Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 11, 2019

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. What is Supply Chain Management (SCM)? When I started my career the term “Supply Chain” had just been coined. Now as I look back on my career virtually everything I did falls under the banner of Supply Chain management. Subscribe Here!

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Supply Chain Opz

JUNE 1, 2014

Professionals in supply chain management use various methods to identify best practices to improve the operations. Analysis of case study is certainly one of the most popular methods for people from business management background. Supply Chain of fashion industry involves a time based competition.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 9, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Supply Chain as a Service (SCaaS)! Starting and growing a business is already a daunting task without even considering the Supply Chain construct needed to make the business run. Expertise and capital availability does not usually prioritize Supply Chain.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Strategic Sourcing Success: Best Practices and Key Strategies Of course, there are many definition s of source-to-pay but put simply, strategic sourcing is a data-driven approach to securing the best value for your organization from its strategic suppliers. These need to be aligned with the overall business strategy.

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ivalua

MARCH 31, 2020

31 March, Redwood City, CA – Ivalua, a leading provider of global spend management cloud solutions , has announced the latest findings of a worldwide study of supply chain, procurement and finance business leaders on Effective Procurement Performance Measurement.

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Procurement Insights

JANUARY 3, 2025

Minimal Strategic Involvement : Procurement was often siloed, with limited involvement in broader corporate strategies. Technology Adoption in Early Stages : Adoption of procurement software was growing but not yet widespread, with many organizations relying on manual or semi-automated processes.

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SCMDOJO

JULY 28, 2022

This can lead to dual sourcing and more competition among suppliers, ultimately reducing procurement costs and ensuring higher product quality. Traditionally, supplier information was collected and stored on paper, but today’s procurement software greatly facilitates this process. This will have countless positive effects.

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FourKites

DECEMBER 11, 2020

What is a customer-focused supply chain? Having a customer-focused supply chain essentially means meeting the customer on their terms, rather than making them settle for yours. In this article we’ll cover the following areas of customer-driven supply chain strategy: The importance of a customer-driven supply chain.

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The Good Spending

AUGUST 23, 2022

The value creation process includes: quality and customer service, supplier relationship, employee enrichment, community benefit, stockholder reward. The business must engage its stakeholders to effectively create, trade, and sustain value. Therefore, we need to seek value beyond the mandatory deliverables! Moderation.

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The Good Spending

MAY 27, 2024

Disintermediation Disintermediation is the process of removing intermediaries from a supply chain. By eliminating these intermediaries, companies can achieve cost savings, better communication, and greater control over their supply chain. My Udemy course "Modern Approach to Cloud Software (SaaS) Negotiations."

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

AUGUST 17, 2022

Traditional EDI software integrations and partner onboarding have not evolved over the years. A growing number of companies are learning that there are new solutions with modern architectures available that make EDI much simpler to manage, maintain and scale. But for EDI software, this is quite unique and long overdue.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 11, 2018

You’d be hard pressed to find a major industry today that isn’t talking up blockchain as a cure-all for the ills of global supply chains. The idea of a virtual, distributed ledger that can serve as an indelible system of record for any number of business transactions between supply-chain partners — well, it’s irresistible.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

JANUARY 9, 2023

As a global technology company, they provide networked innovation, quality, and compliance solutions to consumer brands that want to reduce supply chain risk, innovate faster, speed up business processes, and take control of data. 13.36] An overview of TraceGains – what they do and how they help their customers.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

A 2023 report found that global investment in green or low-carbon energy sources exceeded USD $1 trillion, 1 while advanced data collection tools and artificial intelligence (AI) are helping to better monitor emissions and inform sustainability strategy. What is sustainability? 2 Sustainability , United Nations, January 2024.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

A procurement strategy allows an organization to navigate an increasingly complex global supply chain, adapt swiftly to market fluctuations, and achieve cost optimization, operational efficiency and growth. Additional procurement software includes spend analytics tools and supplier relationship management (SRM) software.

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Pipefy

AUGUST 1, 2023

Business operations generally fall under the umbrella of one of the following categories: product management, supply chain, inventory, forecasting, scheduling, quality, or facilities planning. Quality This is included in the vast majority of business success metrics.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 4, 2024

Get the COO’s Pocket Guide to Enterprise-wide Intelligent Automation 3 main types of business process management Integration-centric BPM focuses on processes that don’t require much human involvement. Business process management examples BPM can help improve overall business operations by optimizing various business processes.

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Planergy

AUGUST 16, 2022

Supplier development is an important part of a company’s overall supply chain management strategy and is essential for ensuring that the right suppliers are selected to deliver quality products and services. The goal of these teams is to work with suppliers to identify ways to reduce costs and improve quality.

