IBM Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

. “AI is an unbelievable opportunity to address some of the world’s most pressing challenges in health care, manufacturing, climate change and more,” said Christina Shim, IBM’s global head of Sustainability Software and an AI Ethics Board member.

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Skill Dynamics

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Risks are guaranteed when dealing with a supply chain, but that doesnt mean you can afford to ignore them. Understanding and addressing any legal issues within your supply chain is vital to ensuring compliance with regulations and developing an effective chain that can operate efficiently and at scale.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. For many people who work in Supply Chain Management, or for those on the outside, it functions on the foundation of processes, formulae, and metrics. This is very much the core of Supply Chain education and certification as well. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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ivalua

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The pandemic wreaked havoc on businesses and their supply chains, but even in these trying times, there’s a silver lining. The job of sourcing professionals is to understand the risk in the supply chain and manage it so they can react quickly when a problem occurs.” Data silos also inhibit agility, Keeley said. “As

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 26, 2023

Category management is a procurement strategy that involves grouping similar products or services together into categories and managing them as a single unit. In this guide, we’ll explore the key principles of category management and how it can benefit your organization. Read More: What Does a Procurement Manager Do?

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Procurement Tactics

JUNE 28, 2023

By the end of this article, you will have an idea of the importance of procurement tracking in your business and which procurement tracking software you would want to utilize. Procurement Tracking is the process of monitoring and managing procurement activities. What is Procurement Tracking?

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Procurement Templates

MARCH 7, 2024

A procurement playbook is a comprehensive document or set of guidelines that outlines the processes, procedures, best practices, and standards for managing procurement activities within an organization. It serves as a reference guide for procurement professionals and other stakeholders involved in purchasing goods and services.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

JULY 20, 2023

Zarrin Lilani on How Women Lead in Supply Chain At Let’s Talk Supply Chain, we’re passionate about closing the gender gap to expand innovation through diversity. Making this hard dichotomy shift isn’t just about good business ethics either. Where did your supply chain journey start?

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TYA Suite

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

This introduction to supplier risk management outlines the importance of effectively identifying and managing risks that may arise from suppliers. Supplier risk management is crucial for businesses, as it helps them mitigate potential challenges that can disrupt operations. This process is known as supplier risk management.

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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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SCMDOJO

AUGUST 15, 2024

Retail supply chains are complex networks that require seamless coordination among various stakeholders, including suppliers, manufacturers, and logistics providers. Enhanced Collaboration Among Stakeholders Effective collaboration is crucial in retail supply chains, as it allows for swift decision-making and problem-solving.

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Procurement Insights

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Choosing the best source for procurement and supply chain information and practical guidance depends on your organization’s needs, the type of advice you seek, and the stage of your procurement transformation. Transparent and detailed solution evaluations, especially for comparing software providers.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Since reverse auctions focus heavily on price competitiveness, this can be easily done with sourcing software tools. Furthermore, eSourcing software can help review the contract terms and conditions against a predefined checklist to ensure there are no red flags, like missing clauses, discrepancies, or unfavorable terms.

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 23, 2024

ESG Sustainability Reporting As procurement’s intelligent source-to-pay and supplier collaboration platform, JAGGAER One enables customers and stakeholders to achieve their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) objectives by simplifying, automating, and embedding sustainability principles directly into our software solutions.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

JANUARY 24, 2023

It’s a new year, and Bloomberg has already coined it the 2023 hangover for supply chain leaders. Never in modern history have supply chain leaders had more visibility, vulnerability, or accountability laid squarely at their feet. Meanwhile, new challenges are still coming painfully into focus.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 9, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Supply Chain as a Service (SCaaS)! Starting and growing a business is already a daunting task without even considering the Supply Chain construct needed to make the business run. Expertise and capital availability does not usually prioritize Supply Chain.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

JAGGAER characterizes the steps in this process as Spend Management, Category Management, Sourcing , and Contracts. Secondly come eProcurement, Supply Chain Collaboration, Invoicing, and Payments. Any organization that manages procurement at scale can benefit from digitally transforming its source-to-pay (S2P) process.

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ivalua

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Nearly a third (32%) of procurement teams concede to cutting corn ers with their sourcing criteria for suppliers to secure supply. 49% believe that global supply chains won’t fully recover to pre-Covid operational norms until 2024 or beyond. Ivalua is a leading provider of cloud-based Spend Management software.

