IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

As the world grapples with the realities of climate change , sustainability has evolved from a buzzword to a global imperative. Today, sustainability efforts are being shaped by new urgency and new technology. What is sustainability?

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JANUARY 17, 2024

Through the IBM Sustainability Accelerator , a pro-bono social impact program, IBM volunteers donate their time, energy and expertise to help create lasting impact in communities around the world. He joined IBM in 2015. This model aims to improve the community’s self-sufficiency in clean, renewable energy.

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ivalua

JULY 15, 2015

Done well, strategic sourcing creates measurable and sustainable shareholder value by contributing to top line growth and bottom line profitability. Gartner’s 2015 survey of CEOs indicates that revenue growth is now five times more important than cost savings.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 30, 2023

. ​ Automotive supply chain facts Up to 50 percent of unscheduled downtime is due to a lack of spare parts or stockouts ( The Importance of Inventory Optimization in MRO, July 2015 , Aberdeen Group) Generally, 99% of [semiconductor] manufacturing foundries have no visibility where the part is going.

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Procurement Insights

APRIL 6, 2025

IoT, early AI) and sustainability (ESG) boosted interest. Mid-Term Shift (20282029): Climate and ongoing Ukraine impacts sustain growth, with virtual formats outpacing in-person (e.g., No hard numbers exist, but industry focus on cost optimization post-recession supports this. 20162019: Pre-Pandemic Peak Digital transformation (e.g.,

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 8, 2023

If these transportation projects are to be truly transformative in ways that will help the world bounce back from the next pandemic and reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, they will have to be built more sustainably. But sustainable transportation infrastructure isn’t just about improving our environment, it’s also good business.

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Procurement Templates

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Action Note 14/15 27 August 2015 Issue. Raising skills levels within the UK workforce is key to delivering sustainable growth. This Action note builds upon and replaces PPN 06/15 “Supporting Sustainable Skills Development through Major Construction and Infrastructure Projects”. Source: [link]. Further Guidance 12.Material

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Brands labeled with Green Supply Chains have started becoming synonymous with sustainability, trustworthiness, quality and forward thinking. I don’t mean to come off snarky, but there is a clear-cut discourse that has formed between brands actualizing supply chain sustainability, and those who are marketing supply chain sustainability.

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SupplyShift

JANUARY 24, 2019

This article is an excerpt from our white paper, The Sustainable CMO: How sustainability is transforming the role of the CMO, written in collaboration with RF| BINDER and Possible. As sustainability and transparency become the new standards for consumers, marketing leadership will have to quickly follow suit. trillion in 2016.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 3, 2019

The Green Supply Chain: True Sustainability or Just One Big Marketing Stunt? Sustainability. Unfortunately, sustainability and sustainable development are beginning to turn from green to grey, considering its ever-increasingly washed-out idealistic applications in business and society at large. Subscribe Here!

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Jaggaer

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

As value chain sustainability rises to CEO and board-level visibility, CSCOs and CPOs are expected to mitigate risk, ensure compliance and deliver on corporate goals.​ But the main development in recent years is that sustainability is no longer a voluntary matter, a ‘nice to have’ or best practice.

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Procurement Insights

DECEMBER 12, 2023

” Madelyn Kearns ‘ 2015 article in SeafoodSource and Sari Heidenreich ‘s Oct. ” Madelyn Kearns ‘ 2015 article in SeafoodSource and Sari Heidenreich ‘s Oct. 2023 Greenpeace article suggest we still have a long way to go. .” 2023 Greenpeace article suggest we still have a long way to go.

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Jaggaer

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Balancing Cost, Resiliency, and Sustainability in Procurement: Insights from Georg Roesch Procurement professionals across industries and markets are struggling to keep their supply chains agile in a world of constant disruptions. It’s still important. Michael Right, right, exactly.

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SupplyShift

JANUARY 24, 2019

This article is an excerpt from our white paper, The Sustainable CMO: How sustainability is transforming the role of the CMO, written in collaboration with RF| BINDER and Possible. As sustainability and transparency become the new standards for consumers, marketing leadership will have to quickly follow suit. trillion in 2016.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 5, 2021

Smart, smooth, safe & sustainable Supplier Management will require shifts in strategy, process & systems, and these kinds of foundational shifts require champions of change. Ounces | Sustainable Procurement Initiatives. Example: Quality, Delivery/Supply Chain, Commercial, Innovation, Sustainability, Collaboration, etc.

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SPLC (Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council)

MAY 29, 2019

Sustainable Purchasing Leaders Recognized in Portland. Leading organizations acknowledged for effective and impactful sustainable purchasing. The awards and awardees include: Leadership Award for Overall Sustainable Purchasing Program: . Leadership Award for a Special Sustainable Purchasing Initiative: . Air Liquide.

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SPLC (Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council)

MAY 18, 2018

2018 LEADERSHIP AWARDS FOR SUSTAINABLE PURCHASING. Seven Organizations Recognized by Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council. Each winner employs a wide range of sustainable purchasing strategies and documented the resulting environmental, social, and/or economic benefits in a case study. More about this case study.

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Procurement Insights

MARCH 13, 2024

It is also why the following excerpt from a 2015 article in Food Tank by Emily Nink, MS, CPH , is eyeopening – [link] “Approximately 30-40 percent of farmers worldwide produce food that is never consumed. Given the rise in prices (or shrinkflation), the app provides savings on quality food products.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

2015: The Paris Agreement brought developing nations into the fold, with emissions targets for nearly 200 signatories. In the same year, the United Nations adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which included emphasis on adopting sustainable energy systems, sustainable forest management and lowering emissions.

