IBM Supply Chain Blog

JANUARY 8, 2024

In modern enterprises, where operations leave a massive digital footprint, business events allow companies to become more adaptable and able to recognize and respond to opportunities or threats as they occur. Becoming a real-time enterprise Businesses often go on a journey that traverses several stages of maturity when they establish an EDA.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 26, 2021

Supply Chain Visibility Has Never Been More Important! Supply Chain visibility article and permission to publish here provided by Adam Miglio. Even the most robust ERP systems seem to lack the visibility that organizations are desperate to acquire, and in real-time. Shipment to customer. “C” Subscribe Here!

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Supply Chain Visibility – An Overcomplicated Challenge! A recent Deloitte survey estimated only 15% of CPO’s have visibility beyond their tier one suppliers. I found this striking that there is so little multi-tier Supply Chain visibility. Visibility comes at a cost – one we’ve spoken about before: trust.

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Una

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Why Do We Need Supply Chain Visibility? Supply chain visibility is a critical factor for organizations aiming to mitigate risks, optimize processes, and capitalize on opportunities. But why does achieving comprehensive visibility remain a pressing challenge for so many businesses? Why is visibility so important?

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Finale Inventory

AUGUST 15, 2024

Manual errors: Mistakes in tracking inventory, such as miscounting or misplacing items, can create discrepancies. Inefficient inventory management: Poor practices, like inadequate replenishment strategies or lack of visibility, can contribute to shortages. These features streamline inventory management for small businesses.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 30, 2023

For the energy and utilities industry (E&U), time is not on their side. Equipment-heavy and reliant on an aging infrastructure, E&U clients suffer from costly supply chain disruptions as wear, tear and time take their toll. Visibility. However, maintenance inventory optimization is only part of the solution.

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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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Supply Chain Brain

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Lastly, harness the power of master data integration throughout the supply chain, granting real-time visibility and risk mitigation, ensuring that business sails smoothly through turbulent waters. Secondly, recalibrate digitalization strategy, prioritizing cost-effective solutions for maximal business impact.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 24, 2021

Let’s explore three ways in which fulfillment can be challenged during the holidays and how to overcome these hurdles with preparation ahead of known events. This requires real-time inventory visibility and optimized order orchestration, helping to deliver stronger customer care through more polished fulfillment experiences.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Regardless of the event or platform, attendees can anticipate insights and perspectives that are truly enriching and uniquely practical. Not having that visibility is a real challenge for organizations… getting the parts they need at the right time… and the ongoing labor issues.” 37.06] The future for SDI.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Modern application environments need real-time automated observability to have visibility and insights into what is going on. All of this requires manual effort and takes considerable time and resources to install, set up and continuously maintain New Relic monitoring. Instana does all of that for you—automatically.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Time and again, we see IT teams struggle to deal with seasonal spikes in demand and outages. It’s an outdated and impractical practice for modern eCommerce and ultimately makes you less competitive over time. The result is faster mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to resolve (MTTR).

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Primarily, our customers are prioritising supply chain visibility, adopting proactive risk management strategies and staying compliant with evolving regulations. These advancements will enable businesses to gain visibility of vendor risks, manage them more effectively, and stay aligned with regulatory requirements.”

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ivalua

AUGUST 16, 2022

The report explains that: “Scope 3 emissions reduction is a key challenge for companies, often due to a lack of visibility and monitoring of suppliers’ data. Closing these visibility and engagement gaps is critical to reducing emissions, but we’re a long way off. But time is of the essence for organizations.

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 31, 2024

As little as 10 years ago, we heard stories of pretty much indifference to risk: “supply risk management was young,” we heard, and “we didn’t worry too much about risk; we spent a very small percentage of our time on it.” It’s often felt that it just adds more time to the procurement process. That statement couldn’t be less true today.

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Finale Inventory

AUGUST 28, 2024

From global events to the ongoing impacts of the pandemic, these challenges have forced businesses to adapt and find new strategies to navigate through uncertain times. Two main factors have played a major role in disrupting supply chains worldwide: global events and the pandemic.

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SCMDOJO

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Such as: Real-time visibility into stock levels Visibility of stock location and movement When accurate and up-to-date information on the product quantity is available to a particular firm, it dramatically helps a company’s growth and reduces obsolescence. Click here!

