IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Modern application environments need real-time automated observability to have visibility and insights into what is going on. All of this requires manual effort and takes considerable time and resources to install, set up and continuously maintain New Relic monitoring. Instana does all of that for you—automatically.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

For some time, I’ve been reading, watching and following the white papers, case studies, and countless webinars put on by keen minds about digital transformations. technology, they won’t be able to leverage them to their fullest extent without first resolving today’s critical needs like end-to-end visibility.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 30, 2023

. ​ Automotive supply chain facts Up to 50 percent of unscheduled downtime is due to a lack of spare parts or stockouts ( The Importance of Inventory Optimization in MRO, July 2015 , Aberdeen Group) Generally, 99% of [semiconductor] manufacturing foundries have no visibility where the part is going. Why is this happening?

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 30, 2023

Purpose Savvy sustainable consumers want end-to-end visibility into a product’s origins to ensure that it was sustainably developed and transported every step of the way. So make sure that you have real-time inventory visibility to deliver on your promises (what’s in-stock, when purchased items will ship and arrive).

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JANUARY 26, 2024

Learn more in our announcement blog. First-class OpenTelemetry support Full-stack observability demands thorough visibility and comprehension. SAP observability Real-time monitoring is vital for SAP BTP cloud-native applications. Read more about this enhancement in our blog announcement.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

It is achieved through observing real-time frameworks, performance-monitoring libraries and crash-reporting tools. This includes logging HTTP requests, database queries, server response times and system resource utilization. This involves capturing and correlating logs, metrics and traces across various components and services.

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Procurement Tactics

JULY 20, 2023

This integration enables businesses to have real-time visibility into order status, inventory levels, and supplier performance, enabling them to make informed decisions and respond quickly to changing market demands. This automation saves time and effort, making the procurement process more efficient.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 4, 2024

Conversely, it has a larger scope than task management, which deals with individual tasks, and project management, which handles one-time initiatives. By establishing standardized workflows and decision rules, BPM streamlines the claims process by reducing processing times and minimizing errors.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Observability-driven automation leverages real-time insights from monitoring and telemetry data to inform intelligent automation processes. The fact is, automated setup and installation eliminates manual errors, reduces deployment time and improves consistency across different environments.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

On the bright side, data also shows that artificial intelligence (AI) and automation can improve security readiness and speed response to attacks, to help dramatically shrink the data breach window before causing real harm. Greater visibility and speed are core requirements for effective cybersecurity.

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ivalua

MAY 19, 2022

This blog will answer these questions plus a few more. By removing the friction in global supply chains, for the first time, the payment and the sourcing event are seamlessly linked. According to the latest Ardent data, supplier inquiries are at an all-time high of 22% of AP FTE time.

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Procurement Insights

MAY 27, 2024

Businesses must take an outside-in network view and together serve the end consumer.” ” By the time Greg Brady and Ranjit Notani began their journey, I had already sold my company and was moving on to my next challenge. Businesses must take an outside-in-network view and together serve the end consumer. ” 30

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

What’s needed is a solution that not only safeguards the performance of your mission-critical applications, but also goes above and beyond through reduced cost, time efficiency and monetary savings. This aspect is crucial for app performance optimization, as it provides real-time insights through high-fidelity data.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

They need strong SCM practices to help work out the logistics of transporting goods across long distances and through multiple countries without creating longer lead times or delays. Advanced software tools can automate some parts of forecasting, providing real-time updates and alerts when inventory levels are too high or low.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JULY 11, 2023

Yet today, IT organizations lack visibility into the specific business processes those applications deliver and the context of how those processes are connected and impacted by the underlying container, cloud and infrastructure platforms they manage. Track business processes end-to-end through the IT stack.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This week, as thousands of network operators, technology vendors, and mobile device providers from all over the world converge on Barcelona for Mobile World Congress , it’s the perfect time to discuss how IBM® is shaping the future of network operations and telecommunications. The telecom industry is no exception.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Carlos is used to troubleshooting the end-to-end automated processes orchestrated with Camunda in detail but has limited visibility into the issue with the external task. Instana can track calls made to the external endpoint and tell Carlos that there is a database call the external task depends on that is timing out.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MAY 11, 2023