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Spotlight on Procurement

APRIL 20, 2021

Paul Ekins OBE, Professor of Resources and Environmental Policy at University College London (UCL) boldly speaks out on sustainability and environmental economics. Are economic growth and environmental sustainability congruent? What does the future of sustainability look like to Paul? And much more …

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Procurement Insights

MARCH 5, 2024

I remember writing a post in 2015 about procurement’s “Generation Next” and the new capabilities they were bringing to the table. – [link] Here we are in 2024 – almost a decade later- and do the skills needed to excel in procurement align with the requirements of a very different world?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

This is our normal, yellow banana ( fao.org 2015 ). Farming of banana plants has become a hot button issue in the context of sustainability and ecological living. contributes to 62%-67% of the total carbon footprint created during the life cycle of the banana value chain ( fao.org 2015 ). But, why is this an important point?

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Supply Chain Trend

APRIL 12, 2017

Despite these facts, only 26 percent of practitioners think that behaviors are adequately addressed in S&OP implementations (Van Hove, 2015). Empirical evidence for effective behaviors was reported in a McKinsey survey of 189,000 people in 81 diverse organizations (Fesser, Mayol, & Srinivasan, 2015). Trust Is Paramount.

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Solvoyo

JUNE 23, 2022

Paris Agreement in 2015 had an aggressive target of limiting the global increase in temperatures to no more than 2 degrees Celsius by 2030. But in Glasgow 2021, countries with the largest manufacturing & mining base were dragging their feet, and global commerce does not accept much responsibility on this issue.

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Supply Chain Trend

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

The S&OP Pulse Check 2015 suggests S&OP practitioners are left behind in confusion: 62% of respondents think there is not enough innovation in S&OP systems. Sure – you can get to a design and pilot on Excel, but try to scale it sustainably in a complex global business on spreadsheets without burning out your staff?

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Supply Chain Trend

JULY 22, 2018

As an S&OP practitioner and consultant, I’ve come across most of these misconceptions, and I agree that they restrict the effectiveness and sustainability of S&OP. Practitioners seem to agree: As shown in Table 2 , over two-thirds said that behaviours are not adequately addressed in such implementations (Van Hove, 2015).

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Optilogic’s cloud-native supply chain design solution enables businesses to build digital models of future supply chains to evaluate trade-offs across cost, service, risk, and sustainability. He is best known for founding LLamasoft, a supply chain modeling, optimization, and analytics solution in 1998, which later sold for $1.5

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SupplyShift

DECEMBER 18, 2018

As you enjoy your favorite holiday drinks this season, it should warm more than your belly to know that the coffee industry as a whole — including major players like Starbucks, McDonald’s, and Dunkin’ Donuts — is making good on an ambitious commitment to make coffee the world’s first sustainable agricultural product.

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Procurement Heads

JUNE 6, 2023

In addition to this, we have a dedicated policy function that provides professional advice and support around key policy areas such as modern slavery, social value, and environmental and sustainable procurement. Furthermore, we are exploring how we can bring greater diversity and inclusion into our supply chain through EDI work.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 13, 2021

From 2009 to 2015, in the midst of a national recession, I served as Director, and later VP, of Engineering at Addepar, a wealth management platform. I, along with my fellow co-founders, enjoy tackling problems at hand, and have been tackling them together since 2009.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 22, 2022

After implementing all of these standard processes, we did manage to achieve and sustain 95% on-time delivery on request, reduced order to shipment lead time to 7 weeks average from 12 weeks, and at the same time reduced DOH to 65 days. I published my first blog in Aug 2015 after my PhD Degree and my 2 nd blog was in Jan 2016!

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 22, 2020

As we enter the Fourth Industrial Revolution , we must ensure that we learn from our experiences of the past and develop technology in a more sustainable way for the future. In 2015, worldwide IT spending across vertical industries was forecast to be $2.7T. We must think and act differently than we have before.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

While SAP released their next-generation ERP, S/4HANA, in 2015 and announced its plans to discontinue the support for ECC by 2027, more than 60% of customers have yet to initiate their move to S/4HANA 1. SAP ECC has been the ERP solution for over two decades that runs the core business of many global enterprises.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The 2015 Rule was for life-sustaining and life support products that can be embedded in patients. The UDI Rule was started by FDA in 2013 to develop regulatory mechanisms, track down medical device products, and enhance product safety for patients. The 2014 Rule was for class III devices. The 2016 Rule was for class II medical devices.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

The goal was to break a trend of rising purchasing prices and instead reduce total costs by using the entike Ikea volume as leverage” (Carlsson, 2015 p.6). More often than not, involved parties accepted the recommendations as fair” (Carlsson 2015, p. Building Shared Value.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Petrol cars and vans which do not meet Euro 4 standards (vehicles pre-2006), for diesel cars and vans that do not meet Euro 6 standards (vehicles pre-2015 wouldn’t comply), are charged to enter the zone. emissionzones #sustainability #vehicletracking. a day, in addition to the congestion charge.

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Supply Chain Trend

MARCH 7, 2016

In December 2015, TomTom launched the world’s first commercially available near real-time updated map. Self-sustaining prescriptive algorithms. The prescriptive algorithm will become self-learning and self-sustaining. Only 15 years ago we still used paper maps in our car. Let’s have a look how they got there and what is next.

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