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. “Hangover” might be the perfect summation of the exhaustion and burnout across the global supply chain and logistics community. Meanwhile, new challenges are still coming painfully into focus.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 12, 2022

These incidents will curtail production in a manufacturing facility or impede delivery through your logistics channels. By whatever means necessary (always ethical and legal of course) Supply Chain must get goods flowing again as quickly as possible. These steps cost money.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Here are some reasons why sustainability is a differentiator that can increase revenue and profits: Differentiate your brand: Over the last 12 months , certain brand values have become more important when deciding to shop sustainably or ethically in some categories. Show them the tradeoffs with a “green” shipping option at check-out.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The following are examples of strategic sourcing use cases: Transparency and traceability From fast fashion to fluorite, consumers and stakeholders are keyed into product provenance—expecting brands to uphold ethical, responsible sourcing practices. And from that group, 71% would pay a premium for it.

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Supply Chain Opz

JANUARY 22, 2016

Mike Skinner, Vice President, CLX Logistics Technologies Without question, one of the most significant game changing technologies in the past 12 months and looking forward at the next 18 months is TMS – to which you say “big deal” and I say, “true plug-and-play (SaaS/Cloud) global TMS integrated with global trade and customs execution”.

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World of Procurement blog

MAY 8, 2024

Effective supply chain management (SCM) provides numerous benefits: Increased Profitability Efficient SCM reduces costs associated with production, inventory holding, transportation, and logistics. Deliver Delivering products involves warehousing, order processing, transportation, and logistics.

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The Procuretech Podcast

MAY 24, 2022

Understanding the value of pre-emptive end-to-end supply chain management. It's a bit of a loaded question, but I'm sure we're going to have a great debate today as we welcome an expert in the logistics and supply chain field, Tobias Larsson from Altana.ai. Visibility is lacking, all round and this needs to change.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 15, 2019

We’ve built a peerless network in the areas of Procurement, Logistics, Change Management, Strategic Sourcing, Planning, and other functional areas in Supply Chain. The rise of digital has a big part to play in that, with end-to-end visibility, S&OP, network planning, and AI and Blockchain will change it even more.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Recent projects include the digital transformation of a worldwide service and repair parts program; enabling an OEM’s end-to-end supply chain visibility of outsourced manufacturers, assemblers, distribution hubs and 3PL’s; and forming a B2B business development capability for a successful B2C eCommerce company.

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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. For example a monthly triggered risk analysis (set of simulations) from your e2e supply chain. There need to be controls for machine ethics and bias in automation and augmentation.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

At Let’s Talk Supply Chain, we’re committed to closing the gender gap in supply chain by celebrating the women leaders in supply chain who are breaking gender norms and glass ceilings to empower innovative new approaches and inspire future female logistics leaders. I grew up in rural Zimbabwe. We grew all our food and sold some for cash.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Welcome to the latest edition of “Logistics Viewpoints,” where we unravel the intricate web of supply chain and logistics news from the‍ week of February 2nd-6th, 2025. Join us ‍as we explore the latest trends, developments, and disruptions that are reshaping the future of supply chain and logistics.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Leading companies will invest in AI, ML and intelligent workflows to deliver end-to-end forecasting capabilities that utilize real-time feeds from multiple data sources, leveraging hundreds of AI and ML models, to deliver more granular and accurate forecasts and customer insights.

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