IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

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. Greater visibility and speed are core requirements for effective cybersecurity.

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Data Real-time Visibility e2e Sourcing 93

Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Before shippers select a carrier partner for large-scale shipping, they should first consider that carrier’s track record: does that shipper have a record of delivering on time? If the answer to these questions is anything other than ‘yes’ and ‘stellar,’ it’s time to look elsewhere.

supply chain software solutions 93

supply chain software solutions Real-time Visibility Supply Chain Efficiency Logistics 93

Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 21, 2021

In supply chain, simply observing your entire supply chain in action to assess it is not possible, but with data and a reliable performance management system like The Owl, you can at-least have a real-time view of your supply chain performance through KPIs and metrics. Customer Lead Time (Service). OTIF (Service).

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Supply Chain KPIs supply chain budgeting Supply Chain Efficiency supply chain software solutions 98

IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

What’s needed is a solution that not only safeguards the performance of your mission-critical applications, but also goes above and beyond through reduced cost, time efficiency and monetary savings. This aspect is crucial for app performance optimization, as it provides real-time insights through high-fidelity data.

Real-time Visibility 64

Real-time Visibility e2e Demand Networking 64

Fraxion

JANUARY 30, 2023

As facilitators of proactive spend management, we understand that giving authorized approvers the ability to access real-time budgets empowers informed decision-making and drives accountability. What are the benefits?

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Budget Real-time Visibility Spend management Purchasing 52

Spend Matters

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Following months of debate based on extensive knowledge of the many procurement technologies they have demoed, analyzed and benchmarked, they arrive at a list of five young providers that they believe are innovative and exciting, have a rapidly rising presence in the market, can grow sustainably and which every CPO should have on their radar.

Supply Chain Efficiency 94

Supply Chain Efficiency Risk management Real-time Visibility Ethics 94

Finale Inventory

MARCH 7, 2024

There are ways to manage the team, the warehouse, the inventory data, and the workflow to get ahead of errors. A warehouse barcode system can help you keep your warehouse in order, ensuring timely and accurate order fulfillment. Shipment delays. Receiving: Immediately scan products upon arrival for real-time inventory updates.

Real-time Visibility 52

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Planergy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Cristian Maradiaga King Ocean Book a Live Demo Download a free copy of "Indirect Spend Guide", to learn: Where the best opportunities for savings are in indirect spend. How to gain visibility and control of your indirect spend. Using financial tools can help save time and resources while improving accuracy in the budgeting process.

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supply chain budgeting Budget Real-time Visibility Spend management 92

IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Observability-driven automation leverages real-time insights from monitoring and telemetry data to inform intelligent automation processes. The fact is, automated setup and installation eliminates manual errors, reduces deployment time and improves consistency across different environments.

Real-time Visibility 63

Real-time Visibility e2e Data Sustainability 63

IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

It is achieved through observing real-time frameworks, performance-monitoring libraries and crash-reporting tools. This includes logging HTTP requests, database queries, server response times and system resource utilization. This involves capturing and correlating logs, metrics and traces across various components and services.

Real-time Visibility 69

Real-time Visibility e2e Data Influencing 69

Spend Matters

MARCH 11, 2024

We use solution provider and practitioner intelligence, alongside our first-hand knowledge from endless demos within the tech industry (culminating in our Vendor Analyses ) to steer our research and analysis which informs the best decisions of the best decision makers. So cleansing of SMFs is vital, even though it takes time.

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Procurement Software

MARCH 11, 2022

Nonetheless, the time savings offered even just by classifying half of the line items is a huge amount of work saved. I’d strongly recommend seeing some demos and having a list of questions as part of your due diligence process. Indirect materials (typically one-time or infrequent spend, such as office supplies, furniture).

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supply chain software solutions Real-time Visibility Category management Data 52

Procurement Software

MARCH 11, 2022

Nonetheless, the time savings offered even just by classifying half of the line items is a huge amount of work saved. I’d strongly recommend seeing some demos and having a list of questions as part of your due diligence process. Indirect materials (typically one-time or infrequent spend, such as office supplies, furniture).

