Navigate the Impact of Tariffs on your Supply Chain
Navigate the Impact of Tariffs on your Supply Chain
Tariffs and global supply chains are more interconnected than ever. Organizations face heightened risks, rising costs, and operational complexity as trade tensions and regulatory shifts continue – especially following US-China tariffs and retaliatory measures.
How tariffs affect supply chains – and how to stay resilient
The impact of tariffs extends far beyond added import duties. They influence sourcing strategies, supplier relationships, production timelines, logistics networks, and customer pricing models.
To manage these dynamics effectively, Siemens Advanta’s Supply Chain Tariffs Analytics Solution helps organizations to:
- Model real-time scenarios to assess the impact of tariffs on logistics, costs, and supply continuity
- Analyze root causes at part level to identify vulnerabilities and evaluate dual sourcing opportunities
- Shift perspectives between revenue and spend to better engage customers and suppliers with actionable insights
From disruption to strategy: leveraging supply chain shifts as opportunity
Tariff-related disruptions are no longer isolated events – they’ve become a recurring feature of global trade. To remain competitive, organizations must respond quickly and strategically to changing trade policies and supply chain impacts. This requires a shift from reactive mitigation to active opportunity management.
Turning disruption into advantage means understanding where volatility can open doors: for example, by optimizing production footprints, securing more flexible sourcing models, or rethinking logistics strategies with a long-term view.
How Siemens Advanta helps you build resilience and agility
To support organizations in navigating these challenges, Siemens Advanta provides tailored solutions across multiple dimensions of supply chain strategy. Siemens Advanta supports your organization through:
- Supply chain optimization: improve efficiency by up to 30% and reduce lead times by 40% through nearshoring, real-time tracking, and automation.
- Market diversification: leverage tariff engineering and supplier shifts to reduce expenses by 10–25%.
- Innovation and cost reduction: boost productivity by up to 50% and lower compliance costs with AI-powered analytics.
- Strategic partnerships: recover up to 99% of duties paid via duty drawback programs and free trade zones.
Strategic tariff mitigation: more than cost savings
Mitigating the effects of tariffs isn't just about protecting margins—it's about building long-term resilience. Siemens Advanta’s approach combines technology, analytics, and industry expertise to:
- Identify cost-saving alternatives
- Collaborate with key suppliers using proprietary cost insights
- Support make-buy decisions and product redesign evaluations
Stay ahead of tariff impacts on your supply chain
In a volatile global trade environment, proactive planning is critical. Siemens Advanta’s innovative solution enables businesses to mitigate risks, enhance supply chain resilience, and drive sustainable growth.
Contact us today to learn how we can help you adapt to supply chain tariffs and thrive in the face of uncertainty.
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Plant Maturity Assessment
Factory Maturity Assessment to increase your operational performance
Enroll in a comprehensive factory maturity assessment by filling out our form. This assessment covers key areas such as manufacturing execution & process automation, supply chain, people & culture, and cybersecurity & operations. Gain transparency on your digitalization potentials and receive a tailored roadmap to enhance your performance.
Start your journey towards operational excellence today!
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Cyber Resilience Act | Whitepaper
Cyber Resilience Act
Strengthen Your Cyber Defenses with the Cyber Resilience Act
At Siemens Advanta, we are dedicated to empowering your organization to navigate the complexities of the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) with confidence. Our expertise in integrating cybersecurity measures ensures that you are well-equipped to protect your digital landscape.
Integrating risk management with advanced cybersecurity measures
The Cyber Resilience Act is a groundbreaking initiative that underscores the importance of cybersecurity and compliance in today’s interconnected world. It closely aligns with established frameworks such as GDPR and NIS2, providing a robust structure for digital product protection.
Our whitepaper provides a deep dive into the essential components of the CRA, highlighting the importance of integrating risk management and risk handling practices within your organization. As compliance becomes a top priority, learn how our specialized risk management services can protect your digital assets.
At Siemens Advanta, we focus on enhancing your cybersecurity and data protection efforts by guiding you towards compliance with the Cyber Resilience Act. By implementing effective risk management and network security measures, we ensure that your products and practices meet the new standards while strengthening your overall cyber resilience strategy. Embrace this opportunity to protect against threats and vulnerabilities and secure your future with our expert risk management services.
