IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 19, 2023

By sourcing materials and labor from countries with lower labor and manufacturing costs, businesses were able to capitalize on the economic boom, produce more goods and services, and minimize their costs. However, now we see how brittle these global supply chains are. trillion in 2023 because of these disruptions.

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Arkestro

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Then we’ll discuss how AI and other innovative technologies are removing current complexities, allowing oil and gas companies to reduce costs, optimize supply chains, and make data-driven decisions. As a result, the industry’s efficiency is falling while operational costs rise. trillion.

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Arkestro

MARCH 27, 2024

After years of focusing on cost reduction, the majority of procurement leaders say they plan to spend more and increase workloads in 2024, meaning procurement buyers will have more power to influence change and optimize spend across the entire supply chain. But what does a procurement buyer do, exactly?

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Una

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Understanding Offshoring, Onshoring, Nearshoring, and Rightshoring in Procurement Explore the nuances between offshoring and other approaches to procurement and how each one can impact the bottom line, supply chain resilience and overall strategic objectives.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Together, IBM Instana and IBM Turbonomic provide real-time observability and control that everyone and anyone can use, with hybrid cloud resource and cost optimization so you can safely automate to unlock elasticity without compromising performance. You can ensure everyone is within budget.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 16, 2023

There are many reasons why organizations have embraced cloud services, including improved efficiencies, cost savings, scalability, flexibility and quicker time-to-market. As a result, IT budgets are experiencing decreases along with overall operational budgets.

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Skill Dynamics

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

When implemented and managed correctly, it’s a strategy that can lead to large-scale operational improvements, cost optimization, and reduced risks across the supply chain. Often it involves attempting to streamline the procurement process and minimise waste within the supply chain.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MAY 1, 2023

Fundamentally, as a Cloud Operator, you need to ensure great end-user experiences while staying within budget. In this blog post, we will review the various methods of GCP cloud cost management, what problems they address and how GCP users can best use them. The diagrams below represent the IBM Turbonomic UI.

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Procurify

AUGUST 11, 2022

While dealing with the ongoing inflation, companies must navigate supply chain disruptions, geopolitical issues in certain markets, labour shortages and the foggy business environment caused by the pandemic. Recession planning involves cutting costs, optimizing cash flow, inventory management and foolproofing operations.

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Empowering CPO

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

At EmpoweringCPO, we understand the pivotal role it plays in optimizing the supply chain, reducing costs, and fostering long-term competitiveness. Consulting firms like ours leverage cutting-edge tools and analytics to gain deep insights into market trends, supplier performance, and cost structures.

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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. Contract logistics is a specialized service offered by third-party logistics (3PL) providers to manage supply chain operations on behalf of a company.

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Empowering CPO

JUNE 26, 2023

Spend analysis refers to the process of examining and categorizing an organization’s spending patterns, supplier relationships, and purchasing behavior to identify opportunities for cost reduction, process improvement, and strategic decision-making.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

A recent survey 1 found that cloud over-spending was higher in 2022 than in the previous year: 56% of companies surveyed admitted that spending on public cloud was significantly over budget, some by over 20% to 30% of their intended spend. But there’s another option: cloud management platforms and FinOps to better manage costs.

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Empowering CPO

JULY 16, 2023

Through our technologically advanced and innovative approach, we have been successful in helping businesses reduce costs, optimize supplier relationships, manage procurement risks, and ultimately drive profitable growth. They were struggling with high procurement costs and a lack of visibility into their supply chain.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 1, 2019

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. The Digital Supply Chain (SC 4.0) Article written for Supply Chain Game Changer by, and permission to publish here provided by, Andrei Klubnikin at at R-Style Lab. trillion on logistics and supply chain within the next five years. Email Address.

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Empowering CPO

JULY 16, 2023

Through our technologically advanced and innovative approach, we have been successful in helping businesses reduce costs, optimize supplier relationships, manage procurement risks, and ultimately drive profitable growth. They were struggling with high procurement costs and a lack of visibility into their supply chain.

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Una

JUNE 13, 2023

Showcase your hard skills Hard skills are a given, but employers want proof that you have mastered the foundations of your craft such as cost optimization, contract negotiation, and analytics. Showcase your experience in conducting market research, performing cost-benefit analyses, and managing budgets.

