IBM Supply Chain Blog

JANUARY 26, 2024

Taking all your feedback and market insights into perspective and careful consideration, we are thrilled to announce that in 2023. Here’s a comprehensive recap of everything we launched in 2023, awards and links to the latest update and how you can get started with each enhancement. Learn more in our announcement blog.

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 26, 2023

We believe these companies deserve greater visibility, especially in a market which is increasingly consolidating and diluting buyer choices. So, if you automate this end-to-end process, and in each step of the process you have a 20% chance of misinterpretation, at the end it’s either approximately right or precisely wrong.”

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Spend Matters

JANUARY 5, 2024

Our coverage also explores the latest thought leadership topics about procurement and supply, the technology that serves it and comparative analyses based on demos and the scoring of 500+ RFI requirements across 12 source-to-pay (S2P) categories that create our Vendor Ranking data.

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 19, 2023

We believe these companies deserve greater visibility, especially in a market which is increasingly consolidating and diluting buyer choices. So it is a fairly disruptive approach and paradigm to driving value for companies in the source-to-pay value chain. Today please get to know dSilo.

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Procurement Insights

MARCH 18, 2024

“Supply chain visibility refers to the ability to track and monitor products, materials, and information as they move through the various stages of a supply chain, from the sourcing of raw materials to the delivery of the final product to the end consumer.

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Spend Matters

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Procurement needs to think AI-first in 2024 and beyond The generative AI wave of 2023 truly brought us into the AI economy, with companies realizing how advances in AI have the potential to transform key processes and workflows that underpin how they operate and generate value.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

For sourcing teams, that means pivoting their mindset around selecting suppliers from a tactical, lowest-cost-above-all approach to a strategic one. Where tactical sourcing is a short-term strategy, strategic sourcing is for long-term business goals. And from that group, 71% would pay a premium for it.

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Gartner predicts that by 2023, organizations that don’t optimize supplier master data management (MDM) could have wrong information for half of their suppliers! To cover your full master data needs, Procurement should work with all internal stakeholders to map out the supplier lifecycle from end to end. That’s significant.

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Procurement Heads

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

It’s all the things you would expect in terms of robust Sourcing, SRM and category management across our supply chain, working closely with our business stakeholders and achieving excellent year-on-year results against an ever-increasing set of challenging KPIs. What roles and responsibilities does Procurement/ SRM have within Allianz?

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The challenges continue: one 2023 survey found 44% of companies had to make changes in the past year due to issues with their supply chain footprint, and 49% said supply chain disruptions had caused planning problems. A supply chain control tower can connect many sources of data-driven information and improve end-to-end visibility.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JANUARY 26, 2024

Taking all your feedback and market insights into perspective and careful consideration, we are thrilled to announce that in 2023. Here’s a comprehensive recap of everything we launched in 2023, awards and links to the latest update and how you can get started with each enhancement. Learn more in our announcement blog.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The average cost of a data breach set a new record in 2023 of USD 4.45 Greater visibility and speed are core requirements for effective cybersecurity. See some common sources in the screenshot below. Some examples include AWS IAM Identity Center, AWS Control Tower, and AWS Cloud Trail.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 28, 2021

between 2018–2023 (MarketWatch 2020). The market can expect to be evaluated at a $9.9BN industry by 2023 (Banerjee 2019). Lack of Visibility Beyond Tier 1. And, only 15% had visibility into tier 2 or beyond. Dirty Little Secret #1. Yet only 26% were able to confidently predict risk within their supply bases.

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 24, 2024

We believe these companies deserve greater visibility, especially in a market which is increasingly consolidating and diluting buyer choices. Only since we have this end-to-end solution that optimized data input did customers gain the confidence in the developed data pipeline and the quality of the data.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MAY 11, 2023

As we wrap up Think 2023, we’re excited to recap a few of the exciting new capabilities we are launching in our IT Automation portfolio. This platform utilizes intelligent automation and artificial intelligence (AI) to aggregate data from various sources, detect and correlate incidents, and quickly drive incidents to resolution.

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Supply Chain Trend

OCTOBER 25, 2023

However, one McKinsey study found that 7% of CPG companies apply end to end autonomous planning. Decision trees for the most common IBP decisions can be made like this for Finance, Sales, Marketing, Operation & Sourcing, highlighting where there is automation and augmentation potential. Some go as far as 80%.

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Spend Matters

JUNE 19, 2023

Spend Analytics solutions provide a single view into all historic, current and planned supplier spending in order to improve that spending through better sourcing, compliance and demand management. The top vendors extend the analytics schema to also support predictive data analysis, AI/ML models or real-time visibility across many systems.

