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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ivalua

MAY 30, 2022

To stay ahead of all of these risk factors and changing demands, organizations need to discard their linear supply chain models and embrace an autonomous, end-to-end connected ecosystem. The financial benefits include greater profitability, reduced costs, accelerated time-to-market, and faster time-to-delivery. .

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This helps reduce errors to improve data quality and response times to questions, which improves customer and supplier satisfaction. Blockchain Information is an invaluable business asset. In addition to enhanced decision-making, flexibility and visibility, analytics engines paired with AI can help manage supplier risk.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

For some time, I’ve been reading, watching and following the white papers, case studies, and countless webinars put on by keen minds about digital transformations. technology, they won’t be able to leverage them to their fullest extent without first resolving today’s critical needs like end-to-end visibility.

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Procurement Tactics

MAY 22, 2023

The goal of integrated logistics is to optimize the entire supply chain by minimizing costs, improving efficiency, and ensuring timely delivery of products to customers. Conducting analysis This process involves mapping out the flow of goods and information, identifying inefficiencies, and pinpointing areas for improvement.

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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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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. But submitting and collecting is a burden on everyone involved.

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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. Upstream covers all the strategic procurement activities such as spend analysis, sourcing, contract management and supplier management (which includes supplier information, risk and performance management).

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Procurement Tactics

JULY 20, 2023

The supplier order management software integrates with other systems such as Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and Supply Chain Management (SCM) to ensure a seamless flow of information across different departments. This automation saves time and effort, making the procurement process more efficient.

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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. All the information and its processing are held centrally and accessible to all relevant departments and entities.

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Finale Inventory

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Defining Supply Chain Traceability In straightforward terms, supply chain traceability means having full visibility and transparency across the entire supply chain. It allows businesses to understand where their products come from, how they are made, and how they reach the end consumer.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

It includes everything from product development and strategic decision-making to information systems and new technologies. They need strong SCM practices to help work out the logistics of transporting goods across long distances and through multiple countries without creating longer lead times or delays.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The list of challenges is long: cloud attack surface sprawl, complex application environments, information overload from disparate tools, noise from false positives and low-risk events, just to name a few. Greater visibility and speed are core requirements for effective cybersecurity.

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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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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. That alone increases efficiency,” he continued.

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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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SCMDOJO

APRIL 24, 2024

Whether it will be worth it, only time will tell. The amplified visibility lets companies verify the authenticity and provenance of products, reduces the risk of counterfeiting, and helps ensure regulatory compliance. An expensive one, we dare say. Blockchain and supply chain transparency We can’t complete our list without blockchains.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 4, 2024

Conversely, it has a larger scope than task management, which deals with individual tasks, and project management, which handles one-time initiatives. By establishing standardized workflows and decision rules, BPM streamlines the claims process by reducing processing times and minimizing errors.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

MAY 14, 2023

Today Will Urban, Chief Revenue Officer at Flexport, joins me to chat all about the company and what they do; making sustainability a priority; the importance of providing visibility and control in a fragmented industry; and why global trade is a force for good. Will is a licensed U.S. Customs Broker and holds an IATA/FIATA certificate.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

JULY 9, 2023

Operating in over 40 countries worldwide, SEKO lead the industry with innovative and customizable IT solutions, which provide a seamless flow of information to deliver their growing customer base true supply chain visibility. It’s about visibility, it’s about the experience.” 34.51] The future for SEKO.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Once admired just-in-time systems have faltered badly. One of the fundamental problems which has contributed to the current breakdowns is the sheer lack of visibility. Comprehensive visibility, in real time, would enable the most informed, holistic decision making necessary to deal with what is going on.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Though the rule doesn’t go into effect until January 2026, companies must proactively and strategically prepare their supply chain now, as this complex regulation will require companies to collect and maintain detailed information about the ingredients, processing and distribution of certain products.

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World of Procurement blog

MAY 20, 2024

With the right CLM solution in place, procurement can achieve end-to-end visibility into the contracting process, reduce cycle times, and eliminate inefficient manual tasks. Tracking and reporting - CLM platforms provide visibility into contract status, deadlines, obligations, and performance.

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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.

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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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FourKites

DECEMBER 11, 2020

But when it comes to visibility, dock workers aren’t typically given the foresight they need to do their jobs efficiently. The yard can take advantage of these newer visibility platforms to stay better informed about truck estimated times of arrival (ETAs). Overtime costs due to lack of visibility.

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In times of pressure and crisis , highly responsive and trustworthy suppliers make agility possible. Following widely-known standards keeps your vendor options open so you’re not locked into sourcing from a small pool of specialty suppliers that can negatively impact time to market.

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Pipefy

JANUARY 5, 2024

Let’s examine the transformative potential of historical and real-time process tracking on businesses, along with their ability to empower those businesses to make better-informed decisions. Document processes from end to end (often time stamping each process phase). What is process tracking?

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 2, 2023

They don’t want to fill out a form to request a quote, send an email to get pricing information, or wait to get simple answers; they want real-time answers and action. Customers who flooded Camping World’s call center were often met with long wait times or were dropped accidentally.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Since Instana does not sample trace information, capturing these data can unlock use cases like understanding the true impact of an IT outage. Carlos is used to troubleshooting the end-to-end automated processes orchestrated with Camunda in detail but has limited visibility into the issue with the external task.

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Finale Inventory

JULY 9, 2024

By initiating a purchase order, you convey your needs clearly and establish a structured approach to receiving goods on time. This systematic process helps maintain accurate stock levels and ensures your inventory aligns with customer demand. This leads to better cash flow management and reduces the risk of unnecessary expenses.

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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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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JANUARY 26, 2024

First-class OpenTelemetry support Full-stack observability demands thorough visibility and comprehension. OpenTelemetry serves as an indispensable tool for achieving comprehensive visibility, facilitating streamlined practices with common instrumentation, portable formats and interoperable pipelines. Ansible®, PagerDuty, etc.).

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In this situation, you might choose to leverage Expressive Bidding , which creates a collaborative marketplace where buyers showcase their capabilities and buyers provide real-time guidance that results in more competitive and advantageous bid responses. You can also lower bottom-line costs and increase top-line value.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Supply Chain Intelligence Suite provides next-generation supply chain capabilities that go beyond visibility. For most organizations, these top challenge include visibility, multi-party collaboration and traceability. For most organizations, these top challenge include visibility, multi-party collaboration and traceability.

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Finale Inventory

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

By reducing the time and labor required to handle materials, companies can lower their operational expenses and improve their bottom line. Utilizing techniques like ABC analysis, where items are classified as A (high-value), B (moderate-value), and C (low-value), can help prioritize inventory control efforts.

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Pipefy

JANUARY 30, 2024

Improvements to existing procurement processes, procedures, and operations are as time-sensitive as ever. Because procurement teams provide critical insights to inform business strategy , identifying opportunities to cut costs is one of the most important ways they do this.

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