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Supply chain visibility in the energy and utilities industry

IBM Supply Chain Blog

For the energy and utilities industry (E&U), time is not on their side. Equipment-heavy and reliant on an aging infrastructure, E&U clients suffer from costly supply chain disruptions as wear, tear and time take their toll. Visibility. However, maintenance inventory optimization is only part of the solution.

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Delivering on promise and purpose in the retail supply chain

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Purpose Savvy sustainable consumers want end-to-end visibility into a product’s origins to ensure that it was sustainably developed and transported every step of the way. From origins to ingredients to shelf life, consumers demand a transparent supply chain. Simple: communicate!

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4 strategic sourcing use cases to strengthen your supply chain

IBM Supply Chain Blog

The following are examples of strategic sourcing use cases: Transparency and traceability From fast fashion to fluorite, consumers and stakeholders are keyed into product provenance—expecting brands to uphold ethical, responsible sourcing practices. And from that group, 71% would pay a premium for it.

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The most valuable AI use cases for business

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Customer-facing AI use cases Deliver superior customer service Customers can now be assisted in real time with conversational AI. The IBM team is even using generative AI to create synthetic data to build more robust and trustworthy AI models and to stand in for real-world data protected by privacy and copyright laws.

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Experts Unfold Top Supply Chain Technology to Watch

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In the near-term, hosted software and cloud computing are making sophisticated warehouse, transportation and labor management systems accessible to organizations that could never support the significant capital investment required to discretely license the same software. Connected devices can also support the warehouse worker (i.e.

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5 Inventory Management Mistakes to Avoid in 2024

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But as you get your listings ready for expansion, have you thought about how these avenues for growth also introduce complexity for your ecommerce operations – especially with inventory management? Cycle counting is the practice of counting a rotating subset of your inventory on a regular, frequent basis.

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Key Trends and Themes for Supply Chain and Logistics in 2024

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AI-powered optimization AI-powered optimizations change supply chain management, as they find ground in the machine learning and AI rise. Whether it will be worth it, only time will tell. Businesses of any size must be prepared to adjust quickly to altering consumer demands, supply shortages, and unforeseen events.