IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 23, 2023

Your forward-looking, strategic CFO is driving AI efforts to enable proactive business insights across the enterprise, while streamlining business processes and optimizing financial performance. You may have also deployed the latest cloud-native innovations and improved your operating expenses in the process.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 23, 2023

Whether you’re a CFO, an accountant, a financial analyst or a business partner, artificial intelligence (AI) can help improve your finance strategy, uplift productivity and accelerate business outcomes. What is generative AI, what are foundation models, and why do they matter?

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

This blog explores the significance of IBP in today’s modern business landscape and highlights its key benefits and implementation considerations. This includes analyzing market trends, competitive forces, and customer demands to identify opportunities and threats. appeared first on IBM Blog.

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supply chain software solutions Real-time Visibility Agile and Lean Supply Chain Supply Chain Optimization 87

Supply Chain Trend

JUNE 28, 2023

It has been a long-evolving trend. As an IBP manager with a supply chain background, I used to report straight to the CFO and work closely with my FP&A peers to monthly ‘ebitise’ all the business plans. The Continuous Rise of Automation Another major trend is the rise of automation. Photo credit: FP&A trends

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Supply Chain Collaborator

MAY 23, 2018

barks the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) into the phone. Supply chain management leaders, especially in transportation, are under heavy fire from CFOs for the dramatic increases in freight spend that are eroding the profitability of shippers in every industry. The post CFO Beating You Up Over Rising Freight Costs?

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Procurify

JULY 21, 2022

Here are questions CFOs can ask themselves to start auditing their own spend management processes: What is our discretionary spend? Are there any trends by role, department, function, and/or project? If you’re a CFO who has been postponing getting a BCP, now is a good time to draft one. Who is approving what?

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Positive Purchasing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

James Meads: Elon Musk, Sam Altman and even Lord Sugar have all come out denouncing remote work – what sort of trends are you seeing? Jonathan: I am finding the most recent trend is towards a more hybrid model, in fact most of our clients are now hybrid – though I appreciate this does not work in every type of business.

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