Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

So why is it that the Supply Chain in so many companies is being run without the end to end visibility needed to even function, yet which we have in our personal lives? In this age of exponential growth in digital connectivity the time has come to ensure you have End to End Supply Chain visibility.

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Procurement Leaders

JUNE 10, 2024

Just 1% of respondents to a poll Procurement Leaders conducted at the World Procurement Congress said they have “excellent” multi-tier visibility of the supply base. In real terms, this translates to three of those who responded to our poll claiming they had “cracked the code” of supply chain transparency. This is surprising.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The average cost of a data breach set a new record in 2023 of USD 4.45 On the bright side, data also shows that artificial intelligence (AI) and automation can improve security readiness and speed response to attacks, to help dramatically shrink the data breach window before causing real harm.

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Supply Chain Brain

APRIL 10, 2024

The Saga Card offers real-time inventory data at the city, region, and country level for pharmaceutical providers.

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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. Doing so streamlines purchasing power and optimizes inventory management.

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Procurement Insights

MARCH 18, 2024

“Supply chain visibility refers to the ability to track and monitor products, materials, and information as they move through the various stages of a supply chain, from the sourcing of raw materials to the delivery of the final product to the end consumer. Keep that in mind.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Sourcing teams are automating processes like data analysis as well as supplier relationship management and transaction management. This helps reduce errors to improve data quality and response times to questions, which improves customer and supplier satisfaction. Try out cognitive intelligence free for 30-days.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Time and again, we see IT teams struggle to deal with seasonal spikes in demand and outages. It’s an outdated and impractical practice for modern eCommerce and ultimately makes you less competitive over time. The result is faster mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to resolve (MTTR).

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 29, 2021

Supply Chain Investment Challenges – Real and Imagined! Amid the thick covid-clouds, organizations are preparing to make their way back to regular business to maximize profitability and make up for the lost time. The integration of new technologies will result in supply chains producing and disseminating a large amount of data.

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Supply Chain Brain

MAY 31, 2023

Instead, they pivoted to defensive resilience strategies and reliance solutions that add end-to-end shipment visibility, real-time response to manage disruption, and data analytics to optimize future performance.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

MARCH 16, 2020

Coming at a time when the pandemic is depressing global consumption of oil thanks to plummeting travel plans and shelter in place orders, it seems counter intuitive that demand to move oil would be at record high volumes. By Providing Historical Data on Market Rates During Regular Peaks and Valleys.

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SCMDOJO

MAY 6, 2022

The growth of coding capabilities and accessible resources can help several firms consolidate data sources and create real-time visibility throughout the end-to-end supply chain using no-code development platforms. Reduces Time to Market. Adds Ease in Bridging Communication Gaps.

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ivalua

MAY 19, 2022

By removing the friction in global supply chains, for the first time, the payment and the sourcing event are seamlessly linked. This allows for part-payments, quality or milestone-based contract terms, even payment on receipt to be visible to the supplier, finance, treasury, and the buyers.

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ivalua

MARCH 9, 2023

S2P is the end-to-end process that encompasses all the activities between an organization and its suppliers. Either through data analysis or demand from the business–there is a need to execute a sourcing event. A comprehensive Source-to-Pay platform is a critical component of an organization’s IT environment.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Modern application environments need real-time automated observability to have visibility and insights into what is going on. All of this requires manual effort and takes considerable time and resources to install, set up and continuously maintain New Relic monitoring. Instana does all of that for you—automatically.

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Spend Matters

AUGUST 28, 2023

At the same time, the importance and criticality of services spend for organizations hasn’t shrunk (on the contrary …) nor the need to address typical challenges and hurdles inherent to complex service categories: inefficient processes, lack of control and low spend visibility.

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ivalua

JANUARY 27, 2021

During these tumultuous times, achieving AP automation superhero status may seem an impossible task, as you continue to battle disrupted supply chains, high costs and general chaos. Processes are managed in silos, which leads to data gaps and the inability to benefit from integrated analytics and data insights.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 14, 2020

So why is it that the Supply Chain in so many companies is being run without the end to end visibility needed to even function, yet which we have in our personal lives? In this age of exponential growth in digital connectivity the time has come to ensure you have End to End Supply Chain visibility.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

It’s a good time to reflect on recent global events and what this should mean for the future. Despite the cataclysmic disruption caused by the pandemic, inertia will prevent real and sustainable progress from being made. And having the courage to implement these changes will be the real test of leadership.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

At that time that was a lot of memory. Who could ever need to store that much data? That was “Big Data” Let’s fast forward to today. quintillion bytes of data are generated every day. That is a lot of data … That is Big Data! How Big is Big Data? So What is Big Data?

