IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 30, 2023

3 steps to building healthcare supply chain resiliency Step 1: Improve visibility and proactivity Hospital systems work with multiple fragmented teams, technologies and processes to manage daily operations, leading to a pervasive lack of data visibility. Supply expenses escalate due to over-ordering, waste and emergency orders.

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SCMDOJO

JANUARY 26, 2024

Focus on Leadership Skills Leadership is crucial for advancing in your supply chain career. Improve your interpersonal, communication, and leadership skills to excel. Recognize that leadership is not solely about authority but also about fostering collaboration and navigating challenges with resilience.

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Spend Matters

JANUARY 5, 2024

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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The Network Effect

MAY 15, 2015

Visibility of the potential value locked in the current environment is a key driver in a supply network transformation and is being provided by today through cloud-based network platforms. This capability will empower leadership, employees, and their trading partners to work toward achieving enterprise goals.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

MAY 14, 2023

Today Will Urban, Chief Revenue Officer at Flexport, joins me to chat all about the company and what they do; making sustainability a priority; the importance of providing visibility and control in a fragmented industry; and why global trade is a force for good. Will is a licensed U.S. Customs Broker and holds an IATA/FIATA certificate.

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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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Spend Matters

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

It can be difficult to prioritize some of these initiatives in tough economic conditions, but there is a leadership imperative amongst organizations to do so. What we do know is that supply chains often account for more than 90% of a company’s environmental footprint, and SAP can help provide visibility into the data across this value chain.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Lack of Visibility Beyond Tier 1. According to the 2021 Deloitte Chief Procurement Officer Survey, “Around 70% of CPOs felt that they had good visibility on the risks that existed in their direct (tier 1) suppliers. And, only 15% had visibility into tier 2 or beyond. Dirty Little Secret #1. Dirty Little Secret #2–4.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

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-end” visibility being the Holy Grail.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

It is a process that creates efficiencies across all spend categories, minimizes supply chain risks through improved supplier selection and awards, while giving visibility into pricing and forecasting. Supplier Onboarding and Supply Chain Collaboration – An often overlooked or underestimated challenge is supplier onboarding.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

With such prior knowledge, the CFO can collaborate with the supplies department and recommend a different route for the company’s cargo. The most successful CFOs collaborate with internal staff, such as the other C-suite members and other end-to-end supply chain team members. Collaborate with External Partners.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

JANUARY 24, 2023

Never in modern history have supply chain leaders had more visibility, vulnerability, or accountability laid squarely at their feet. Diversity in leadership and approaches has never been more important for supply chain. And according to the experts, gender diversity specifically is an often overlooked investment.

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Supply Chain Opz

JANUARY 17, 2017

Equally, lack of visibility adds to uncertainty. Where reliability is key, management of uncertainty may require closer collaboration with external parties and optimization of end-to-end (E2E) inventory levels aligned to segmented trade-off between service level and cost.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

IBP brings together various functions, including sales, marketing, finance, supply chain, human resources, IT and beyond to collaborate across business units and make informed decisions that drive overall business success. This alignment fosters synergy and drives cross-functional collaboration.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 15, 2019

As such we have introduced our “Seasoned Leadership in Action ” Interview series. We also provide thought leadership through the Argentus blog , (and thanks for contributing there as well, Mike!). Now we’re using thought leadership to help build a network – posts where we rarely try to “sell” Argentus at all.

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Supply Chain Trend

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Some have a willingness to learn it, but struggle to overcome personal fears and defense mechanisms that come with working with visible goals, openly across functions. S&OP is accepted as the end to end operating model to steer the business to its vision. The second reason is behavioural driven and more complicated.

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SCMDOJO

JULY 24, 2023

Depending on the specific needs of the client, the scope of contract logistics can range from managing individual aspects of the supply chain to offering full end-to-end solutions. Key Players In the world of contract logistics, several key players collaborate to ensure the smooth functioning of the supply chain.

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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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Jaggaer

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Its an integrated, end-to-end process that unifies procurement and finance, helping organizations streamline purchasing, minimize delays, and ensure timely payments. By standardizing procurement activities, organizations gain visibility over spending, strengthen supplier relationships, and optimize cash flow management.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Inventory positioning: Visibility across your entire network allows you to optimize the fulfillment of each order. Benchmark: Since this is a collaborative process, find relevant peers, exchange learnings and goals, and work together to develop practices. Show them the tradeoffs with a “green” shipping option at check-out.

