Avery Dennison, Controlant Partner on Device for End-to-End Visibility Across Pharma Supply Chain
Supply Chain Brain
APRIL 10, 2024
The Saga Card offers real-time inventory data at the city, region, and country level for pharmaceutical providers.
Out of Chaos, Opportunity
Supply Chain Brain
MAY 31, 2023
Instead, they pivoted to defensive resilience strategies and reliance solutions that add end-to-end shipment visibility, real-time response to manage disruption, and data analytics to optimize future performance.
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How do you treat supply chain cataracts? Pizza – Domino’s Pizza!
Procurement Insights
MARCH 18, 2024
“Supply chain visibility refers to the ability to track and monitor products, materials, and information as they move through the various stages of a supply chain, from the sourcing of raw materials to the delivery of the final product to the end consumer. Keep that in mind.
4 smart technologies modernizing sourcing strategy
IBM Supply Chain Blog
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Sourcing teams are automating processes like data analysis as well as supplier relationship management and transaction management. This helps reduce errors to improve data quality and response times to questions, which improves customer and supplier satisfaction. Try out cognitive intelligence free for 30-days.
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#1! Are you a Supply Chain Digital Champion?
ivalua
MAY 30, 2022
To stay ahead of all of these risk factors and changing demands, organizations need to discard their linear supply chain models and embrace an autonomous, end-to-end connected ecosystem. The financial benefits include greater profitability, reduced costs, accelerated time-to-market, and faster time-to-delivery. .
LogiChem Announces Speaker Lineup and Agenda for World’s Leading Chemical Supply Chain Event
Supply Chain Brain
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
First, adapt workforce, systems, and resources to foster end-to-end supply chain connectivity, fostering agility and resilience. Lastly, harness the power of master data integration throughout the supply chain, granting real-time visibility and risk mitigation, ensuring that business sails smoothly through turbulent waters.
Get your IT team battle-ready for the next holiday rush
IBM Supply Chain Blog
DECEMBER 8, 2023
Time and again, we see IT teams struggle to deal with seasonal spikes in demand and outages. It’s an outdated and impractical practice for modern eCommerce and ultimately makes you less competitive over time. The result is faster mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to resolve (MTTR).
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Integrated Logistics — What You Should Know
Procurement Tactics
MAY 22, 2023
The goal of integrated logistics is to optimize the entire supply chain by minimizing costs, improving efficiency, and ensuring timely delivery of products to customers. Improved operations Sharing performance data in real-time among various departments within logistics organizations can enhance operational efficiencies.
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Zivio: Vendor Analysis, 2023 Update — Services sourcing solution overview, competitors, tech selection tips, analyst summary
Spend Matters
AUGUST 28, 2023
At the same time, the importance and criticality of services spend for organizations hasn’t shrunk (on the contrary …) nor the need to address typical challenges and hurdles inherent to complex service categories: inefficient processes, lack of control and low spend visibility.
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You are Connected Everywhere! Why isn’t your Supply Chain Connected?
Supply Chain Game Changer
JANUARY 14, 2020
So why is it that the Supply Chain in so many companies is being run without the end to end visibility needed to even function, yet which we have in our personal lives? In this age of exponential growth in digital connectivity the time has come to ensure you have End to End Supply Chain visibility.
Streamlining supply chain management: Strategies for the future
IBM Supply Chain Blog
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
They need strong SCM practices to help work out the logistics of transporting goods across long distances and through multiple countries without creating longer lead times or delays. Advanced software tools can automate some parts of forecasting, providing real-time updates and alerts when inventory levels are too high or low.
Application performance optimization: Elevate performance and reduce costs
IBM Supply Chain Blog
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
What’s needed is a solution that not only safeguards the performance of your mission-critical applications, but also goes above and beyond through reduced cost, time efficiency and monetary savings. This aspect is crucial for app performance optimization, as it provides real-time insights through high-fidelity data.
The Contract Management Playbook: Strategies and Secrets for Total Control
World of Procurement blog
MAY 8, 2024
Contract management also provides financial visibility into agreements and helps capture important data to inform business decisions. Lease agreements - Contracts for renting equipment, real estate, vehicles, etc. Tedious tasks like routing contracts for approvals and signatures waste time and resources.
How IBM is helping accelerate AI adoption and application centric connectivity
IBM Supply Chain Blog
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
This week, as thousands of network operators, technology vendors, and mobile device providers from all over the world converge on Barcelona for Mobile World Congress , it’s the perfect time to discuss how IBM® is shaping the future of network operations and telecommunications. The telecom industry is no exception.
Debunking observability myths – Part 6: Observability is about one part of your stack
IBM Supply Chain Blog
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
True observability requires observing and analyzing data from all layers of the system, including application metrics, traces, and infrastructure telemetry. It is achieved through observing real-time frameworks, performance-monitoring libraries and crash-reporting tools.
