Procurement Tactics

JUNE 28, 2023

Sustainable Procurement Maintain high profitability while moving toward sustainability 4. Supplier Performance The quality, timeliness, and adherence to contractual commitments of suppliers shall be monitored. Sustainable Procurement Course Maintain profitability while moving toward sustainability 4.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

They consider factors—like supplier performance or sustainability —that support long-term partnerships, advance business needs and increase purchasing power. Successful strategic sourcing often results in process optimization, cost management, customer satisfaction, risk management , increased sustainability and other benefits.

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The quality, timeliness, and transparency of that collaboration can have a dramatic impact on manufacturing performance. Supplier collaboration is a business essential. Value chain : Transparency in operations and across multiple supplier tiers gives you visibility into potential gaps in supply continuity.

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Supply Chain Opz

MARCH 6, 2015

Typically, total cost, quality, and delivery performance appear as critical factors in the supplier selection process. With “Internet of everything” concept expanding, there are more opportunities to connect supply chains and increase the visibility from order initiation to order delivery.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 30, 2023

These struggles are inconvenient, adversely impact the quality-of-care patients receive and increase staff stress levels. Once hospital systems have real-time inventory visibility, order orchestration and supplier collaboration, they can enable greater customer satisfaction with options like online purchase with store pickup.

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In August 2020 Gartner published this report “4 Tactics Procurement Can Use to Sustain Influence as Economic Conditions Improve” This blog summarizes the key points of the report which you can read in full, here. Procurement Teams Step-up. When Covid-19 hit, supply chains across the globe nearly came to a halt.

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ivalua

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Many large organizations implement a Procure to Pay platform with the aim to deliver efficiency, visibility, simplicity, and compliance. Hidden costs due to late deliveries or quality issues . Procurement as end-to-end process owner . while optimizing the needs for efficiency, simplicity, visibility, and compliance.

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Perttu Nihti, Chief Product Officer, spoke about setting the stage for a touchless future by addressing major industry trends, such as AI innovation and automation, increasing fraud, regulatory compliance, labor shortages, the importance of data and sustainability and ESG considerations.

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Spend Matters

DECEMBER 21, 2023

In sourcing, the AI can rapidly analyze supplier options based on pricing, quality, sustainability and other factors to identify optimal partners, while also predicting performance to mitigate risk. AI-powered source-to-pay is the future At GEP, we leverage proprietary AI algorithms to streamline all procurement processes.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The process creates efficiencies across all spend categories, minimizes supply chain risks through improved supplier selection and awards, while giving visibility into pricing and forecasting. The word quality here covers a range of considerations contributing to value in every aspect of a companys operations.

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 24, 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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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 29, 2021

The impending changes include connected, end-to-end, value chains, and more intelligent, automated, and autonomous distribution systems. This gives the supply chain manager not only greater visibility into the supply chain itself, but also visibility into the supply chain stakeholder dynamics within or even outside the organization.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

The list is presented in the order the responses were received in: 1) Andreas Wieland , Assistant Professor at Copenhagen Business School Successful supply chain management means that organizations are well-orchestrated in an end-to-end value network. delivery reliability”), but is that really “supply chain thinking”?

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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. By gaining visibility into spending patterns, demand, supplier performance, and supply markets–opportunities will be uncovered. Ready to revolutionize your S2P process? Let’s get started below!

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Following months of debate based on extensive knowledge of the many procurement technologies they have reviewed, analysed 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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SCMDOJO

APRIL 24, 2024

Suppose you stay ahead of trends like AI optimization, blockchain transparency, and sustainable practices. Top Logistics Trends in 2024 As businesses seek higher efficiency and resilience, the supply chain trends for this year reflect a resumed focus on digitization, sustainability, and agility. billion by 2026.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Sourcing and procurement professionals operating with a strategic sourcing mindset assess a supplier’s quality, reputation and service. They also factor in how a strong partnership could reduce supply chain risk and advance sustainability. 3 Building a viable and sustainable ecosystem of partners is complex.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 7, 2021

They often face challenges which have implications on speed, quality, cost and other factors. From automating processes, generating higher visibility to garnering real-time insights, AI has become a tool that supply chain leaders can’t just ignore. Large enterprises have complex supply chains. Immersive Technologies.