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supply chain software solutions Real-time Visibility Category management Data 52

Procurement Express

JULY 15, 2024

brings the following benefits to small businesses: Complete Spending Oversight : The platform offers comprehensive visibility over company expenditures from start to finish, eliminating the risk of surprise invoices and ensuring that all transactions are accounted for. High-resolution images and a video demo are available upon request.

Purchase orders 52

Purchase orders Purchasing Real-time Visibility Management 52

Orderhive

DECEMBER 13, 2022

As can be imagined, this added a lot of unnecessary time to the order fulfillment process. . Omnichannel order management is a digital centralization of information about inventory and sales for however many outlets a sales business has. Inventory visibility. This total visibility is an important aspect of SCM. .

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

Integrated planning incorporates supply chain planning, demand planning, and demand forecasts so the company can quickly assess the impact on inventory levels, supply chain logistics, production plans, and customer service capacity. It enables a centralized repository of information and provides real-time visibility into the entire business.

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supply chain software solutions Real-time Visibility Agile and Lean Supply Chain Supply Chain Optimization 76

Supply Chain Collaborator

MARCH 4, 2015

If ever there was a perfect time to engage a logistics IT solution like TMS, Optimizer or Yard Management tool, it is now. per gallon than at this same time last year according to Transport Topics. Call Now to Schedule A Demo (800) 731-7512. Do it now while the extra capital is available.

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Finale Inventory

MAY 16, 2024

A reorder point is the level of inventory you choose to indicate when it’s time to order new stock. Relying on manual processes and spreadsheets makes it difficult to track inventory in real-time, while increasing the risk of oversolds and stockouts through human error. Incorrect reorder points.

Real-time Visibility 52

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Spend Matters

JUNE 19, 2023

I have seen top performers with catalog content that includes volume/promotional pricing, real-time price checks, multi-currency, multilingual and custom or specialty attributes for industry-specific inventory data, which were also embedded into shopping lists and more.

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Procurement solutions Procurement supply chain budgeting Real-time Visibility 88

Spend Matters

JUNE 19, 2023

They also improve access to contract information and drive more effective and timely purchasing decisions through the re-use of information to create contract terms and notifications of when to take critical actions. Click to enlarge Central to the typical Contract Lifecycle Management experience is the contract drafting process.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JULY 11, 2023

Yet today, IT organizations lack visibility into the specific business processes those applications deliver and the context of how those processes are connected and impacted by the underlying container, cloud and infrastructure platforms they manage. Watch the demo. Applications are critical to the business.

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e2e Real-time Visibility Data Import 58

Spend Matters

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Following months of debate based on extensive knowledge of the many procurement technologies they have demoed, analyzed and benchmarked, they arrive at a list of five young providers that they believe are innovative and exciting, have a rapidly rising presence in the market, can grow sustainably and which every CPO should have on their radar.

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Buyers Real-time Visibility Sustainability Data 84

IBM Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 14, 2023

According to a separate 2023 Global Security Operations Center Study , SOC professionals say they waste nearly 33% of their time each day investigating and validating false positives. In doing so, it frees up precious time for analysts to focus on higher-level analyses, threat hunting and other important security tasks.

Data 55

Data Real-time Visibility Networking Risk 55

Spend Matters

JUNE 19, 2023

I have seen top performers with catalog content that includes volume/promotional pricing, real-time price checks, multi-currency, multilingual and custom or specialty attributes for industry-specific inventory data, which were also embedded into shopping lists and more.

Procurement 81

Procurement Real-time Visibility Purchasing Inventory 81

Spend Matters

JUNE 19, 2023

what/who is driving the spending by how much), trending/time-phased analysis and drill downs through master data taxonomies, e.g., category and supplier taxonomies. The top vendors extend the analytics schema to also support predictive data analysis, AI/ML models or real-time visibility across many systems.

