IBM Supply Chain Blog

MAY 17, 2024

Over 90% of business buyers say a company’s customer experience is as important as what it sells. To avoid this, it’s crucial for businesses to carefully plan and design intelligent automation initiatives that prioritize the needs and preferences of their customers, whether they are consumers or B2B buyers.

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HICX

MAY 12, 2023

In his words, “If we don’t have visibility of it, we don’t know where to go at it.” Analytics, on the other hand, done correctly, can provide this visibility. Buyers, he says, are spending a lot of time trying to get materials to their factories. Or, ‘how do you get real-time decision-making?’

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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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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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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Purchase orders would be written out by hand and mailed or faxed to suppliers with buyers calling suppliers on the phone to tell them about their needs as well as the inevitable changes in demand. Visibility to where goods were was largely limited to updates that came over the phone. Conclusion. And there is nothing wrong with that.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Just-in-time (JIT) became an artform and masters of the practice achieved new levels of precision. Goods arrived exactly when needed, waste and holding costs were kept to a minimum, and single source strategies prevailed due to ease and cost savings. How to get started with supply chain resiliency .

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Pipefy

MAY 23, 2023

Because of this, carrying out its operations manually is time-consuming and incredibly expensive for businesses. Savvy leaders are quickly adopting e-procurement solutions to lower the time, costs, silos, and strained supplier relationships that plague manual operations.

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Procurement Software

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

It’s built by an experienced team of sourcing professionals and consultants who have spent decades developing cost optimisation strategies for world-renowned brands. The tool can continually generate and revise strategies across categories. M&A) The solution gives you full spend visibility.

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Pipefy

JUNE 14, 2023

Visibility into procurement categories and effective management of categories fosters benefits like greater risk management and less costly supplier redundancies. Spend analytics creates the visibility procurement teams need to complete a spend analysis. ignoring the importance of data quality, 2. focusing solely on cost reduction, 3.

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Pipefy

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

But while there are key insights that procurement and accounts payable teams can draw from invoices, the invoice processing activities can be tedious, time-consuming, and costly — especially processed manually across siloed systems, disparate legacy solutions, and disconnected processes.

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Procurement Software

JULY 4, 2023

It also provides real-time data and analytics that can be used to improve purchasing decisions. Ultimately, digital procurement enables organisations to enhance the overall procurement experience, as well as increase efficiencies and transform their end-to-end procurement function. What is procurement tech?

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Procurement Software

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

It generates insights on bottlenecks, variants, and cycle times to drive process improvements. Workfellow offers a next-generation end-to-end visibility into workflows, systems usage, and tasks. It aims to deliver a one truth approach, bringing real transparency to your costs and savings.

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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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HICX

AUGUST 4, 2022

Caption: Adam Brown, Procurement Strategy & Transformation, Maersk; Carmen Erhardt, Head of Digitalization, Henkel; Anthony Payne CMO, HICX; Ragnar Lorentzen, CCO, HICX; Nils Andersson, Senior Manager – Head of Strategic Sourcing Process, Orkla; and Aleks Hajdas PTP Program Lead, JTI share their views on Supplier Experience.

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Procurement Software

JULY 18, 2023

It gives you full visibility of your spend data, all in one place. New modules are being developed all the time as part of WeProc’s continuous development. Specific and sustainable supplier catalogues are included, allowing users to benefit from Hivebuy’s bulk buyer conditions. It’s also designed in a modular fashion.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

In this climate, buyers are relying on suppliers more than ever before. And buyers aren’t collaborating with suppliers merely as providers of materials and goods, but as strategic partners that can help create products that are competitive differentiators. They may even take over the provisioning of an entire end-to-end solution.

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ivalua

MARCH 9, 2023

S2P is the end-to-end process that encompasses all the activities between an organization and its suppliers. The contracts govern the relationship between the buyer and supplier, an essential process to inform Procure-to-Pay. Also included: supplier improvement plans, innovation plans and overall supplier collaboration.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 2, 2023

They don’t want to fill out a form to request a quote, send an email to get pricing information, or wait to get simple answers; they want real-time answers and action. Artificial intelligence can be a powerful tool for developing exceptional conversational marketing strategies.

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