Material compliance is essential, but often time-consuming. With Aivie, Studer Cables saves over 100 hours per run in the compliance process. Studer Cables faced the challenge of regularly and comprehensibly checking hundreds of materials, numerous suppliers, and various products for their compliance.
Together with Aivie, the entire material compliance process was digitized and automated: from supplier inquiries to structured reports and targeted evaluation per product and material.
The result is full transparency, a scalable process – and time savings of over 100 hours per run.
This customer case shows how modern material compliance can be implemented efficiently today.
Customer & Case Presentation
| Industry | Industry / Cables & Components |
| Business model | B2B |
| Materials | almost 1000 raw materials, semi-finished products and finished products |
| Company Size | 400 employees from over 30 countries |
| Solution | Aivie Enterprise |
| Service | Custom Development |
| Project duration | 0.5 year |
Who is Studer Cables?
Studer Cables is an industrial company with a broad product range consisting of a variety of raw materials, semi-finished products, and finished goods. For these materials, compliance confirmations must be regularly obtained from suppliers and kept up to date.
Material compliance is not a one-time process, but a recurring process that must function reliably, comprehensibly and efficiently.
What makes Studer Cables special?
Studer Cables works with complex product structures in which a product consists of several materials and individual materials can in turn occur in different products. At the same time, individual suppliers deliver several materials across different products.
This complexity requires a clean data structure and clear processes – especially in the area of material compliance.
Why do customers work with Studer Cables?
Studer Cables’ customers rely on:
- reliable product quality
- transparent material composition
- compliance with regulatory requirements
Material compliance is a central component of the customer relationship.
Challenge
The existing material compliance query was very manual:
- Suppliers had to be repeatedly contacted by email
- Feedback was unstructured
- Documents were distributed
- Product-material relationships were not directly evaluable
It was particularly time-consuming to specifically check the relevant materials of a product in the event of customer inquiries, instead of manually searching through entire material lists.
“Working with Aivie has been very personal and solution-oriented from the start. Our requirements were well understood, our needs were addressed, and communication was clear.
This enabled us to achieve our goal of mapping a complex compliance process efficiently and transparently, leading to significant time savings.”
Dr. Melanie Eggert
Head of Product Development
Studer Cables
Goals
Studer Cables wanted material compliance:
- query automatically
- document in a structured manner
- make it evaluable per product, material and supplier
- save internal time and simplify processes
It was also important that suppliers are easily integrated and that the process remains scalable.
Our approach
Aivie was used as a web-based Material Compliance Tool that combines surveys, automation, communication, and reporting.
Approach
1. Clear data structure for material compliance
Products, materials and suppliers were logically linked to each other. Materials are clearly assigned to products and can be assigned to several suppliers. The database can be easily updated via import if required, e.g. from SAP.
2. Automated supplier inquiry
Suppliers receive structured forms in which they only see the materials they have supplied. Compliance information can be provided or documents uploaded for each material.
For conflict minerals, uploading a CMRT or EMRT document is mandatory.
If there are no answers, Aivie reminds automatically – until all relevant materials have been answered.
3. Central Reporting & Evaluation
All submissions are displayed in reports. The compliance status can be filtered by product, material, supplier or certificate and can be exported as Excel. Several submissions per supplier also remain comprehensibly documented.
“For Quality Management, transparency is crucial.
With Aivie, we have the material compliance status up-to-date and traceable at all times—down to the material and product level. This significantly simplifies internal audits and external inquiries.”
Alexander Frisch
Head of Quality Management
Studer Cables
Results
Overall story
With Aivie, Studer Cables now has a structured, automated material compliance process. Suppliers are systematically queried and reminded, while internally there is always an up-to-date overview of the compliance status.
Key Results
- Significantly reduced manual follow-up
- Structured, comprehensible material compliance data
- Quick clarifications thanks to product-material filter
- Significant time savings in day-to-day business
Relevance
Material compliance is a critical success factor for industrial companies. The case shows how regulatory requirements can be efficiently implemented with clear processes and automation – without additional administrative effort.
Key Takeaways
- Automated material compliance saves significant time
- Product-material relationships are crucial for efficient testing
- Structured data replaces manual lists and individual documents
- Scalability is central to recurring compliance queries
What did Aivie do?
Aivie has the material compliance process of Studer Cables:
- simplified
- accelerated
- made more transparent
At the same time, a basis has been created that can be further expanded in the future – for example for self-service queries or additional compliance requirements.
Automate material compliance?
Material compliance becomes efficient when automation, data structure and user-friendliness interact. The Studer Cables case shows how complex compliance processes can be digitalized in a practical way.
