IBM Supply Chain Blog

MARCH 6, 2024

Re-platforming With a re-platforming migration, some adjustments or optimizations are made to the applications before moving them to the cloud. Cost overruns Estimating and controlling expenses throughout a cloud migration and beyond is hard work.

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Procurement Tactics

JUNE 7, 2023

Supplier collaboration goes beyond traditional buyer-supplier relationships by promoting cooperation, transparency, and innovation throughout the supply chain. Shared value creation Supplier collaboration fosters shared value creation through enhanced innovation, improved operational efficiency, and supply chain resilience.

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Skill Dynamics

JUNE 26, 2024

Finding skilled professionals to manage complex marketplace networks is a challenge Skill Dynamics often see in businesses we speak to. We equip individuals and organizations with the knowledge and expertise they need as a solution – both to optimize their supply chains and empower their businesses to thrive.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Secondly come eProcurement, Supply Chain Collaboration, Invoicing, and Payments. Optimizing source-to-paythrough digital transformation streamlines every stage of your procurement strategy, improving visibility, efficiency, and collaboration. These four steps constitute the upstream source-to-contract part of the process.

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SCMDOJO

JULY 24, 2023

Contract Logistics is a critical aspect of the supply chain that often remains behind the scenes but plays a significant role in ensuring the efficient movement and management of goods. Contract logistics is a specialized service offered by third-party logistics (3PL) providers to manage supply chain operations on behalf of a company.

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EazyStock

JANUARY 18, 2019

Are you interested in expanding your knowledge on the latest trends and technologies within the supply chain industry? EazyStock has complied a new list of the top 2019 Supply Chain events that you can’t afford to miss. ProMat is where manufacturing and supply chain professionals come to find their supply chain WOW.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

For years, supply chain professionals have measured success by how well they have been able to drive down costs and drive up efficiency. Goods arrived exactly when needed, waste and holding costs were kept to a minimum, and single source strategies prevailed due to ease and cost savings.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 1, 2019

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. The Digital Supply Chain (SC 4.0) Article written for Supply Chain Game Changer by, and permission to publish here provided by, Andrei Klubnikin at at R-Style Lab. trillion on logistics and supply chain within the next five years. Email Address.

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SCMDOJO

JUNE 6, 2024

Networking Opportunities: Learners can connect with other procurement professionals through the SCMDOJO community, fostering valuable relationships and knowledge sharing. Watch Procurement Jobs in Future I The Supply Chain Show video on SCMDOJO YouTube Channel! Enroll Now! How to Start with the SCMDOJO Procurement Track?

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Together, IBM Instana and IBM Turbonomic provide real-time observability and control that everyone and anyone can use, with hybrid cloud resource and cost optimization so you can safely automate to unlock elasticity without compromising performance. Ops teams can automate optimization to assure app performance at the lowest cost.

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 25, 2024

Nowadays, logistics landscapes and supply chain management are witnessing a breakthrough innovation: the automation of robots in warehouse operations. Global Supply Chain Complexities: Nowadays, global supply chains have been subjected to a heightened need for dynamism, responsiveness, and online visibility.

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World of Procurement blog

MAY 8, 2024

What is Supply Chain Management (SCM) Supply Chain Management (SCM) is the management of the flow of goods, services, information and finances as they move from raw materials to final product, from manufacturer to consumer. It eliminates waste and enables companies to manufacture products at lower costs.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MAY 17, 2024

IaaS customers receive compute, network and storage resources on an on-demand, over the internet, pay-as-you-go pricing basis. Optimized: Cloud environments are now working efficiently and every new use case follows the same foundation set forth by the organdization.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JANUARY 30, 2024

Increasingly, enterprise organizations are adopting a multicloud approach—the use of cloud services from more than one cloud vendor—to optimize performance, control costs and prevent vendor lock-in. to total $678.8 billion in 2024, up from $563.6 billion in 2023. Zero trust requires a wide range of security capabilities.

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Solvoyo

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

These expectations brought the focus on leveraging the store network for serving online customers. This requires integrating data and processes across the network, which requires IT investments, operational work, and additional shipping and handling costs. Optimizing omnichannel order fulfillment in batches.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 11, 2024

This might lead to VMware’s network of clients and partners having to prepare for major adjustments. Clients are likely to start evaluating alternatives for VMware, both from cost and functionality perspective for their current IT landscape.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Before cloud computing, organizations had no other option but to store data and run their software applications within a traditional IT infrastructure setting—a form of centralized computing comprised of on-premises data centers , servers, networking hardware and enterprise software applications.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 16, 2023

Here are six ways organizations can improve their cloud cost management, increase cloud cost optimization and drive as much value from their cloud budgets as possible. Optimizing cloud spend is not only about cutting costs; it’s about making decisions that produce optimal results for every use case.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MAY 25, 2023

You’re responsible for optimizing spend, operational efficiency and incorporating new and innovative technologies. It’s a powerful way to address critical issues like sub-optimal application performance and poor customer experiences, boost metrics like MTTR and address IT team skill issues for greater resiliency.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offers consumers fundamental compute, network and storage resources on demand. For instance, organizations can capitalize on a hybrid cloud environment to improve customer experience, comply with regulations, optimize costs, enhance data security and more.

