IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

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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Planergy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

How to gain visibility and control of your indirect spend. Using financial tools can help save time and resources while improving accuracy in the budgeting process. Modern Software Reduces Budgeting Time & Effort Many businesses still rely on outdated, manual budgeting methods, such as spreadsheets or pen and paper.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

APRIL 24, 2018

Projected to grow to $100 by 2024 or 13% of total grocery sales, online grocery is being cemented as a business model thanks to the success of huge companies like Amazon, Walmart and others rushing to meet consumer demand for this type of service. Commercial realtor CB Richard Ellis noted that the US currently has around 3.6

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The Network Effect

MAY 29, 2015

Here’s more info below: Companies are struggling with demand variability and how to meet consumer demand with the right supply at the right location at the right time. Based on the real data from the case study, you will learn: What is demand sensing and how does it reduce demand variability?

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Pipefy

JULY 31, 2023

Business process automation streamlines many time-consuming, labor-intensive, and repetitive tasks typically handled by internal departments like HR, IT, and finance. With less time spent on manual, repetitive tasks, employees can focus on strategic work that adds value to the organization. What is back-office automation?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Unlike the lean supply chain, the agile supply chain uses real-time data and updated information, as reported by Martin Christopher in Industrial Marketing Magazine , to leverage current operations and real-time data against demand forecast, which helps to improve the overall efficiency and productivity of the given entity.

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The Network Effect

JULY 2, 2014

UMass, at the time, was almost unbeatable and hadn’t lost a game at The Cage for almost 2 years. The only person who learned the real lessons from that game was a skinny guard on the UMass team named Rick Pitino. You know that the retail supply chain should only have one forecast – consumer demand. Two forecasts?

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 25, 2022

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.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 6, 2020

Now-a-days businesses need to be dynamic in ratifying the ever-changing trends of consumer demand and shift to a more connected supply network, via digitally interconnected devices and complex platforms to keep pace with digital transformations. It can be structured or unstructured data, in the format of text, picture, audio or video.

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The Network Effect

JANUARY 12, 2015

Having spent a lot of my time in 2014 in the board rooms and corner offices of companies around the world, I can say without a doubt that this is no longer the case. This means the whole chain, from the retailer to the raw material suppliers, are all working together to give the end-consumer what he or she wants.

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Supply Chain Opz

JANUARY 22, 2016

Thus, increased real-time visibility into shipments leads to more efficient throughput of goods and reduced logistics lead times. That would shorten hauling times, automate routes and scheduling, and make deliveries much more predictable. Connected devices can also support the warehouse worker (i.e.

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World of Procurement podcast

JUNE 15, 2021

We covered a lot of ground in this 25-minute podcast and this podcast is going to be exceptionally beneficial to you if you are currently looking at your supply chain and wondering how can we improve visibility, how can we reach our sustainability goals using our supply chains and how do we know what is in this product?

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