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Spend Matters

APRIL 4, 2024

The technology opens up a wealth of capabilities not previously possible for the procurement practitioner in terms of data availability, end-to-end visibility, cost, time and risk reduction, and ultimately the overall health of the third-party network. So you had one data source, one data point.

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Procurement Tactics

JULY 20, 2023

This integration enables businesses to have real-time visibility into order status, inventory levels, and supplier performance, enabling them to make informed decisions and respond quickly to changing market demands. It eliminates the need for manual data entry, reduces errors, and speeds up the order processing cycle.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 1, 2019

It is often contrasted with digital, which is how computers store and process data using ones and zeros.” Visibility to where goods were was largely limited to updates that came over the phone. When goods arrived at their destination physical bills of lading were used to corroborate the accuracy of shipments.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 16, 2021

When the end consumer used a coffee pod the specifics of that actual, real time consumption would be tracked electronically. By amassing real time consumption data across all end consumers with these smart coffee makers our customer could see real time demand patterns across their entire market.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

This process entails gathering new data, identifying existing challenges, and taking the necessary steps to ensure compliance. By capturing new data, they can harness this information not only to fulfill FSMA requirements but also to offer stakeholders and the public greater transparency.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Check out Control Towers – Is Yours Real or Just Smoke and Mirrors? Every research firm and vendor has their own definition, but all share the common theme of visibility. A traditional control tower provides visibility to immediate trading partners only. So, control towers are an attempt to combat it with visibility.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

It involves various activities, such as warehousing, inventory management, transportation, and logistics. Effective Distribution Operations require careful planning, coordination, and execution to ensure that products reach their intended destinations in a timely and cost-effectively.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

For example, when a customer orders an item through your online shop, you must ship it to the buyer within a specific time frame to avoid cancellation. If possible, you should also consider investing in warehouse management software to help you track inventory and boost the efficiency of your inventory management processes.

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Spend Matters

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Working within a resilient global supply chain results in complexities around basic matters like communication, time zones and languages, along with more challenging aspects like risk management, compliance and sustainability. Integrated AI is improving data collection, analysis, application and overall transparency.

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SCMDOJO

JANUARY 18, 2024

Manually handling all this is expensive and more time-consuming. It has three major parts: Inception of order; Order readiness (sorting, collecting, packing, and dispatch); Inventory administration. It includes sensitive user data that should be handled carefully. billion figure by 2026, which was $1.0 billion in 2021.

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Procurement Insights

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In yesterday’s post, How do you eat an elephant one bite at a time if you don’t know it is an elephant? Having great tools and end to end data visibility will not fix the problem, if no one from (1) is accountable & responsible for end to end delivery.

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Una

AUGUST 30, 2022

Core digital capabilities that we now take for granted include spend analytics, eAuctions, electronic catalogs, data visualization, and more. Digital enablement in procurement starts with data. For old-school procurement professionals , going digital may simply mean moving away from paper-based processes.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 25, 2021

In the early days of supply chain digitization , these systems provided increased visibility and data pools to improve supply chain operations. As time has gone on, antiquated ERPs and PLMs have become a drain on supply chain resources and a bottleneck to scalable digitization. What is an ERP? The Problems with ERP Systems.

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Jaggaer

JULY 7, 2020

Over time, this engagement has expanded globally and is still focused on one of the most testing categories of sourcing and contract management within procurement: transport and logistics. These should provide end users with visibility across their assigned scope. The Challenge. The Solution.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The road to freight management Hell is laden with poor freight visibility and outdated systems. Failures within freight data visibility contribute to compounding consequences throughout downstream supply chain operations, and the problem only grows worse from there. The Causes of Poor Freight Data Visibility.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This week, as thousands of network operators, technology vendors, and mobile device providers from all over the world converge on Barcelona for Mobile World Congress , it’s the perfect time to discuss how IBM® is shaping the future of network operations and telecommunications. The telecom industry is no exception.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

One of the terms that has entered the zeitgeist, holding the promise of providing some exciting new future state, is the “Metaverse” For some time we have also been describing a future that will define much of how businesses and economies and institutions will run in the future. The Supply Chain Renaissance Has Begun!

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