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Empowering CPO

JUNE 26, 2023

Explanation of Spend Analysis and its Importance in Healthcare In the ever-evolving landscape of the healthcare industry, optimizing costs and maximizing efficiency has become paramount. These cost pressures necessitate a strategic approach to spending and resource allocation. Introduction A.

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World of Procurement blog

MAY 10, 2024

By leveraging technologies like machine learning, natural language processing, and neural networks, AI-driven solutions can help procurement teams work smarter, faster, and more efficiently. By leveraging data and algorithms, AI-powered tools can help reduce risks and costs in the supply chain.

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Pipefy

JANUARY 9, 2024

Smart procurement is the use of advanced technology, such as AI, automation , and RPA to optimize procurement processes and relieve professionals from monotonous tasks in order to achieve greater efficiency. Internet of Things (IoT) IoT refers to the global network of smart devices that collect and share data.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2023

C-OLAP optimized data storage for faster query processing, while IM-OLAP stored data in memory to minimize data access latency and enable real-time analytics. Network latency : Geographic distances between data and users can introduce latency issues, affecting query performance.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 28, 2023

Optimization and cost control through automated operations While modern applications and IT systems are growing more complex, many cloud users still fall back on a familiar habit of overprovisioning resources to mitigate any risk to performance. Read about observability myths. Start by rethinking your cloud operations.

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Empowering CPO

JULY 16, 2023

Through our technologically advanced and innovative approach, we have been successful in helping businesses reduce costs, optimize supplier relationships, manage procurement risks, and ultimately drive profitable growth. They were struggling with high procurement costs and a lack of visibility into their supply chain.

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Pipefy

JANUARY 30, 2024

In the 2024 State of Procurement Data Report by Amazon Business, 95% of decision-makers surveyed acknowledge that there’s room for procurement optimization. Teams will need to rely on greater investments in the right tools and technology to make these optimizations, from no-code automation to AI and data analytics.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Choosing the right instance offering and instance size for your application is critical for optimizing performance and reducing costs. If you are familiar with Turbonomic and wish to start optimizing your AWS environment now, start your free 30-day trial today.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JULY 17, 2023

.” Sean Im, CEO, Samsung SDS America “In the field of generative AI and foundation models, watsonx is a platform that will enable us to meet our customers’ requirements in terms of optimization and security, while allowing them to benefit from the dynamism and innovations of the open-source community.”

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Empowering CPO

JUNE 27, 2023

It provides invaluable insights into spending patterns, supplier performance, and opportunities for cost optimization. Real-world success stories and case studies illustrating the significant impact of spend analysis on achieving tangible cost savings and procurement optimization.

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Empowering CPO

JULY 16, 2023

Through our technologically advanced and innovative approach, we have been successful in helping businesses reduce costs, optimize supplier relationships, manage procurement risks, and ultimately drive profitable growth. They were struggling with high procurement costs and a lack of visibility into their supply chain.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

It is very easy to turn a terraform template into a deployable architecture and open the door to cost optimization, compliance management, self-service, standardization and repeatability. Access is then limited to configured service instances or specific network zones and addresses.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Java or.NET), operating system, database, APIs, middleware, web application server, UI—as well as IT infrastructure monitoring that samples factors such as CPU utilization, disk space and network performance. Application monitoring includes monitoring of the entire application stack—application framework (e.g.,

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Cost savings: Through modernization, organizations can reduce maintenance costs, optimize hosting and better leverage a global workforce, leading to substantial cost savings in the long run. For example, a retail company that has been using a legacy inventory management system for several years is less cost-efficient.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 15, 2023

The data lakehouse architecture combines the flexibility, scalability and cost advantages of data lakes with the performance, functionality and usability of data warehouses to deliver optimal price-performance for a variety of data, analytics and AI workloads. This provides further opportunities for cost optimization.

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SCMDOJO

JANUARY 15, 2025

Embarking on a supply chain career offers exciting opportunities, but success requires understanding the diverse roles and specializations within the field. Mid-Level Opportunities Mid-level roles, like supply chain analysts and procurement specialists, involve process evaluation, supplier negotiations, and team supervision.

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