SOLEY PRODUCT MINING
Data-driven identification of potentials in the product portfolio as well as critical paths in the supply chain.
Resilient and able to deliver
Product mining makes manufacturing companies crisis-proof.
Agile and competitive
Product mining reduces complexity ballast and lowers costs.
THIS IS SOLEY.
Transforming Product Data into Business Value.
Industry Innovation Through Startup Partnerships
Soley is one of 12 startups in the report, that have graduated from the SAP.iO program and are delivering value to SAP customers in key industries:
- Industrial Manufacturing
- Utilities and
- Energy
Data becomes Business Value
We enable companies to systematically increase GROWTH, RESILIENCE, INNOVATION, SUSTAINABILITY and PROFITABILITY - with a radically new approach that starts at the core of a company: the product.
The Focus is on the Product
Products generate revenue, growth and profit. At the same time, they generate complexity, costs, CO2, and offer a target for supply bottlenecks. That is why we focus on the product portfolio as a strategic starting point for sustainable business success.
Identify concrete potentials
- Complexity Analytics
- Value Patterns
- Decision Intelligence
Decide faster and better
We enable the world's leading manufacturing companies to make and implement the right decisions faster and achieve sustainable business success despite volatile market environments.
Sustainably Successful
This is how companies can continue to grow in the future, become more economically and ecologically sustainable, more profitable, more resilient, more effective and thus more successful.
Everything at a glance.
Soley's product mining platform illuminates the entire product portfolio and makes invisible dependencies, potentials and risks visible along the entire value chain.
The key difference.
Soley's product mining platform transforms complex data directly into actionable insights to optimally prepare product strategy decisions in the context of growth, profitability and resilience strategies. In this way, complex questions of great consequence can finally be decided quickly and resiliently.
Best practice for a new era.
With Soley's Product Mining Platform, companies actively drive their own business transformation and position themselves to be more competitive in the long term. Growth, resilience, innovation, sustainability and profitability.
CONTACT US NOW
Holistic optimization or support in a specific area - we are happy to assist you. Simply contact us for a non-binding discussion.
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SOLEY FAQ - frequently asked questions
Added value - What makes Soley unique?
Complex product diversity is becoming a critical challenge for more and more industrial companies. Potential savings in the millions are hidden here. However, analyzing this potential is time-consuming and the development and maintenance of the necessary tools is laborious and expensive.
We offer scalable software solutions for the optimization of complex product diversity, starting directly with the product. With Soley's product mining approach, all relevant dependencies between products, customers, components and suppliers are mapped in an enterprise digital twin. This is scanned for typical potentials and risks using value patterns. Decision Intelligence makes it easy to decide on measures for specific potentials in the team. This accelerates the implementation of measures in the company.
Maybe this is the right solution for you?
Find out in a non-binding telephone conversation with our experts.
Soley - What's the difference with a consultancy?
Consulting and software solutions behave much like a dentist and brushing your teeth. One cannot and will not replace the other. Performing portfolio hygiene at a high level with Soley is more sustainable and less expensive than waiting for an acute emergency.
Consultancies usually have a strong industry and technical expertise, methodological competence and tool overview. At the same time, consulting projects are limited in time and focused in content.
For fast reaction times in a constantly changing situation, as well as for the continuous maintenance and improvement of the product portfolio, what is needed today is a solution that is available ad-hoc at any time, can be used intuitively, and is stable and scalable.
This enables companies to act quickly in crisis situations and, in the medium term, to evolve from "pain-driven" reaction to continuous, forward-looking action.
Sometimes not enough resources can be mobilized for large projects in order to implement ambitious projects. In this case, too, we are happy to work with consulting partners to help our clients move as effectively as possible from acute pain to a sustainable and risk-reduced portfolio future.
Soley - Can you build it yourself?
Yes. But why reinvent the wheel? Modern cloud-based solutions have one big advantage: These solutions serve a large number of customers with similar challenges and therefore benefit from high synergies in software development.
We pass this speed advantage on to our customers - with short release cycles and continuous improvements.
