ivalua

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Our survey + visual spotlight addresses these key supply continuity challenges and how leaders can make the most of the new opportunities. Build a Solid Data Foundation. The success of any transparency strategy relies heavily on building a solid data foundation, particularly when it comes to suppliers.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 130

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Though you may encounter the terms “data science” and “data analytics” being used interchangeably in conversations or online, they refer to two distinctly different concepts. Meanwhile, data analytics is the act of examining datasets to extract value and find answers to specific questions.

Data 83

Data Quantity Strategy Product development 83

Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 14, 2021

Visual AI tools such as visual search have unlocked a host of sales-related advantages for e-commerce — and offer a wealth of data that can boost operational efficiencies.

Supply Chain Optimization 120

Supply Chain Optimization Retail Supply Chain Supply Chain Efficiency Supply chain 120

Spend Matters

MARCH 6, 2023

Categories: Procurement Systems & Architecture , risk-compliance-management Tags: PRO This Spend Matters PRO Vendor Analysis provides an overview of Visual Lease and its lease accounting solution. Visual Lease’s customers use the solution to manage real estate and equipment leases while making decisions related to contracts day-to-day.

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Contract Networking Buyers Risk 74

IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

A large, multinational automobile manufacturer responsible for producing millions of vehicles annually, engaged with IBM to streamline their manufacturing processes with seamless, automated inspections driven by real-time data and artificial intelligence (AI). The implementation costs were also lower than those of viable alternatives.

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Supply Chain Trend

MARCH 6, 2022

Visualizing the future of planning. Alain Perrot, a 30-year-old IBP veteran, who foresees a full symbiosis between human and machine across all planning horizons, noted; “ In 10 years’ time from now, we need to visualize what machines can do.”. These numbers account for 84% of the workforce.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 179

Agile and Lean Supply Chain Supply chain Supply chain automation Supply chain management 179

Supply Chain Brain

OCTOBER 14, 2023

The good news: Cloud-based software is already delivering data standardization, shipment visibility, process optimization and collaborative visualization tools for order fulfillment that’s needed to address sustainability.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MAY 9, 2024

The healthcare industry faces arguably the highest stakes when it comes to data governance. For starters, healthcare organizations constantly encounter vast (and ever-increasing) amounts of highly regulated personal data. healthcare, managing the accuracy, quality and integrity of data is the focus of data governance.

Data 73

Data Quality Real-time Visibility Strategy 73

IBM Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

It uses real-world data (both real time and historical) combined with engineering, simulation or machine learning (ML) models to enhance operations and support human decision-making. Consider some of the examples of use cases from our clients in the industry: Visual insights. Asset performance management.

Data 79

Data Networking Ethics Business strategy 79

SCMDOJO

MAY 15, 2024

Data Analysis [10-15%] Once the data is available, begin analyzing it and create a checklist detailing what data is already present and what is required further. This step is crucial for identifying any gaps or inconsistencies in the data and determining the scope of additional data collection efforts.

Supply Chain Optimization 73

Supply Chain Optimization Supply Chain Efficiency supply chain budgeting supply chain software solutions 73

IBM Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Managing data is difficult. In today’s hybrid cloud environments, data is spread across a large and complex data fabric encompassing on-premise storage and cloud infrastructure. This can lead to data becoming siloed and difficult to manage.

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Pipefy

AUGUST 1, 2023

Once the project analysis team collects baseline data, it inserts the resulting values into a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) plan. The next step in M&E is to identify the data sources and collection methods so staff can conduct proper sampling of those sources.

Real-time Visibility 52

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World of Procurement blog

APRIL 23, 2024

Procurement analytics is the process of collecting, processing, and analyzing data related to an organization's purchasing activities to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and provide valuable insights into supply chain operations. Modern businesses are inundated with data that can be analyzed for improved decision-making.

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Procurement Supply Chain Optimization supply chain budgeting supply chain software solutions 52

World of Procurement blog

APRIL 23, 2024

Procurement analytics is the process of collecting, processing, and analyzing data related to an organization's purchasing activities to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and provide valuable insights into supply chain operations. Modern businesses are inundated with data that can be analyzed for improved decision-making.

Procurement 52

Procurement Supply Chain Optimization supply chain budgeting supply chain software solutions 52

IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

These foundation models, built on large language models, are trained on vast amounts of unstructured and external data. They can generate responses like text and images, while simultaneously interpreting and manipulating existing data. They require job plans and work instructions for asset failures and repairs.

Supply Chain Optimization 98

Supply Chain Optimization Management Supply Chain Efficiency Quality 98

IBM Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 19, 2024

Earlier posts in this series addressed the challenges of the energy transition with holistic grid asset management, the integrated asset management platform and data exchange, and merging traditional top-down and bottom-up planning processes. Robots and drones perform inspections by using AI-based visual recognition techniques.

Management 92

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Data visualization is the front window of advanced analytics and making that impactful is so important. Finding patterns is at the core of data visualization. Here are some tips for when it comes to good data visualization design to draw in your audience. Consider your zero-state view.

Procurement 52

Procurement Data Export Strategic sourcing 52

Procurement Tactics

JUNE 6, 2023

By analyzing past data, trends, and upcoming events, businesses can ensure sufficient product availability while avoiding excess inventory. This practice goes beyond setting reorder points and involves data analysis to identify patterns and adapt to dynamic conditions, meeting customer demand effectively.

Inventory 170

Inventory Supply Chain Optimization supply chain software solutions Supply Chain Efficiency 170

IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

But managing the sheer volume of data, nodes, pods, services and endpoints that comprise Kubernetes environments requires observability practices that are appropriate for the job. In DevOps , the concept of observability has evolved to refer to the end-to-end visibility of a system state as dictated by telemetry data.

