IBM Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 28, 2023

The publishing industry is a heavy user of analytics and a broad use of metrics, from commonly used measures such as shipments, orders, revenue, point-of-sales and costs to more focused metrics such as pricing, inventory status and countless others.

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Data Inventory Supply Chain Efficiency Sourcing 55

IBM Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

While it’s nice to be able to report to executives about the number or percentage of critical severity CVEs that have been patched, does that metric actually tell us anything about the improved resiliency of their organization? Does reducing the number of critical CVEs significantly reduce the risk of a breach?

Real-time Visibility 77

Real-time Visibility Risk Management Budget 77

Positive Purchasing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Procurement can sometimes struggle to articulate this, and most businesses are run on these kinds of hard metrics. James Meads: You mentioned Capella, which is your category strategy management tool – what are the other SaaS tools?

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Supply Chain Collaborator

MARCH 4, 2015

The current windfall shippers are experiencing thanks to the depressed cost of fuel is the perfect reason to strike now if your organization has ever toyed with the idea of improving supply chain management with a SaaS software solution. Learn why making this modest investment today will pay dividends for years to come.

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EazyStock

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Big data exists in real-time and involves prompt access to data, alerts and inventory management and control metrics through cloud computing systems. Reduced Costs By Migrating to the Cloud: A Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) approach for IT management means that the cloud-based nature of big data reduces hardware and maintenance costs.

Inventory 45

Inventory Data Management supply chain software solutions 45

The Good Spending

DECEMBER 14, 2023

SaaS procurement negotiations in today's business ecosystem have evolved to encompass multifaceted strategic considerations beyond traditional software purchases. Understanding Modern SaaS Procurement SaaS procurement negotiations extend far beyond cost considerations. Contract management should be exercised continuously.

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Negotiation Procurement Contract Price 59

IBM Supply Chain Blog

JANUARY 26, 2024

Learn more in our announcement blog. Instana has deeply integrated OpenTelemetry with our core product and has expanded the coverage that we provide: Full support for OTLP metrics, traces and logs in the Instana Agent and via our SaaS API. Read more about this enhancement in our blog announcement.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JULY 6, 2023

By aggregating information from cross-domain event, metric and topology ingestion and leveraging AI capabilities, AIOps Insights enables teams to more quickly detect, identify and collaborate on incidents. Automate every aspect of incident resolution By harnessing the power of IBM AIOps Insights, incident resolution becomes more streamlined.

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Management Real-time Visibility e2e Collaboration 58

IBM Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 28, 2023

This blog post is ripe with practical next steps that you can use to better understand, help persuade and begin to implement AIOps within your organization. Traditional monitoring tools might give you metrics and data, but they often lack the ability to provide a complete picture of the system’s behavior.

Data 63

Data Cost optimization Sustainability Management 63

IBM Supply Chain Blog

JANUARY 26, 2024

Learn more in our announcement blog. Instana has deeply integrated OpenTelemetry with our core product and has expanded the coverage that we provide: Full support for OTLP metrics, traces and logs in the Instana Agent and via our SaaS API. Read more about this enhancement in our blog announcement.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

What is Procurement’s North Star Metric? The North Star Metric (NSM). As published by Forbes in a 2017 article, “The North Star metric concept originally emerged from Silicon Valley and is best utilized by companies that invest in long-term sustainable growth. These sub-metrics should be your own mini-North Star Metrics.

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Zycus Cognitive Procurement

JULY 30, 2021

Leaders in supplier development and innovation tend to beat industry trends by approximately 2X times in growth and other metrics. Instead, one can proactively adopt SaaS-based platforms that empower business users with informative dashboards, configurable. workflows, and AI-generated metrics that help increase adoption.

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Supplier relationship management Suppliers Management Procurement 52

IBM Supply Chain Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

With the data monetization solution framework, the maximized return on value can come from a data product provider becoming a data SaaS business. Realize: Instrument the data product services to enable adherence to risk and compliance controls with event and metrics data integrated to financial management.

Data 115

Data Strategy Supply Chain Efficiency Sourcing 115

IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Most operations teams simply don’t have that kind of leeway, particularly for e-commerce and SaaS sites that have a direct impact on revenue generation. Real-time performance data : Metrics would also be important for a DIY backup, to ensure that everything fails over correctly and traffic isn’t interrupted.

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Risk Networking Sourcing Data 97

IBM Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

This phase of planning also covers projected project milestones and well-defined metrics for the system once it goes live. Extensions: Once relevant data has been migrated, organizations can import and configure any of Oracle’s extensive software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications and extensions.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 11, 2023

Establish clear objectives: CIOs have metrics to analyze their approach, just like every other business unit. Software licensing assessment The rise of the software-as-a-service (SaaS) market means organizations can increasingly license technology from third-party providers to decrease their internal IT services costs.

Import 83

Import Management Budget Real-time Visibility 83

IBM Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 8, 2023

Analyzing asset performance metrics helps optimize maintenance schedules, identify asset improvement opportunities and drive overall operational efficiency. To find out more, book a live demo with an IBM expert [link] The post How to choose the best enterprise asset management software appeared first on IBM Blog.

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supply chain software solutions Real-time Visibility Management Supply Chain Optimization 54

IBM Supply Chain Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Manual data entry is not necessary, making tasks such as inventory management much easier and making metrics tracking much simpler. The best way to avoid this ongoing cost is to utilize a cloud-based ERP system, which is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution that can be run from any location.

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supply chain software solutions Supply Chain Efficiency Real-time Visibility Supply Chain Optimization 68

IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 30, 2023

They store large amounts of data that can be analyzed and tracked, with organizations customizing their KPIs and metrics according to their specific needs. SaaS models are changing this, bringing CMMS and EAM costs closer together, which, coupled with the additional benefits of EAM, is making it an increasingly cost-effective option.

Management 66

Management supply chain software solutions Supply Chain Optimization Supply Chain Efficiency 66

Supply Chain Collaborator

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Older, siloed modal solutions that cobble multiple modes together into ad-hoc planning models have been supplanted by modern API-driven systems like UltraShipTMS that provide a centralized hub for planning, metrics and big data practices. Analysts from Forrester Research estimate the average SaaS solution market value growth at 56.2%

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World of Procurement blog

JUNE 17, 2021

It might be based on performance metrics being met and if they are not then you will reduce payment. Even if you’ve got a contract management tool such as a SaaS solution that helps you undertake Contract Management you will still want to create a Contract Management Guide. How will goods/services be delivered?

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