This makes our solution not only faster and cheaper, but - thanks to unique features such as the digitized, collaborative decision-making process - also more reliable and scalable than homegrown analytics.
Soley - Is this another BI tool?
Analyzing large amounts of data and preparing it graphically is the intersection of Soley and common BI tools. So there is some recognition value in the browser-based front end - and that's a good thing. But with BI tools, one task remains unsolved: to develop and maintain analyses and to carry results into the company.
Soley already delivers ready-made, industry-standard analytics workflows. In addition, Soley goes beyond the analysis step and provides digitized decision-making processes. These not only orchestrate better and faster decisions among all contributors, but also support the operationalization of actions very efficiently. Soley extends analytics results into a living, data-driven process.
Soley - How market experienced is Soley?
Soley GmbH was founded as a spin-off of the Chair of Product Development at the Technical University of Munich. With founders from mechanical engineering and IT, an international team of engineers, data scientists and software developers as well as a select group of institutional investors and business angels, we are ideally positioned.
Customers such as Lenze, Bosch Rexroth, Viessmann or Filtration Group use our solutions for their daily work wherever increased complexity slows down previous processes. We understand how complexity expertise can be digitized and scaled.
The best thing to do is simply convince yourself - in a non-binding telephone conversation with our experts.
Data - How complex is the data provision?
We agree on the data requirements together and validate the initial analysis results.
The data requirements for our best-practice solutions are precisely defined. Depending on the implementation scope, the focus is on customer orders and product data, through to component suppliers and parts lists.
If additional aspects are to be included in the analyses, the data acquisition effort depends on the sources and scopes.
Data - What data quality is needed?
Soley uses data for analysis that is automatically maintained in the ERP. Of course, the same applies here: Data quality determines the quality of the analysis results.
Experience shows: Anyone who begins to work with Soley also recognizes, step by step, gaps and errors in the existing data stock that were previously difficult to recognize and evaluate.
Thanks to Soley, major construction sites in the product portfolio become visible at an early stage even with mediocre data quality - obvious cases can be dealt with quickly. Where necessary, you can improve the data quality step by step in a focused manner and work your way from the rough to the fine in product portfolio optimization.
Price - What does the solution cost?
- What performance is required (data volume and approximate team size)?
- How many optimization dimensions are to be processed?
- How many different perspectives on the data are to be implemented and maintained in a role-appropriate manner?
- What customization requirements exist beyond the standardized service offering?
As a procedure, prioritizing the concrete pain points and evaluating them together has proven successful. This results in a clear picture of which analysis modules deliver the best ROI for the company.
Only when significant savings in your favor become apparent does a long-term collaboration really make sense. Do you want to clarify the right scope of solutions for your company? Take the opportunity for a short telephone conversation with our experts.
Project start - When is the best time?
Portfolio maintenance is like retirement planning: there is no reason to wait.
Inefficiencies in the product portfolio block resources and eat up money. That's a substantial competitive disadvantage that translates into shrinking margins and slower time-to-market. Here, time is literally money - we do everything we can to work together with our customers on relevant potentials as quickly as possible. This ensures an early, high ROI and creates room for maneuver for further topics at the right time.
Speed - How fast can Soley help?
We accompany companies on the fastest way to an excellent product portfolio:
Arrange your non-binding expert meeting now. Together we discuss which typical potentials are worth a data-based look.
At the beginning, we discuss the solution focus, the scope of our standard solutions and, if necessary, sensible adaptations and additions. Sometimes this is simply the standard solution for a quick, data-based overview of the product portfolio. Based on the results, we can then discuss meaningful next steps in a well-founded manner.
Speed - How does Soley help in crisis situations?
Liquidity bottlenecks, failures in the supplier network, the wrong thing in stock - the Corona crisis has shown how quickly external disruptions affect a company's own value creation.
Particularly challenging: There is hardly any time to check far-reaching decisions for complex effects.
Soley simulates impacts along the entire value chain - from suppliers to customer shopping carts - across the entire portfolio. This enables companies to always tackle the right issue, even under time pressure.
Maybe it's right for you? Find out in a no-obligation phone call with our experts.
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