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. Just-in-time (JIT) became an artform and masters of the practice achieved new levels of precision.

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Finale Inventory

AUGUST 23, 2024

One of the key benefits of cycle counting is its ability to provide real-time insights into inventory levels. By continuously monitoring stock levels and making necessary adjustments, construction companies can maintain optimal inventory levels, streamline procurement processes, and improve overall operational efficiency.

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Supply Chain Brain

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Automating accounts payable and procure-to-pay (P2P) processes can help cut costs, optimize cash flow and provide real-time visibility into outstanding payables or potential disruptions.

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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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Procurement Templates

JUNE 18, 2023

ChatGPT Inflation refers to the general increase in prices of goods and services in an economy over time, resulting in a decrease in the purchasing power of money. Inflation occurs when there is an imbalance between the supply and demand of money and goods. What is inflation?

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Una

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The current state of chatbots in procurement Chatbots are intelligent systems, designed to assist procurement teams by automating tasks , providing real-time support to end-users, and enhancing overall efficiency. This ensures that procurement support is readily accessible at any time, increasing efficiency and reducing delays.

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Finale Inventory

JULY 3, 2024

Firstly, it helps you meet customer demand by ensuring that you have sufficient stock available at all times. Moreover, efficient inventory management enables you to optimize your operations and reduce costs. Lastly, effective inventory management helps you minimize the risk of overstocking or stockouts.

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TYA Suite

AUGUST 26, 2024

For small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), optimizing procurement processes is essential for maintaining a competitive edge and ensuring operational efficiency. With the right SMBs can streamline their purchasing activities, reduce costs, and enhance overall productivity.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 8, 2023

Large organizations are comprised of many assets that require continuous monitoring to ensure optimal productivity. EAMs optimize the quality and utilization of physical assets throughout their lifecycle, increase productive uptime and reduce operational costs.

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Empowering CPO

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

At EmpoweringCPO, we understand the pivotal role it plays in optimizing the supply chain, reducing costs, and fostering long-term competitiveness. By harnessing the power of data, organizations can identify opportunities for cost optimization, risk mitigation, and process efficiency.

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Finale Inventory

JULY 23, 2024

However, with the right tools and mindset, you can streamline your operations and achieve optimal efficiency. To assist you in this process, we have compiled a list of six motivational quotes that will inspire you to get organized with Finale Inventory. This not only saves time but also reduces costs and improves customer satisfaction.

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World of Procurement blog

MAY 10, 2024

Spend Analysis and Classification with AI AI and machine learning are transforming spend analysis and classification, providing procurement teams with unprecedented visibility into organizational spending. One of the biggest challenges in procurement has been gaining visibility into exactly where money is being spent across the organization.

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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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Pipefy

JANUARY 30, 2024

Improvements to existing procurement processes, procedures, and operations are as time-sensitive as ever. In the 2024 State of Procurement Data Report by Amazon Business, 95% of decision-makers surveyed acknowledge that there’s room for procurement optimization.

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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. times the value derived from a single-platform, single-cloud vendor approach. to total $678.8 billion in 2023.

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Arkestro

MARCH 27, 2024

After years of focusing on cost reduction, the majority of procurement leaders say they plan to spend more and increase workloads in 2024, meaning procurement buyers will have more power to influence change and optimize spend across the entire supply chain. You can unsubscribe at any time.

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EazyStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

What are the primary supply chain management trends for 2019? Let’s dig into the future supply chain trends that could transform your supply chain and logistics operations! Distributed Inventory. At what point does long delivery time become a deal-breaker for you?

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 11, 2024

The growing need for cloud cost optimization : Cost optimization is essential when exiting VMware because it helps manage and reduce the initial and ongoing expenses associated with migration, ensures efficient use of resources in the new environment, and maximizes the return on investment.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MAY 17, 2024

Organizations face increased pressure to move to the cloud in a world of real-time metrics, microservices and APIs, all of which benefit from the flexibility and scalability of cloud computing. 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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Empowering CPO

JUNE 27, 2023

This is where the real magic happens. It’s not just about cost-cutting—it’s about cost optimization and strategic decision-making. By identifying inefficiencies, companies can streamline their procurement processes, resulting in time and cost savings. Finally, the classified data is analyzed.

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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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Empowering CPO

JULY 17, 2023

Procurement teams are often confronted with issues such as maintaining cost control and visibility over spending, managing relationships with a diverse range of suppliers, staying compliant with a myriad of regulations, mitigating risks in the supply chain, and leveraging new technologies effectively.

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Empowering CPO

JULY 17, 2023

Procurement teams are often confronted with issues such as maintaining cost control and visibility over spending, managing relationships with a diverse range of suppliers, staying compliant with a myriad of regulations, mitigating risks in the supply chain, and leveraging new technologies effectively.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 16, 2023

There are many reasons why organizations have embraced cloud services, including improved efficiencies, cost savings, scalability, flexibility and quicker time-to-market. Cloud spend, like other IT spend, can proliferate quickly if there is no cloud management platform that provides clear cost visibility or usage visualizations.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

With a hybrid-cloud architecture, the airlines can deal with fluctuating volumes of data, such as during the busy holiday travel season, which requires scaling up resources and data in real-time to improve workflows and deliver better customer experiences. more value than a single public cloud alone.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 11, 2023

They could build a state-of-the-art, on-premises data center, only to subsequently find out their costs would be halved if they ran everything on the cloud. Six ways IT can create cost savings Cost optimization is top of mind for any organization.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 26, 2023

Automation is often centered on efforts to optimize spend, achieve greater operational efficiency and incorporate new and innovative technologies, which often translate into a better customer experience. To meet your own sustainability challenges, start by optimizing your data center ; data centers worldwide account for 1-1.5%

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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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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MAY 12, 2023

As AWS S3 usage grows, so does the cost; managing AWS S3 pricing can be complex and frustrating, especially when you’re trying to optimize your business. It can seamlessly transfer data to the most cost-effective access tier on a per-object basis, without performance degradation, retrieval fees or operational complexity.

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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 20, 2023

Examples of industries that have switched from monolithic architecture to microservices include subscription-based streaming services like Netflix, which uses microservices to track user activities, their history and other data to make real-time recommendations for enhanced engagement and better customer experiences.

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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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Empowering CPO

JUNE 27, 2023

Introduction Grabbing attention and introducing the importance of spend analysis In today’s dynamic business landscape, organizations are constantly seeking ways to optimize their operations and drive sustainable growth. Enhanced Decision-Making: Spend analysis empowers decision-makers with accurate and timely information.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Digital experience monitoring gathers performance metrics—such as load time, response time, uptime and downtime—from the user interface on the end-user device. Resource monitoring is a key component of cloud cost optimization, which the IBM® Turbonomic® platform is specifically designed to do.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 15, 2023

It’s a myth that “observability is always expensive” because there are various cost-effective options available for implementing observability in modern systems. how much time and resources are developers spending). Our customers have been able to achieve tangible results using real-time observability.

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