IBM Supply Chain Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The global AI market is projected to grow to USD 190 billion by 2025, increasing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 36.62% from 2022, according to Markets and Markets. One of the largest children clothing retailer in the US utilizes this solution to streamline its complex supply chain.

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Spend Matters

JANUARY 2, 2024

After the last few tumultuous years, procurement teams are still facing steep challenges in getting ahead of supplier and supply chain risks. Some organizations have opted to invest in new, more robust supplier and third-party risk management (TPRM) systems, while others are optimizing their existing systems. The list goes on.

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Arkestro

JULY 6, 2023

million cars from production due to ongoing supply chain issues and semiconductor shortages. Then we’ll show how autonomous, Predictive Procurement Orchestration (PPO) can help relieve supply chain issues, reduce costs, and help automotive brands navigate increased regulations.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

In 2022, IBM introduced Vela , its first AI-optimized, cloud-native supercomputer. In 2023, we announced a new commitment to train 1,000 technology suppliers in technology ethics by 2025 , and we are well on our way. AI can augment human intelligence, increase fairness, and optimize revenue, or detract from them.

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Arkestro

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Getting a Thanksgiving dinner from farm to table is an intricately complex affair for food and beverage procurement teams, with supply chain shortages, inflation, and rising food costs affecting consumer decisions all playing a part. Supply chain, logistics, and supply all dictate how the market price shapes up.

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NLPA (Next Level Purchasing Association)

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Improved communication, regular performance assessments, and joint value creation efforts lead to better supplier performance, reduced risks, and potential cost savings through optimized partnerships. This results in better negotiation outcomes, improved quality, reduced costs, and enhanced overall value delivery.

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Supply Chain Trend

AUGUST 13, 2020

Preview In his 2019 Foresight article, Niels van Hove examined eight technological hurdles that must be overcome to enable autonomous or ‘lights out’ supply-chain planning. He reasoned that to support such planning we need to implement a third wave of integrated supply-chain planning software.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

Social commerce, a form of ecommerce in which a social media platform serves as both a marketing channel and a shopping destination, is expected to grow by more than 50% between 2021 and 2025. Shipping and logistics can get complicated in new markets and are subject to global supply chain interruptions.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

The agency predicts that by 2025, renewable energy will surpass coal to become the world’s top source of electricity. Wind and solar photovoltaic (PV) power generation are forecast to exceed nuclear power generation in 2025 and 2026, respectively. And by 2028, 68 countries will boast renewables as their main source of power.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. trillion in 2025. It helps to increase reach and show up in front of potential customers, especially when the website is SEO-optimized. If your site is not optimized for user experience, people will be discouraged from using it. Email Address. User Experience.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. What is the Digital Supply Chain? BILLION by 2025. But while the opportunities behind digitizing and optimizing delivery are clear, it’s not easy to facilitate the level of visibility and control which shippers are looking for from 3PLs. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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Arkestro

JUNE 20, 2023

Research-backed procurement strategies can help CFOs achieve their goals while minimizing risk exposure across global supply chains. In fact, according to Gartner®, “by 2025 50% of FP&A leaders will have enterprise-wide data strategy as a key responsibility.” With 36% of leaders prioritizing AI implementation in finance [1].

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The International Energy Agency predicts that a combination of renewable energy and nuclear power will meet more than 90% of increased demand by 2025. 4 ” IEA: More than a third of the world’s electricity will come from renewables in 2025. Learn about the IBM Sustainability Accelerator. link resides outside ibm.com).

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MAY 12, 2023

Its aggressive sustainability goals included achieving net zero emissions by 2050, making all packaging reusable or recyclable by 2025 and investing more than USD 3 billion globally over several years to drive momentum.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 16, 2022

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. In fact, experts predict that by 2025, the industry will be 380 billion US dollars. AWL India is among the biggest pan-India providers of advanced, tech-backed logistics and supply chain solutions for a variety of industries. Subscribe Here! Email Address. Gati Limited.

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Una

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

By Hugo Britt | November 28, 2023 Search Search Gen Z currently makes up almost one-third of the world’s population and will account for 27% of the workforce by 2025 – but are they interested in joining your procurement team? Show them how technology streamlines processes, optimizes decision-making, and enhances efficiency within procurement.

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Una

APRIL 11, 2023

Drives cost savings: Automating repetitive tasks, optimizing processes, and improved forecasting are a few of the advantages that can give a company a competitive advantage when using an ERP system. billion by 2025. The ERP marketplace The ERP marketplace continues to grow exponentially with the projected market size to be $49.5

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

Today, many mundane but necessary tasks associated with equipment repair and optimization are being turned over to machines thanks to 5G connectivity paired with AI and ML capabilities. Smart factories 5G, along with AI and ML, is poised to help factories become not only smarter but more automated, efficient and resilient.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

ERP vs. Best-in-Class for Healthcare Supply Chain Management? Are ERP systems better than best-in-class supply chain solutions for managing healthcare supply chains? That’s the question we set out to answer in our recent panel discussion with Procurement and Supply Chain experts. The verdict?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. billion in 2025, the global oilfield services market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 3.6%. This magnitude of merger allowed for asset reorganization and optimization as well as logistical synergies. appeared first on Supply Chain Game Changer™. Subscribe Here!

