Insight

As a comprehensive C-parts provider, Würth Industrie Service has been offering a product range of over 1,400,000 items to its manufacturing industry customers for more than 25 years – with the range extending far beyond just a catalogue. 

Würth Industrie Service is primarily known for its core competencies in the field of connection and fastening technology, e.g screws, washers, and nuts, which were the origin of the company’s passion. However, the product spectrum now covers so much more. With a wide range of tools, technical chemicals and personal protective equipment (PPE), Würth Industrie Service is well established in the field of production related materials as well. With its specials and drawing parts, as well as services in the field of additive manufacturing, the company stands out when it comes to fulfilling individual customer requirements.

“In order to find the best solution for every customer, sustainable C-parts management requires much more than just supplying the required items,” underlines Würth Industrie Service. “That is why we are now developing into a comprehensive partner who is integrated into the system-based process landscape, and also why we use holistic, automated systems and services that reduce process costs while increasing productivity, quality and flexibility.”

Even though C-parts represent a relatively small proportion of the purchase volume of companies, the procurement efforts are high, which proves to be time-consuming, error-prone and inefficient. This is exactly where the intelligent supply solutions for automated production supply of Würth Industrie Service come into the picture.

Product and system combined in an intelligent way

Würth Industrie Service has been offering tailor-made procurement and logistics concepts to its customers for 25 years. Through shelving systems with scanners, electronic solutions, modular vending machines, smart workplaces or ‘Just in Time’ supply with the help of RFID Kanban, the required parts are delivered directly to the place of use. This way, manual orders, coordination of countless suppliers and deliveries of goods, unmanageable invoice verifications, as well as walking routes of the employees in production are now things of the past. Instead, inventories are managed in a lean manner; unexpected increases and decreases in requirements are recognised early on; costs and procurement efforts are reduced; and at the same time, efficiency and productivity is achieved with maximum process and supply security.

“Thanks to the bundling of product and system competence, we have our sights set on not only the specialised segments, but rather on comprehensive factory and assembly demands of customers, which is why we offer everything from one single source. All of this is not just local, but rather global on a uniform quality level,” states Würth Industrie Service.

The company can also offer a wide range of services to assist more than 20,000 customers with their diverse demands and requirements in a comprehensive way. “Support from the very beginning at every step of the process, including design and development, that is our understanding of a holistic partnership,” explains Würth Industrie Service. “Whether it is about the individual components, an entire structural component of A, B or C-parts or even individual specials and drawing parts. As per requirement, we guide our customers from development, design and selection of the manufacturing process to production and quality assurance of all parts.”