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SCMDOJO

MAY 13, 2022

A good way to understand longer end-to-end transit times which under the current scenario have increased dramatically on most of the major trade lanes is to take a closer look at where delays are more likely to happen. Source: project44 Monthly report. To combat runaway inflation, which reached 7.9%

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Arkestro

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Supply Chain Visibility. Supply chain visibility is another critical issue. Visibility provides regulatory and consumer assurance in the face of issues like counterfeiting. market will have to be fully compliant with product tracing requirements (which were phased in starting in 2015) by 2023.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

JULY 9, 2023

Operating in over 40 countries worldwide, SEKO lead the industry with innovative and customizable IT solutions, which provide a seamless flow of information to deliver their growing customer base true supply chain visibility. It’s about visibility, it’s about the experience.” You can increase your conversion by providing more options!”

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Barkers Procurement

JANUARY 26, 2024

Last year, McKinsey reported that in 2023 alone, the typical workload on the function was set to increase by over 10%. in November 2023 to 4% in December. in December 2023. Some experts in procurement have asked whether procurement is being overexposed to unstable sources. The Pressures That Procurement Faces In 2024.

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Barkers Procurement

JANUARY 26, 2024

Last year, McKinsey reported that in 2023 alone, the typical workload on the function was set to increase by over 10%. in November 2023 to 4% in December. in December 2023. Some experts in procurement have asked whether procurement is being overexposed to unstable sources. Core inflation remains at 5.1%

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Barkers Procurement

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Sunbelt selected the world-class spend management solution provider Coupa Software, choosing to implement the full suite of Coupa products to satisfy a variety of use cases across procurement, invoice automation, inventory, risk management and sourcing. Barkers impressed the Sunbelt Rentals team on two levels.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JULY 6, 2023

It is more challenging than ever for IT operations (ITOps) teams to maintain a complete view of their end-to-end IT environment and effectively manage events and incidents. Enhanced visibility: AIOps Insights provides real-time status updates and notifications, enabling more continuous monitoring and more timely incident resolution.

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Pipefy

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Problem: maverick spend and unmanageable spot requests Recurring emergency purchase requests Poor purchase policy and company alignment Non-compliant purchases repeatedly slip through Solution: centralize, standardize, and automate Pipefy centralizes all communication to give every stakeholder a common, single source of information.

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Pipefy

AUGUST 10, 2023

In contrast, process intelligence automatically and continuously acquires data at scale, resulting in clear visibility into an organization’s journey towards improving its processes. Data collection and integration Process intelligence collects data from various sources, including company databases and other IT systems.

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Procurement Software

JUNE 4, 2024

This goes way beyond traditional source-to-pay and e-auction platforms. The platform has revolutionised the way businesses source high-quality parts directly from thoroughly vetted manufacturers. By focusing on electronic component sourcing and strategic supply chain management, Part Analytics has carved out a unique niche.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

A one-of-a kind partnership As Adobe’s only Consulting and Technology Partner, IBM works with Adobe to deliver personalized and trusted end-to-end customer experiences across every touchpoint to help drive better business results. Visit us at Adobe Summit 2023 where we’ll have our key talks, solutions and more at Booth 419.

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Finale Inventory

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Scanning a label takes a fraction of the time needed to jot down even the briefest of details – and items are immediately visible in your online system with full product details available. This lack of visibility has an impact on the bottom line: Last year, out-of-stock products and deep discounting of excess merchandise cost merchants $244.5

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Pipefy

JULY 24, 2024

Nearly half of respondents to a 2023 Salesforce study reported that they have used generative AI; over one-third use it daily. In 2023, a study found that the AI market was valued at 196.63B, largely due to the technology’s ability to analyze historical data very quickly. Few businesses make full use of AI technology, however.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

A sustainable supply chain needs to embed environmental, social and governance (ESG) best practices into how raw materials are sourced, turned into products and delivered to market. And since companies often do not deal directly with all the providers in their supply chains, end-to-end traceability is hard to achieve.

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Supply Chain Trend

DECEMBER 22, 2023

However, only 3% of companies apply automated execution and 7% autonomous end to end planning. For example a monthly triggered risk analysis (set of simulations) from your e2e supply chain. A 2023 study of 160 companies found only 15% of companies excell at both. 2% of managers apply best practice decision methods.

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Pipefy

JANUARY 5, 2024

Chatbots allow HR analysts to digitize and automate recruitment from end to end. Onboarding A 2023 study revealed that 52% of new hires don’t feel prepared to begin work after their onboarding concludes. Improved visibility Employees and stakeholders often need to the specific process phase in which their request resides.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Along with these challenges, the ongoing drive to reduce costs, improve efficiency and productivity, drive better decision-making and reduce risk will continue to drive pharma investment in cloud, AI/ML, analytics and automation in 2023 despite higher interest rates. Since then, more than 20 cell and gene therapy products have been approved.

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