IBM Supply Chain Blog

JANUARY 26, 2024

To succeed in the modern era, CSPs need versatile teams, including data scientists for data interpretation and operations, software developers for automation through vendor application programming interfaces (API) and service assurance engineers for designing closed loops to ensure service reliability.

Networking 106

Networking Data interpretation Data Management 106

Procurement Tactics

JULY 19, 2023

By establishing well-organized product placement and efficient processes, businesses can fulfill customer orders quickly and accurately. This leads to improved customer service, increased customer loyalty, and positive word-of-mouth recommendations. Streamlined order fulfillment is a critical aspect of warehouse management.

Supply Chain Optimization 170

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Successful companies fuse product development practices with overarching business strategies to ensure sustainable innovations that will resonate efficiently and sustainably with customers—both in existing markets and among new target audiences. During this phase, cross-collaborative efforts should focus on ideation and iteration.

Product development 83

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Streamline workflows with personalized content creation, tailored product descriptions and market-ready copy. Design content, ad campaigns and innovative products that build better customer experiences. Custom-trained models: Most organizations can’t produce or support AI without a strong partnership.

Data 127

Data Ethics Quality Project management 127

IBM Supply Chain Blog

MAY 9, 2023

Challenges around managing risk and reputation Customers, employees and shareholders expect organizations to use AI responsibly, and government entities are starting to demand it. Learn more about how IBM is driving responsible AI (RAI) workflows.

Ethics 79

Ethics Risk Data Management 79

Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Many businesses rely on vehicle fleets to deliver their products or services to customers. For this reason, an efficient, well-organized fleet is key to maintaining a good workflow. In addition to a vehicle tracking system, there are a few other actions you can take to improve the workflow of your fleet: 1. Optimize your routes.

Supply Chain Efficiency 97

Supply Chain Efficiency supply chain software solutions Supply Chain Optimization Data 97

Supply Chain Trend

APRIL 25, 2024

It has been suggested to include a market, customer, and competitor view in a strategy definition for more than 50 years. The translation of market signals from the customer’s customer to the supplier’s supplier with bi-directional flows.” “ There is only one way to eat an elephant: a bite at a time.” It is not new in strategy.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 78

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MAY 18, 2023

What the Forrester report has to say about IBM “IBM offers customers an exceptional portfolio of products and services for business automation transformations.” Integrated , helping users execute decisions using Git software and standard Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.

Strategy 96

Strategy Risk Import Data 96

Strategic Sourceror

JULY 11, 2022

The same holds true for businesses that have deployed a combination of disparate systems, alongside enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. Automate Source-to-Pay Workflow Increase Workflow Automation When S2P solutions are implemented, organizations can increase the automation of their workflow and reduce critical cycle times.

e2e 52

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Using generative artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to produce computer code helps streamline the software development process and makes it easier for developers of all skill levels to write code. The software reads a developer’s plain language prompts and suggests code snippets from scratch that will produce the desired results.

Real-time Visibility 88

Real-time Visibility Sourcing Quality Networking 88

IBM Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Platform engineering, internal development platform – Platform engineering is at the forefront of modern software development, driving innovation and collaboration across teams. The blog post “ How to use VPN with a VPC hub-and-spoke architecture ” describes the project. I wrote two blog posts about account cleanup.

Collaboration 73

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Containerization involves packaging software code with the libraries and dependencies required to run the code. Containerization helps DevOps teams avoid the complications that arise when moving software from testing to production. Automate workflows: Automation is an important component of container monitoring.

Real-time Visibility 79

Real-time Visibility Import Sourcing Data 79

IBM Supply Chain Blog

MARCH 9, 2023

IBM Watson Assistant was one of products evaluated in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant TM for Enterprise Conversational AI Platforms (CAIP), a market defined by Gartner as ¨the enterprise conversational AI platform market for software platforms used to build, orchestrate, and maintain multiple use.¨

Data 104

Data Innovation Strategy 104

HICX

MAY 1, 2024

Kurt emphasizes the need for a user-friendly environment, which is essential, “to become this ‘customer-of-choice’ to have internal satisfaction and be able to onboard suppliers in a timely manner,” he explains. Anthony advises, “Think about onboarding for your company, not just for a particular piece of software.”

Suppliers 52

Suppliers Supply Chain Efficiency Risk management Supply Chain Optimization 52

Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 13, 2020

The Benefits of Providing Tracking Information to Your Customers! With all this on your plate, you’ll realize you need a good CRM software for your organization’s success. When we say business processes, we are talking about managing customer interactions, tracking leads, streamlining business processes and so much more.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Domain-specific foundation models can then be applied to new use cases, whether they are related to climate change, healthcare, HR, customer care, IT app modernization or other subjects. Generative AI chatbots have been known to insult customers and make up facts. But how trustworthy is that training data? Trustworthiness is critical.

Risk 77

Risk Management Ethics Real-time Visibility 77

IBM Supply Chain Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

It is with immense gratitude that I thank Ken for his leadership not only across IBM Power, but for his service to IBM in various roles spanning IP, strategy and software during his distinguished IBM career. A vibrant ecosystem enables a range of use cases for our clients running software on Power. Read more here.

Leadership 100

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2023

However, the promise of transforming customer and employee experiences with AI is too great to ignore while the pressure to implement these models has become unrelenting. Traditionally, enterprises have relied on enterprise search engines to harness corporate and customer-facing knowledge to support customers and employees alike.

