Spend Matters

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Spend Matters constantly updates its understanding of the state of the procurement tech market via RFIs for our SolutionMap dataset, vendor interviews, global event attendance and product demos with the aim of keeping tech-selection decision makers ahead of market trends. What is Globality doing to address these customer challenges?

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 4, 2023

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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IBM Supply Chain Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

As a result, I see access to real-time data as a necessary foundation for building business agility and enhancing decision making. Apache Kafka and Apache Flink working together Anyone who is familiar with the stream processing ecosystem is familiar with Apache Kafka: the de-facto enterprise standard for open-source event streaming.

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Arkestro

DECEMBER 5, 2022

These disruptions have exposed the fragility of global supply chains. Unique obstacles have caused many companies to re-evaluate their sourcing strategies. A shift toward regionalized supply chains and diverse suppliers may be the key to resilience. Other challenges reflect problems throughout the supply chain.

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World of Procurement blog

MAY 8, 2024

It involves identifying needs, sourcing potential vendors, obtaining quotes and proposals, negotiating contracts, selecting suppliers, managing relationships, and meeting obligations. Sourcing : Procurement uses competitive bidding, e-sourcing, and supplier development. What is Procurement?

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EazyStock

APRIL 13, 2022

What is a supply chain strategy? A supply chain strategy explains how a company will bring goods into the business and get them out to customers as effectively as possible. Supply chain strategies have come into the spotlight as volatile demand and complicated global markets have made supply chains more complex.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 15, 2020

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. The Digital Supply Chain Road is Full of Potholes, Construction and Accidents! Source: Deloitte CPO Survey 2019. Below are some outlets that are trustworthy sources of news, content, reports, and conversations: LinkedIn Groups. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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Arkestro

MAY 23, 2022

As 2019 wound down, who would have predicted that how to solve supply chain disruptions would become one of the top headlines? Supply chain disruption has become something that all of us see in the headlines every day: online, in newspapers, and in magazines. What Are Supply Chain Disruptions Blamed On?

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Spend Matters

DECEMBER 19, 2023

With another busy year of procurement and supply chain events tidily packed away behind us, Spend Matters is pleased to provide a round-up of the main events we attended in 2023, with a short recap of each and key takeaways. He then went on to discuss the huge impact of tech on the supply chain industry.

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ivalua

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The solution is to follow the top performers and focus on supplier enablement, smart matching and introduce the agile methodology of continuous improvement. To learn more about Invoice to Pay from Ivalua ask for a no obligation demo today ask for a demo. Invoice-to-Pay from Ivalua.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

IBM and AWS partnership focuses on delivering solutions in areas like: Supply chain optimization with AI-infused Planning Analytics IBM Planning Analytics on AWS offers a powerful platform for supply chain optimization, blending IBM’s analytics expertise with AWS’s cloud capabilities.

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ivalua

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Without this, organizations cannot be agile and without analytical data, continuous change is impossible. To learn more about Invoice to Pay from Ivalua ask for a no obligation demo today. The Components that remove the barriers within Invoice to Pay Journey. The post Unlock the Power of Invoice-to-Pay appeared first on Ivalua.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. What is the Digital Supply Chain? When building a digital procurement and sourcing ecosystem, it’s important to dig into your existing procurement process. Source: Deloitte CPO Survey 2018. Source: Kodiak Rating. Survey the market, and Request Demos.

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

This is where helping organizations innovate, ensuring business agility and even growing revenue comes into play. Leaders need to be more ambitious if they are to truly establish Procurement as a source of strategic value. Global automotive component supplier Meritor is a great example. The Importance of Ambition.

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Arkestro

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Resources / Blog / AI Revolution in Oil and Gas Procurement: Streamlining Operations for Success AI Revolution in Oil and Gas Procurement: Streamlining Operations for Success The COVID-19 pandemic forced countless industries to become more lean, agile, and innovative, and the oil and gas industry was no exception to the trend.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

Integrated planning incorporates supply chain planning, demand planning, and demand forecasts so the company can quickly assess the impact on inventory levels, supply chain logistics, production plans, and customer service capacity. Agility and responsiveness In the rapidly changing business landscape, agility is crucial.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

And while precision is crucial, agility is becoming equally, if not more, important. To navigate the Budgeting Paradox, organizations are leaning towards more agile budgeting models like rolling forecasts and zero-based budgeting with other strategies, such as integrated business planning. Far from it.

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Arkestro

MAY 30, 2022

At the same time, digital acceleration and the need for agility have expanded the role of procurement and finance from cost-management functions to broader champions of risk management, strategic decision making, and business agility.”. . We all remember the early days of the pandemic and shortages in critical medical supplies.

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Arkestro

MAY 23, 2023

For example, today’s procurement managers are tasked with juggling increasingly complex tasks, such as battling supply chain problems, accounting for rising costs, and assessing risk. Coupled with rising inflation and material costs, delays in global supply chains are creating a challenge to keep up with demand.

