Procurement Tactics

JANUARY 23, 2023

Procurement success in 2023 with our Strategy Course Download Course Details →  Or receive our famous weekly newsletter What Are the Benefits of Having a Transport Management System? A transport management system is an innovative software used to make the transportation of goods and services throughout a company more efficient.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

per cent in January 2023, down from 9.2 It also has an impact on procurement teams as they are responsible for managing supplier relationships, identifying opportunities for cost savings, and ensuring that goods and services are delivered on time and within budget. Eurozone annual inflation was down 8.5 per cent in the previous month.

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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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Let's Talk Supply Chain

MARCH 19, 2023

Today I’m joined by Orderful , a collaborative and forward-thinking software brand that are building the future of EDI. 07.14] An overview of EDI, its place in the industry alongside API, and why it’s ‘the plumbing of today’s supply chain.’ “We’re a modern EDI platform focused on making EDI onboarding fast, affordable, and easy.”

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Pipefy

JANUARY 9, 2023

Supply chain risks heightened by geopolitical conflict. 2023 will serve as a chance to reset, rebuild, and forge a path forward by implementing technology that delivers process excellence, drives innovation, and empowers procurement teams to do more despite fewer resources. . 5 procurement trends for 2023.

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Una

OCTOBER 17, 2023

By Hugo Britt | October 17, 2023 Search Search “Hey, Procurement?” “Yes, Dave?” “Contact Supplier X’s chatbot and see if you can negotiate a 15-day increase on payment terms for all products.” This ensures that procurement support is readily accessible at any time, increasing efficiency and reducing delays. Sure, Dave.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

MARCH 26, 2023

Today I’m joined by Blume Global , a market-leading, sustainability-focused software brand that is removing a huge $1 trillion of waste from the global supply chain, and making logistics processes more agile, dependable, and sustainable with innovative execution and visibility solutions.

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SCMDOJO

AUGUST 21, 2023

Try this as a tongue twister: “Tripping through tantalizing TikTokers, tenfold to transform your tangled supply chain!” In our digital age, where viral trends dominate, TikTok’s influence now extends to supply chain management. Discover the Top 10 TikTokers reshaping how you view supply chains.

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Una

APRIL 11, 2023

By Eric Edwards | April 11, 2023 Search In the world of business software applications, few are bigger and more expansive than enterprise resource planning applications, also known as “ERP” systems. Better decision-making: ERP systems can provide real-time data and analytics, enabling managers to make better-informed decisions.

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ivalua

MARCH 27, 2023

E-invoicing Mandate | France 2024 March 27, 2023 | | Procurement Strategy by Steve Carter The biggest change to Accounts Payables since the introduction of double entry journals is about to hit finance departments–but are they prepared? The time is now – let’s get an action plan together! What are the implications?

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

JANUARY 15, 2023

Their innovative cloud platform integrates with your existing systems to digitize, augment, and automate decision-making in real-time. 09.17] From cycle speed to increasing complexity, the key changes and challenges faced by today’s supply chains. All this new technology is allowing us to move the envelope.

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Spend Matters

JUNE 20, 2023

This content does not express the views or opinions of Spend Matters In our previous installment on Spend Matters, we discussed the rapid evolution of Supply Chain Risk Management happening within procurement organizations. And so it should.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

With over 20,000 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) being published each year 1 , the challenge of finding and fixing software with known vulnerabilities continues to stretch vulnerability management teams thin. However, how do these organizations know that focusing on software with the highest scoring CVEs is the right approach?

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

An effective attack surface management (ASM) solution can change this. According to the Cost of a Data Breach 2023 Report by IBM, the average cost of a data breach reached a record high of USD 4.45 Randori Recon uncovers attack patterns and techniques that are more likely to be exploited by a real-world attacker.

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Arkestro

APRIL 25, 2023

The workforce shortage reached half a million this year , and many sectors continue to grapple with increased lead times, and volatile material costs. In fact, 71% of all companies said the cost of raw materials is the biggest threat to their supply chain in 2023. from February 2020 to August 2022.

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Spend Matters

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Procurement needs to think AI-first in 2024 and beyond The generative AI wave of 2023 truly brought us into the AI economy, with companies realizing how advances in AI have the potential to transform key processes and workflows that underpin how they operate and generate value.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

OCTOBER 3, 2022

SEKO provides complete supply chain solutions, specializing in transportation, logistics, forwarding and warehousing. Powered by their innovative and customizable IT solutions, SEKO provide a seamless flow of information, giving their ever-growing customer base true supply chain visibility.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Malware Malware —short for “malicious software”—is software code written intentionally to harm a computer system or its users. According to the IBM Security X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2023 , ransomware attacks represented 17 percent of all cyberattacks in 2022.

