IBM Supply Chain Blog

JANUARY 22, 2024

Data centers are undergoing significant evolution. Catalysts and conundrums A dramatic shift in development and operations is making data centers more agile and cost-effective. Catalysts and conundrums A dramatic shift in development and operations is making data centers more agile and cost-effective.

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Data Sustainability Innovation Buyers 106

Zycus Cognitive Procurement

DECEMBER 15, 2022

As we are coming to the end of the year, procurement and supply chain leaders across industries initiate their annual strategic planning process for the next year. We have shortlisted 7 C ritical T rends that will help supply chain leaders and practitioners to build a strategic blueprint for 2023 and beyond.

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Supply chain management Supply chain management Agile and Lean Supply Chain Supply Chain Optimization 52

Empowering CPO

MAY 5, 2023

Embracing digital technologies has become a necessity for companies to streamline operations, improve customer experiences, and increase overall efficiency. In essence, procurement serves as the backbone of an organization’s supply chain, contributing to cost savings, risk management, and supplier relationship management.

Supply Chain Efficiency 52

Supply Chain Efficiency supply chain budgeting Procurement Real-time Visibility 52

SCMDOJO

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In supply chain management, total lead time is a crucial metric encompassing the period from customer order to delivery, be it in B2B or B2C scenarios. As a critical supply parameter, managing lead time is essential for mitigating uncertainties in the supply chain.

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Agile and Lean Supply Chain Supply Chain Efficiency Supply Chain Optimization Real-time Visibility 78

ivalua

JANUARY 13, 2023

In addition, diverse suppliers can improve their own supplier resilience, proving they are agile and can “turn on a dime” when it comes to responsiveness. This is crucial as businesses continue to be faced with supply chain and business challenges. Agile Procurement in Canada.

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Suppliers Strategy Agile and Lean Supply Chain Ethics 246

Procurement Tactics

AUGUST 25, 2022

Sebastian Chua started his procurement journey with Hewlett Packard/Agilent Technologies as their country manager for Singapore, India, Thailand, and the Philippines before he took on the job as the regional procurement manager. . Furthermore, He was voted by Supply Chain Digital as one of the top 10 procurement executives worldwide.

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Procurement Supply Chain Optimization Agile and Lean Supply Chain supply chain budgeting 231

Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 8, 2019

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HICX

JUNE 28, 2022

In the session, we were joined by Andrea Sordi , Academic Director, Global Supply Chain Institute at the University of Tennessee ; and Sammy Rashed , founder of the Think Tank ‘Beyond Group’ and subsequently SRCD where he provides consultancy and executive coaching services. Data visibility leads to agility.

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Agile and Lean Supply Chain Suppliers Supply Chain Efficiency Collaboration 52

World of Procurement blog

MAY 8, 2024

Metrics : Procurement tracks savings, efficiencies, supplier performance, and risk. Procurement is strategically important because it: Drives significant cost savings through economies of scale, supplier negotiations, and process efficiencies. Increases efficiency by standardizing, streamlining, and automating processes.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

JANUARY 9, 2023

As a global technology company, they provide networked innovation, quality, and compliance solutions to consumer brands that want to reduce supply chain risk, innovate faster, speed up business processes, and take control of data. 13.36] An overview of TraceGains – what they do and how they help their customers. “The

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 52

Agile and Lean Supply Chain Food and Beverage Supply Chain supply chain software solutions Supply Chain Efficiency 52

World of Procurement blog

MAY 23, 2024

To gain operational efficiencies by standardising and simplifying purchasing processes across fewer supplier relationships. To leverage procurement data and insights by consolidating spend across fewer suppliers. This enables data-driven supplier management and performance optimisation.

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Procurement Software

MARCH 11, 2022

And yet, poor operational efficiency in Procurement means that the typical Category Manager often spends at least a THIRD of their time performing “busy work” This is not an effective or efficient use of their time. Sustainability initiatives within the supply chain. Reductions in energy or material consumption.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

Business process reengineering (BPR) is the radical redesign of core business processes to achieve dramatic improvements in performance, efficiency and effectiveness. This can lead to can significant improvements in efficiency, accuracy and scalability and enable the organization to operate more effectively.

