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Streamlining supply chain management: Strategies for the future

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Big data and predictive analytics are increasingly being used to improve forecasting accuracy, allowing businesses to respond more effectively to changes in customer needs. A supply chain control tower can connect many sources of data-driven information and improve end-to-end visibility.

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What is the Digital Supply Chain?

Supply Chain Game Changer

It is often contrasted with digital, which is how computers store and process data using ones and zeros.” Purchase orders would be written out by hand and mailed or faxed to suppliers with buyers calling suppliers on the phone to tell them about their needs as well as the inevitable changes in demand.

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Supply Chain as a Service (SCaaS): A Golden Opportunity for the Supply Chain Industry

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SCaaS is a technology-driven approach to managing supply chains, offering comprehensive end-to-end solutions for businesses. SCaaS providers typically use advanced technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and blockchain to improve visibility, traceability, and collaboration across the supply chain.

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Technology Support in Integrated Business Planning: Automation, Augmentation and Human Centricity

Supply Chain Trend

Understanding this differentiation is important for the manager trying to navigate autonomous planning: rather than assuming everything can be autonomous, the manager can take a more sophisticated view onto the people, process & technology needed to support the future of integrated planning.

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Shortage vs. Surplus: Causes and Definitions

Finale Inventory

It is important for businesses to have a system that predicts the demand they will experience over a certain period of time based on data and trends. However, if the data is inaccurate, it can lead to a business purchasing more inventory than they need, creating a surplus. Planning Ahead. Automating Processes.

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Supply Chain Visibility – An Overcomplicated Challenge!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Supply Chain Visibility Has Never Been More Important! Supply Chain visibility article and permission to publish here provided by Adam Miglio. Every single organization I have been a part of has been dependent on Excel spreadsheets for order tracking and expediting – and in some cases – even demand planning.

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Supply Chain Collaboration – The New Way to Drive Value!

Supply Chain Game Changer

They may even take over the provisioning of an entire end-to-end solution. Similarly, there is little point in entering collaborations to boost sales if any increase in demand is likely to run into manufacturing-capacity constraints. Visibility into customer demand and supplier performance. Shorter lead times.