IBM Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 8, 2024

The key foundation of a strong PLM strategy is healthy and orderly product data, but data management is where enterprises struggle the most. To take advantage of new technologies such as AI for product innovation, it is crucial that enterprises have well-organized and managed data assets.

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Arkestro

JULY 7, 2023

Learn about the evolving role of data and analytics and how if harnessed properly, they can help procurement professionals achieve their goals around reducing risk, lowering costs and increasing the range of spend under management.

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Spend Matters

APRIL 23, 2025

He also announced an obligation management capability, which is available now. VP of Product Management Rebecca Denman announced a new AI agent product that will be released later this year. Expanded ID verification capabilities, including a partnership with Clear, conditional logic embedded in the process, etc.

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Procurement Tactics

AUGUST 15, 2022

The goal of supply planning is to meet the demand for the product in the best way possible. . Production management. This component focuses on the resource allocation of employees, materials, and production capacity. Inventory management. This includes data about the customers, products, resources, and suppliers.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Today, Jeremy Reeves, Senior VP of Product at Relish, and Matt Montgomery, Senior Director of Product Marketing at SAP, join me to talk all about how technology can automate supplier data validation and mitigate risk. 08.59] An overview of the landscape of supplier data and the challenges of validation.

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Jaggaer

APRIL 9, 2025

A manufacturing execution system (MES) is a comprehensive, dynamic software system that monitors, tracks, documents, and controls the process of manufacturing goodsfrom raw materials to finished products. It also means that data collected from the shop floor is immediately available to decision-makers across all integrated systems.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

AUGUST 14, 2022

Brought to you by the designers of SalesPad, Cavallo offers distribution management software with all the power of an ERP solution, and all the functionality of the industry’s biggest tech powers – with none of the bottlenecks, frustrating interface, or difficult-to-access data. … People just want accessible information.”.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Today Tom Burke, Portfolio Product Manager at CargoWise Landside, joins me to talk all about how drayage rating and quoting best practices can improve supply chain management, visibility, and logistics execution. Together, theyre the foundation of todays drayage and quoting practices.

Supply Chain Efficiency 52

Supply Chain Efficiency supply chain software solutions Real-time Visibility Supply chain management 52

ivalua

OCTOBER 28, 2015

The biggest challenge of most information gathering activities is getting timely and accurate data. In addition, your entire organization needs to understand the information map that you are trying to create and they must also participate in the data gathering process. Create a specific data map. See below for examples.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Design content, ad campaigns and innovative products that build better customer experiences. Demystifying generative AI At the heart of Generative AI lie massive databases of texts, images, code and other data types. Imagine each data point as a glowing orb placed on a vast, multi-dimensional landscape.

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Data Ethics Quality Project management 118

Supply Chain Brain

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

BluJay’s Bryant Smith, Global Product Manager, talks about SpotLight, the tool within Transportation Management that leverages network data to help users make better routing decisions and find load coverage.

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Data Product management Networking Management 40

Spend Matters

JANUARY 30, 2024

Today let’s hear from the last of the submissions for this year: Ruth Orenstein, Senior Director of Product Management at Tipalti , a provider of supplier management solutions and one of Spend Matters 50 Procurement Providers to Know.

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Spend Matters

APRIL 16, 2024

IAM also includes data checks against both internal and external verification sources, easier connections to systems of record to measure vendor performance and persona-specific reporting. Its purpose is to centralize all contract data for easier access to information, such as renewal dates and obligations.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

With the rapid advancements in cloud computing, data management and artificial intelligence (AI) , hybrid cloud plays an integral role in next-generation IT infrastructure. A private cloud setup is usually hosted in an organization’s on-premises data center.

Real-time Visibility 101

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Procurement Tactics

JUNE 2, 2023

ChatGPT can provide a fresh perspective on the negotiation, as it can analyze data and provide insights that you may not have considered. Its ability to analyze data and provide insights into the opposing party’s needs and interests can help negotiators make more informed decisions and develop effective strategies.

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TYA Suite

JANUARY 27, 2025

is a critical function for any organization, directly impacting its efficiency, cost savings, and overall productivity. Managing procurement manually can be fraught with challenges such as delays, human errors, and lack of visibility. Enter procurement management software, a game-changer that can streamline and optimize the entire.

Real-time Visibility 40

Real-time Visibility Procurement Management Purchase orders 40

Jaggaer

APRIL 18, 2019

To address this gap procurement must, among other things, lay the foundations for analytics, for example by standardizing master data definitions. Hackett identified advanced analytics and data modeling, business acumen, relationship management, strategic thinking and risk management expertise as “must have” skills for the future.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 22, 2022

This is what a hiring manager would be searching for in terms of professionalism: Logistics and transportation experts that are well versed in both domestic and international legislation and standards. The ability to convey and analyze data in several languages and across cultures is necessary. Knowledge of computers.