Real-time Visibility 81

Real-time Visibility Data e2e Quality 81

IBM Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 2, 2023

Using real-time monitoring and visualization tools, operations teams can track the health of distributed systems and detect anomalies or failures. For instance, they can analyze how changes in response times affect conversion rates or customer satisfaction.

Real-time Visibility 55

Real-time Visibility Import e2e Product management 55

EazyStock

JUNE 16, 2022

Advancing technologies, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, make connectivity and supply chain visibility easier. AI can adapt in near-real-time to changing conditions and develop new knowledge by processing more data and revealing more patterns and trends than humans can. Inventory management and AI.

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Arkestro

APRIL 25, 2023

The workforce shortage reached half a million this year , and many sectors continue to grapple with increased lead times, and volatile material costs. At the same time, the number of young, able-bodied construction workers has decreased by 8% over the past decade, further exacerbating the industry’s labor shortage.

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Supply Chain Efficiency Sourcing supply chain budgeting Real-time Visibility 52

EazyStock

JUNE 23, 2022

This is especially true in inventory management, where new technologies are being introduced all the time, and along with them, more and more data is being generated. The key for inventory management teams is to know what to do with it! Integrating big data and the IoT provides an overview of warehouse inventory in real-time.

Inventory 52

Inventory Data Management Real-time Visibility 52

Planergy

MAY 30, 2023

Cristian Maradiaga King Ocean Book a Live Demo Download a free copy of "Indirect Spend Guide", to learn: Where the best opportunities for savings are in indirect spend. How to gain visibility and control of your indirect spend. Without visibility into spend, it’s very difficult to control costs.

Real-time Visibility 52

Real-time Visibility Management Purchase orders Purchasing 52

Zycus Cognitive Procurement

JANUARY 16, 2023

You must have found yourself struggling with limited visibility into preferred or contracted suppliers, contract utilization status, budgeting issues, and multiple requirements for sourcing low dollar items or services. It is usually time consuming, require multiple approvals and follow ups. Lack of pricing compliance .

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Arkestro

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Supply Chain Visibility. Supply chain visibility is another critical issue. Visibility provides regulatory and consumer assurance in the face of issues like counterfeiting. To combat these issues, health and pharma need supply chain visibility—all the way down the supply chain.

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Real-time Visibility Procurement e2e Raw materials 52

Finale Inventory

JUNE 13, 2024

In the fast-paced world of ecommerce, inventory management plays a crucial role in the success of ecommerce sellers. Efficiently managing your inventory can save you time, money, and the headache of stockouts or overstocks. Efficient inventory management is vital for several reasons.

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Inventory Supply Chain Efficiency Management Real-time Visibility 52

Barkers Procurement

MAY 11, 2023

Take control of the demo process Demos are crucial to rule out different providers. Forming a demo script based on your requirements will help you to compare functionalities more easily, establish any gaps in capabilities of functionality and ask the right questions. It also speeds up payment in the P2P process.

Cost of ownership 52

Cost of ownership Real-time Visibility Purchase orders Procurement strategies 52

Arkestro

JULY 4, 2022

As a result, implementing a process that effectively supports supplier diversity is a real obstacle many companies struggle with. The model looks at historical data to understand how much volume any supplier can handle at any given time and whether that supplier is diverse or not. A much more advanced solution was required. Next Steps.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JANUARY 8, 2024

Becoming a real-time enterprise Businesses often go on a journey that traverses several stages of maturity when they establish an EDA. Teams want more visibility and access to events so they can reuse and innovate on the work of others. Reuse of course can bring its own challenges. How will access be controlled?

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

This allows teams to understand the real risk facing their organization while simultaneously assessing if the investments they have made in security defense solutions are worthwhile. The compensating controls they have put in place are effective at detecting and blocking breaches. 2 Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog.

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Real-time Visibility Risk Management Budget 67