ivalua

JUNE 9, 2025

We’ve seen AI take over everyday tools and search engines; AI in Sourcing and Procurement is becoming a strategic tool in our kit, At Ivalua, we are helping global procurement teams integrate AI across the Source-to-Pay process, bringing automation, insight, and agility to every step.

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

By selecting and developing the right suppliers and establishing streamlined, transparent communication with them, manufacturers gain the agility and resilience to respond to customer demands, rise to the top, and navigate disruptions more easily. That makes agility a foundational part of your manufacturing strategy.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Secondly come eProcurement, Supply Chain Collaboration, Invoicing, and Payments. Optimizing source-to-paythrough digital transformation streamlines every stage of your procurement strategy, improving visibility, efficiency, and collaboration. These begin with enhanced visibility.

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Procurement Insights

APRIL 4, 2025

It also reminded me of a 2008 article I had written on the Procurement Insights blog titled Procurement considerations when dealing with a merger? This will be a worthwhile read as it demonstrates the potential repercussions of excluding supply chain personnel in the early planning stages of an organizations M&A strategy.)

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Jaggaer

APRIL 24, 2025

I recently hosted a webinar in which our star speaker was Lora Cecere, Founder at Supply Chain Insight. Supply chain management typically does not fit very well with procurement, which is a challenge at the best of times, and can be a disaster in difficult times. As late as the 1990s, supply chains were very local.

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Jaggaer

APRIL 9, 2025

The Manufacturing Supply Chain Journey through AI and Automation Manufacturing Supply Chains Explained The manufacturing supply chain comprises all the processes a business uses to turn raw materials and components into final products that are ready to be sold to customers, whether these are consumers or other businesses.

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HICX

JUNE 9, 2025

What is the use of AI in supply chain management? AI helps optimize supply chain management by offering predictive supplier analytics , real-time tracking, and automation. How is AI transforming procurement & supply chains? How AI can forecast demand in the supply chain?

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TYA Suite

MAY 13, 2025

In this blog, well explore the true meaning of operational procurement, how it supports core business functions, and the impact it can have on overall performance. Over time, these enhanced collaborations improve supply chain stability and can even lead to co-innovation opportunities.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

It is a process that creates efficiencies across all spend categories, minimizes supply chain risks through improved supplier selection and awards, while giving visibility into pricing and forecasting. This helps businesses to recognize supplier risks and create plans to prevent supply chain interruptions.

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Jaggaer

APRIL 9, 2025

Pairing a dedicated Source-to-Pay (S2P) solution with ERP strengthens procurement by enhancing visibility into supplier performance, automating workflows, and enabling smarter decision-making. Manufacturers can improve supply chain visibility, optimize logistics, and reduce costs associated with inefficiencies.

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Procurement Insights

JULY 3, 2025

” Challenges : Limited Scope : SpendKey’s focus on spend and contract analytics may limit its appeal for organizations needing end-to-end S2P solutions, unlike Coupa or SAP Ariba. ” “However, its niche focus and limited track record slightly lower its score compared to established players.

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Procurement Insights

MAY 21, 2025

Ecosystem Orchestration: Agents align procurement with finance, logistics, and suppliers, ensuring end-to-end process coherence. Agility in Volatility: Real-time adjustments to demand spikes, supply shortages, or ESG regulations ensure continuity. SAP Joule), enabling incremental digital transformation.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 8, 2025

Visibility gaps for customers When you’re unable to provide speedy and predictable deliveries along with real-time alerts on the delivery process, customers abandon shopping with you. Today, customers are leaning more and more towards sustainable deliveries. appeared first on Supply Chain Game Changer™.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 21, 2025

However, traditional grant management processes often involve complex coding and lengthy development cycles, hindering agility and innovation. With real-time visibility into resource allocation, organizations can optimize spending and ensure funds are allocated where they’re needed most.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 26, 2021

Subscribe to 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. And the limitations in supply chain visibility seem to start right here.

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 19, 2024

Discover Ways to Boost Supply Chain Visibility through Digital Marketing Supply chain visibility is essential for providing a superior customer experience and sustaining customer loyalty over time. Customers face significant frustrations that erode brand trust and sales without supply chain visibility.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 29, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Supply Chain Investment Challenges – Real and Imagined! Intelligent Supply Chain technologies article and permission to publish here provided by Dan Weinberger , UN Supply Chain Expert and CEO of Morpheus Network. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Your customers, employees and shareholders want to know you have a plan to address supply chain sustainability. Supply chain sustainability is defined as embedding environmental, social or corporate governance considerations as raw materials are sourced, converted to products and delivered to market.

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 25, 2022

In the current era, it is clear that new modes of production are concomitant with new modes of distribution, which advances the field of logistics, the science of physical distribution or even supply chain management. Reminder of Key Definitions – Logistics & Supply Chain Management. and J-P Rodrigue (2004)).

