IBM Supply Chain Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Successful companies fuse product development practices with overarching business strategies to ensure sustainable innovations that will resonate efficiently and sustainably with customers—both in existing markets and among new target audiences. This will become the sample as materials and vendors are sourced for mass production.

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Procurement Tactics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Of course, there are companies that have already adopted sustainability in their supply chain. . In this article, we will briefly discuss sustainability in procurement and its significance to businesses. Additionally, we will show you some companies that have embraced sustainability in their supply chain. .

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Spend Matters

AUGUST 2, 2023

To kick off the first in the vendor series, we spoke with James Stirk, Chief Revenue Officer at business commerce platform Tradeshift. Businesses are inevitably looking at ways to reduce costs, but that’s rarely the primary motivator we’ve seen for change, even in the current economic climate.

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Skill Dynamics

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Supplier relationship management is a business strategy utilized by organizations to strategically build relationships with their suppliers that are mutually beneficial. Often it involves attempting to streamline the procurement process and minimise waste within the supply chain.

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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. For companies with less than $100 million in revenue, 22% reported losses of at least $1 million. Profitability.

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Empowering CPO

JULY 16, 2023

Managed procurement services can be defined as an external service that helps streamline a company’s acquisition processes, offering an end-to-end solution that takes into account all aspects of procurement – from sourcing to payment.

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Jaggaer

APRIL 14, 2020

Define your procurement response strategy. Catch the on-demand webinar on building business continuity plans and business strategies for the short, mid and long-term. This is perhaps an extreme example, but it highlights how COVID-19 is causing severe disruptions to supply chains. The longer-term impacts.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

Integrated planning incorporates supply chain planning, demand planning, and demand forecasts so the company can quickly assess the impact on inventory levels, supply chain logistics, production plans, and customer service capacity.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Companies of all sizes have been capturing the value from Global Supply Chain to increase the economies of scale and scope for years. Due to the rapid change in global business environment, managers find it difficult to gain the edge over competitors. delivery reliability”), but is that really “supply chain thinking”?

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Empowering CPO

JULY 16, 2023

Managed procurement services can be defined as an external service that helps streamline a company’s acquisition processes, offering an end-to-end solution that takes into account all aspects of procurement – from sourcing to payment.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Armed with domain expertise and provisions of scalability (hence cost effectiveness), they offer a better return on investment to the businesses that may not have expansive budgets for security. “We experienced a transformative impact on our business after implementing QRadar SIEM’s multi-tenancy solution.

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Supply Chain Opz

JUNE 1, 2014

Professionals in supply chain management use various methods to identify best practices to improve the operations. Analysis of case study is certainly one of the most popular methods for people from business management background. Supply Chain of fashion industry involves a time based competition.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

This reality means that every brand in every industry with every business model needs to optimize the commerce experience, and thus the customer experience , to drive conversion rates and revenues. “It’s about experiential buying in a seamless omnichannel journey, which is so rich that it essentially becomes channel-less.”

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

While leaders have some reservations about the benefits of current AI, organizations are actively investing in gen AI deployment, significantly increasing budgets, expanding use cases, and transitioning projects from experimentation to production. 46% of survey respondents in 2024 showed a preference for open source models.

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Planergy

AUGUST 16, 2022

Supplier development is an important part of a company’s overall supply chain management strategy and is essential for ensuring that the right suppliers are selected to deliver quality products and services. The goal of these teams is to work with suppliers to identify ways to reduce costs and improve quality.

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Empowering CPO

JUNE 22, 2023

With a suite of spend analysis services that blend advanced technology, industry expertise, and deep commitment to client success, EmpoweringCPO assists businesses in navigating their spending patterns. We believe in empowering companies to contribute to a more diverse and equitable business landscape, one procurement decision at a time.

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 25, 2022

In the current era, it is clear that new modes of production are concomitant with new modes of distribution, which advances the field of logistics, the science of physical distribution or even supply chain management. Reminder of Key Definitions – Logistics & Supply Chain Management. and J-P Rodrigue (2004)).