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Finale Inventory

JANUARY 27, 2025

As a crucial component of a comprehensive barcode inventory system , scanning technology enables businesses to maintain real-time visibility of their inventory movements. This instantaneous update ensures that inventory counts remain accurate and shipment tracking stays current, providing visibility throughout the fulfillment process.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 26, 2021

You can generate channel partnerships with local organisations or internally create distribution structures that can sustain the networks. Understanding the product quality, consumption pattern and language barrier will affect your foodstuffs. Ensure the food quality is at par, or better, compared to the competition.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 18, 2021

There is a lot of information floating around in the media about the environment, climate change, sustainability, pollution, nature preservation and more. Clearly these are breakdowns in end to end Supply Chain Management which impact on nature and our environment. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. That’s incredible.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 26, 2023

Create more sustainable IT According to a study from the IBM Institute for Business Value, CEOs ranked sustainability as the top challenge—ahead of regulations, cyber risks and technology infrastructure. To meet your own sustainability challenges, start by optimizing your data center ; data centers worldwide account for 1-1.5%

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In addition, a well-crafted procurement framework fosters innovation and sustainability. The goal of a procurement strategy is to ensure the efficient, cost-effective and sustainable acquisition of goods or services that are essential for the organization’s operations.

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SCMDOJO

JUNE 21, 2023

SCaaS is a technology-driven approach to managing supply chains, offering comprehensive end-to-end solutions for businesses. SCaaS providers typically use advanced technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and blockchain to improve visibility, traceability, and collaboration across the supply chain.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MAY 17, 2023

It promises end-to-end solutions to manage and monitor a fleet of drones, runs inspection missions to capture high-quality data, accesses inspection reports and derives actionable information through AI-driven analytics—all through a single platform. It is a digital representation of your entire system and processes.

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Finale Inventory

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Supply chain traceability is important for ensuring accountability and sustainability within the industry. Defining Supply Chain Traceability In straightforward terms, supply chain traceability means having full visibility and transparency across the entire supply chain.

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SCMDOJO

JULY 24, 2023

Depending on the specific needs of the client, the scope of contract logistics can range from managing individual aspects of the supply chain to offering full end-to-end solutions. By outsourcing transportation management, businesses can reduce costs, improve visibility, and enhance overall logistics efficiency.

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Empowering CPO

JULY 16, 2023

Managed procurement services can be defined as an external service that helps streamline a company’s acquisition processes, offering an end-to-end solution that takes into account all aspects of procurement – from sourcing to payment. This is where managed procurement services come into the picture.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 4, 2024

And while enterprise resource planning (ERP) integrates and manages all aspects of a business, BPM focuses on its individual functions—optimizing the organization’s existing, repeatable processes end-to-end. BPM can also provide real-time visibility into claim status and performance metrics.

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Supply Chain Trend

AUGUST 13, 2020

IBP requires cross functional alignment to eliminate silos, to achieve accountability for delivering strategic, financial and operational outcomes, and to enable scenario planning that provides forward visibility into the consequences and risks of decisions (Sorensen, 2020). The relative benefits of automation versus augmentation.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

With that mindset, we see the potential for step change improvements in efficiency, human productivity and quality. Many supply chain structures remain functionally siloed and struggle to execute predictably end-to-end. As our profession looks to apply generative AI, we will undoubtedly take the same approach.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 14, 2020

The visibility to and the impacts of this disruption is also unprecedented. Part shortages, production stoppages, delivery challenges, cost and profit pressures, cash flow problems, quality issues, supply-demand gaps, and disasters of any kind are all problems that fall onto Supply Chain for resolution. This is NORMAL in Supply Chain.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

Recently Adobe named IBM its International Delivery Quality Partner of the Year for the third year in a row. The engagement has empowered Adobe’s employees to work faster and smarter with improved visibility, speed and quality in the face of unpredictable challenges.

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Jaggaer

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Or alternatively, as senior managers we only see the end results of procurement as figures on a spreadsheet or a financial statement, with little awareness of how they are arrived at and how they can be improved. To understand whats really going on we need, first, to step back and get a holistic view of the end-to-end process.

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Pipefy

MAY 21, 2024

Diverse approaches to ITG ITG is essential for sustainable success in modern business, although many approaches exist for its implementation. Organizations primarily use COBIT for risk management by improving and maintaining the quality of information used to support business decisions. Collaborate and promote visibility.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JULY 28, 2023

To prevent costly product recalls, excessive scrap, re-work and other costs associated with poor quality, companies look to automate inspections and identify weld defects early and consistently. The color of the star next to each defect shows how visible each is to experienced subject matter experts.

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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. Supply chains need to evolve from low cost and optimized to risk-resilient and sustainable and SAP can help. I’m managing more than just warehouse operations. Do you have people you can confide in?

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