Supply Chain Efficiency 60

Supply Chain Efficiency Supply Chain Optimization supply chain budgeting supply chain software solutions 60

Procurement Tactics

JUNE 28, 2023

Livestock Commodities Livestock and meat commodities include lean hogs , pork, live cattle , and feeder cattle. It follows the principles of supply and demand as it is the driving force of commodity markets. Mintec Mintec provides market intelligence, commodity prices, and price forecasts across the agri-food supply chain.

Raw materials 178

Raw materials Supply Chain Efficiency Price Market analysis 178

ivalua

JULY 8, 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic disrupts global supply chains, procurement organizations around the world are scrambling to react. There are many supply chain management lessons to learn from the Covid-19 crisis. Supplier Data Quality & Management in Decision Making. Some of these challenges include limited: .

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Agile and Lean Supply Chain Supply chain resilience Supply Chain Efficiency Supply chain 26

Pipefy

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Strategic procurement, or procurement strategic planning, is a data-driven process that helps businesses align procurement and business goals. The result is greater supply chain predictability, more accurate decision-making, and better business agility. What is strategic procurement?

Supply Chain Efficiency 52

Supply Chain Efficiency Procurement Agile and Lean Supply Chain Strategic planning 52

Procurement Software

MARCH 11, 2022

And yet, poor operational efficiency in Procurement means that the typical Category Manager often spends at least a THIRD of their time performing “busy work” This is not an effective or efficient use of their time. Sustainability initiatives within the supply chain. Reductions in energy or material consumption.

Supply Chain Efficiency 52

Supply Chain Efficiency supply chain software solutions Procurement Category management 52

Pipefy

JANUARY 9, 2023

Supply chain risks heightened by geopolitical conflict. A recent survey of procurement and supply chain leaders found that 32% of procurement teams admitted to cutting corners with their sourcing criteria and suppliers to secure supply. Now both teams are faced with an agility and flexibility crisis.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 59

Agile and Lean Supply Chain Procurement Procurement team Supply Chain Efficiency 59

Supply Chain Game Changer

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. What is Product (or Master) Data Management? For the company buried in product data trying to navigate the waters of ecommerce, PIM software comes in like a gust that fills the sails. There is a way to aggregate, organize and clean-up data without all the manual toil.

Inventory 98

Inventory supply chain software solutions Management Supply Chain Optimization 98

Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 5, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Procurement is one of the sole functions in an organization that can truly implement and realizes quality and sustainability initiatives in the line; considering procurement’s ability to impact the global supply chain network at the supplier level. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

Suppliers 98

Suppliers Management Supply Chain Efficiency Agile and Lean Supply Chain 98

NLPA (Next Level Purchasing Association)

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

A successful procurement transformation involves a strategic overhaul of processes, technologies, and approaches to achieve greater efficiency, cost savings, risk management, and value creation. Automation increases efficiency and reduces errors, leading to faster and more accurate procurement cycles.

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ivalua

MARCH 27, 2023

Because a network is an unneeded link in the data chain and it acts as a data barrier to suppliers. As supply chains flip from a buyer to seller driven market, maximising the benefits of CTCs will remove the gaps from the process. Instant invoice approval, no supplier inquiries, and no exceptions.

Procurement strategies 130

Procurement strategies Agile and Lean Supply Chain Real-time Visibility Networking 130

Procurement Software

MAY 9, 2022

Parallel to this, they offer the ability to streamline supplier governance and due diligence activities to cover increasing demands on compliance and supply chain visibility. Studied cases at Kodiak Hub show between 1–3 % loss of brand exposure resulting from a non-compliant supply chain. Increased Negotiation Power.

Supplier relationship management 52

Supplier relationship management supply chain software solutions Suppliers Management 52

Procurement Software

MAY 9, 2022

Parallel to this, they offer the ability to streamline supplier governance and due diligence activities to cover increasing demands on compliance and supply chain visibility. Studied cases at Kodiak Hub show between 1–3 % loss of brand exposure resulting from a non-compliant supply chain. Increased Negotiation Power.