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Cloud optimization is essential as organizations look to accelerate business outcomes and unlock the value of their data. At its core, cloud optimization is the process of correctly selecting and assigning the right resources to a workload or application. And getting it right is crucial. It takes time and talent.

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Arkestro

AUGUST 22, 2023

Resources / Blog / The Power of Predictive Procurement Orchestration for Food & Beverage Supply Chain The Power of Predictive Procurement Orchestration for Food & Beverage Supply Chain Food and beverage procurement professionals have had their work cut out for them during the last few years.

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SPLC (Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council)

MAY 29, 2019

They overhauled their purchasing policies and publicly announced 2025 climate objectives, and now more than 40% of company sales are related to solutions involving life and environmental protection. Citi’s Supply Chain Sustainability Program: Embedding supply chain sustainability into the supplier selection process.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 6, 2019

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Organizations are ‘going carbon neutral by 2025’, and ‘implementing Artificially Intelligent business systems’ and ‘sourcing form solely environmentally friendly suppliers’. appeared first on Supply Chain Game Changer™. Subscribe Here! Email Address. Circular Economy.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 22, 2019

Technologies Reshaping the Global Digital Supply Chain! Imagine what the future will look like in Supply Chain! There are articles which describe what the future of Supply Chain will be like in 2020, 0r 2025, or even 2030. So how can all of this be used to shape what happens in Supply Chain?

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Solvoyo

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

But what is a cognitive supply chain model and where does it fit into all this? Simply, a cognitive supply chain model utilizes machine learning, which is a type of artificial intelligence that has been merged with advanced analytics. How Cognitive Learning is Applied to Supply Chain Processes.

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Supply Chain Trend

OCTOBER 29, 2021

If we look back over the history of supply-chain planning, we can properly say we are in the third wave of integrated supply-chain planning software (Van Hove, 2019). To become autonomous, supply chains require the new technology of Wave 3 planning systems, which we think of as systems of intelligence.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

From the movement of trucks to managing a good economic supply chain, GST affected logistics in a great way. The statistics have shown an increase in freight shipping volume to about 1325 billion and these numbers are predicted to double by 2025. appeared first on Supply Chain Game Changer™.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 11, 2024

December 2025: Banks of EU and Eurozone countries are required to support sending SEPA instant payments. DORA comes into effect in January 2025, covering EU Financial Institutions and associated ICT service providers. December 2024: Banks of EU and Eurozone countries are required to support receiving SEPA instant payments.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MAY 25, 2023

You’re responsible for optimizing spend, operational efficiency and incorporating new and innovative technologies. It’s a powerful way to address critical issues like sub-optimal application performance and poor customer experiences, boost metrics like MTTR and address IT team skill issues for greater resiliency.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Maximo maintains high-value assets with AI and analytics to optimize performance, extend asset lifecycles and reduce downtime and costs. and add-ons by September 2025. In line with this trend, last April IBM announced end of support for all Maximo 7.6 In summary, clients look for IBM’s expertise to: Upgrade the current Maximo 7.6x

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The Network Effect

OCTOBER 23, 2014

If you want to know ahead of time the changes awaiting the pharmaceuticals supply chain it is useful to extrapolate experiences from the consumer and retail sectors, which were dealing with the same trends and pressures long before pharmaceuticals (for example, the proliferation of distribution channels).

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

To maximize the business outcomes that can come from using AI while also controlling costs and reducing inherent AI complexities, organizations need to combine AI-optimized data storage capabilities with a data governance program exclusively made for AI. But the implementation of AI is only one piece of the puzzle.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2023

.” When observing its potential impact within industry, McKinsey Global Institute estimates that in just the manufacturing sector, emerging technologies that use AI will by 2025 add as much as USD 3.7 This unified experience optimizes the process of developing and deploying ML models by streamlining workflows for increased efficiency.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

A report from Gartner ® predicted that by 2025, more than 50% of enterprises will use GraphQL in production, up from less than 10% in 2021. To optimize GraphQL API performance, you should make use of a query cost analysis to implement rate limiting based on the connected data sources.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

This is one area where it is most likely to have a highly disruptive and transformative impact, potentially changing everything from the way fuel usage is measured and optimized, to the design of equipment lifecycles, to how goods are delivered to customers.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This unified view gives administrators and development teams centralized control over their infrastructure and apps, making it possible to optimize cost, security, availability and resource utilization. A CMP creates a single pane of glass (SPOG) that provides enterprise-wide visibility into multiple sources of information and data.

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