FDA FSMA: Providing value beyond compliance
IBM Supply Chain Blog
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
This process entails gathering new data, identifying existing challenges, and taking the necessary steps to ensure compliance. By capturing new data, they can harness this information not only to fulfill FSMA requirements but also to offer stakeholders and the public greater transparency.
Intake & Procurement Process Orchestration (2024 Guide)
Procurement Software
MAY 14, 2024
Enhanced Efficiency and Visibility: By adopting process orchestration tools and platforms, businesses gain real-time insights and control over their procurement activities, facilitating quicker decision-making and improved risk management. Modern process orchestration software is designed with the end-user in mind.
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IBM Supply Chain Blog
JUNE 30, 2023
Purpose Savvy sustainable consumers want end-to-end visibility into a product’s origins to ensure that it was sustainably developed and transported every step of the way. So make sure that you have real-time inventory visibility to deliver on your promises (what’s in-stock, when purchased items will ship and arrive).
348: How COVID Changed Last Mile Delivery Forever, with SEKO
Let's Talk Supply Chain
JULY 9, 2023
Operating in over 40 countries worldwide, SEKO lead the industry with innovative and customizable IT solutions, which provide a seamless flow of information to deliver their growing customer base true supply chain visibility. It’s about visibility, it’s about the experience.” You can increase your conversion by providing more options!”
Bringing observability to business
IBM Supply Chain Blog
JULY 11, 2023
Yet today, IT organizations lack visibility into the specific business processes those applications deliver and the context of how those processes are connected and impacted by the underlying container, cloud and infrastructure platforms they manage. Capture 100% of trace data without sampling that could miss important context.
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Debunking observability myths – Part 5: You can create an observable system without observability-driven automation
IBM Supply Chain Blog
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
Observability-driven automation leverages real-time insights from monitoring and telemetry data to inform intelligent automation processes. The fact is, automated setup and installation eliminates manual errors, reduces deployment time and improves consistency across different environments.
The AI Advantage: Unlocking New Value for Procurement Teams
World of Procurement blog
MAY 10, 2024
Analyzing spend data : AI tools can quickly categorize expenses, identify spending patterns and trends, pinpoint areas of overspending, and generate actionable insights from vast amounts of procurement data. Enhancing contract management : Natural language processing enables AI to extract key data from contracts.
Observing Camunda environments with IBM Instana Business Monitoring
IBM Supply Chain Blog
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
They struggle to link IT outages to business impacts because data is often siloed and knowledge is tribal. Since Instana does not sample trace information, capturing these data can unlock use cases like understanding the true impact of an IT outage. Camunda shows an exception in its log indicating that an external task is failing.
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338: Set a New Standard for Global Trade, with Flexport
Let's Talk Supply Chain
MAY 14, 2023
Today Will Urban, Chief Revenue Officer at Flexport, joins me to chat all about the company and what they do; making sustainability a priority; the importance of providing visibility and control in a fragmented industry; and why global trade is a force for good. Will is a licensed U.S. Customs Broker and holds an IATA/FIATA certificate.
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Supplier Order Management Software – Everything You Should Know
Procurement Tactics
JULY 20, 2023
This integration enables businesses to have real-time visibility into order status, inventory levels, and supplier performance, enabling them to make informed decisions and respond quickly to changing market demands. It eliminates the need for manual data entry, reduces errors, and speeds up the order processing cycle.
AI Workflow Automation: How to Integrate Artificial Intelligence Into Workflows
Pipefy
MARCH 28, 2024
In the past few years, however, businesses have amassed vast amounts of data while watching their workflows and tech stacks increase in both number and complexity. Now users can simply tell the AI chat prompt what process they need, which data they want to track, and other pertinent specifications. AI does the rest in seconds.
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The True Power of a Payments Partnership
ivalua
MAY 19, 2022
By removing the friction in global supply chains, for the first time, the payment and the sourcing event are seamlessly linked. This allows for part-payments, quality or milestone-based contract terms, even payment on receipt to be visible to the supplier, finance, treasury, and the buyers.
6 Ways To Improve Your ECommerce Order Fulfilment!
Supply Chain Game Changer
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
For example, when a customer orders an item through your online shop, you must ship it to the buyer within a specific time frame to avoid cancellation. If possible, you should also consider investing in warehouse management software to help you track inventory and boost the efficiency of your inventory management processes.
What is Integrated Business Planning (IBP)?
IBM Supply Chain Blog
JUNE 29, 2023
Integrated planning incorporates supply chain planning, demand planning, and demand forecasts so the company can quickly assess the impact on inventory levels, supply chain logistics, production plans, and customer service capacity. Data integration and analytics IBP relies on the integration of data from different sources and systems.
