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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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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. There’s no need to make customers wait for the answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs) or to take the next step to purchase.

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Key Trends and Themes for Supply Chain and Logistics in 2024

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Whether it will be worth it, only time will tell. The amplified visibility lets companies verify the authenticity and provenance of products, reduces the risk of counterfeiting, and helps ensure regulatory compliance. It means enabling customers to shop online and pick up in-store or to return online purchases at physical locations.

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5 Inventory Management Mistakes to Avoid in 2024

Finale Inventory

Scanning a label takes a fraction of the time needed to jot down even the briefest of details – and items are immediately visible in your online system with full product details available. Cycle counting is the practice of counting a rotating subset of your inventory on a regular, frequent basis. Adopt continuous cycle counts.

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Supercharge Your Business With Back-Office Automation: The Ultimate Guide

Pipefy

One way companies can become more agile and remain competitive despite economic uncertainties is end-to-end business process automation. Business process automation streamlines many time-consuming, labor-intensive, and repetitive tasks typically handled by internal departments like HR, IT, and finance.

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History and Evolution of Supply Chain and Logistics

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Although logistics represents a whole system of space/time interdependencies, we believe that the discussion of its history and its chronological evolution still requires extensive studies to explore its origin and its advance in time, from a new point of view. This was reflected in the two major organizations of the time.