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Technology Trends in Procurement

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billion (2020) to a projected $9.5 Fully-automated spend categorization will boost visibility, free up time, supercharge advanced analytics, and improve decision-making. There are over 7 billion connected IoT devices in the world, with IoT sensors and wearables surpassing non-IoT devices in 2020. Contract monitoring.

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Relocation reverberations: How pandemic moves have impacted demand and inventory management

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Aside from population-based demand changes, retailers also have been tasked with anticipating demand shifts from increased online shopping, decreased brand loyalty, and other shopping trends. Inventory allocation has never been easy, but a less clear picture of demand makes forecasting, planning and allocation increasingly complicated.

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The Single Point of Failure in Supply Chain – Baby Formula!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Very early in 2020 this first became apparent to me as store shelves were emptied of toilet paper and other basic household goods. Finally, there must be an improvement in the supply-demand planning in this industry, with more real time visibility to demand patterns and more real time reactivity to market dynamics.

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Technology Support in Integrated Business Planning: Automation, Augmentation and Human Centricity

Supply Chain Trend

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). Automation versus Augmentation.

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Supply Chain Visibility – An Overcomplicated Challenge!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Supply Chain Visibility Has Never Been More Important! Supply Chain visibility article and permission to publish here provided by Adam Miglio. Every single organization I have been a part of has been dependent on Excel spreadsheets for order tracking and expediting – and in some cases – even demand planning.