IBM Supply Chain Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Your customers, employees and shareholders want to know you have a plan to address supply chain sustainability. Supply chain sustainability is defined as embedding environmental, social or corporate governance considerations as raw materials are sourced, converted to products and delivered to market.

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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.

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SupplyShift

APRIL 14, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted supply chains around the globe and brought intense scrutiny to management strategies. Manufacturing industries such as apparel, auto parts and semiconductors have been hit particularly hard as factories shut down in China, followed by other global supply regions. But that’s just the start.

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ivalua

MAY 15, 2022

There are interesting challenges within the AmRest business model at the supply chain level. To address their gaps, Amrest is building an end-to-end procurement process that covers all of their businesses and each unique challenge these operations face. They’re also ramping up usage in contract management. .

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ivalua

MAY 15, 2022

There are interesting challenges within the AmRest business model at the supply chain level. To address their gaps, Amrest is building an end-to-end procurement process that covers all of their businesses and each unique challenge these operations face. They’re also ramping up usage in contract management. .

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Supply Chain Trend

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

To get some answers for S&OP practitioners, Supply Chain Trend interviewed a group of S&OP leaders. Supply Chain Trend will publish a weekly Q&A with these S&OP leaders. He is the author of the blog Supply Chain Trend and the self excellence guide Building Mental Toughness.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. A procurement automation system may help a company become more efficient by offering unparalleled collaboration. According to a recent Deloitte CPO survey , Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) mentioned that their main concerns are efficiency, costs, and digital transformation.

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SupplyShift

APRIL 14, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted supply chains around the globe and brought intense scrutiny to management strategies. Manufacturing industries such as apparel, auto parts and semiconductors have been hit particularly hard as factories shut down in China, followed by other global supply regions. But that’s just the start.

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Spend Matters

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Risk reduction is especially important in the supply chain, where leaders are focused on supply and supplier transparency to assess vulnerabilities. Are you witnessing a shift in demand towards more ESG and supply chain risk capabilities? Here are a few of the top concerns we’re hearing.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Imagining the Supply Chain of the Future! Mike Mortson was recently interviewed by Oracle as a part of their Global Supply Chain Influencer program. This article was posted on Oracle’s Supply Chain Management blog. Email Address.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

AUGUST 20, 2015

The Collaborator has been reviewing respected sources of industry analysis to gain perspective on the trends being predicted to materialize in supply chain logistics for 2016. Gartner suggests the growing emphasis on wringing efficiencies from the supply chain will drive the adoption of more complete, single-source solutions.

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Solvoyo

MARCH 5, 2021

Digital commerce efficiently requires the digitalization of many customer-facing operations and sourcing and procurement. For businesses of all sizes, the digital transformation of supply chain planning became the most important initiative. . Maintaining outlier events that have influenced demand patterns or supply availability.

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Pipefy

OCTOBER 25, 2023

To do this, procurement teams require visibility into their data, control over their processes, and a seat at the business strategy table. In the same survey, more than two-thirds (67%) of business leaders in finance departments sought out process automation because of its potential for increasing efficiency.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Additionally in 2023, we expanded our accessibility of IBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh to the Equinix Metal platform to enhance our customers’ ability to take advantage of the extensive Equinix infrastructure footprint to choose where to deploy and connect their enterprise applications in a flexible and efficient way.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

This comprehensive approach enables teams to uncover insights into how the entire system operates, identify performance bottlenecks, detect anomalies and, ultimately, deliver a more reliable and efficient experience for users. This involves capturing and correlating logs, metrics and traces across various components and services.

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Arkestro

JUNE 6, 2023

We’ll break them down into two groups: efficiency and ROI. Efficiency Both CFOs and CPOs prioritize efficient spending down to the last dollar. Here are just a few of the metrics CFOs look at when examining procurement process efficiency: Cost of Purchase Order: What are the internal costs associated with each purchase?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 28, 2020

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. But there is a profoundly significant Procurement value chain. They have an end to end view of the Supply Chain. Strategic Procurement is focussed on how to drive innovation and unique capabilities to meet end Customer and stakeholder needs and requirements.

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Pipefy

JANUARY 30, 2024

Procurement technology landscape Procurement technology is primarily designed to simplify procurement processes and reduce costs, but it’s grown to offer so many more benefits than that, with the greatest one being transforming procurement into a source of reliable strategic influence.

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Pipefy

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The result is greater supply chain predictability, more accurate decision-making, and better business agility. It also benefits end-to-end procurement management since visibility and transparency are emphasized. What is strategic procurement? Why is strategic procurement important?

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Pipefy

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Automated invoice processing simplifies end-to-end invoice processing activities by eliminating the time and costs associated with manually processing invoices. Factors driving invoice processing automation According to Doxey, the adoption of invoice processing automation is no longer just about improving efficiency.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 23, 2019

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. They have an end to end view of the Supply Chain. Strategic Procurement is focussed on how to drive innovation and unique capabilities to meet end Customer and stakeholder needs and requirements. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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Claritum

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

The procurement environment is dynamic and constantly changing with many influences: political, environmental and technological. With Procurement behind the drive for sustainable/ethical supply of goods and services to efficiently and effectively support the operations of the organisation. Supply chain optimisation.

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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. 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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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 8, 2019

As we noted in the report, the digital transformation of procurement involves many processes working in tandem rather than sequentially; data integration would also allow analytics applications to exploit data from one area of the value chain to improve performance and efficiency in another. 4) The “Day of Digitalization”.

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Planergy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

How to gain visibility and control of your indirect spend. Vertical Integration: By taking control of different stages of the production or distribution process, businesses can gain supply chain control, reduce costs, increase efficiency, and differentiate their products and services. What is Horizontal Integration?

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

Using multiple platforms to discover apps and manage laptops and mobile devices negatively impacts the IT and security team’s efficiency and productivity in continuous application patching. In this day and age, it’s critical that organizations know about and manage all apps installed on their endpoints.

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Procurement Software

JANUARY 23, 2024

End-to-end encryption provides a uniquely secure way to sign and store contracts, eliminating the need for dedicated servers and VPN connections. Budget management and control features allow for transparent presentation and allocation of budgets. Scalue aims to deliver total spend transparency.

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Claritum

AUGUST 4, 2020

many influences: political, environmental and technological. Procurement behind the drive for sustainable/ethical supply of goods and services to efficiently and effectively support the operations of the. maximising financial results associated with the supply and use of goods and services. Supply chain optimisation.

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Supply Chain Trend

MARCH 31, 2017

It further explains the phases planning capability will need to go through and how planning can nurture and influence a company culture. These aspirations can be accompanied by vivid future planning descriptions like: ‘our plans will provide visibility to anticipate issues before they eventuate’. ‘we Key points. Functional Planning.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Last year, as life sciences organizations were consumed by the recovery from COVID-19, their focus had to shift rapidly to mitigating supply chain constraints, labor and skill shortages, and by the end of the year, inflationary pressures—all of which were exacerbated by the Russia-Ukraine war.

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