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Empowering CPO

JULY 17, 2023

Procurement teams are often confronted with issues such as maintaining cost control and visibility over spending, managing relationships with a diverse range of suppliers, staying compliant with a myriad of regulations, mitigating risks in the supply chain, and leveraging new technologies effectively.

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Empowering CPO

JULY 17, 2023

Procurement teams are often confronted with issues such as maintaining cost control and visibility over spending, managing relationships with a diverse range of suppliers, staying compliant with a myriad of regulations, mitigating risks in the supply chain, and leveraging new technologies effectively.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 26, 2023

The result: reduced costs, less waste and documented ROI for your automation efforts. Like many AIOps use cases, you can start with baby steps and take non-disruptive, reversible actions that immediately lower costs, improve performance and build trust.

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SCMDOJO

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Here, the agency seeks to understand the client’s specific needs, budget constraints, and quality standards. Specializing in industrial engineering, lean manufacturing, and B2B sourcing, they work with businesses of all sizes, offering expertise in supply chain processes, continuous improvement, and leadership.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Choosing the right instance offering and instance size for your application is critical for optimizing performance and reducing costs. How Turbonomic helps: Determining workload type across an entire hosting environment is a significant task, but made easy with the help of cloud cost optimization software.

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Procurement Templates

JUNE 18, 2023

Strategic sourcing: Adopting strategic sourcing practices enables procurement to analyze the entire supply chain and identify cost drivers. By understanding the components and processes that contribute to the final product’s cost, procurement can explore opportunities to optimize and reduce expenses.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 11, 2023

And technology budgets are rising commensurate to this new reality. IT cost management has grown in importance because cost control is top of mind for every organization across all industries. Simply put, IT leaders cannot afford increased project costs that lead to budget overruns.

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SCMDOJO

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This fosters stronger collaborations, encourages accountability, and ensures a more reliable and resilient supply chain. These reports are vital to optimize the overall efficiency and effectiveness of an organization’s supply chain function. Download Free Supplier Performance Report 3.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Cost optimization can be achieved through a combination of productivity enhancements, infrastructure savings and reductions in operating expenses. Therefore, adopting a holistic approach that prioritizes data-driven business transformation helps optimize value extraction. Reduced costs through risk mitigation.

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Pipefy

JANUARY 30, 2024

Procurement technology landscape Procurement technology is primarily designed to simplify procurement processes and reduce costs, but it’s grown to offer so many more benefits than that, with the greatest one being transforming procurement into a source of reliable strategic influence. Streamline the P2P processes through automation.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MARCH 6, 2024

Additionally, without proper monitoring and optimization, ongoing cloud usage costs can escalate rapidly, leading to budget overruns and financial strain. This plan focuses on performance and cost optimization by selecting the most suitable cloud resources for your VMs and their associated volumes.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MAY 12, 2023

S3 Intelligent-Tiering: Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering automatically moves data between frequent-access (FA) and infrequent-access (IA) tiers for cost optimization, making it ideal for data with unknown or changing access patterns. However, it is also the most expensive storage class per GB stored.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 28, 2023

By automating resource provisioning, you can avoid manual errors and optimize the overall performance of your IT systems. A cloud cost optimization platform allows you to continuously automate critical actions in real-time at a scale that can’t be matched by humans, no matter how skilled.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Improving business value often involves enhancing efficiency, reducing costs, and increasing competitiveness. Cost savings: Through modernization, organizations can reduce maintenance costs, optimize hosting and better leverage a global workforce, leading to substantial cost savings in the long run.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 15, 2023

It also highlights the importance of a thoughtful approach to observability to prevent spiraling costs. Observability tool vendors understand the importance of accommodating businesses with varying budgets. Prometheus and Grafana) provide additional avenues for cost savings. how much time and resources are developers spending).

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 15, 2023

This provides further opportunities for cost optimization. Therefore, customers are looking for ways to reduce costs. IBM Db2 Warehouse and Netezza have also been enhanced to support the Iceberg open table format to coexist seamlessly as part of the lakehouse.

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