For IBM, Think is a perfect time for us to connect, collaborate and help our clients and partners continue to forge ahead with digital transformation and innovation. AIOps Insights is a SaaS deployment option for incident management and remediation that provides a comprehensive, real-time view of an organization’s IT environment.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Check out Control Towers – Is Yours Real or Just Smoke and Mirrors? Every research firm and vendor has their own definition, but all share the common theme of visibility. A traditional control tower provides visibility to immediate trading partners only. So, control towers are an attempt to combat it with visibility.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Supply Chain Intelligence Suite provides next-generation supply chain capabilities that go beyond visibility. For most organizations, these top challenge include visibility, multi-party collaboration and traceability. For most organizations, these top challenge include visibility, multi-party collaboration and traceability.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 2, 2023

They don’t want to fill out a form to request a quote, send an email to get pricing information, or wait to get simple answers; they want real-time answers and action. Customers who flooded Camping World’s call center were often met with long wait times or were dropped accidentally.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

For the first time, the rule establishes additional recordkeeping requirements for any US-based entity that manufactures, processes, packs or holds foods on the Food Traceability List. With greater tracking and traceability, for example, comes real-time demand insight.

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World of Procurement blog

MAY 20, 2024

With the right CLM solution in place, procurement can achieve end-to-end visibility into the contracting process, reduce cycle times, and eliminate inefficient manual tasks. Tracking and reporting - CLM platforms provide visibility into contract status, deadlines, obligations, and performance.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MARCH 29, 2024

Utility companies must break down the internal departmental walls between the silos of grid planning, construction, operation, maintenance and replacement to allow end-to-end visibility. Real-time operational data provides an asset health view that drives condition-based maintenance and replacement planning.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

They all work toward the common goal of creating secure, compliant, real-time, ubiquitous and low-cost payment rails. Liquidity must be managed 24 hours a day to ensure the availability of funds for both customers and the bank’s real-time payments, alongside clearing and settlement systems.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 2, 2023

In our first blog post in this series on debunking observability myths, we focused on the myth that “ You can skip monitoring and rely solely on logs.” Using real-time monitoring and visualization tools, operations teams can track the health of distributed systems and detect anomalies or failures. Why is this a myth?

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In this situation, you might choose to leverage Expressive Bidding , which creates a collaborative marketplace where buyers showcase their capabilities and buyers provide real-time guidance that results in more competitive and advantageous bid responses. You can also lower bottom-line costs and increase top-line value.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JANUARY 26, 2024

Learn more in our announcement blog. First-class OpenTelemetry support Full-stack observability demands thorough visibility and comprehension. SAP observability Real-time monitoring is vital for SAP BTP cloud-native applications. Read more about this enhancement in our blog announcement.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 26, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll look beyond the basics like root cause analysis and anomaly detection and examine six strategic use cases for AIOps. It allows DevOps teams to write code, integrate it, run tests, deliver releases and deploy changes to the software collaboratively and in real-time. But where to start?

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In times of pressure and crisis , highly responsive and trustworthy suppliers make agility possible. Following widely-known standards keeps your vendor options open so you’re not locked into sourcing from a small pool of specialty suppliers that can negatively impact time to market. Performance and stability can waver.

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World of Procurement blog

MAY 8, 2024

Contract management also provides financial visibility into agreements and helps capture important data to inform business decisions. Lease agreements - Contracts for renting equipment, real estate, vehicles, etc. Tedious tasks like routing contracts for approvals and signatures waste time and resources.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

MARCH 16, 2020

Coming at a time when the pandemic is depressing global consumption of oil thanks to plummeting travel plans and shelter in place orders, it seems counter intuitive that demand to move oil would be at record high volumes. By Furnishing Upstream and Downstream Visibility to More Effectively Coordinate with all Facets of the Supply Chain.

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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. It enables a centralized repository of information and provides real-time visibility into the entire business.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MARCH 29, 2024

They are also more focused than logs and follow the end-to-end journey of a single request as it moves through the application stack. Prometheus is a time-series database for end-to-end monitoring of time-series data. Logs help monitor the overall health of an application ecosystem.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The road to freight management Hell is laden with poor freight visibility and outdated systems. Failures within freight data visibility contribute to compounding consequences throughout downstream supply chain operations, and the problem only grows worse from there. The Causes of Poor Freight Data Visibility. That much is clear.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 25, 2021

In the early days of supply chain digitization , these systems provided increased visibility and data pools to improve supply chain operations. As time has gone on, antiquated ERPs and PLMs have become a drain on supply chain resources and a bottleneck to scalable digitization. The Problems with ERP Systems.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Consolidating security technologies is made easier with CNAPP, which also increases visibility into organizational operations and allows for more command over security and compliance issues in the cloud. Better Integration and Earlier Detection Attributed to Raised Visibility.

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