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How much supply chain visibility is too much visibility?

Procurement Insights

To what degree does a breakdown or inefficiency at one point have a ripple effect through the other E2E touchpoints? How does it impact the “savings passed on across the supply chain, resulting in higher or lower product costs for consumers?” How about a client retail chain losing market share?

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Supply chain visibility in the energy and utilities industry

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Visibility. Visibility into other key inventory (e.g., Visibility into other key inventory (e.g., Facts about the energy and utilities industry Transformer prices have doubled, while the average lead time for delivery has at least tripled from what it was two years earlier, reaching 52 weeks in some cases.

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What is Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM)?

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Contract lifecycle management is the management of a company’s end-to-end contracting process with its suppliers, customers and other third parties. Ensuring that organizations have more visibility into contracts and are able to achieve efficiency around the entire contracting processes. .

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Supply Chain at a Crossroads – Back to the Shadows or into the Spotlight?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Supply Chain has historically been considered a back office function, necessary but lacking in prestige and strategic value. The Coronavirus pandemic created a dramatic and highly visible disruption in that paradigm. Supply Chain can be hard to truly understand so outsiders have a simplistic view of what it involves.

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Understanding the Shipping Container Shortage!

Supply Chain Game Changer

As detailed in a New York Times analysis of the crisis, these shortages are raising prices for many common household goods, contributing to inflation. In short, a year into the pandemic, many supply chains are in a knot. It’s yet another example of how vital supply chain management is to today’s global economy.

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Exploring the Automotive Chip Shortage Supply Chain!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Supply Chain Visibility Has Never Been More Important! I also started hearing anecdotally that used car prices were going through the roof. In some cases used vehicles were apparently being sold for more than the price of the equivalent new vehicle.

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High Speed 2’s approach to building supply chain transparency

Procurement Leaders

Supply chain resiliency is also a critical objective for HS2, as the industry contends with challenges including commodities, hyperinflation of material prices, deficits in skilled labour and changing consumption habits. Supply market constraints – including price rises, haulage issues and capacity shortages.