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The transformative power of ecosystem partnerships

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Jason Kelley, Global Managing Partner and Strategic Partnership Lead, IBM Consulting, believes that today, organizations need to work with an ecosystem of partners to succeed, even if they’re competitors. Enterprises need to be able to direct and manage the right collaborators to achieve the desired outcomes.

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6 considerations to take when approximating cloud spend

IBM Supply Chain Blog

With the right guidance and cost management approach, a cloud migration can and should decrease overall IT costs , while increasing operational efficiency and improving IT services. Like other IT expenditures, cloud costs can skyrocket and threaten ROI without the right cloud management solutions.

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Data privacy examples

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Learn how IBM OpenPages Data Privacy Management can improve compliance accuracy and reduce audit time. The price tag can add up quickly. Example A social media site creates a self-service data management portal. Organizations face fines of up to USD 7,500 per violation.

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Vendor Analysis: What Is It, Process, Types, and Best Practices

Planergy

Modern Spend Management and Accounts Payable software. How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. Vendor analysis is crucial for risk management. Management: Meet with the vendor’s management team. What's Planergy? What is Vendor Analysis?

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Intelligent Supply Chain Technologies for the Future!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Considering the exposed vulnerabilities of the supply chain strategies during the pandemic, the logical progression for these companies is to take advantage of digitization to a greater extent in the post-coronavirus-world. In addition, organizations need to rethink their lean manufacturing strategies. electronics).

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The Greatest Supply Chain Disruptions and What We Learned

World of Procurement blog

When I graduated college with my shiny new Supply Chain Management degree, I figured I was heading into my first job to work on supplier contract negotiations, optimizing production line output, and all of the other 'sexy' supply chain management strategy we had spent two years learning about. No man, the line is out.

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How Shipping Software Innovation Led a Technology Company Into Freight Management!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Why don’t you have a TMS (Transportation Management System) Solution yet? Our outdated manual methods were wasting a lot of time and money, which we attempted to solve by subscribing to a transportation management solution; however, we were sorely let down by the lack of customization. Subscribe Here! Email Address.