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EazyStock
DECEMBER 13, 2020
You already know the biggest supply chain disruption of 2020: the COVID-19 pandemic. With that said, how can you keep your supply chain running as smoothly as possible in the meantime? The best way to safeguard your supply chain will be by building resilience into your operations. Optimize Inventory.
Planergy
MARCH 12, 2025
Cristian Maradiaga King Ocean Book a Live Demo Download a free copy of "Preparing Your AP Department For The Future", to learn: How to transition from paper and excel to eInvoicing. Simpler Logistics and Supply Chain Management With operations overseas, you run the risk of becoming too reliant on global supply chains.
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Procurement Insights
APRIL 5, 2025
8 Keelvar 2012 Founded in 2012, a decade of experience in sourcing optimization. 9 Lytica 2015 Established in 2015, a newer player in supply chain analytics. 10 Archlet ~3050 employees Startup with a lean team, ProcureTech 100 honoree, but minimal scale. Company Size This ranks providers by estimated scale (e.g.,
EazyStock
APRIL 28, 2022
What does supply chain optimization mean? Put simply, supply chain optimization means using technology to get inventory to the right place at the right time – at the lowest cost and highest profit for your business. Supply chain optimization best practice.
EazyStock
APRIL 28, 2022
What does supply chain optimization mean? Put simply, supply chain optimization means using technology to get inventory to the right place at the right time – at the lowest cost and highest profit for your business. Supply chain optimization best practice.
Spend Matters
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
Following months of debate based on extensive knowledge of the many procurement technologies they have demoed, analyzed and benchmarked, they arrive at a list of five young providers that they believe are innovative and exciting, have a rapidly rising presence in the market, can grow sustainably and which every CPO should have on their radar.
Procurement Insights
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
February 2025 – Liquid networksdynamic, decentralized, and highly adaptable systemsare reshaping procurement and ProcureTech by enhancing supplier collaboration, innovation, and agility. Supply chain risk management is proactive and data-driven. Procurement workflows are automated using AI & smart contracts.
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ivalua
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
One of the early objectives of Procurement was to optimize tail supplier management. As with any industry, the most innovative companies are those who break new ground — and one way they do that is to define new ways of managing procurement that enable efficiencies, optimize spend, and reduce risk. “In
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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.
ivalua
MAY 17, 2023
This year, our discussions covered Invoice Automation, Scope 3 Emissions, Contract Management, Supply Chain Collaboration, Indirect/Services Procurement, and Supplier Management–Customer of Choice. After catching up with colleagues and acquainting ourselves with some new faces, we dove into solution breakout sessions.
EazyStock
JUNE 21, 2022
Many more traditional supply chain strategies originated in a steadier business environment. Predictable business cycles and stable demand allowed supply chain professionals to focus less on solving challenges and more on cost reductions. The transition to cloud solutions in supply chain management.
Solvoyo
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
In order to turn those insights into actions, delight the customers and ultimately make an impact on the bottom line, companies need smarter and more agile supply chain capabilities. . To do that, they need smarter and more agile forecasting and replenishment systems. . Request a Demo.
Solvoyo
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
In order to turn those insights into actions, delight the customers and ultimately make an impact on the bottom line, companies need smarter and more agile supply chain capabilities. To do that, they need smarter and more agile forecasting and replenishment systems. Request a Demo.
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.
Arkestro
DECEMBER 5, 2022
These disruptions have exposed the fragility of global supply chains. A shift toward regionalized supply chains and diverse suppliers may be the key to resilience. Shortages will continue to be a central theme in 2023 and could come from anywhere in the supply chain. harvested wheat is the lowest since 1888.
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.
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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ivalua
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
This included centralized invoice receipt, digitization of all transactions, and the optimization of a single Invoice to Pay journey across the whole organization. The solution is to follow the top performers and focus on supplier enablement, smart matching and introduce the agile methodology of continuous improvement.
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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.
Shapiro Negotiations Institute
MARCH 6, 2025
A pitch that makes a technical team lean forward in their chairs might make a marketing team check their phones. Suddenly, “we help teams work better” becomes “leveraging cross-functional synergies to optimize collaborative paradigms. Your audience doesn’t need a dictionary they need clarity.
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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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EazyStock
JANUARY 4, 2021
Inventory management is crucial to ensuring businesses have agile and efficient supply chain operations. This is where an inventory optimization tool comes into play. Inventory optimization is the next level up from basic inventory management processes. Optimized Inventory Replenishment.