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Collaboration across Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3, and beyond requires visibility and communication regarding capacity, cost, risk, order quantities, inventory levels, quality , timelines, logistics, and more. Collaboration brings visibility and agility for gaining market share.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MAY 1, 2024

For example, combining generative AI with technologies such as blockchain helps to keep data about the material-to-product transformation unchangeable across different entities, providing clear visibility into products’ origin and carbon footprint.

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Procurement Insights

AUGUST 30, 2024

As someone who loves to engage the audience, I am going to do this the next time I speak at a live event. Engagement : Hansen often interviews industry leaders and shares practical, real-world examples, which resonate with both practitioners and executives in the field. After all, everyone has a phone to do it then and there.

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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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Let's Talk Supply Chain

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Ashley and I sat down to talk about some of the ways organizations can level up, create visibility, achieve agility and drive sustainability in the supply chain. 27.32] Sarah and Ashley discuss a report that names the three key investment areas for retail as agility, sustainability and visibility. 35.14] An update on upcoming events.

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Finale Inventory

MAY 16, 2024

.” This occurs when demand outpaces your inventory, or when you’re not aware of the stock counts for your products, leaving you with missed sales opportunities and potentially frustrated employees scrambling to manage the customer’s replacement request and fulfill an alternate order. Incorrect reorder points.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

This will allow companies to have more visibility into their inventory, improve their cash flow and provide them with an overall better understanding of where they stand in relation to their customers’ needs. Real-Time Visibility and Responsiveness to Unstuck Supply Chains. Distributed Data Is Efficient.

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SCMDOJO

JUNE 14, 2023

But before we get to that, let’s establish why supply chain visibility matters. Why Supply Chain Visibility Matters In the First Place Supply chain visibility refers to the ability to track and monitor products as they move through the supply chain. Having supply chain visibility is crucial for several reasons.

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Finale Inventory

AUGUST 4, 2024

By tracking raw materials at every stage, you gain insights into lead times, quality control measures, and potential issues that could affect your production timeline. With a barcode system in place, you can easily scan materials as they enter or leave your inventory, ensuring accurate and real-time data updates.

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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. In 2019 the company decided to embark on a project to implement global dashboards for sourcing and contracting events. The Solution.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Apache Kafka is a well-known open-source event store and stream processing platform and has grown to become the de facto standard for data streaming. It does not have any visibility of what kind of data are being sent and received, or what data types it might contain. Provision an instance of Event Streams on IBM Cloud here.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 29, 2024

Efficient transportation systems minimize delays, reduce costs, and ensure timely delivery to customers. This involves supplier selection, negotiation, and contract management to ensure timely and cost-effective procurement. Efficient order fulfillment processes ensure timely and accurate delivery, enhancing customer satisfaction.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

MARCH 19, 2023

Today Erik Kiser, CEO and founder of Orderful, joins me to chat all about the company; the challenges involved with traditional EDI solutions; bringing supply chains together; achieving visibility and addressing risk; and the future of EDI. IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSS: [05.59] A reminder of who Orderful are, and how they help their customers.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Some UEM solutions also include risk assessment capabilities—including AI-powered risk analysis and quick risk evaluation—which would help fit within the industry’s regulatory requirements and perform real-time mitigation of potential cybersecurity vulnerabilities.

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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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Arkestro

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

We help you save money and time, across all areas of addressable spend. Predictive Procurement Orchestration offers real-time recommendations and can even act on your behalf to ultimately save you time, reduce business risk, and decrease costs so you can find the right supplier at the right price, right now. Let’s talk.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

So why is it that the Supply Chain in so many companies is being run without the end to end visibility needed to even function, yet which we have in our personal lives? In this age of exponential growth in digital connectivity the time has come to ensure you have End to End Supply Chain visibility.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 14, 2020

So why is it that the Supply Chain in so many companies is being run without the end to end visibility needed to even function, yet which we have in our personal lives? In this age of exponential growth in digital connectivity the time has come to ensure you have End to End Supply Chain visibility.

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Finale Inventory

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Inventory management in ecommerce is not just about tracking products; it also includes handling returns, managing damaged goods, and monitoring expiration dates for perishable items. This all-encompassing approach ensures that the entire supply chain is efficient and that customers receive quality products on time.

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Procurement Tactics

JULY 23, 2023

The main goal of last mile logistics is to ensure that goods or services ordered by customers are delivered efficiently and on time. This tracking system enables real-time updates on the shipment’s whereabouts and estimated delivery time.

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