Let's Talk Supply Chain

JUNE 5, 2023

Today I’m joined by Logward , an exciting tech brand with a vision of a future where supply chain departments lead the transformation of their industries, instead of simply transporting it. 09.56] What has, and hasn’t, changed in the last five years, and a look at today’s key challenges and trends. “I

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ivalua

JUNE 14, 2023

People: Engaging Stakeholders and Nurturing Change Engaging stakeholders early in the implementation process is crucial for gaining their support and supporting the change management process. Everyone is a contributor to change management A successful implementation engages everyone in the change management effort.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

According to Gopal Chandak, FP&A Leader at Landmark, “The consolidation of the financial budget, cost allocation methods and standardization of common records posed as major obstacles. Because of this, the budgeting process was inefficient.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JULY 26, 2023

Zero-Based Budgeting (ZBB) is like solving a financial puzzle. Instead of relying on the previous year’s budget, ZBB requires you to evaluate and justify every expense from the ground up, justifying its necessity and alignment with strategic goals. Learn more about IBM Planning Analytics What is Zero-Based Budgeting?

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World of Procurement blog

MAY 23, 2024

The goal of supplier consolidation is to streamline procurement processes, reduce costs by leveraging economies of scale, strengthen relationships with top-performing suppliers, and drive performance improvements through better coordination. This reduces administrative costs of procurement.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

By implementing Oracle , one of the world’s leading enterprise resource planning (ERP) tools, organizations can transform their business processes and significantly increase operational efficiency. Companies large and small are increasingly digitizing and managing vast troves of data.

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World of Procurement blog

MAY 8, 2024

Procurement differs from purchasing in a few key ways: Strategic focus : Procurement has a strategic, long-term focus on analyzing spend, reducing costs, managing supplier relationships, and mitigating risk. Metrics : Procurement tracks savings, efficiencies, supplier performance, and risk.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

Business process reengineering (BPR) is the radical redesign of core business processes to achieve dramatic improvements in performance, efficiency and effectiveness. It typically focuses on achieving dramatic, transformative changes to existing processes. This blog outlines some BPR examples that benefit from a BPM methodology.

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SCMDOJO

JULY 24, 2023

Contract Logistics is a critical aspect of the supply chain that often remains behind the scenes but plays a significant role in ensuring the efficient movement and management of goods. Key Players In the world of contract logistics, several key players collaborate to ensure the smooth functioning of the supply chain.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Procurement is a function that is undergoing an exciting transformation in the majority of global value chains; simultaneously, within its own strategy, process, and technology. Poor Data Quality, Scattered Tech Landscapes, Lacking Leadership Approval/Budgets. Subscribe Here!

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Solvoyo

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Supply Chain is a core business function tasked to manage multiple business operations such as production, inventory, order fulfillment, and transportation simultaneously. In fact, the supply chain people are expected to be super-heroes. How can they manage all this simultaneously?

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World of Procurement blog

MAY 10, 2024

By leveraging technologies like machine learning, natural language processing, and neural networks, AI-driven solutions can help procurement teams work smarter, faster, and more efficiently. Supplier Management with AI AI is transforming how procurement teams evaluate, select, and manage suppliers. This improves compliance.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 19, 2023

Through the formation of this group, the Assessment Services division discovered multiple enterprise resource planning instances and payroll systems, a lack of standard reporting, and siloed budgeting and forecasting processes residing within a labyrinth of spreadsheets. It was chaotic.

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Una

OCTOBER 9, 2023

How to Implement a Strategic Sourcing Process A play-by-play manual showing how to implement a strategic sourcing process that aligns with your organization’s goals, optimizes spend, and creates long-term value. By proactively addressing risks, organizations can safeguard their supply chains and drive efficiencies.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Last year, as life sciences organizations were consumed by the recovery from COVID-19, their focus had to shift rapidly to mitigating supply chain constraints, labor and skill shortages, and by the end of the year, inflationary pressures—all of which were exacerbated by the Russia-Ukraine war.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 4, 2024

Business Process Management (BPM) is a systematic approach to managing and streamlining business processes. BPM is intended to help improve the efficiency of existing processes, with the goal of increasing productivity and overall business performance. BPM is often confused with other seemingly similar initiatives.

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Empowering CPO

JUNE 14, 2023

Whether you’re a procurement professional looking to stay ahead of the curve, a business leader seeking to drive efficiency, or simply someone interested in business innovation, this post is for you. Market volatility, globalization, and changing customer expectations have made procurement more complex than ever before.

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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. As such, procurement plays a critical role in a company’s operational efficiency, financial performance, and overall competitiveness. Introduction A.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 30, 2023

Asset management is no exception— according to IDC , 30% of organizations are strategically addressing digital transformation in enterprise asset management (EAM) solutions with a view to longer-term change management. Other features like vendor and inventory management, reporting, analysis (e.g.,

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Empowering CPO

JUNE 22, 2023

It not only helps businesses to reduce costs and increase efficiency, but also strengthens supplier relationships, and enhances value creation. We will also introduce you to EmpoweringCPO’s unique spend analysis services and offerings, designed to maximize your business’s procurement efficiency and bottom line.

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Pipefy

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In the 2024 State of Procurement Data Report by Amazon Business, 95% of decision-makers surveyed acknowledge that there’s room for procurement optimization. A pivot towards simplifying complex data and process management. Improvements to existing procurement processes, procedures, and operations are as time-sensitive as ever.

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Empowering CPO

MAY 4, 2023

Importance of procurement in modern businesses In today’s fast-paced and competitive business landscape, procurement plays a crucial role in driving efficiency, cost savings, and overall success. Improved data accuracy: Digital systems reduce the risk of human errors, ensuring accurate data for better decision-making.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

Costs For private data centers, IT staff, energy and cooling costs can consume much of the limited budget allocated to what’s typically deemed a non-value-added cost to the organization. Measure, analyze and intelligently manage resources to ensure applications always consume exactly what they need.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

At Supply Chain Game Changer we believe in sharing experiences and expertise from people in every industry and from across the globe. As such we have introduced our “Seasoned Leadership in Action” Interview series at Supply Chain Game Changer. Paul ran that operation with World Class efficiency.

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Procurement Software

JUNE 13, 2023

Mid-market businesses, on the other hand, could invest in this software and easily see a quick return if they have the right change management and procurement talent in place. It serves the needs of purchasing managers, procurement professionals and senior buyers. It enables users to allocate, manage and monitor budgets.

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Claritum

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The NfP also has a greater focus on adding social value to a supply chain. Whereas when we look at the goals and motivations of the FP sector (commercial businesses) there is more opportunity to re-define goals and change direction, with significantly less influence from external parties. In selecting suppliers. 3 Financials.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JULY 27, 2023

The oil and gas industry remains an integral part of the energy landscape, but it faces a number of modern challenges, including volatile market conditions, expanding environmental regulations and the growing need for operational efficiency. It offers a holistic view, providing critical data about asset condition, location and efficiency.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2023

And is there a better way—one that offers greater efficiency? A data center consolidation strategy is a plan an organization creates and implements to shrink its data-storage processes and streamline its system of data management. Finally, the optimized data gets stored in one location, where it can be accessed most readily.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 6, 2019

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Procurement is a business function that has undergone a lot of change in the last few years. TVO differs from TCO because it is not solely focused on cost, but several dimensions of ‘total value’, such as societal, environmental and also financial aspects. Subscribe Here!

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