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Arkestro
MAY 30, 2022
From April 2021’s “ A New Paradigm For Procurement ”: “As enterprises increasingly depend on an expanding and evolving supplier ecosystem, better optimization of strategic planning and procurement is paramount. We all remember the early days of the pandemic and shortages in critical medical supplies. Take the Next Step.
Spend Matters
JUNE 19, 2023
In our experience, what differentiates advanced working capital and early payment vendors is the ability to provide a cash planner tool to improve cash and capital planning for buyers and suppliers, a partner ecosystem to support supply chain financing and AI capabilities to improve supplier adoption of the programs.
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Supply Chain Game Changer
APRIL 28, 2021
Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. The Next Generation Supply Chain is Cloud Computing! Create one overall solution by integrating other software with your cloud-based POS system for optimal efficiency and a streamlined business. Stay agile. appeared first on Supply Chain Game Changer™.
IBM Supply Chain Blog
JULY 26, 2023
Digital twin technology, an advancement stemming from the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), is reshaping the oil and gas landscape by helping providers streamline asset management, optimize performance and reduce operating costs and unplanned downtime. Drilling operations optimization : Drilling operations are complex and costly.
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. Digitalization has had a profound impact on the manufacturing sector, enabling businesses to optimize processes, improve quality and reduce costs. Digitalization and Industry 4.0
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. . A significant amount of change has taken place in the procurement function over the past few years.
World of Procurement blog
MAY 8, 2024
Value-add : Procurement aims to add value by optimizing processes, consolidating spend, and building supplier relationships. How can procurement help achieve those aims through better supplier relationships and spending optimization? Conduct supply chain audits and due diligence on high-risk categories.
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.
ivalua
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
This is where helping organizations innovate, ensuring business agility and even growing revenue comes into play. That means not just the workflow (which demos nicely in sales meetings to mask deficiencies created by acquisitions), but also at the data level and UI. Global automotive component supplier Meritor is a great example.
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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. Optimize costs across use cases : Different models have varying cost implications. This step focuses on right-sizing the model to fit the use case optimally as bigger is not necessarily better.
IBM Supply Chain Blog
MARCH 14, 2024
By using fit-for-purpose databases, customers can efficiently run workloads, using the appropriate engine at the optimal cost to optimize analytics for the best price-performance. With watsonx.data, customers can optimize price performance by selecting the most suitable open query engine for their specific workload needs.
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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 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. Horizontal integration refers to a company expanding its operations by acquiring or merging with other companies operating at the same supply chain level.
Arkestro
MARCH 28, 2023
Arkestro sets the optimal conditions across all your spend, by default. It focuses on being flexible and omitting redundancies to increase resilience in the event of supply chain disruptions. Watch our demo or view our infographic. Or, Box who established an inclusive and diverse supply chain with Arkestro.
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Arkestro
MARCH 28, 2023
Arkestro sets the optimal conditions across all your spend, by default. It focuses on being flexible and omitting redundancies to increase resilience in the event of supply chain disruptions. Watch our demo or view our infographic. Or, Box who established an inclusive and diverse supply chain with Arkestro.
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IBM Supply Chain Blog
JUNE 29, 2023
Teams can then use the models to predict maintenance needs, simulate changes to the system and optimize processes (e.g., Explore how digital twins can optimize the performance of your assets in a sustainable way What is a digital thread? safety protocols, reporting procedures, manufacturing processes, etc.).
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IBM Supply Chain Blog
DECEMBER 7, 2023
C-OLAP optimized data storage for faster query processing, while IM-OLAP stored data in memory to minimize data access latency and enable real-time analytics. Cost optimization : Optimizing cloud spending for OLAP resources can be challenging due to complex pricing models and resource utilization patterns.
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IBM Supply Chain Blog
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
In today’s complex and dynamic environments, traditional manual approaches fall short in delivering the agility, accuracy and scalability demanded by site reliability engineering (SRE) and DevOps practices. This information is vital for capacity planning and performance optimization.
Finale Inventory
MARCH 28, 2024
From brand messaging that illustrates how companies are enacting earth-friendly practices in their business to certification bodies such as B Corp who are starting to scrutinize global supply chains as part of the credentialing process, companies are trying to level up to their consumers’ expectations as best they can.
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. Hansen One of the key criteria for procurement when selecting an IT provider is their client base.
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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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Pipefy
JULY 12, 2023
They serve a supporting role, allowing front office departments to function at optimal productivity. Inventory management Inventory management is the ordering, storage, organization, and movement of inventory through an organization’s supply chain, and includes replenishing supplies of products and materials.
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