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What is supply chain resiliency?

IBM Supply Chain Blog

According to Geraint John , Vice President Analyst with the Gartner Supply Chain practice, “Supply chain executives overwhelmingly recognize the necessity to make their networks more resilient and agile.” In this blog, let’s explore best practices that drive supply chain resiliency with this definition at the core.

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Building resilient healthcare supply chains

IBM Supply Chain Blog

The good news is, it’s possible to alleviate these perilous pain points by building healthcare supply chain resilience. Supply expenses escalate due to over-ordering, waste and emergency orders. Supply expenses escalate due to over-ordering, waste and emergency orders.

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Supply chain visibility in the energy and utilities industry

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Visibility. Visibility into other key inventory (e.g., Automate to ensure consistent service levels Without real-time demand sensing combined with visibility into performance across supplier networks, increasing grid/energy demands for consumers and growing communities can lead to product excess or shortages.

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Supplier Collaboration: Fundamental to Elevating Manufacturing Performance

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This resilience can be defined as “ the ability of a central procurement and supply management function to prepare for unexpected events, respond to disruptions, recover, and emerge even stronger. ” Manufacturers cannot foresee every risk, inconvenience, or disaster, but they can equip themselves to handle the unexpected and come out on top.

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AI-based supply chains: Using intelligent automation to build resiliency

IBM Supply Chain Blog

That’s why I’m excited to introduce IBM Supply Chain Intelligence Suite , an AI-based supply chain optimization and automation solution that helps improve supply chain resiliency, increase agility, and optimize operations. True end-to-end visibility with embedded AI.

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The Digitalization Journey at Mars DPW Amsterdam 2022 – Sam de Frates

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In his words, “If we don’t have visibility of it, we don’t know where to go at it.” Analytics, on the other hand, done correctly, can provide this visibility. He gives an example in the area of supply chain resilience. We do not need an end-to-end solution.

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The Evolving Role of Strategic Leadership in Procurement – Part 1: Control what you can, monitor what you can’t

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We need to bring cost, resilience and sustainability into harmony and in doing so we need to look again at strategic leadership in the function. From resilience to agility As Iain was quick to point out, there is no shortage of people offering advice on supply chain resilience.