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TYA Suite

MAY 14, 2023

Procurement system software has the power to reveal the genuine potential of procurement as well as its efficiency and benefits. With with to cutting-edge software technologies, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI), which can provide you visibility into your core purchasing data which was previously not available.

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Planergy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Vertical Integration: By taking control of different stages of the production or distribution process, businesses can gain supply chain control, reduce costs, increase efficiency, and differentiate their products and services. What is Horizontal Integration?

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Supply Chain Brain

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

After settling on a leader and deciding where the joint venture will be based, the initial focus will be on software solutions to provide U.S. employees and their families with simple, high-quality and transparent health care at reasonable costs.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Let’s Talk Supply Chain’s Women In Supply Chain program , blog, and podcast series showcase the impact of expanding gender representation and supporting the advancement of female leaders and our nonbinary peers. Karen has spearheaded major software advancements to redefine operations.

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Pipefy

OCTOBER 25, 2023

From reducing waste and containing costs to mitigating risks such as procurement fraud and inflated expenses, procurement’s insights and expertise can help businesses navigate some of their most pressing challenges. The same percentage reported considered error reduction as a main driver behind their adoption of process automation software.

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Empowering CPO

JUNE 9, 2023

Understanding Procurement Metrics To gauge the effectiveness of procurement activities, businesses rely on procurement metrics. These are quantifiable measures used to track and analyze the efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of the procurement process. Understanding Procurement Metrics A. That’s where KPIs come in.

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Pipefy

JULY 24, 2024

Automate and connect every type of workflow Learn more Differences between IA and RPA RPA is a traditional technology in which users create a recording of a task which they convert to instructions for software. RPA software could then repeat the same process at scale. How does intelligent automation work?

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Pipefy

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Strategic procurement, or procurement strategic planning, is a data-driven process that helps businesses align procurement and business goals. The result is greater supply chain predictability, more accurate decision-making, and better business agility. What is strategic procurement?

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Pipefy

JANUARY 30, 2024

Because procurement teams provide critical insights to inform business strategy , identifying opportunities to cut costs is one of the most important ways they do this. Procurement teams also share crucial data and information that business leaders need in order to make choices, set strategy, and remain competitive.

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Supply Chain Brain

MAY 30, 2018

Called a crypto anchor verifier, the technology, which is part artificial-intelligence software, part insanely sophisticated, internally developed lens, can see the cells of animals and distinguish between them. Perhaps even more remarkable, the verifier is designed to do all this by downloading software developed by IBM to any smartphone.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Data science is an area of expertise that combines many disciplines such as mathematics, computer science, software engineering and statistics. It focuses on data collection and management of large-scale structured and unstructured data for various academic and business applications.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

AI systems like LaMDA and GPT-3 excel at generating human-quality text, accomplishing specific tasks, translating languages as needed, and creating different kinds of creative content. Enterprises remain interested in customizing models, but with the rise of high-quality open source models, most opt not to train LLMs from scratch.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Depending on the organization’s goals, the AI strategy might outline the steps to effectively use AI to extract deeper insights from data, enhance efficiency, build a better supply chain or ecosystem and/or improve talent and customer experiences. Insufficient data How and where is your data, really?

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

APRIL 13, 2023

Mitigating remote risks Providing software to track hours. Building a Quality Assurance team that manages dashboards and is focused on KPI performance. Watch the podcast episode where we take a full dive into Lean Solutions Group. Documenting clients’ expectations. Providing best practices benchmark for KPIs. Click here!

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

This is why asset reliability is such a critical component of business strategy. Examples of physical assets include machinery, factories, office supplies, production plants, assembly lines, vehicle fleets, buildings and civil infrastructures. Before we dive into it, let’s take a look at some relevant terms.

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Pipefy

MAY 9, 2023

Definition of procurement KPIs Key performance indicators (KPIs) are measurements of the efficacy of a business department, process, or strategy. They are essential to measure the costs and reliability of a business strategy, as well as the performance and results. After all, your shortages are their problem, as well.

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Pipefy

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

A resilient procurement process can help businesses adapt more quickly to changes in the market and disruptions to the supply chain. What this means for procurement This growing interest and investment in BPA software is good news for procurement teams. With the right tools, teams can achieve this and more.

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Empowering CPO

MAY 4, 2023

Importance of procurement in modern businesses In today’s fast-paced and competitive business landscape, procurement plays a crucial role in driving efficiency, cost savings, and overall success. Advantages of digital procurement systems The digital transformation of procurement processes offers numerous advantages to businesses.

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Finale Inventory

JULY 21, 2024

By understanding and quantifying these costs, ecommerce entrepreneurs can make more informed decisions regarding pricing, inventory management, and overall business strategy. Inventory costs encompass expenses such as the purchase price of goods, transportation costs, and any costs associated with quality control measures.

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