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SCMDOJO

MAY 13, 2022

A good way to understand longer end-to-end transit times which under the current scenario have increased dramatically on most of the major trade lanes is to take a closer look at where delays are more likely to happen. Some of the companies he has collaborated with and worked for are Transmetrics AD, Robotto Co.,

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Pipefy

JANUARY 5, 2024

Businesses that adopt process tracking software solutions do so to accomplish specific goals, including: Enhance collaboration. Document processes from end to end (often time stamping each process phase). Increase productivity. Identify opportunities for improving processes. Identify solutions to improve operation outcomes.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

AUGUST 21, 2023

Prior to that, he was a member of the corporate leadership staff at GE, where he held a series of roles in global commercial operations and supply chain management as well as environmental health and safety. We invested almost $100 million in fully digitizing our end-to-end operations and building software.”

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Pipefy

MAY 25, 2023

Businesses that make the transition to digital tools to increase efficiency see huge benefits like: Visibility. Employees know the status of all their requests, and approvers have an end-to-end view of requests and needs. Once you have the data, evaluate it with HR leadership. Time savings. Motivation.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 28, 2020

This is reflected in our Procurement Report Card article in which “ 83% of executives surveyed say that their Procurement function is not entirely strategic – meaning they don’t think it’s crucial to business leadership, and that it isn’t a key input when making high-level strategic decisions.” It all starts with leadership.

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Pipefy

APRIL 8, 2024

Traditional team structure typically includes relationships between activities, leadership, and team members. Fusion teams oversee the end-to-end execution of a business or technology capability, which includes developing and acting on strategies, delivering outcomes, and continuous improvements and process optimizations.

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Supply Chain Trend

DECEMBER 22, 2023

However, only 3% of companies apply automated execution and 7% autonomous end to end planning. Vision, strategy (lack of it), cultural, leadership, behavioral, skill and mindset challenges won’t magically disappear. For example a monthly triggered risk analysis (set of simulations) from your e2e supply chain.

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HICX

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Organizations must focus on tracking and managing carbon emissions across their supply chain and foster a collaborative and transparent relationship with their suppliers to understand where improvements could be made and take the appropriate action. Global collaboration As supply chains become globalized, so do organizations.

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 22, 2020

In our poll, webinar participants saw business partnering, supplier innovation and collaboration, and supply chain risk management as their key areas of focus for procurement. Moreover, the bank lacked any collaborative supplier relationship management or sourcing tool.

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World of Procurement blog

MAY 8, 2024

Risk Mitigation SCM minimizes supply chain risks through careful planning and collaboration. Effective information systems and collaboration with partners enables this integration. Ongoing risk monitoring, control towers, and supply chain visibility enable rapid response. It makes them more resilient and agile.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 15, 2023

Therefore, Suzhou Universal Chain collaborated with the IBM Customer Success Manager team and utilized IBM Cloud Pak for Integration and its enterprise service bus component, IBM App Connect , to deliver a reliable application integration solution—a lightweight and agile application integration platform for the enterprise.

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Pipefy

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Instead, it embodies a strategy for connecting automations, which, in turn, fosters collaboration and better communication between teams and software systems. End-to-end transparency also makes it easier to identify points of wasted or lost resources. Increased collaboration. Fewer human mistakes. Data-driven decisions.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

We know that statistically, more women in supply chain leadership and operations teams isn’t just important for diversity and inclusion. Tendai is a highly collaborative, conceptual thinker who is passionate about working strategically with a coalition of partners to achieve early wins, alignment, and success. 1.

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Jaggaer

DECEMBER 13, 2024

P rocure-to-pay ( P2P ), the downstream part of the end-to-end supplier management and procurement process, focuses on the expenditure side of the business. Today, the relationship is collaborative, and it will become increasingly so as we move towards autonomous commerce. Order-to-Cash ( O2C ) focuses more on the revenue side.

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Pipefy

AUGUST 18, 2023

Process discovery includes the identification and definition of activities and tasks comprising a process; its purpose is to make all stages in a process visible in order to ensure clear responsibility for each of those phases. Implement the changes Implement the identified improvements in collaboration with stakeholders.

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Pipefy

DECEMBER 6, 2023

No matter how much they differ, efficient and friction-free workflows typically share the following traits: they provide visibility, employees are aligned on changes and requirements, fosters accountability, and creates a positive business impact. Visibility Each step in a workflow should be visible. Human error Missed emails.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 23, 2019

This is reflected in our Procurement Report Card article in which “ 83% of executives surveyed say that their Procurement function is not entirely strategic – meaning they don’t think it’s crucial to business leadership, and that it isn’t a key input when making high-level strategic decisions.” It all starts with leadership.

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