Innovation 90

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2023

But simultaneously, generative AI has the power to transform the process of application modernization through code reverse engineering, code generation, code conversion from one language to another, defining modernization workflow and other automated processes. Much more can be said about IT operations as a foundation of modernization.

Sustainability 90

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

With over 20,000 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) being published each year 1 , the challenge of finding and fixing software with known vulnerabilities continues to stretch vulnerability management teams thin. However, how do these organizations know that focusing on software with the highest scoring CVEs is the right approach?

Real-time Visibility 76

Real-time Visibility Risk Management Budget 76

IBM Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 26, 2023

Of course, this process should be transparent to the customer. Scaling-up can also be done in software by adding more threads, more connections or, in cases of database applications, increasing cache sizes. Even more granular scaling capabilities can be delineated by SLA or customer type (e.g.,

Demand 72

Demand Networking Budget Management 72

IBM Supply Chain Blog

MAY 12, 2023

IBM Consulting™ helped the customer modernize its architecture for a heavily used business-to-business conversational AI app. IBM’s recommendations included API-specific improvements, bot UX optimization, workflow optimization, DevOps microservices and design consideration, and best practices for Azure manage services.

Sustainability 83

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

A world where computer minds pilot self-driving cars, delve into complex scientific research, provide personalized customer service and even explore the unknown. On a smaller scale, some organizations are reallocating gen AI budgets towards headcount savings, particularly in customer service.

Data 96

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The Thomas Blog

JANUARY 5, 2024

Lead prospecting refers to the process of identifying and qualifying potential customers or clients who are likely to be interested in a product or service. The goal of lead prospecting is to generate a list of potential customers who can be targeted for marketing and sales efforts. There's a difference between a prospect and a lead.

Strategy 52

Strategy Buyers Real-time Visibility Data 52

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. Using machine learning (ML), AI can understand what customers are saying as well as their tone—and can direct them to customer service agents when needed.

Real-time Visibility 89

Real-time Visibility Data Supply Chain Efficiency Supply Chain Optimization 89

Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 21, 2022

The new era of tech-supported sales is here, and tons of software tools are being introduced that enlarge the boundaries of sales teams and make them more efficient through improved B2B lead generation. There are five essential sales software categories you can analyze and select the ones needed to bring enhancements to your sales process.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 13, 2022

Software Penetration Testing Tools and Techniques! There are many indices to determine the general success of the software development team. Today we’ll pay attention to the delivery cycle time and its meaning for both developers and their ordering customers. What does software development cycle time mean?

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 28, 2023

With nearly 5 billion users worldwide—more than 60% of the global population —social media platforms have become a vast source of data that businesses can leverage for improved customer satisfaction, better marketing strategies and faster overall business growth. How does text mining work? positive, negative or neutral).

Data 59

Data Influencing Strategy Product development 59

IBM Supply Chain Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

For instance, organizations that are struggling to build their own IT services can assess whether some internal legacy tech should be replaced with technologies from software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers. Digital transformation is an important component of a modern organization’s business operations.

Raw materials 78

Raw materials Supply Chain Efficiency Data Business strategy 78

IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 26, 2023

By infusing artificial intelligence (AI) into IT operations , you can leverage the considerable power of natural language processing and machine learning models to automate and streamline operational workflows. Software can identify when and how resources are used and match actual demand in real-time. But where to start?

e2e 57

e2e Real-time Visibility Sustainability Data 57

IBM Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 3, 2023

This means companies especially need their software applications to perform optimally because they are often a source of competitive advantage. Software downtime is a huge organizational risk because it decreases customer satisfaction and potentially violates a service-level agreement with end users.

Import 69

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

On the backend, AI likewise has the potential to supercharge digital modernization in by, for example, automating the migration of legacy software to more flexible cloud-based applications, or accelerating mainframe application modernization. appeared first on IBM Blog. In our view, there are three main areas.

Supply Chain Efficiency 110

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

When fulfilling orders for customers, do you know how your packaging and shipping decisions impact the environment? Your customers, employees and shareholders want to know you have a plan to address supply chain sustainability. In this blog, let’s explore the best practices that drive sustainable supply chains.

Supply Chain Efficiency 118

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JANUARY 9, 2024

A revolution across revenue operations, customer engagement, employee satisfaction and the seamless flow of product development and delivery. relative to 2022, with the highest being in infrastructure-as-a-service (at 23%) followed by software-as-a-service (SaaS, at 8.4%) and IT services (at 3%). The result?

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Zycus Cognitive Procurement

JANUARY 2, 2023

Such solutions provide capabilities, such as automated workflow, vendor management, and electronic invoicing. Optical character recognition (OCR) is a legacy software tool used for digitization of paper-based information assets. The time to value is significantly greater in the case of IDP solutions when used for AP automation.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 23, 2023

To accelerate speed-to-market, grow the business with new innovative products and services, gain new and deeper risk insights, and improve customer experience, most companies are also emphasizing digital transformation. Core modernization (processes and technology) is a top priority for every insurer.

Data 62

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Create an automated workflow to optimise lead management. Track deals and visualise your sales processes with the right software system for you. You can identify kinks in the pipeline and smooth out any problems that are causing any problems in your workflow. A system that will help you to sell. Build your enterprise.

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