IBM Supply Chain Blog

JANUARY 29, 2024

Last year, companies worldwide were poised to spend USD 219 billion on cybersecurity and solutions, a 12% increase from the year before according to a recent report by the International Data Corporation (IDC) (link resides outside ibm.com). Here is a widely used four-step process for creating DRPs.

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Zycus Cognitive Procurement

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Research over the past few decades shows that companies need to achieve a good balance between . Eliminate non-essential spend. e.g., Most organizations use a spend analysis solution to identify savings opportunities & find payment term deferral. Reduce maverick spend. The 3 Rs of riding out of the recession storm.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Companies also take advantage of ML in smartphone cameras to analyze and enhance photos using image classifiers, detect objects (or faces) in the images, and even use artificial neural networks to enhance or expand a photo by predicting what lies beyond its borders. Humanize HR AI can attract, develop and retain a skills-first workforce.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 8, 2022

If you own a business, you are going to be worrying about how you can continue to grow without spending any more than you absolutely have to. The money you spend should result in a much better result. A good team will study the data gained to finesse your efforts and get you more traction. Outplacement Services.

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Positive Purchasing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Sales teams come to us for help with managing negotiations resulting from recent steep price increases in labour, raw materials and logistics, which they are forced to pass on to their customers. James Meads: Elon Musk, Sam Altman and even Lord Sugar have all come out denouncing remote work – what sort of trends are you seeing?

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JULY 10, 2023

It starts the moment a potential hire spots a company’s listing for an open position and ends with an employee’s retirement or departure. Customer experience, on the other hand, includes every interaction and touchpoint between a customer and a company.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

To further help European companies accelerate their modernization journey, we recently opened our Multi-Zone Region (MZR) in Madrid, Spain. With high levels of resiliency, IBM Cloud can help make it easier for Dizzion’s customers to enable their employees to work remotely in a secured and collaborative environment.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 26, 2021

Employees want to work for companies that offer more than just a paycheck, as they like good benefits and opportunities for advancement. There is a lot of competition in the construction industry, and companies need to make sure that their employees feel appreciated when they do a good job. Define Company Culture and Purpose.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Check out Procurement – How to Enable Spend Aggregation! If you can increase spend levels through centralized spend aggregation across entities then you increase your leverage in negotiations. These entities may be different departments or facilities within your own company. The theory is simple!

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 4, 2022

Are you tired of spending long hours trying to fix unbalanced accounts? Better decisions: With enough time for closing, the accounting and finance teams can focus on how to improve. If your company is still using manual systems to run its account procedure, then now is a good time to make the switch. The Continuous Close.

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Zycus Cognitive Procurement

JANUARY 12, 2021

As we witnessed during the Covid-19 pandemic, companies were unprepared for and were severely affected by the unexpected occurrence. Here is Zycus’ 5-step checklist for effectively managing the Source to contract process when calamity strikes: 1] Smart Spend Analysis. Start by getting the most out of your spend analytics solution.

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ivalua

MAY 21, 2020

This article was originally posted on the SIG blog. New leadership skills and traits will be necessary to ensure business continuity, and to inspire teams to work together to support each other and remain productive. Procurement teams were just buyers who delivered what other departments told them to buy.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 18, 2021

Procurement teams are always on the hunt for better ways to boost the speed of their processes. Most companies are reluctant in the transitioning of their physical signatures to online signing. Frequent delays will ultimately interfere with your company’s ability to deliver and compete. Procurement Automation.

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EazyStock

JULY 20, 2020

Inventory is the biggest entry in the balance sheet of many distribution companies and fast deliveries are becoming increasingly important in today’s digital world – especially as an increasing number of people are working remotely. If you’re a small eCommerce company, don’t choose a system made for enterprise-size manufacturers.

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Claritum

JUNE 3, 2019

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. No visibility of the impact of Maverick spending. Plus, procuring through these, often results in purchases not being allocated to the correct budget codes and increases the spend that is effectively out of control. 6 No visibility of the impact of Maverick spending. Introduction.

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Claritum

MAY 11, 2020

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. Also, most businesses either have all or some of their Procurement and Sales professionals working remotely, or working with smaller teams as a result of furloughing some resources. Introduction. Trading During a Pandemic. A Buyer/Seller Ecosystem. The Ecosystem Capabilities. 1 Introduction.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

Blog post originally published at [link] Permission to publish provided by Theodore T. What are companies thinking at the executive level and what type of actions are they taking? Many companies are in trouble and many more are on the edge of financial trouble. We spoke with and within two months the company let the COO go.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Finding a game development team is always a challenge when it comes to finding competent professionals. The smart programmers make their own games or are already employed by large companies. Good developers tend to avoid offers from single customers and seek out companies with more stable prospects ( game design company ).

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Planergy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Clients and results More Customers We saved more than $1 million on our spend in the first year and just recently identified an opportunity to save about $10,000 every month on recurring expenses with Planergy. How to gain visibility and control of your indirect spend. How to gain visibility and control of your indirect spend.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MARCH 28, 2024

In a private cloud, a single organization is typically responsible for all private infrastructure, whether hosted in-house within a company’s physical location, in an off-site data center on infrastructure owned or rented by a third party, or on a public cloud service provider’s infrastructure.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

There would be no e-commerce, remote work capabilities or the IT infrastructure framework needed to support emerging technologies like generative AI and quantum computing. This infrastructure model relies on a network of remote data centers , servers and storage systems owned and operated by a third-party service provider.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

If an AP team is trying to stay ahead of things, they might make payments as soon as they get an invoice. Your team will be able to choose the right timing to pay your suppliers, freeing your working capital and also allowing the department to take advantage of early payment discounts. Facilitates Remote Work Environments.

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SCMDOJO

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Effective supply chain management is essential for success in the dynamism and connectivity of modern companies. We introduce the top 20 supply chain specialist you should hire in this blog. Matías Guarello Wilhelmy Location: Chile / Remote Rating: 5/5.0 Dr. Muddassir Ahmed Location: United Arab Emirates/Remote Rating: 5/5.0

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MARCH 6, 2024

This shift involves a fundamental change in the way a company operates. Recent statistics indicate a significant rise in companies adopting cloud services to meet their operational and cost saving needs. Recent statistics indicate a significant rise in companies adopting cloud services to meet their operational and cost saving needs.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

These include single consoles or dashboards that help create a single pane of glass (SPOG) so teams can easily view and control resources. For instance, a DevOps team can quickly scale or extend an application’s functionality by adding new microservices without having to add a line of code or affecting other aspects of the application.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

We got on the phone with the Supply Chain team in Mexico to try to get our arms around the problem and develop an action plan. As such we resolved to quickly recruit many subject matter experts to our team: we needed the best and brightest from Finance, Commodity Management, Accounts Payable, Supply Chain and I/T. Scoping the Case!

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 18, 2021

Procurement teams article and permission to publish here provided by Sam Jenks. Each and every function, within its own right, strives for excellence and achievement in order for a company to collectively grow, evolve, and thrive. These are the 7 common signs we’ve identified for teams that achieve procurement excellence: 1.

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EazyStock

MARCH 10, 2023

To prevent drastic decreases in profitability or increases in debt, finance teams are scrutinizing budgets and balance sheets to find areas to cut to make savings. Changes in business priorities could also see companies shift their focus and budgets to new business initiatives.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 26, 2021

Leadership on all levels must be at the forefront of changing processes, guiding, educating, and getting teams to maintain course. New tools introduce new processes requiring transition and retraining, which stresses teams. It starts with communication and getting teams in from the onset. Changing technology. Inevitable.

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