Supplier relationship management 52

Supplier relationship management supply chain software solutions Suppliers Management 52

Procurement Software

APRIL 18, 2023

With tangible benefits for buyers, eAuctions could help your organisation survive the economic downturn. eAuctions are a negotiation method that allow buyers to leverage market-driven pricing opportunities. This saves buyers not only money, but hours of conversation time. This delivers the buyer lower unit prices.

Bidding 52

Bidding Supply Chain Efficiency Real-time Visibility Negotiation 52

Pipefy

JANUARY 11, 2023

The need for efficient and error-proof procurement processes has never been greater. Following recent unprecedented events and disruptions, one thing has become clear: procurement optimization is no longer just about cost-effectiveness or efficiency. . What is a procurement transformation roadmap?

Strategy 52

Strategy Procurement supply chain software solutions Agile and Lean Supply Chain 52

Jaggaer

OCTOBER 22, 2020

“Spend management and procurement will play a key role in enabling banks to achieve their efficiency targets while managing supply chain risks,” he added. The procurement team consists of 40 buyers, around half of them based in the bank’s Casablanca headquarters. It has subsidiaries in Europe and in Egypt.

Strategy 52

Strategy Suppliers Supply Chain Efficiency Agile and Lean Supply Chain 52

Spend Matters

JUNE 19, 2023

Top performing vendors have achieved a “Network Effect” type of collaboration where suppliers can manage all their buyers in the same portal and even behave as buyers themselves receiving invoices from their suppliers.

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Buyers Collaboration Suppliers Agile and Lean Supply Chain 64

Procurement Heads

MARCH 2, 2023

It has worked out better for the client, it has worked out better for us and they get a more efficient delivery which lowers their costs and just makes it a more inclusive delivery approach as well because you can engage a lot more broadly, as opposed to waiting to get eight people in a room. People realised that was a consequence of Covid.

Supply Chain Efficiency 130

Supply Chain Efficiency Agile and Lean Supply Chain Procurement Supply chain 130

Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 15, 2020

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. The Digital Supply Chain Road is Full of Potholes, Construction and Accidents! Be transparent and put your challenges in front of innovative solution providers after you’ve qualified their ability to deliver value. Subscribe Here! Email Address. Don’t Panic! Publications.

Procurement 90

Procurement Supply Chain Efficiency Agile and Lean Supply Chain Supply chain 90

ivalua

AUGUST 5, 2020

Invoice to Pay is a request for payment by a supplier, and technology helps to make this simple, fast and more efficient for the Supplier and the Accounts Payable team. At each step of this Procurement process, data is gathered, suppliers are onboarded, and deliveries are accepted. What is Invoice to Pay?

supply chain software solutions 130

supply chain software solutions Real-time Visibility Suppliers Networking 130

Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The recent disruptions to supply chains caused by the coronavirus epidemic in China have given supply managers the world over pause for thought. Now more than ever, businesses must improve the efficiency of their supply chains not only to maintain a competitive advantage but also to reduce risk.

Suppliers 103

Suppliers Agile and Lean Supply Chain Supply Chain Efficiency Supplier relationship management 103

Empowering CPO

JUNE 14, 2023

Whether you’re a procurement professional looking to stay ahead of the curve, a business leader seeking to drive efficiency, or simply someone interested in business innovation, this post is for you. Data analytics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and blockchain, among others, are reshaping procurement processes.

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The Procuretech Podcast

MAY 3, 2022

Given the current supply chain crisis and geopolitical instability, what better time to speak to a guest from a unique eSourcing solution? Alan Holland, CEO of Keelvar, is here to tell us how AI can offer something more immediate, spot and transactional, in these unstable times when agility matters.

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Agile and Lean Supply Chain Bidding Sourcing supply chain software solutions 52

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. would demand its implementation.

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Supply Chain Visibility Real-time Visibility e2e Agile and Lean Supply Chain 103

Pipefy

MAY 23, 2023

E-procurement tools benefit all stakeholders; the relevant departments for each purchase requisition see the same data on the same platform, establishing accountability at every phase. By plugging your approval hierarchy data into a customizable workflow, however, your form can circulate while you move to your next task.

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Procurement solutions Procurement e2e supply chain software solutions 52

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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