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Empowering CPO

JULY 3, 2023

The Need for Innovation in Procurement The procurement sector, like most business areas, has been undergoing a significant transformation in recent years. As globalization accelerates and supply chains become increasingly complex, procurement’s role has expanded from a mere transactional function to a strategic one.

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 8, 2019

We dealt with one of them in the previous article in this series: the need to integrate data across the full spectrum from source-to-pay. With budgets not growing at an adequate pace, or even shrinking, procurement cannot deliver the value that digital transformation promises. It identified a couple of key challenges.

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Pipefy

AUGUST 1, 2023

Any business that wants to excel, or even compete, in the current capricious market must have the ability to make the best, most efficient use of its resources. In the past, that meant cutting facilities budgets or reigning in travel allowances. Businesses must set cost objectives at the creation stage of their operations strategy.

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The Good Spending

AUGUST 23, 2022

This post attempts to provide the most comprehensive view on procurement value and practical methods of its realizations compared to many other web sources replicating slogans and mystifying logical and straightforward concepts. Cost avoidance Future years. If you managed to fully or partially waive it, then it's cost avoidance.

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Pipefy

JANUARY 30, 2024

That’s where procurement, sourcing, and purchasing technology comes in. Because procurement teams provide critical insights to inform business strategy , identifying opportunities to cut costs is one of the most important ways they do this. To do any of these effectively, they need the right procurement technology.

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Empowering CPO

JUNE 25, 2023

Understanding Procurement and its Business Significance At the heart of every thriving business is an effective and efficient procurement process. Procurement, in its simplest form, is the process by which businesses acquire the goods, services, or works they need from external sources.

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Empowering CPO

JUNE 14, 2023

Introduction Welcome to the dynamic world of procurement, where businesses are constantly seeking innovative ways to manage their supply chains more efficiently and effectively. One strategy that has captured considerable attention is procurement outsourcing.

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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.

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Planergy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. Strategic Considerations: Understanding and selecting the right integration strategy can significantly impact a company’s growth and success. How to gain visibility and control of your indirect spend.

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Pipefy

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Procurement solutions encompass a wide range of specific functions due to the many aspects of the procurement process, including purchase requests centralization, procure-to-pay, sourcing, budget management, supplier management, and forecasting. Sourcing tools can help organizations choose vendors that deliver greater long-term value.

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Zycus Cognitive Procurement

JANUARY 31, 2023

By engaging in SRM practices, businesses can identify the best suppliers from which to source materials and services, optimize costs, mitigate risk, explore new opportunities for top-line growth through supplier innovation, streamline operational processes and receive preferential treatment as a customer of choice.

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Empowering CPO

MAY 4, 2023

By effectively managing the purchasing process, companies can better control their expenditures and optimize their supply chain, ensuring the availability of the right products and services at the right time. E-sourcing tools: Platforms that facilitate online bidding and negotiation, streamlining the supplier selection process.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MARCH 26, 2024

How aligned is the sustainability strategy to the business strategy? How is sustainability managed—as an annual measuring exercise or an ongoing effort that supports business transformation? Questions might include: Where is the organization relative to its required and voluntary sustainability goals?

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 4, 2024

Business process management examples BPM can help improve overall business operations by optimizing various business processes. Through BPM, disparate data sources—including spend data, internal performance metrics and external market research—can be connected.

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Pipefy

MARCH 6, 2023

Supply chain interruptions, worker shortages, and rising inflation costs that emerged with the pandemic have forever changed the economic landscape. Far more businesses have quickly adapted to online models and remote work than anyone expected. But amid what seem to be perpetual shake-ups, there is good news.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The pandemic disrupted many supply chains,” Bartolini said. “In In our recent survey, 70% of respondents said that the pandemic has had an extraordinary or very significant impact on their business.” Our supply chains became resilient. Prediction 3: Procurement will drive critical business strategies in 2021-22.

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