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Zycus Cognitive Procurement

JULY 25, 2022

Over the past two years, we’ve seen how supply chains are constantly changing and facing uncertainties. CPOs and procurement leaders everywhere are trying to identify ways to be agile to handle future uncertainties. . Source-to-Contract (S2C), Source-to-Pay (S2P) and Procure-to-Pay (P2P) digitization: .

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Zycus Cognitive Procurement

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

We also discussed how it can be achieved by digitally transforming the sourcing process of an organization by using next-gen procurement solutions. Responsible sourcing by committing to the ESG goals of the organization. The current major areas of focus for procurement were highlighted as: Digital Transformation. Risk Management.

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Arkestro

JUNE 20, 2023

Research-backed procurement strategies can help CFOs achieve their goals while minimizing risk exposure across global supply chains. Challenge 2: Supply Chain Disruptions The procurement and supply chain industries are currently like the wild west. There also might be multiple systems to log in to.

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Arkestro

MARCH 1, 2024

From a global pandemic completely disrupting supply chains to the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) as a game-changing technology to automate sourcing, the industry is on a fast track to depart from the status quo of procurement in decades past. In other words, traditional sourcing will become obsolete.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MAY 13, 2024

Access to multiple options enables rapid adaptation when new trends or strategic shifts occur, maintaining agility and resilience. IBM Research has developed an instruction-tuning technique that enhances both IBM-developed and select open-source models with capabilities essential for enterprise use.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

To maintain their competitiveness and overcome today’s challenges, manufacturers have had to make agility and adaptability top priorities. Furthermore, AI can help manufacturers implement predictive maintenance systems and processes, streamline supply chain management, and identify and address workplace safety hazards proactively.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MARCH 14, 2024

By using decades of database expertise in performance by IBM and combining it with AWS’s scalability, security and governance features, customers can achieve enhanced flexibility, agility and cost efficiency in the cloud. This approach enables customers to modernize their infrastructure at their own pace. With Netezza support for 1.2

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JULY 26, 2023

Supply chain optimization : Oil and gas supply chains are very complex. Maintenance teams can use digital twins to simulate the entire supply chain, providing in-depth visibility into operations and logistics and identifying potential bottlenecks.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Shifting to these renewable energy sources is key to the fight against climate change. Today, a variety of incentives and subsidies help make it easier for companies to lean on renewable resources as a stable source of power to help alleviate the climate crisis. Common examples include solar power, hydropower and wind power.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

IBM Consulting’s Accelerated Incremental Mainframe Modernization Legacy applications, while being the current crown jewels of states’ IT ecosystems, hinder business agility and are expensive and complicated, therefore making any rebuild, refactor or integration attempts risky.

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Zycus Cognitive Procurement

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Luke Elliott discussed the dramatic shift in Procurement landscape and how Digital Procurement can help leaders stay resilient in the face of current challenges with respect to price inflation being at a 40-year high and disruptive supply chains leading to stock issues. 96% of the leaders believe that this a long-term trend.

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Planergy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Book a Live Demo. Furthermore, regular assessment of supplier performance can help you identify potential supply chain risks early on so that they can be remedied before they cause major problems. Flexibility / Agility. This includes adhering to regulatory requirements, ethical sourcing practices, etc. King Ocean.

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Planergy

JULY 21, 2023

Cristian Maradiaga King Ocean Book a Live Demo Download a free copy of "Indirect Spend Guide", to learn: Where the best opportunities for savings are in indirect spend. How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. How to gain visibility and control of your indirect spend.

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Procurement Insights

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Like 1Reply Vera Rozanova MBA, MCIPS Chartered, MEng (Hons)CPO-Chief Procurement Officer | Procurement Director | Supply Chain | Invited Lecturer | Author | Business Trainer | Transformation 2h Jon W. Kleemann How Useful Is The Gartner Hype Cycle for Procurement and Sourcing SolutionsI have only one question left to ask?

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

Digital twin technology collects real-time data from a single source/asset. However, digital threads enable teams to take data from digital twins and other sources and centralize the data flow across departments and production silos so that the entire company can access the same information.

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Planergy

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Book a Live Demo. How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. Ultimately, marketing procurement can help organizations improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their marketing efforts, but it’s about more than sourcing strategies and agency relationships.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2023

They are seamlessly integrated with cloud-based data warehouses, facilitating the collection, storage and analysis of data from various sources. Designed for cloud-native environments, they promise more efficient and data-driven decision-making for businesses, ushering in a new era of agility and insight.

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Planergy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Cristian Maradiaga King Ocean Book a Live Demo Download a free copy of "Indirect Spend Guide", to learn: Where the best opportunities for savings are in indirect spend. How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. How to gain visibility and control of your indirect spend.

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