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ivalua

DECEMBER 18, 2019

This CPO demand has pushed vendors that may have offered point solutions for sourcing, CLM, spend analytics, or SRPM to expand their portfolio to include all four products.” As AI applications evolve and are increasingly embedded in S2P suites, quality data is critical to generating and presenting actionable insights.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

It includes storing employee, customer, financial, or product design records to guarantee smooth data transfer among the different operational locations. It is why managed service providers (MSPs) are crucial in the manufacturing industry to ensure production, management, and administrative duties run smoothly.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Recent data from the Hackett Group reveals that AP teams that provide self-service capabilities to suppliers can achieve Superhero status by reducing inquiries by 49% and saving 50% on master data management costs. However, could this interruption by your supplier be turned into an automation opportunity. Pay on time.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

We also had Chris Shum, Director, Product Management, MongoDB weigh-in with his thoughts on where serverless is going: “We’re seeing a paradigm shift where serverless is becoming a developer’s best friend for building modern applications.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MARCH 14, 2024

It has evolved into the de facto standard for data streaming, as over 80% of Fortune 500 companies use it. All major cloud providers provide managed data streaming services to meet this growing demand. A high (or an increase in) record-error-rate might indicate a loss in data or data not being processed as expected.

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Supply Chain Brain

APRIL 26, 2023

Chris Yeung, senior product manager with eMoldino, explains how digitization can improve supply chain back-end operations and enable the end-to-end flow of data.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JANUARY 3, 2024

Based on transformer technology , LSMs take vast amounts of training data and model parameters to deliver accuracy in speech recognition. Apply for our closed beta user program and our Product Management team will reach out to you to schedule a call.As How can you get started with these models?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 21, 2022

By understanding the customer’s needs, logistics managers can implement better route planning to reduce operational costs and improve fulfilment rates. In addition to product management, logistics also includes inventory management. uses a Company’s data to inform decisions in the most efficient way.

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Arkestro

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

About the Webinar: Dive into the world of dirty data in this Halloween webinar with ISM New Jersey. About the Webinar: Dive into the world of dirty data in this Halloween webinar with ISM New Jersey.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 26, 2023

The world’s leading brands rely on Jabil’s unmatched breadth and depth of end-market experience, technical and design capabilities, manufacturing know-how, supply chain insights and global product management expertise. The integrated solution plays a role in reporting, analysis, planning and forecasting.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

SPS has been connecting businesses for over 20 years, empowering data collaboration in the retail supply chain with an expert team, proven processes, and industry-leading technology. 16.46] A reminder of what EDI is and the role it plays in data exchange; and how SPS makes integration and trading partnerships easy and effective.

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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.

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ivalua

MAY 6, 2020

This CPO demand has pushed vendors that may have offered point solutions for sourcing, CLM, spend analytics, or SRPM to expand their portfolio to include all four products.”. As AI applications evolve and are increasingly embedded in Source to Pay suites, quality data is critical to generating and presenting actionable insights.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

As a result, I see access to real-time data as a necessary foundation for building business agility and enhancing decision making. Stream processing is at the core of real-time data. Apache Kafka streams get data to where it needs to go, but these capabilities are not maximized when Apache Kafka is deployed in isolation.

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Some of these are supported by artificial intelligence, for example to map inbound supplier invoices for automated data entry. Once you have automated a data entry process, there is nothing further to gain from it: it’s a one-off. Once you have automated a data entry process, there is nothing further to gain from it: it’s a one-off.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 21, 2021

Product Management KPIs! In supply chain, simply observing your entire supply chain in action to assess it is not possible, but with data and a reliable performance management system like The Owl, you can at-least have a real-time view of your supply chain performance through KPIs and metrics. Subscribe Here!

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SCMDOJO

AUGUST 10, 2024

Data Sharing and Collaboration: Internet-based transport exchanges have facilitated matching suppliers and haulers, reducing empty runs. While challenges like competition and data privacy exist, successful partnerships can yield substantial efficiency gains. Pearson Education. Narasimhan, S., & Hoffman, K. Zografos, K.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

JUNE 15, 2023

Analytics and reporting: Last-mile delivery technology must act as a repository of all the data involved in making deliveries. This data can help identify areas for improvement and inform strategic decision-making. It should have in-built analytics and reporting capabilities. Click here!

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 14, 2023

However, their manual planning and budgeting process in spreadsheets posed several challenges, including lack of control, delayed data, poor execution, and the need for continuous follow-up with IT for actual data. They faced obstacles such as a prolonged budget process, manual forecasting, and no product profitability.

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