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Streamlining supply chain management: Strategies for the future

IBM Supply Chain Blog

In today’s complex global business environment, effective supply chain management (SCM) is crucial for maintaining a competitive advantage. Here’s how companies are using different strategies to address supply chain management and meet their business goals.

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What’s the Difference Between Freight Management and Logistics Management?

Supply Chain Game Changer

In business it is not uncommon to hear the words “Logistics Management” and “Freight Management” thrown around interchangeably. What is Freight Management? Freight management combines logistics experience, human resources and knowledge to ensure a smooth coordination between carriers and shippers.”

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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. Supply Chain as a Service (SCaaS) is a new approach to managing the complex process of getting products from manufacturers to consumers. Let’s delve into this emerging concept.

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What is Integrated Business Planning (IBP)?

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Integrated Business Planning (IBP) addresses these challenges by providing a comprehensive framework that integrates strategic, operational and financial planning, analysis, and reporting to drive better business outcomes. Strategic planning Integrated Business Planning starts with strategic planning.

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The Big Debate: Characteristics of Supply Chain Excellence

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Supply Chain Management is complex and truly mastered by few. Equally, lack of visibility adds to uncertainty. Where reliability is key, management of uncertainty may require closer collaboration with external parties and optimization of end-to-end (E2E) inventory levels aligned to segmented trade-off between service level and cost.

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Zarrin Lilani on How Women Lead in Supply Chain

Let's Talk Supply Chain

The record talent shortage has been a source of frequent delays and price jumps in recent years. I started on my sales and supply chain development path at Nestle UK, where I was a Demand Planning and Trade Promotion Planning Super User. I knew the detailed nuances of end users in the supply chain and the big picture.

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Strategies for Embracing the Internet of Things

Supply Chain Brain

While they might embrace the underlying concept of the IoT, they’re dubious about their ability to manage the resulting flood of data in a meaningful way. Companies need to implement end-to-end encryption between IoT endpoint and backend systems, Sastri says. structure, including its enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.