IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

To be successful, businesses need to have clear, real-time visibility into the condition of their assets and a plan to keep them running smoothly and make repairs quickly when things break. This is why asset reliability is such a critical component of business strategy. What is an asset?

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

MARCH 30, 2023

The Challenges with EDI One of the main challenges that every company faces with EDI is the time and resources it takes to onboard new trading partners. The average time to onboard and go live with a new partner is about 12 weeks and typically involves IT specialists, software developers, and EDI experts.

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Pipefy

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

This process grants transparency and visibility into purchase orders and approvals to a sometimes surprising degree. Businesses, therefore, should select the product that best aligns with their procurement requirements and business strategy. The features of these solutions can vary widely.

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Planergy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

How to gain visibility and control of your indirect spend. How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. Using financial tools can help save time and resources while improving accuracy in the budgeting process.

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ivalua

AUGUST 26, 2015

Thus when launching an information gathering initiative, it can be difficult to ascertain where to put the most time to get the fastest and strongest return on the project. A common mistake of many new ‘business intelligence’ programs is trying to collect and analyze too much information at the onset of a program.

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Pipefy

DECEMBER 6, 2023

No matter how much they differ, efficient and friction-free workflows typically share the following traits: they provide visibility, employees are aligned on changes and requirements, fosters accountability, and creates a positive business impact. Visibility Each step in a workflow should be visible.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

To successfully align your data and analytics strategy with your business strategy, you need the right data architecture in place. A recent IBV Chief Data Officer study revealed that 63% the top the CDOs surveyed are aligned with the business strategy in compared to 48% of other surveyed CDOs.

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Pipefy

APRIL 4, 2023

Reducing waste often involves eliminating process bottlenecks, allowing organizations to shorten their product lead time, product cycle time and time-to-market. Enhances visibility Standardizing processes is a key requirement for reducing the risk of human error. Does it integrate with the software you have?

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SCMDOJO

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

A warehouse management system is a software solution that provides transparency and visibility to the entire warehouse operations. WMS is efficient enough to manage Inventories, order fulfillment, and inbound-outbound deliveries of any single warehouse or multi-location warehouse cluster.

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Pipefy

OCTOBER 24, 2023

This gives teams more visibility and control by providing a central hub for all purchases, payments, and other information. Better visibility improves alignment between buyers, legal teams, and accounts payable. In this scenario, the procurement team may have difficulty acting decisively and informing overall business strategy.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JANUARY 8, 2024

Becoming a real-time enterprise Businesses often go on a journey that traverses several stages of maturity when they establish an EDA. Teams want more visibility and access to events so they can reuse and innovate on the work of others. Reuse of course can bring its own challenges. How will access be controlled?

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Supply Chain Trend

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The best application of CPFR I’ve encountered was in 2005, when working for a meat manufacturer that received point-of-sale (POS) data four times a day (10am, noon, 2pm, 4pm) from over 600 stores from the largest retailer in the Netherlands. It is a great way to use data and create supply[1]chain visibility.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 29, 2021

Supply Chain Investment Challenges – Real and Imagined! Amid the thick covid-clouds, organizations are preparing to make their way back to regular business to maximize profitability and make up for the lost time. Data analytics provides actionable insights to save time, effort and cost. Hyperautomation.

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Pipefy

OCTOBER 25, 2023

From reducing waste and containing costs to mitigating risks such as procurement fraud and inflated expenses, procurement’s insights and expertise can help businesses navigate some of their most pressing challenges. These are the real outcomes and value that procurement’s strategic involvement and influence offers. Profitability.

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FourKites

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Learn more about how customer services contributes to the ROI of Real-Time Transportation Visibility. In the consumer space, it’s often a perfectly viable business strategy to sell a product or service that your customers never even thought they might want until you presented it to them.

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Pipefy

AUGUST 1, 2023

Today, however, success requires a detailed review and breakdown of each process a business carries out to make and deliver its goods and services (also known as operations). This operations overview, or process visibility , can reveal common areas of waste and bottlenecks that cost companies millions in time and revenue each year.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Most supply chain leaders recognize that it’s an incredibly exciting time to be working in the field. At the same time, they must also develop strategies to significantly advance their capabilities in anticipation of overcoming their issues with the basics. You would measure lead time in days or even weeks.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 19, 2022

Strategies to improve your Supply Chain article and permission to publish here provided by Claire Glassman. The supply chain is a significant part of your overall business strategy and inventory management. In other words, it provides you with a real competitive advantage against some companies in your industry.

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ivalua

AUGUST 26, 2015

Thus when launching an information gathering initiative, it can be difficult to ascertain where to put the most time to get the fastest and strongest return on the project. A common mistake of many new ‘business intelligence’ programs is trying to collect and analyze too much information at the onset of a program.