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Procurement Tactics

JANUARY 8, 2023

It can also help drive sustainability initiatives in your supply chain and procurement process. . The Closed Loop Spend Management. You may ask yourself, why is closed loop spend management being brought up? Manage and monitor cost savings and sustainability impact for each initiative. Well, the answer is simple.

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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. In some categories it makes sense to conduct a competitive sourcing event, for example an online auction using eSourcing software.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Supply Chain Education and Certification – What’s Missing? The supply chain and logistics fields are among the fastest growing career fields. Some candidates believe it pays to major in a subject like management, computer science, or finance.

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Procurement Heads

MAY 16, 2023

At university, I followed a few classes on procurement and supply chain, loved it and decided that was the career path I wanted to take. What I mean by traditional skills is analytics, communications, stakeholder management, and commercial acumen – these are the basics. How did you get into procurement?

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Procurement Heads

MAY 16, 2023

At university, I followed a few classes on procurement and supply chain, loved it and decided that was the career path I wanted to take. What I mean by traditional skills is analytics, communications, stakeholder management, and commercial acumen – these are the basics. How did you get into procurement?

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Planergy

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Modern Spend Management and Accounts Payable software. How better management in AP can give you better flexibility for cash flow management. Think classroom supplies, laboratory equipment, educational software, and learning resources. What's PLANERGY?

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In this age of supply chain disruptions that hold the power to upend entire industries, strength and resilience across the entire value chain is no longer a nice-to-have—it’s a survival tactic. They also factor in how a strong partnership could reduce supply chain risk and advance sustainability.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Strategic Supplier Relationship Management – Do’s and Don’ts. Thus it makes sense to have a Supplier Relationship Management program. Companies must have a formal, strategic Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) program! Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MAY 9, 2023

It makes our supply chains stronger, defends critical enterprise data against cyber attackers, and helps deliver seamless experiences to millions of customers ever day across multiple industries. AI is already driving results for business. Watsonx has three components: watsonx.ai , watsonx.data and watsonx.governance.

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SCMDOJO

JUNE 6, 2023

For businesses to succeed, supply chain optimization is essential to succeed. Supply chain optimization can achieve this with the help of data analytics. They can understand their supply chain operations with more precision. They can understand their supply chain operations with more precision.

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NLPA (Next Level Purchasing Association)

APRIL 8, 2024

The globalized world relies on efficient and well-coordinated supply chains. Understanding this distinction is essential for anyone entering the procurement, purchasing, or supply chain field. It specifically focuses on the physical movement, storage, and coordination of goods and information within the supply chain.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

AUGUST 12, 2024

Today I’m joined by innovative software brand, Altana. With a vision of global commerce rebuilt around collaborative, resilient, secure, and sustainable value chains, they’re on a mission to fix globalization. We need to create a ‘Google Maps’ of the world’s supply chain. 52.14] The future for Altana. “An

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Finale Inventory

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

As ecommerce continues to expand, supply chain traceability has become a key factor for small businesses. This article examines why supply chain traceability matters and how Finale Inventory can assist small businesses in achieving it.

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TYA Suite

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

This insightful guide explores how blockchain is impacting , contributing to transparency, security, and efficiency across supply chains. From reducing fraud to improving and automating contract management, blockchain is shaping the future of procurement in ways previously unimaginable.

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World of Procurement blog

MAY 8, 2024

What is Supply Chain Management (SCM) Supply Chain Management (SCM) is the management of the flow of goods, services, information and finances as they move from raw materials to final product, from manufacturer to consumer. Optimized supply chains lead to improved profit margins.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

MARCH 7, 2017

February 23, 2017 – Fair Lawn, NJ – Keeping with the core ethic of delivering value beyond the typical confines of the transportation department, UltraShipTMS is proud to announce the latest new partnership agreement with document management software provider, Microdea. .

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 13, 2023

Manual attack surface management costs time Staying ahead of an expanding enterprise attack surface is almost impossible with manual or disconnected processes. These findings are based on real-world, ethical and criminal hacker activity and show how vulnerable your organization may be from an attacker’s point of view.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 6, 2019

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Food Waste and World Hunger – The Food Supply Chain is Broken! Consumers are demanding more from the companies they buy from, and Supply Chain Management is at the forefront of delivering that increased responsibility. Email Address.

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Here’s how Onventis describes itself: “We are pioneers in cloud-based solutions, transforming purchasing and finance processes since 2000. Our flagship product, Onventis Buyer cloud software, stands as a comprehensive procurement system designed to empower organizations across all aspects of procurement. Schott is a great example.

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