IBM Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Agility and scalability The primary advantage of adopting a hybrid cloud strategy is agility, which businesses need to adapt to change quickly and capture opportunities to drive business growth. By significantly boosting the delivery speed of IT resources, a hybrid cloud architecture helps businesses stay agile.

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Building Stronger Relationship s : Effective Approaches to Multi-Tier Supplier Collaboration A chain is only as strong as its weakest link—but what if you can’t evaluate the entire chain? Tier 1 suppliers and their suppliers—and their suppliers’ suppliers—make up an organization’s multi-tier supply chain.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Secondly come eProcurement, Supply Chain Collaboration, Invoicing, and Payments. Optimizing source-to-paythrough digital transformation streamlines every stage of your procurement strategy, improving visibility, efficiency, and collaboration. These begin with enhanced visibility.

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Pipefy

JANUARY 30, 2024

Improvements to existing procurement processes, procedures, and operations are as time-sensitive as ever. In the 2024 State of Procurement Data Report by Amazon Business, 95% of decision-makers surveyed acknowledge that there’s room for procurement optimization.

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Una

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The current state of chatbots in procurement Chatbots are intelligent systems, designed to assist procurement teams by automating tasks , providing real-time support to end-users, and enhancing overall efficiency. This ensures that procurement support is readily accessible at any time, increasing efficiency and reducing delays.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MAY 17, 2024

Organizations face increased pressure to move to the cloud in a world of real-time metrics, microservices and APIs, all of which benefit from the flexibility and scalability of cloud computing. With this organizational change, new teams are being defined, agile project groups created and feedback and testing loops established.

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Empowering CPO

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

At EmpoweringCPO, we understand the pivotal role it plays in optimizing the supply chain, reducing costs, and fostering long-term competitiveness. By harnessing the power of data, organizations can identify opportunities for cost optimization, risk mitigation, and process efficiency.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Examples of industries that have switched from monolithic architecture to microservices include subscription-based streaming services like Netflix, which uses microservices to track user activities, their history and other data to make real-time recommendations for enhanced engagement and better customer experiences.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 11, 2024

The growing need for cloud cost optimization : Cost optimization is essential when exiting VMware because it helps manage and reduce the initial and ongoing expenses associated with migration, ensures efficient use of resources in the new environment, and maximizes the return on investment.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 26, 2023

Improve CI/CD pipelines The continuous integration/continuous delivery pipeline—commonly referred to as the CI/CD pipeline —is an agile DevOps workflow focused on a frequent and reliable software delivery process. You gain full-stack visibility to better understand your environment and speed up innovation.

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Finale Inventory

JULY 23, 2024

It involves overseeing the flow and storage of goods, ensuring that you have the right products available at the right time. By effectively managing your inventory, you can minimize costs, optimize storage space, and provide exceptional customer service.

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Empowering CPO

JULY 17, 2023

Procurement teams are often confronted with issues such as maintaining cost control and visibility over spending, managing relationships with a diverse range of suppliers, staying compliant with a myriad of regulations, mitigating risks in the supply chain, and leveraging new technologies effectively. The result?

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Empowering CPO

JULY 17, 2023

Procurement teams are often confronted with issues such as maintaining cost control and visibility over spending, managing relationships with a diverse range of suppliers, staying compliant with a myriad of regulations, mitigating risks in the supply chain, and leveraging new technologies effectively. The result?

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Empowering CPO

JULY 16, 2023

Through our technologically advanced and innovative approach, we have been successful in helping businesses reduce costs, optimize supplier relationships, manage procurement risks, and ultimately drive profitable growth. They were struggling with high procurement costs and a lack of visibility into their supply chain.

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Empowering CPO

JULY 16, 2023

Through our technologically advanced and innovative approach, we have been successful in helping businesses reduce costs, optimize supplier relationships, manage procurement risks, and ultimately drive profitable growth. They were struggling with high procurement costs and a lack of visibility into their supply chain.

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Procurement Insights

JANUARY 3, 2025

Emphasis shifted from pure cost savings to total cost of ownership (TCO) and value creation. Impact of Globalization and Supply Chain Complexity : The complexity of global supply chains highlighted procurement’s role in managing risks, ensuring continuity, and driving efficiencies.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JANUARY 30, 2024

times the value derived from a single-platform, single-cloud vendor approach. Data silos cause visibility issues and can negatively impact data analytics by preventing teams from sharing a holistic view of consolidated data to collaborate and make business decisions. What are the challenges of multicloud?

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