IBM Supply Chain Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The global AI market is projected to grow to USD 190 billion by 2025, increasing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 36.62% from 2022, according to Markets and Markets. One of the largest children clothing retailer in the US utilizes this solution to streamline its complex supply chain.

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Spend Matters

JANUARY 4, 2024

But, with increased regulation around supply chain sustainability on the way, organizations must prioritize visibility into the environmental impact of their suppliers. For example, from 2025 the European Council will require firms to report on their indirect Scope 3 emissions — which make up 75% of an organization’s CO2 emissions.

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Procurement Heads

JUNE 14, 2023

Public procurement regulations can be restrictive at times but the principles around openness, transparency and equal treatment are the right ones. If you know the regulations well and you can think strategically, you can still be agile, innovative and drive value for money. This took time and required a company-wide change.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

He is regularly asked to speak at industry conferences and webinars on topics such as managing shared service center operations, procure to pay maturity models, best practice metrics/analytics, and process automation based on six sigma and lean principles. Speed and efficiency are the name of the game.”

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NLPA (Next Level Purchasing Association)

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

A successful procurement transformation involves a strategic overhaul of processes, technologies, and approaches to achieve greater efficiency, cost savings, risk management, and value creation. Automation increases efficiency and reduces errors, leading to faster and more accurate procurement cycles.

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Positive Purchasing

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Inevitably, there are some supply chains that are riskier than others. As a discount retailer, we need to offer our customer attractive prices which we aim to achieve through business efficiency – keeping our internal structures lean, focusing on the essentials and having a strategically limited product range.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 10, 2024

IDC estimates that 750 million cloud native will be built by 2025. Improved speed and agility: The world is changing rapidly and technology is the biggest enabler for this change. How can you pivot efficiently in response to the changing market conditions? How efficient is your release process?

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Zycus Cognitive Procurement

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

This is to enable greater autonomy and agility. . Accordingly, the time is right for procurement to take centre stage and create benchmark KPIs to ensure sustainability in global supply chains. By 2025, customers will expect products that offer dynamic, proactive, and even prescriptive personalised experience.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

and add-ons by September 2025. This collaboration equips customers with an industry-leading asset management system from IBM, supported by the scale, agility and cost-efficiency of AWS. ICCA for your AWS Cloud automates many modernization tasks, reducing complexity while increasing the speed and business agility.

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Procurement Insights

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

” You must read through the entire raw and unedited discussion stream because within its dialogue is the explanation regarding what will happen in 2025, e.g., the GenAI Bubble Burst. How about we stop covering companies that fail to give us transparent and unfettered access to their client base?

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2023

As the adoption of AI and other technologies continues to expand, it will transform how we perform work with the potential to disrupt 83 million jobs globally and create 69 million new roles by 2025, according to the World Economic Forum. Creativity and collaboration will become increasingly valuable skills as people navigate changes.

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Supply Chain Trend

OCTOBER 29, 2021

New Wave 3 Technology can empower a more efficient and responsive planning process. If we look back over the history of supply-chain planning, we can properly say we are in the third wave of integrated supply-chain planning software (Van Hove, 2019). TRADITIONAL IBP AND PLANNING TECHNOLOGY. Lacking insights.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MAY 15, 2024

According to International Data Corporation (IDC), stored data is set to increase by 250% by 2025 , with data rapidly propagating on-premises and across clouds, applications and locations with compromised quality. This situation will exacerbate data silos, increase costs and complicate the governance of AI and data workloads.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A prime benefit of cloud computing for business is its flexibility for quickly and efficiently scaling resources to meet business demands, freeing organizations from investing time and expense into expanding their own physical IT infrastructure. Google Workspace, Salesforce). Essentially, it’s the best of both worlds.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 6, 2019

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Organizations are ‘going carbon neutral by 2025’, and ‘implementing Artificially Intelligent business systems’ and ‘sourcing form solely environmentally friendly suppliers’. appeared first on Supply Chain Game Changer™. Subscribe Here! Email Address. Source: Accenture 2013.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Reshoring manufacturing to the US ­ has been a significant trend in recent years, driven by geopolitical tensions, supply chain disruptions, proximity to customers and markets, eco-system synergies and the need for positive impact on the domestic economy. Digital labor can make processes more adaptable.

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