging logistics.

Leipzig, October 2022

As part of the implementation of an Information Security Management System (ISMS), ORSOFT has been successfully certified according to DIN EN ISO / IEC 27001:2017 since September 2022. With finishing the certification process, the company has incorporated its existing risk management system into a standardised set of rules with regard to current legal, internal and customer-specific requirements. The auditors attested ORSOFT well-documented and implemented processes in risk management, secure software development and continuous evaluation and improvement.

Hartmut Friedrich, Managing Director of ORSOFT GmbH: “At ORSOFT we have always pursued a transparent corporate policy with comprehensive quality assurance. With the certification of our Information Security Management System by DQS GmbH, we have once again been confirmed in our management and corporate culture and are proud to be a trustworthy partner to our customers, business partners and the public. Such huge projects can only be implemented with an excellent team, who I would like to thank for their great performance.”

As early as March 2022, the company was already awarded the silver medal by EcoVadis in recognition of its sustainability performance – the topic includes the areas of environment, labour and human rights, ethics and sustainable procurement. ORSOFT is thus among the 25% best rating companies.

Leipzig, October 2022

For more efficiency in planning and operations: And how you can – even must – merge isolated structures in quality, operations and supply chain operations into a digital twin. Gartner provides interesting insights and illustrates the topic based on the life sciences and bioprocessing sector.

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Gartner, Inc., incorporated on June 1st, 1990, is an information technology research and advisory company. The Company works with clients to research, analyze and interpret the business of information technology (IT), supply chain and marketing within the context of their individual roles. The Company operates through three segments: Research, Consulting and Events.

Leipzig, October 2022

User friendliness and a clear and modern design – this is the undisputed DNA on which our new corporate website is based.

Dr. Martin Kohl (Head of Sales & Marketing): “With the fundamental renovation of our website, we have created an up-to-date information and content hub related to supply chain management and our software solutions. With our proven depth of content – we explicitly address industry-specific applications – we offer a broad range of content elements such as white papers, technical papers & use cases.”

Enjoy browsing and reading!

Leipzig, July 2022

Current mature use cases for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) within the supply chain are visualized in the Gartner report “Infographic: Artificial Intelligence Use-Case Prism for Supply Chain”. In addition to possible added value through the introduction of the technology, Gartner also points out possible risks and prerequisites, in particular the availability of data.

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Leipzig, June 2022

The high competence of our ORSOFT colleagues, such as Dirk Anders, Matthias Ehrlich, Johannes Jahn, Lukas Kliemank, Hans-Christian Lapp, Florian Metzner, Sebastian Möbius, Ferdinand Ritter and many more, has led to the successful extension of the Microsoft Partnership – Gold Application Integration for ORSOFT.

And as if that wasn’t great enough – this year we are also adding Gold Application Development!

We are very pleased that this marks the successful continuation of our Gold partnership with Microsoft, which has been in place without interruption since 2011.

✔ “Gold Application Integration” competency highlights ORSOFT’s technical capabilities in advanced integration and configuration tasks and demonstrates our ability to integrate applications and data to improve efficiency and business outcomes.
✔ “Gold Application Development” competency demonstrates ORSOFT’s technical capabilities to design, develop and monitor cloud and web-based applications in Azure or Microsoft 365 for customers.

Microsoft Gold Partner 2022

Leipzig, June 2022

AI and machine learning (ML) play an increasingly important role in shaping the supply chain future. Just to mention some of them: They are used in demand planning processes, forecasting, inventory management and in the area of automated scheduling. But that’s far from everything. We would like to provide deeper insights and taking you through our development labs. We will outline planning holistically and as a central tool for controlling company processes and thus include autonomous processes on the entire shop floor level. The modelling of a digital twin will form the elementary basis for this.

Read more about Big Data, AI and Autonomization in SCM and download ORSOFT’s free whitepaper.

Leipzig, May 2022

As a supply chain manager, you have to make smart decisions at all times. In doing so, current global circumstances, such as the

• continuing shortage of raw materials
• war in Ukraine
• ongoing Covid pandemic

must be taken into account.

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Gartner, Inc., incorporated on June 1st, 1990, is an information technology research and advisory company. The Company works with clients to research, analyze and interpret the business of information technology (IT), supply chain and marketing within the context of their individual roles. The Company operates through three segments: Research, Consulting and Events.

Leipzig, April 2022

Digital Planning Board for Detailed Scheduling as Cloud- or On-Premise-Application

Read about our UX-optimised web application „ORSOFT Digital Factory Scheduling“.

Scenario-based and key figure-optimised management of resource, material and time conflicts in production planning
Read about these topics in the factsheet:

• Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) enable the efficient design of planning processes and create sustainable cost reduction potentials
• Keep everything in view: ORSOFT Digital Factory Scheduling creates transparency in detailed scheduling processes

Is it worth it for my company? What are the opportunities? What effort and costs can be expected?

We will be happy to answer these and all other questions. Take the first step and contact us.

Leipzig, March 2022

In recognition of our sustainability performance, ORSOFT has been awarded the silver medal issued by EcoVadis. It provides us a sense of pride that we are ranked among the top 25% of the more than 90,000 certified companies which has been rated until now. In this context, we are particularly pleased to have performed even better within our own industry category “Information Technology Services Delivery”.

Founded in 2007, EcoVadis has become the world’s largest and most trusted provider of corporate sustainability ratings. The four areas

• Environment
• Labor and human rights
• Ethics
• Sustainable procurement

are included in the evaluation.

In all four categories, ORSOFT scores above the average of companies in the reference industry.

EcoVadis assesses corporate social responsibility according to international sustainability standards such as the conventions of the International Labor Organization (ILO conventions) or the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standard. Among other things, the aim is to make companies’ corporate responsibility performance transparent for business partners. At the same time, participating companies are supported by EcoVadis in improving their sustainability performance.

https://ecovadis.com

Leipzig, February 2022

Read about upcoming trends for supply chain management in the chemical industry here.

Using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to reform supply chain management and reduce costs.
Read about these topics in the whitepaper:

• How value chain analysis can help to optimize supply chains and improve production planning
• Increase profitability and optimize KPIs with intelligent data management
• Using AI-supported data analyses to utilize central transaction data assets for real-time planning
• Holistic supply chain planning through the implementation of digital Supply Chain Management and Advanced Planning & Scheduling

Is it worth it for my company? What are the opportunities? What effort and costs can be expected?

We will be happy to answer these and all other questions. Take the first step and contact us.