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Streamlining supply chain management: Strategies for the future

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Here’s how companies are using different strategies to address supply chain management and meet their business goals. Why supply chain management matters Supply chain management involves coordinating and managing all the activities involved in sourcing , procurement, conversion and logistics.

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Can Coupa (and its procurement suite peers) manage supply as well as spend?

Spend Matters

Categories: Solution Providers , Spend Management , Supply Management , Technology Tags: Coupa Inspire , EU , supply We are witnessing a pivotal change in the market for some of the big source-to-pay (S2P) suite players (like Coupa, SAP and their peers) as they move toward a broader platform and ecosystem approach.

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7 Critical Supply Chain Management Trends for 2023

Zycus Cognitive Procurement

Managing supply chain risk. Improving supply chain analytics. Enhancing supply chain resilience. Improving supply chain sustainability. Building Agile Supply Chain Ecosystems : . Enhancing supply chain resilience: . Integrating flexible contracts. So why wait?

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Your 2024 Procurement Career Tune-Up

Una

Whether it’s mastering the art of negotiation or navigating the labyrinth of supply chain analytics, keeping your skills sharp is your ticket to staying relevant. Why not start with an episode or two of The Sourcing Hero podcast? News buffs unite Subscribe to relevant news sources.

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Adapting Supply Chains to the Digital Retail Revolution

SCMDOJO

This emerging trend, known as e-SCM or Electronic Supply Chain Management, is gaining relevance. Recent research indicates that 60% of respondents already utilize digital supply chain analytics and visualization platforms, while 31% are currently implementing them. #4

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DevOps Best Practices to Implement Before a Crisis

Solvoyo

Different versions of source code can be saved and returned to a previous version when necessary Docker – allows users to assemble apps from components and work collaboratively Kubernetes – is a container orchestration platform taking containerization to the next level Other industry – standard products.

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It is about time that we leveraged supply chain analytics

Solvoyo

Ability to do root-cause analysis is limited and decision-making requires coordination across multiple functions and data-sources. To illustrate, the visibility of forecast-related last minute changes in production plans drives collaboration between demand planners and supply planners. 2) Lack of access to real time data.