Spend Matters

APRIL 15, 2025

Supply chain disruptions whether from geopolitical shifts, weather events or logistical breakdowns are nearly impossible for humans to predict alone. Thats where AI steps in, offering a proactive approach to predicting supplier lead times and optimizing demand forecasts for buyers.

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Spend Matters

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Categories: Procurement Systems & Architecture , Supply Chain Visibility Tags: PRO In this Spend Matters PRO Vendor Analysis, we give an overview of Circularise, a blockchain-based traceability solution that helps companies trace products and materials to verify their origins, certificates, CO2 footprints and other material data.

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Following a forecast to suppliers, a Tier-1 supplier collaborates with its suppliers—Tier 2 for the buyer—to obtain critical components for producing products and/or services. Enhancing collaboration pays off, both by increasing transparency with suppliers and improving the bottom line through multi-tier supply chain visibility.

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The Good Spending

JUNE 15, 2022

Instead of looking at the act of buying as a spontaneous event, researchers viewed it as a series of patterns explained by the nature of actors, demands, and relationships. New Tasks The first-time buyer seeks a wide variety of information to explore alternative purchasing solutions to their organizational task.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Regardless of what your situation is there is merit in creating and promoting the value that can be delivered by a highly effective Supply Chain organization. The Supply Chain team must always meet the demands and pressures that the organization demands. Cost and Profit Management.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

AUGUST 12, 2024

Today Evan Smith, Co-Founder and CEO at Altana, joins me to talk all about Altana and what they do; their mission to fix globalization and improve global commerce for everyone; the role of AI in making data accessible and actionable; and how Altana are delivering more than twice the supply chain visibility of any other provider.

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Procurement Software

MAY 9, 2022

Parallel to this, they offer the ability to streamline supplier governance and due diligence activities to cover increasing demands on compliance and supply chain visibility. Studied cases at Kodiak Hub show between 1–3 % loss of brand exposure resulting from a non-compliant supply chain.

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Procurement Software

MAY 9, 2022

Parallel to this, they offer the ability to streamline supplier governance and due diligence activities to cover increasing demands on compliance and supply chain visibility. Studied cases at Kodiak Hub show between 1–3 % loss of brand exposure resulting from a non-compliant supply chain.

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Supplier relationship management supply chain software solutions Suppliers Management 52

Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 1, 2021

Of course, a supply chain upgrade is a major investment that may require you to obtain a working capital loan from reliable lenders. 7 Ways to Make Your Supply Chain More Efficient. Invest in supply chain visibility. Your supply chain is as efficient as the people who manage it.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

But by BORING, from a Supply Chain perspective , I did mean that we were going to do all of the necessary planning. And we would make all of the required changes to ensure that the Supply Chain was fully prepared for the overwhelming demands and pressures that come along in the heat of the Holiday season.

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Finale Inventory

JULY 18, 2024

For example, a purchase order document may include segments for the buyer’s information, the seller’s information, and the items being ordered. Real-time data exchange has become a standard feature, allowing businesses to make data-driven decisions quickly and respond to market demands.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Gartner defines supply chain resiliency as the ability to adapt to structural changes by modifying supply chain strategies, products and technologies, and agility as the ability to sense and respond to unanticipated changes in demand or supply quickly and reliably, without sacrificing cost or quality.

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Supply chain resilience Supply Chain Efficiency Agile and Lean Supply Chain Supply Chain Optimization 52

Procurement Software

MARCH 5, 2024

It promises to assist with improving buyer and supplier collaboration. Ravacan automates the purchased parts procurement process by consolidating part demands, providing automatic price updates, and visualising product cost changes. Additionally, analytics features grant you deeper visibility into your supply chain.

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Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 26, 2018

Creating a long horizon is important because the buyer need to have an accurate sense of a supplier’s total capacity for producing over time. Regulations and customs duties often change with the new year, so that information has to be incorporated into a long-range scenario.

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Claritum

JULY 5, 2018

True supply chain visibility means delivering real time information to upstream customers and downstream suppliers. Providing at any point in time, a top level view of KPIs, yet at the same time to be able to drill down to a specific item within any one of the many supply chain domains.

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SCMDOJO

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Demand Forecasting: We perceive that advancing forecasting methods is essential. They improve demand prediction accuracy, helplessly align production, and procure 14 forecasting methods that can be applied to a business for growth and future improvements. It balanced inventory levels to meet demand without excess or shortages.

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Arkestro

DECEMBER 12, 2022

But those in the health and pharmaceutical industries deal with particularly demanding circumstances. The pandemic and resulting supply chain disruptions have added extreme pressure on the health and pharma sector to address shortages quickly and efficiently. Supply Chain Visibility.

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 28, 2025

Scoutbee is an AI-powered procurement network that connects buyers with potential suppliers. Agentic AI takes this a step further by enabling autonomous supply chain systems. Predictive analytics for demand forecasting is a key application of big data. Thats where a Distribution Operations Assessment comes in handy.

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