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Spend Matters

MARCH 11, 2024

For our readers who couldn’t/didn’t attend, here are our own reflections based on the time we had ( if we missed you, apologies, but do reach out to us here to get your procurement tech solution in front of our analysts ). So cleansing of SMFs is vital, even though it takes time.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JANUARY 22, 2024

Ransomware attacks use several methods, or vectors, to infect networks or devices, including tricking individuals into clicking malicious links using phishing emails and exploiting vulnerabilities in software and operating systems, such as remote access. Simply plug in the name of the ransomware strain and search for the matching decryption.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MAY 6, 2024

While the overall clinical trial termination rate has decreased over time, low accrual rates within trials remain the most common termination reason. The number of first-time clinical investigators has declined, especially among non-US based investigators. Ensuring early assumptions resonate with real-world execution is paramount.

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Procurement Software

APRIL 18, 2023

These negotiations take place in real time, with all prospective suppliers at once. This saves buyers not only money, but hours of conversation time. Live, and within an allotted time period, suppliers lower their prices against the nearest competitor in order to win your business.

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Procurement Software

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Whereas others are more specific to the procurement and supply chain space uniquely. Remote work Younger people especially want more location and time freedom. Traditional office-based jobs such as those in procurement and supply chain are having to compete with jobs which can be done remotely. It’s a big step up.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 16, 2023

Gartner predicted that cloud spending would reach nearly $600 billion by the end of 2023. There are many reasons why organizations have embraced cloud services, including improved efficiencies, cost savings, scalability, flexibility and quicker time-to-market. These tools can also forecast future usage and costs.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

Gone are the days when antivirus software and a firewall were almost enough to protect an organization from cyberattacks. According to the IBM Security X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2023 , for the second year in a row, phishing was the leading cyber threat, identified in 41% of incidents.

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Zycus Cognitive Procurement

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

With reduced cycle times, also comes the opportunity to earn early payment discounts. Thus shift towards automation is evident across industries and as per a recent Forbes article, warehouse automation software and systems are anticipated to become a $47.4 billion market by 2023. This generates savings that add up over time.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JANUARY 26, 2024

Taking all your feedback and market insights into perspective and careful consideration, we are thrilled to announce that in 2023. Here’s a comprehensive recap of everything we launched in 2023, awards and links to the latest update and how you can get started with each enhancement. Learn more in our announcement blog.

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ivalua

MARCH 9, 2023

By gaining visibility into spending patterns, demand, supplier performance, and supply markets–opportunities will be uncovered. Spend under management: S2P software can help procurement teams better manage the percentage of company spend that is under contract and under management.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 21, 2023

To that end, IBM has been building out an ecosystem of technologies and partnerships to help clients optimize their core operations across assets, infrastructure and supply chains. Without data, sustainability is not visible, it’s not actionable, and it’s not operational.

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Procurement Insights

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Recognizing “the challenging piece” is linked” to understanding “the kind of interaction you want to resolve with customers and supply chain partners.” If Cisco has achieved a single source of truth visibility, maybe we should look at how they did it and emulate them? And this is the key to the Mendez statement.)

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JANUARY 26, 2024

Taking all your feedback and market insights into perspective and careful consideration, we are thrilled to announce that in 2023. Here’s a comprehensive recap of everything we launched in 2023, awards and links to the latest update and how you can get started with each enhancement. Learn more in our announcement blog.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MAY 11, 2023

For IBM, Think is a perfect time for us to connect, collaborate and help our clients and partners continue to forge ahead with digital transformation and innovation. As we wrap up Think 2023, we’re excited to recap a few of the exciting new capabilities we are launching in our IT Automation portfolio.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 11, 2023

trillion in 2023, an increase of 5.5% Or they could migrate all of their data to one cloud provider and find out that there were long stretches of time where they were only using a fraction of their cloud footprint, yet were paying for the entire thing. And technology budgets are rising commensurate to this new reality.

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World of Procurement podcast

JUNE 15, 2021

We covered a lot of ground in this 25-minute podcast and this podcast is going to be exceptionally beneficial to you if you are currently looking at your supply chain and wondering how can we improve visibility, how can we reach our sustainability goals using our supply chains and how do we know what is in this product?

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

Meeting these demands requires creating seamless and secure customer journeys built on real-time insights and data. 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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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

Either physically onsite or remotely, a data center manager performs general maintenance—such as software and hardware upgrades, general cleaning or deciding the physical arrangement of servers—and takes proactive or reactive measures against any threat or event that harms data center performance, security and compliance.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MARCH 28, 2024

billion in 2023. A private cloud is a single-tenant cloud computing model in which all of the hardware and software resources are dedicated exclusively to—and accessible only by—a single organization. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) allows users to connect to and use cloud-based apps (e.g., What is a private cloud?

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