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

JULY 20, 2023

Zarrin Lilani on How Women Lead in Supply Chain At Let’s Talk Supply Chain, we’re passionate about closing the gender gap to expand innovation through diversity. And while the tech industry job market is still anything but stable, supply chain leaders are still dealing with ongoing talent and resource shortage challenges.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Supply Chain as a Service (SCaaS)! An Outlook for Supply Chain article and permission to publish here provided by Joe Gregson. As a digital native born at the end of the millennial era, it is fair to say I also expect nothing less. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In August 2020 Gartner published this report “4 Tactics Procurement Can Use to Sustain Influence as Economic Conditions Improve” This blog summarizes the key points of the report which you can read in full, here. When Covid-19 hit, supply chains across the globe nearly came to a halt. Procurement Teams Step-up.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 2, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. The Fireworks Supply Chain! Over the past 15 months, we’ve been writing on the Argentus blog about the immense impacts that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on global supply chains – particularly, as you might expect of a recruitment firm, from the perspective of talent and skills.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Businesses with optimal supply chains achieve 5-15% lower supply chain costs , 20-50% less inventory holdings, and up to 3X cash-to-cash cycle speeds. Tackle your most complex supply chain challenges. Tackle your most complex supply chain challenges. True end-to-end visibility with embedded AI.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Peak season fulfillment is a topic that strikes both fear and hope into the minds of supply chain leaders. Even systems implemented in this decade are obsolete if they cannot share data between other supply chain platforms. Diversify your supply chain.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

JUNE 5, 2023

Today I’m joined by Logward , an exciting tech brand with a vision of a future where supply chain departments lead the transformation of their industries, instead of simply transporting it. 31.33] An overview of Logward’s Transport Solutions, and the visibility it provides. 44.17] The future for Logward.

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Procurement Tactics

JUNE 28, 2023

This allows for the identification and implementation of measures to mitigate any delays or obstacles in the supply chain by organizations. These tools allow for automated, integration to suppliers and visibility in procurement data at any time.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Imagining the Supply Chain of the Future! Mike Mortson was recently interviewed by Oracle as a part of their Global Supply Chain Influencer program. This article was posted on Oracle’s Supply Chain Management blog. Email Address.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Supply chains are under enormous stress. As supply chain leaders, we’ve seen unprecedented levels of disruption, challenges with our ecosystem trading partner networks, tariff wars, real wars and tremendous turnover in human capital. Senior supply chain leaders are retiring in record numbers.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

AUGUST 4, 2022

Adaptability has come to be increasingly valued in recent years, and the terms flexibility, agility, and responsiveness crop up frequently in business discussions today.”. A key focus is the ability to sense environmental changes through data-driven insights, thus enabling a more agile and swift response. About the Author.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

For years, supply chain professionals have measured success by how well they have been able to drive down costs and drive up efficiency. Then, 2020 sent shockwaves through many JIT strategies; the disruption was just too big to absorb and supply chain ecosystems had not been built to flex.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

How can you tell if your Supply Chain is broken? But before the situation gets to those extremes what are the clues that your Supply Chain is not working as well as it could, or should? But before the situation gets to those extremes what are the clues that your Supply Chain is not working as well as it could, or should?

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Supply Chain Collaborator

APRIL 14, 2020

Define the contours of your supply chain network from end-to-end – inbound from vendors to production facilities and outbound from DCs to customers. Game out how the risk(s) you’ve identified may impact each supply chain and be prepared with strategies to react in real-time to disruptions as they occur.

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Logistics Agile and Lean Supply Chain e2e Real-time Visibility 95

Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Blog post and permission to publish provided by Milan Vyas. Supply chain collaboration is a hot topic today and no wonder: companies that collaborate effectively across the supply chain have enjoyed dramatic reductions in inventories and costs, together with improvements in speed, service levels, and customer satisfaction.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Supported by an all-encompassing end-to-end toolchain, IBM Consulting distinguishes itself as an industry leader in the marketplace. Organizational Transparency : Enhancing performance and driving better outcomes through leadership visibility and planning. An international airline needed a major end-to-end hyperscaler migration.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The Traffic Jam Supply Chain Model. Consider each of the nodes (suppliers, operations, distribution centres, stores) in your Supply Chain as being a “highway” Consider also that all of the goods that you are moving along these nodes are the “vehicles” travelling on those highways.

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World of Procurement blog

MAY 8, 2024

What is Supply Chain Management (SCM) Supply Chain Management (SCM) is the management of the flow of goods, services, information and finances as they move from raw materials to final product, from manufacturer to consumer. Optimized supply chains lead to improved profit margins.

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