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Streamlining supply chain management: Strategies for the future

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Effective SCM initiatives offer several benefits: Lower operational costs : By optimizing inventory levels , improving warehousing efficiency and streamlining order fulfillment processes, companies can save on storage, labor and transportation expenses.

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Strategies to Survive the Peak Season Fulfillment Surge!

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Featuring Our 10 Best Warehouse Order Fulfillment Articles! Peak season fulfillment is a topic that strikes both fear and hope into the minds of supply chain leaders. As a result, all strategies for peak fulfillment must consider the whole operation and how changes may affect other processes. Subscribe Here!

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Who Is The “ONE” Missing From The Deloitte Solution Map?

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Businesses must take an outside-in-network view and together serve the end consumer. For those following this blog since 2007, the above text will likely tweak a few recalls of the much-repeated words I used to describe how I developed my company’s platform in the late 1990s – early 2000s. ” 30

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The Ultimate Guide to Contract Logistics: What You Need to Know

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In this blog, we will answer the question: what is Contract Logistics, and explore its definition, solutions, challenges, and opportunities, understanding why Contract Logistics is considered as the hub of logistics today and how it can help businesses thrive in an ever-evolving market.

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The Supply Chain Control Tower! An Assessment!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Every research firm and vendor has their own definition, but all share the common theme of visibility. A supply chain control tower system is an attempt to make the outside supply chain environment visible to the enterprise, with “end-to-endvisibility being the Holy Grail.

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What is supply chain resiliency?

IBM Supply Chain Blog

In this blog, let’s explore best practices that drive supply chain resiliency with this definition at the core. When business interruptions happen, supply chain professionals can face supply pressures, logistics limitations, dramatic demand mix changes, lack of visibility into inventory count, and location and capacity restraints.

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Business process management (BPM) examples

IBM Supply Chain Blog

And while enterprise resource planning (ERP) integrates and manages all aspects of a business, BPM focuses on its individual functions—optimizing the organization’s existing, repeatable processes end-to-end. BPM can also provide real-time visibility into claim status and performance metrics.