IBM Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In today’s business environment, regardless of the product or service, leaders must develop a well-honed business strategy. A successful business strategy must clearly define an organization’s objectives, decision-making processes and long-term business goals.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

How is marketing connected to my supply chain? The supply chain of your business has many components. That’s why you need to understand the relationship between supply chain and marketing and align them if you hope to maintain a competitive edge in the fast-paced world.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 13, 2020

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. The Parallel Supply Chain … A Twilight Zone Strategy? Death of Global Supply Chains article and permission to publish here provided by Sam Jenks at kodiakrating.com. Is COVID19 the death of Global Supply Chains? Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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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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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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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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Pipefy

JANUARY 11, 2023

Procurement teams are now responsible for driving value, achieving sustainable results, and helping businesses maintain their competitive edge despite market shifts and supply chain disruptions. What is a procurement transformation strategy? Since early 2020, the spotlight has been on supply chains and supply chain management.

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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. Goods arrived exactly when needed, waste and holding costs were kept to a minimum, and single source strategies prevailed due to ease and cost savings.

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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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Una

MARCH 6, 2023

How to Market Procurement’s Value Beyond Cost Savings The Importance of Looking Beyond Cost Savings in Procurement Procurement Automation: 5 Tasks You Should be Automating Employ lean procurement principles For some organizations, getting Lean in procurement simply involves doing things faster.

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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? Instant invoice approval, no supplier inquiries, and no exceptions.

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Pipefy

JANUARY 30, 2024

Because procurement teams provide critical insights to inform business strategy , identifying opportunities to cut costs is one of the most important ways they do this. Procurement teams also share crucial data and information that business leaders need in order to make choices, set strategy, and remain competitive.

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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. IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSS: [06.31] Gary’s background and how, and why, it led him to founding TraceGains.

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Spend Matters

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Shaping the next generation of procurement professionals In 2024, as emerging technologies continue to redefine the workplace and professional landscape, and industries embrace AI, procurement departments will rethink their strategies to source top talent, retrain existing employees and attract the next generation of procurement professionals.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. A truly efficient and effective Supply Chain must include a strategy, plans, business processes, and performance metrics that incorporate disintermediation and the elimination of waste! Why Disintermediate the Supply Chain? Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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Una

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Procurement professionals are now celebrated for their innovation, creativity, agility, and cost-saving initiatives. And let’s not forget the crucial role they play in driving diversity and sustainability within the supply chain. Reducing suppliers also helps mitigate risk throughout the supply chain.

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Arkestro

MARCH 8, 2024

These awards recognize outstanding executives whose accomplishments offer a roadmap for other leaders looking to leverage supply chain for competitive advantage. View winners list Edmund Zagorin took on a new role this past year as Chief Strategy Officer of Arkestro.

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The Good Spending

JANUARY 4, 2023

Buyers of direct materials will empathize with the availability and quality of an item rather than the price itself. Category strategy will elaborate on logistical and supply management aspects, i.e., inventory planning and supply chain configuration. Indirect ones support the production and operational processes.

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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. These challenges in the direct material supply chain pose a real threat, especially in a time of crisis.

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ivalua

JUNE 1, 2022

Overall, their strategy must move toward data-driven decision-making to provide real-time information visibility. However, they could probably leverage their great buyers in a better way by having proper data delivered to them upfront and allowing them to identify the most strategic new projects.

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Pipefy

JANUARY 9, 2023

Supply chain risks heightened by geopolitical conflict. What all of these obstacles have made clear is that process resilience and long-term procurement strategies are essential for mitigating future risks. In 2022, the five biggest procurement issues experienced by B2B buyers were: Reliable delivery (43%).

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Check out Brand Protection – The Definitive Role of the Supply Chain! The Supply Chain function within your company has many responsibilities. Yet often the Supply Chain is undervalued. Why is Supply Chain often undervalued? Pressures for Cost Reduction in Supply Chain.

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Supply Chain Opz

JUNE 23, 2013

Value Chain Analysis for Superior Supply Chain. What is Value Chain and Value Chain Analysis? Many academics and practitioners use the word "value chain" and " supply chain " interchangeably. Differentiation: selecting the important attributes that buyers want so company can get premium price.

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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. Procurement Strategy Course Take the lead with our proven 5-step procurement strategy 3. What is Commodity Trading?

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JANUARY 22, 2024

Catalysts and conundrums A dramatic shift in development and operations is making data centers more agile and cost-effective. Envision the data center of tomorrow Data centers will continue transitioning from the monolithic configurations from yesteryear to become agile, high-powered, AI-driven, sustainable ecosystems distributed globally.

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Procurement Heads

JANUARY 4, 2023

As a Buyer at British Airways, I bought a range of different categories from engineering spares to airport services. I joined KPMG in their supply chain practice and spend the next 16 years on consulting assignments in a smaller firm. Our organisation has adopted agile ways of working.

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 22, 2020

José Carande, Managing Director, Accenture Strategy, explained some of the difficulties and challenges faced by banks and financial services companies at a JAGGAER webinar on October 8, 2020. The procurement team consists of 40 buyers, around half of them based in the bank’s Casablanca headquarters.

Strategy 52

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Pipefy

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The result is greater supply chain predictability, more accurate decision-making, and better business agility. Strategic procurement, or procurement strategic planning, is a process that aligns procurement strategy with business goals so as to yield business benefits through procurement. What is strategic procurement?

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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.

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SCMDOJO

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Sourcing agencies excel in handling these intricacies, ensuring a smooth and efficient flow of products from supplier to buyer. Specializing in industrial engineering, lean manufacturing, and B2B sourcing, they work with businesses of all sizes, offering expertise in supply chain processes, continuous improvement, and leadership.

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NLPA (Next Level Purchasing Association)

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

These insights enable data-driven decision-making, negotiation strategies, and risk mitigation, leading to more informed procurement choices. This results in better negotiation outcomes, improved quality, reduced costs, and enhanced overall value delivery.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

BPR examples: Use cases Streamlining supply chain management Using BPR for supply chain optimization involves a meticulous reassessment and redesign of every step, including logistics, inventory management and procurement.

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Supply Chain Opz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

Fashion industry is one of the most primitive form of supply chain management and its practices have been extended, adopted and become the best practices that we use today. One year later "Kurt Salmon Associates" was assigned to investigate the whole apparel supply chain. Fashion SCM 1.0 Fashion SCM 2.0

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Procurement Heads

MARCH 27, 2023

We are having to become much more agile in our approach because suppliers are less willing to hold their pricing. I’m passionate about working in collaboration with the supply chain and allowing for constructive conversations so that we’re doing all we can to ensure the best value for money for our customers.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 20, 2019

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. What Supply Chain Management problem does this solve? The biggest problem in the transitional supply chain is lack of open and trustworthy information availability across the supply chain caused by multiple issues – trust, technology and legacy practices being the top ones.

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Procurement Software

MAY 9, 2022

Homegrown solutions can take you far in life, but the future of procurement excellence is reliant upon a transformation of procurement strategy. 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.

Supplier relationship management 52

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Procurement Software

MAY 9, 2022

Homegrown solutions can take you far in life, but the future of procurement excellence is reliant upon a transformation of procurement strategy. 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.

Supplier relationship management 52

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