IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The pandemic and its aftermath highlighted the importance of having a robust supply chain strategy , with many companies facing disruptions due to shortages in raw materials and fluctuations in customer demand. Here’s how companies are using different strategies to address supply chain management and meet their business goals.

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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. At least 75% of the product cost is committed during the design and planning activities.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

SCM encompasses the integrated planning and execution of processes required to optimize the flow of materials, information and financial capital in the areas that broadly include demand planning, sourcing, production, inventory management and storage, transportation — or logistics — and return for excess or defective products.

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Supply Chain Trend

OCTOBER 29, 2021

We propose that IBP be segmented by decision type into execution, operational, planning, and strategy/culture. For the execution and operational decisions, modern planning technology can largely automate processes and decisions. IBP Segmentation by Planning Horizon, Automation.

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Supply Chain Trend

DECEMBER 4, 2016

However, S&OP has not yet substantially delivered on its ultimate promise of enterprise wide resource management, rolling financial forecasting and strategy deployment. Worse, overall S&OP development and progress seems to have stalled. In the last 30 years S&OP improved performance in many businesses.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

For example, when one retailer collaborated with a manufacturer on a co-branded product line, the manufacturer agreed to absorb the upfront product-development costs in return for an expanded share of the retailer’s product offerings across a wider set of categories. Invest in the Right Infrastructure and People.

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