Real-time Visibility 72

Real-time Visibility e2e Data Networking 72

SupplyShift

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Assess your Tier 1 suppliers Get critical data and build engagement Map your supply chain Identify and assess sub-tier suppliers Get better data Get more granular data from sub-tier suppliers at higher frequencies Let’s Talk P.O. SupplyShift’s P.O.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

According to the IBM survey, when CMOs were asked what they thought the primary challenges were in adopting generative AI, they listed three top concerns: managing the complexity of implementation, building the data set and brand and intellectual property (IP) risk. The journey starts with sound data.

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Data Strategy Ethics Quality 121

Procurement Tactics

JULY 23, 2023

For you to visualize it further, let’s break it into 5 stages: Stage 1: Digitalized centralized order processing During this stage, both the sender and the end recipient actively monitor and track orders and requests. Use this information to make data-driven decisions and refine your last mile logistics strategy.

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Logistics Supply Chain Efficiency Supply Chain Optimization Real-time Visibility 209

Supply Chain Game Changer

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Most companies collect and store consumer data. For many businesses, the data holds a geographic component to the information, including physical address or general city. After all, any location-based information may directly connect with sales data, supplier information, and more. Grouping Data into Specific Geographic Areas.

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supply chain software solutions Route optimization Supply Chain Optimization Supply Chain Efficiency 52

IBM Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

As organizations collect larger data sets with potential insights into business activity, detecting anomalous data, or outliers in these data sets, is essential in discovering inefficiencies, rare events, the root cause of issues, or opportunities for operational improvements.

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Supply Chain Optimization Data Networking supply chain software solutions 70

IBM Supply Chain Blog

MAY 10, 2024

It is primarily used for tasks like speech recognition, image processing and complex decision-making, where it can “read” and process a large amount of data to perform complex computations efficiently. And processing this data takes a large amount of computing power. Explore GPUs on IBM Cloud The post FPGA vs.

Networking 110

Networking Demand Data Influencing 110

Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 6, 2020

An identified knowledgeable approach, best-fit to the challenges caused in switching from an as-is to to-be model is proposed in Digital Twinning where the roughness of data utilized or gathered is proportionate with the problem statement under study. Data Driven Supply Chain Innovation with Digital Twinning.

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Supply Chain Optimization Supply Chain Efficiency supply chain budgeting supply chain software solutions 78

IBM Supply Chain Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

Overcoming the limitations of generative AI We’ve seen numerous hypes around generative AI (or GenAI) lately due to the widespread availability of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and consumer-grade visual AI image generators. Fortunately, production-oriented AI research was going on for years before ChatGPT arrived.

Data 107

Data Leadership Inventory Collaboration 107

IBM Supply Chain Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

Also, machine learning will be an incredibly powerful tool for data-driven organizations looking to take better advantage of their data analytics practices. But organizations still need humans to decide what actions to take based on what the ML-analyzed data shows.

Raw materials 76

Raw materials Supply Chain Efficiency Data Business strategy 76

Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 11, 2021

ThinkIQ, a provider of digital manufacturing transformation SaaS, recently announced a suite of new solutions under their SaaS manufacturing platform, which features four new areas of data functionality, including ThinkIQ’s Visualize, Insight, Transform and Enterprise solutions.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MARCH 15, 2024

When a client is not able to properly visualize all applications and their underlying dependencies properly, they risk experiencing diminished reliability. Application and workload analysis: Collect infrastructure, app data and target state preferences. It is our honor and privilege to provide value to our clients.

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ivalua

MAY 15, 2019

The data in this case is text from natural language , which is rarely structured data. It can be found in any human communications, either live conversations (ch atbots, email, speech to text devices …) or stored publicly on the Internet or privately as textual data in databases.

Contract 150

Contract Data Management Contract management 150

Finale Inventory

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Navigating the Returns Maze Visualize a common occurrence in ecommerce—the customer initiates a return. This data helps track the dynamic movement of stock, especially influenced by returns. Real-time tracking surpasses just sales data but also gives visibility to your business’s overall financial health.

Inventory 105

Inventory Real-time Visibility Management Quality 105

Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 21, 2021

Procurement drowning in data article and permission to publish here provided by Sam Jenks at kodiakrating.com. At the same time, the global availability of information & data has grown at 4x the speed of global trade ( hbr.org 2019 ). Is Procurement drowning in data? Data is the #1 global commodity. Source: PwC 2019.

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Data Procurement Supply Chain Efficiency Procurement team 85

IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Promote cross- and up-selling Recommendation engines use consumer behavior data and AI algorithms to help discover data trends to be used in the development of more effective up-selling and cross-selling strategies, resulting in more useful add-on recommendations for customers during checkout for online retailers.

Real-time Visibility 87

Real-time Visibility Data Supply Chain Efficiency Supply Chain Optimization 87

IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This will reduce costs by being more efficient on their data. Kubota is also looking to reduce the budgets of municipalities with water supply facilities by using the IoT data that analyzes breakage, trends and past repairs of their equipment and maintenance.

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Sustainability Budget Data Quality 62

IBM Supply Chain Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

How to achieve the right balance The short answer: collect, analyze and act on data in real-time to unlock immediate value across your operations. Can you review historical data modules? Can you conduct what-if scenarios to visualize your options? Master data enrichment to enhance categorization and materials attributes.

Supply Chain Optimization 80

Supply Chain Optimization Inventory Agile and Lean Supply Chain supply chain budgeting 80

Fraxion

JANUARY 30, 2023

Replace multiple spreadsheet budget tracking that occurs after the fact with real-time spend tracking and available and committed budget visibility that enables faster and more astute decision-making when approving purchase requests.

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