For more information, read our whitepaper on the Cyber Resilience Act.
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Servitization: The Key to a Sustainable and Resilient Energy Future
Servitization: Key to a Sustainable Energy Future
This whitepaper, co-developed with Scovan Engineering Inc., is based on a real-world project that demonstrates the transformative impact of servitization in the energy sector.
Essential strategies for a greener and more resilient energy sector
The energy sector is changing, driven by the need for sustainable solutions, digital innovation, and new business models. To stay ahead, companies must rethink how they manage their assets, implement lifecycle strategies, and integrate service-based solutions that support energy and sustainability objectives.
How service-based models drive efficiency, innovation, and sustainability
As the energy sector transitions toward more sustainable and efficient operations, service-based models are becoming an essential approach. Servitization enables companies to move beyond traditional product sales, focusing instead on optimizing lifecycle management, improving resource efficiency, and integrating digital innovation. These models contribute to environmental and sustainability goals while fostering long-term operational resilience. At Siemens Advanta, we explore these developments and provide insights into how service-oriented strategies can enhance workforce engagement, support continuous improvement, and align with evolving industry expectations.
In our whitepaper, we explore:
- Sustainability & Lifecycle Thinking: Minimizing waste, extending asset lifespans, and aligning with sustainable development goals through life cycle assessment strategies.
- Digital Transformation & Innovation: Leveraging data-driven insights, predictive analytics, and automation for efficiency, including application lifecycle management software to optimize product lifecycle performance.
- Service-Based Business Models: Enhancing resilience, flexibility, and long-term value proposition value, supporting sustainability in business and the transition to sustainable products.
- Energy & Environmental Strategies: Reducing emissions, integrating renewables, and driving sustainable energy management through eco-friendly and environmentally friendly innovations.
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Cyber Resilience Act
Cyber Resilience Act
Product Cybersecurity Revolution – “Security by Design”
Siemens Advanta helps its clients comply with the Cyber Resilience Act by integrating Secure-by-Design principle into product development.
Siemens Advanta makes sure clients are successful in acquiring “CE Marking” and comply with the Cyber Resilience Act by integrating Secure-by-Design principles, tailoring security measures based on product criticality, and conducting risk assessments at every development stage. Siemens Advanta's proactive approach strengthens compliance and boosts its client's customer trust and market competitiveness with its secure and reliable products.
- Cyber risk assessment to identify critical risk areas and provide mitigation action items
- Product Security Program setup with appropriate levels of governance and risk-based security controls
- Proposal for post market surveillance process and team
- Provision of an outside view and cornerstone for optimization of building a secure product
- Proven approaches to develop and implement Product Security, ensuring cross-border transparency and compliance – with up to 30% less time and effort
- Reusable blueprints and trainings for further scaling within an organization
- Identify critical products containing digital elements
- Identify key stakeholders from senior management, business representatives, IT organization, manufacturing operations, and human resources
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Mergers & Acquisitions (services)
Mergers and Acquisitions
M&A can transform your business, but it requires expertise throughout the process, starting in the pre-deal phase, continuing in the transaction phase, and through post-merger integration (PMI). M&A activities are often driven by a desire to increase market share, expand product lines, or gain access to new markets. Successful M&A transactions require careful planning, due diligence, and effective execution to achieve desired outcomes and create value for stakeholders - something we have proven time and again at Siemens Advanta.
- Identify the appropriate M&A prospect
- Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of a possible acquisition
- Develop the integration plan, discover potential synergies, and guarantee preparedness from Day 1
- Achieve faster growth
- Facilitate the transfer of technology
- Accomplish diversification
- Attain positive synergy
- Increase market power
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Port of Bremerhaven: Carbon-neutral port
Port of Bremerhaven: Carbon-neutral port
Decarbonizing one of the largest ports in Europe is a highly complex challenge in a very competitive environment. A combined view of strategical and technological perspectives is required. Siemens provided immense support in making it happen – with clear priorities and technological know-how.
