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The missing link: Why visibility is essential to creating a resilient supply chain

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Visibility also enables you to reconcile invoices against purchase orders, shipment documentation and receipts to identify quantity and price discrepancies. Increasingly, companies realize their need to improve their supply chain analytics. But many still aren’t leveraging the tools they need to achieve visibility.

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The Supply Chain Management Playbook: Your Game Plan for Operational Success

World of Procurement blog

Core Phases of Supply Chain Management Supply chain management involves five core phases that are coordinated to enable the flow of products, information, and finances between a company and its suppliers, manufacturers, logistics providers, retailers, and customers. Lean and Six Sigma methodologies are often leveraged.