See Through Disruptions: How Supply Chain Visibility Builds Resilience
SCMDOJO
MAY 7, 2024
Enhancing supply chain resilience as well as supply chain visibility is crucial in today’s interconnected world. The powerful concept of Supply Chain Visibility lies at the core of resilience. Supply Chain Visibility refers to tracking and monitoring the movement of goods, services, and information throughout the supply chain.
AI-based supply chains: Using intelligent automation to build resiliency
IBM Supply Chain Blog
SEPTEMBER 13, 2021
This integrated suite is designed to promote collaboration by consolidating disparate data sets to enable you to drive actionable insights, smarter workflows and intelligent automation which lead to faster problem resolution and more efficient supply chain operations. True end-to-end visibility with embedded AI.
New Year Insights for the procurement solutions and services marketplace 2024: GEP
Spend Matters
DECEMBER 21, 2023
The era of intelligent procurement We expect 2024 to be the year of intelligent procurement, driven by AI, automation and data analytics. For example, in spend analysis, GenAI offers superior data normalization, savings opportunity detection, forecasting and natural language querying that makes deriving insights effortless.
How to achieve Kubernetes observability: Principles and best practices
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.
IBM Cloud for Payments is an imperative, not a nice-to-have
IBM Supply Chain Blog
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
They all work toward the common goal of creating secure, compliant, real-time, ubiquitous and low-cost payment rails. Liquidity must be managed 24 hours a day to ensure the availability of funds for both customers and the bank’s real-time payments, alongside clearing and settlement systems.
Debunking observability myths – Part 2: Why observability is important for everyone, not just SREs
IBM Supply Chain Blog
AUGUST 2, 2023
This misconception surrounding observability arises from the belief that it caters exclusively to site reliabilit y engineers (SREs) and that they are the only role that can utilize the data gathered via observability solutions. By doing so, developers enable the collection of valuable data and insights during the runtime of their software.
Everstream Analytics: Vendor Analysis — Supply chain risk management solution overview, competitors, tech selection tips, analyst summary
Spend Matters
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
The company achieves this by using an advanced Al paired with real-world, in-the-moment perspectives from a proprietary network of partners that deliver insights down to the bill of material level. Also, the performance of the fulfillment process is a critical input to the continuous optimization of the supply/supplier base.
The Road to Freight Management Hell!
Supply Chain Game Changer
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
The road to freight management Hell is laden with poor freight visibility and outdated systems. Failures within freight data visibility contribute to compounding consequences throughout downstream supply chain operations, and the problem only grows worse from there. The Causes of Poor Freight Data Visibility.
Pandemic Underscores Necessity of TMS and Other Supply Chain Tech Tools
Supply Chain Collaborator
MARCH 16, 2020
Coming at a time when the pandemic is depressing global consumption of oil thanks to plummeting travel plans and shelter in place orders, it seems counter intuitive that demand to move oil would be at record high volumes. By Providing Historical Data on Market Rates During Regular Peaks and Valleys.
4 strategic sourcing use cases to strengthen your supply chain
IBM Supply Chain Blog
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
Such analysis and decision-making are often optimized with the help of various technologies, including artificial intelligence tools and data analytics platforms. Near-sourcing, in addition to lowering emissions, also cuts transportation costs and delivery times. 3 Building a viable and sustainable ecosystem of partners is complex.
The six strategic uses cases for AIOps
IBM Supply Chain Blog
JUNE 26, 2023
AIOps helps you operationalize this approach by using data-driven cloud spend decisions to safely balance cost and performance. You’ll also build trustworthy automation for your IT teams since every action is backed by data. You can make an immediate impact by making data-driven decisions on application resource allocation.
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No-Code Platforms for Supply Chain – All You Need to Know
SCMDOJO
MAY 6, 2022
The growth of coding capabilities and accessible resources can help several firms consolidate data sources and create real-time visibility throughout the end-to-end supply chain using no-code development platforms. Reduces Time to Market. Adds Ease in Bridging Communication Gaps.
Intelligent Supply Chain Technologies for the Future!
Supply Chain Game Changer
APRIL 29, 2021
Supply Chain Investment Challenges – Real and Imagined! Amid the thick covid-clouds, organizations are preparing to make their way back to regular business to maximize profitability and make up for the lost time. The integration of new technologies will result in supply chains producing and disseminating a large amount of data.
5 Strategies For Improving Distribution Operations: An Essential Guide
SCMDOJO
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
It involves various activities, such as warehousing, inventory management, transportation, and logistics. Effective Distribution Operations require careful planning, coordination, and execution to ensure that products reach their intended destinations in a timely and cost-effectively.
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The Smart Supply Chain in Action!
Supply Chain Game Changer
MARCH 16, 2021
When the end consumer used a coffee pod the specifics of that actual, real time consumption would be tracked electronically. By amassing real time consumption data across all end consumers with these smart coffee makers our customer could see real time demand patterns across their entire market.
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