Achieve carbon neutrality for all port and terminal operations by 2035.
- Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and the local port ecosystem have committed to carbon neutrality by 2035
- Complex port ecosystem: Multitude of companies, from terminals to logistics service provider and network operators needs to be synchronized
- Fossil fuels dominating energy vector in current port energy system
Utilize the digital twin model of the port's energy system to develop a cost-effective decarbonization strategy.
- Co-create target picture of decarbonized port and terminal operations with all involved stakeholders
- Optimize facility and equipment upgrades and outline renewable energy generation potential by leveraging digital twin technology
- Analyze regulatory framework for the energy system's operations and recommend the most suitable operating model
Comprehensive port decarbonization strategy, action plan and future operating model.
- Comprehensive target picture of decarbonized port and terminal operations including mobility, heating, energy generation and Power-to-X solutions
- Tailored digital twin of port energy system, integrating current energy mix, load profiles, business projections, and price forecasts to model decarbonization costs
- Recommended actions to accelerate port decarbonization through coordinated renewable energy generation and management
- 100% CO₂ emission reduction by 2035
Benefit from our deep Domain Knowledge
We leverage our experience to help you develop a tailored decarbonization strategy and robust action plans.
Leverage a strong Technology Stack
We design a digital twin of your energy system with the help of our specialized toolkit and can also provide you with the building blocks for implementing your decarbonization.
Profit from our powerful Ecosystem
We leverage the entire Siemens ecosystem to offer you a comprehensive package of solutions.
The Siemens digital twin of our port energy system is the perfect basis for creating and refining our roadmap towards CO₂-neutral operations. Simulating possible decarbonization pathways in mobility, heating, and energy generation helps us focus on the right actions and create a competitive edge.
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Compliance with EU Data Act
Compliance with EU Data Act
EU Data Act: Prepare for New Regulations
To foster the data economy in the European Union, EU legislators are currently reshaping business ground with new laws that shall enable fair and simple access to and use of data. The latest legislation: the EU Data Act, will become effective in September 2025.
With this deadline on the horizon, manufacturers of connected devices and others are required to act now. The timeline is tight, the obligations and requirements are ambiguous and fundamental business questions need to be clarified.
What is EU Data Act?
One important aspect of the EU Data Act is to grant users of connected products the right to access the generated machine data. In addition, the Data Act allows users to grant access to that data to third parties, which may be, for instance, independent service providers, AI startups and potentially also competitors.
Users and third parties may use the data for their own purposes, including providing third party service (as an alternative to manufacturer provided services) or analytics offers.
Manufacturers that fail to provide data access risk facing substantial financial penalties. The penalties shall be effective, proportionate and dissuasive and may have retroactive effect; if personal data is concerned, fines shall be according to the GDPR, which means the higher of EUR 20 million or 4% of the annual global revenue.
What is required and when?
Beside other obligations, manufacturers of connected products need to fulfill three key obligations by two deadlines.
- Information obligation
Starting from September 2025, manufacturers of connected products are required to inform users at point of sales about the data that the connected product generates during usage.
- Data sharing obligation
Starting from September 2025, the data holder (usually the manufacturer, if it chooses to collect the machine data) is required to share available data with the user of the connected product as well as with third parties authorized by the user.
- Design obligation
One year later, starting from September 2026, manufacturers must design new products in a way that the data is directly accessible to the user.
What do these obligations imply? Companies that sell connected products need to react now and start designing and implementing response strategies for sharing the relevant data. Yet, as is often the case, the details are where the real challenges lie.
Who does the law apply to?
The above-mentioned obligations under the EU Data Act apply to all manufacturers of connected products that make their products available in the EU, irrespective of their industry and place of establishment.
The right to access data is restricted to users within the EU. Third parties that were granted access by users must have a legal representation in the EU to be eligible for data access.
How can you become compliant?
The path to compliance is individual for each company, yet there are four key tips, from our experience, to make the journey a smoother one.