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HICX

DECEMBER 11, 2023

When planned and implemented correctly, this results in savings in both time and costs, and a reduction in human error amongst the key stakeholders. Greater customer satisfaction Providing the supplier with better levels of service through increased efficiency and visibility can pay dividends in securing customer-of-choice status.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 14, 2021

Procurement and Sustainability are two disciplines and business functions that exist in a perfectly harmonious contradiction. Chief Procurement Officers’ priorities seem to be changing with the times in order to further implement initiatives necessary to meet broader organizational goals. out of 10, on average — an increase from 6.2

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Pipefy

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Read the report Low-Code Automation: Good for Business, Great for IT Download now. No business strategy is complete without user experience. UX impacts a wide range of KPIs including customer satisfaction, employee engagement, turnover rate, and response times, among others. Low-code helps deliver better UX.

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Empowering CPO

JUNE 25, 2023

The industrial revolution in the 18th and 19th centuries marked a significant turning point, as businesses started to realize the strategic importance of procurement. They were time-consuming, error-prone, and lacked the sophistication to handle large volumes of data or complex analyses.

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Pipefy

MAY 9, 2023

Definition of procurement KPIs Key performance indicators (KPIs) are measurements of the efficacy of a business department, process, or strategy. They are essential to measure the costs and reliability of a business strategy, as well as the performance and results. Continual late deliveries should raise a red flag.

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Jaggaer

MAY 14, 2019

T he success of a S2P software implementation project relies greatly on the business case it follows. A good business case should take into consideration the value the S2P solution could create, the project timeline, the overall business strategy and it should be based on solid data. . . The procurement strategy .

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

APRIL 13, 2023

Sourcing global talent Provides established processes for staff augmentation Visibility, KPIs, training, clear expectations When do customers approach Lean Solutions Group? Onboarding process 4 – 6 weeks onboarding time. Using partners like Symtrain and Textlocate Want to see how staff augmentation works with a real success case?

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Empowering CPO

JUNE 21, 2023

It’s about automating tedious tasks, enhancing data visibility, and providing more profound, actionable insights. Additionally, the sheer volume of transactions that large businesses dealt with on a daily basis made manual Spend Analysis highly time-consuming and inefficient.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Reformation is a trendy clothing company that uses their commitment to sustainability as part of their business strategy. For example, brand recognition on a podcast episode is great for awareness, but how many times do you click out of a podcast to purchase something?

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Shipium coordinates previously disconnected supply chain steps to help retailers offer fast, free, and on-time shipping. When you’re using technology to solve real-world problems – that’s what I love… and it allowed me to develop my thoughts around ‘how do you run an efficient ecommerce process?’”.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

APRIL 6, 2023

End-to-End Visibility – From shipping analytics and business intelligence (BI) to delivery experience management, Enveyo opens your eyes to shipment program performance from “click to ding-dong.” That way, you know exactly what’s going on within your shipping program at any point in time.

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Arkestro

AUGUST 1, 2022

For the longest time, the procurement scale has tipped in favor of the buyer. However, the post-pandemic era has seen a dramatic shift in the business landscape. Porter’s book Competitive Strategy outlines what became known as Porter’s Five Forces —a framework used to analyze a business’ competitive environment.

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Empowering CPO

JULY 16, 2023

Additionally, managed procurement services help businesses achieve better visibility into their spending patterns, uncover hidden savings opportunities, streamline operations, and free up internal resources to focus on core business activities.

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The Network Effect

APRIL 29, 2016

Due to today’s dynamic business environments, a short-sighted design process will often be dated by start-up and go-live. By placing strategy before structure, better alignment of operations and business strategies will be achieved. Letting implementation Schedule Dictate the Design. Short-Cutting Dock Requirements.

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Empowering CPO

JUNE 30, 2023

At EmpoweringCPO, we view procurement not as a separate function, but as an integral part of your business strategy. It can result in stock-outs or overstock, poor quality control, and longer lead times. This restructuring led to centralization of functions, improved visibility, and robust contract compliance.

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 25, 2022

Although logistics represents a whole system of space/time interdependencies, we believe that the discussion of its history and its chronological evolution still requires extensive studies to explore its origin and its advance in time, from a new point of view. This was reflected in the two major organizations of the time.

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Pipefy

MARCH 6, 2023

Common business transformation challenges (and how to overcome them) As with any big change that’s pushing both real and theoretical BPM limits, a learning curve, resistance to change, or a delay in adoption can always be expected — and it can be guaranteed without a proper implementation plan in place.

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Empowering CPO

JUNE 20, 2023

Moreover, it provides a baseline for measuring the success of procurement initiatives, offering a clear benchmark to track performance improvements over time. From a broader business strategy perspective, spend analysis reporting plays an equally crucial role.

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