IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Why supply chain management matters Supply chain management involves coordinating and managing all the activities involved in sourcing , procurement, conversion and logistics. It includes everything from product development and strategic decision-making to information systems and new technologies.

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The Good Spending

AUGUST 16, 2022

Other peers around the company overlap with us in their functions - Technology tends to manage suppliers , Finance owns the demand planning and budgeting, and Sales and Marketing monopolize the end-customer value chain. Shadow procurement, supply chain, and logistics have become standard for many companies.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Check out What Exactly Is Reverse Logistics? Yet all of the functions that we now associate with Supply Chain have been around for a very long time: Planning, Inventory Management, Logistics, Procurement and Purchasing, Warehousing and many more. Source: [link] ). Source: [link] ). Source: [link] ).

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Here’s one real-life example: a retailer and a manufacturer were able to reduce overall logistics costs between factory and store by cutting out the manufacturer’s distribution centers and treating the retailer’s distribution network as one integrated supply chain, from manufacturing plant to store shelf.

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