- Setting up a cross-functional team
Due to the complexity of this topic, different functions and experts from within the clients’ organization and from external need to be mobilized, including legal, government affairs, R&D, product management and IT. It is advised to involve all experts and concerned business units from day 1 to form a joint response strategy moving forward.
- 80/20 and risk-based approach
The Data Act applies not only to new products, but also to the existing installed base in many cases. Companies with a large variety of product families need to carefully plan their approach to balance the need of being compliant and the effort to implement.
- Close collaboration between legal and technology experts
Companies usually need to develop a new technical solution to fulfill the obligations under the Data Act. It is neither a pure technical nor an entire legal decision. Technical feasibility/effort and legal compliance risks need to be evaluated jointly to come up with an optimal solution. In addition, sales and customer service teams need to be involved as well to ensure a smooth customer experience.
- Treat this as a business opportunity rather than a pure compliance burden
Despite being a compliance topic from the first glance, the EU Data Act also provides vast opportunities for companies to capture. Creating new revenue streams of providing data, offering third party maintenance services for other companies’ products, or conducting AI analytics on competitors’ machine data, the opportunities seem endless.
How can Siemens Advanta help?
With our footprint in various industries and specifically our experience with the EU Data Act, we can support our clients on their way to become compliant with the obligations. Our project management services span from hands-on project management office support for urgent content issues, to developing comprehensive data strategies designed to meet future digital challenges. Siemens Advanta tailors its offerings and strategies to align with the unique needs and stages of development in areas, e.g. system architecture and data literacy, ensuring that our services are well-suited to each client's specific circumstances and objectives.
If you want to learn more about our offerings regarding the EU Data Act, please download the detailed presentation on the topic here:
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Spend Analytics
Spend Analytics
Vendigital as part of the Siemens Advanta organization, drives accelerated cost transformation through data.
We consolidate and transform low integrity data from disparate ERP/MRP systems into valuable business intelligence which helps drive rapid cost, cash and efficiency improvement across your organization. This is delivered through our secure, cloud-based portal environment.
Designed by purchasing professionals for purchasing professionals, Spend Analytics provides instant access to valuable business intelligence, drives efficiencies, and accelerates business performance. It offers a powerful, highly intuitive means of placing spend information at the client’s fingertips, through a user-friendly, customizable interface. Delivered as a managed service through our secure portal environment, Spend Analytics enriches the outputs of traditional ERP and MRP systems and provides instant answers to those procurement questions you just haven’t be able to reach.
- Smart data processing technology combined with human intelligence providing data integrity you can rely on.
- Unparalleled insights within complex supply chains, allowing you to drill down to the cause in seconds.
- Empower your teams with the tools that allow them to make better decisions, faster.
- Macro-to-micro drill down by site, supplier, category and many more.
- Transaction-level direct & indirect material analysis and deep insights.
- Visualisation of key strategic and operational procurement metrics that allow you to take action in confidence.
- Eliminate the need for ongoing data manipulation freeing up time your teams to take action.
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Supplier Analytics
Supplier Analytics
Vendigital as part of the Siemens Advanta organization, drives accelerated cost and supply chain performance transformation through data.
We consolidate and transform low integrity data from disparate ERP/MRP systems into valuable business intelligence allowing you to better collaborate with your supply chain in order to drive sustained cost, quality and delivery performance improvement, all delivered through our secure, cloud-based portal environment.
Our Supplier Analytics application enables our clients to quickly analyze and track quality, cost and delivery (QCD) performance across the organization, as well as invite suppliers to assess and challenge their performance allowing both parties to work collaboratively to drive improvement based on a single source of truth.
- Measure and analyze QCD performance across the organization based on a common standard so as to ensure like-for-like comparison.
- Issue scorecards to suppliers and allow them to challenge in order to improve data integrity and collaboration to drive performance improvement.
- Macro – micro analysis to quick establish root cause.
- Reason code analysis to understand common themes driving poor performance.
- Track supplier engagement to facilitate targeted communication.
- Analyze and track QCD performance across the business.
- Macro-to-micro analysis allowing you to get to the root cause.
- Facilitates boardroom engagement and input to the strategic direction.
- Enable fact-based conversations with suppliers on areas for improvement.
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