SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

The Role of Agentic AI in Supply Chains Supply chains are dynamic and complex, requiring continuous decision-making across multiple functions, from procurement and inventory management to logistics and demand forecasting. Uses machine learning to detect demand fluctuations and supply chain inefficiencies.

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Spend Matters

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

This meant that implementing one of the full end-to-end spend management suites was not feasible from a cost and change management perspective. The most significant impact of implementing a spend analytics solution was providing the visibility and details behind the dollars spent on various Indirect spend categories.

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Spend Matters

APRIL 15, 2025

Thats where AI steps in, offering a proactive approach to predicting supplier lead times and optimizing demand forecasts for buyers. One of the biggest challenges in this sector is maintaining end-to-end visibility in the supply chain, and AI is proving to be a game-changer.

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Supply Chain Brain

OCTOBER 16, 2022

For brands and manufacturers to be responsive to near-term demand fluctuations, they must first achieve a greater level of connectivity and visibility from their end-to-end supply ecosystem.

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ivalua

MAY 30, 2022

As the demands on supply chains continue to increase, so do the expectations of consumers. 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. Digital Champion Best Practices.

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Supply Chain Efficiency supply chain budgeting Agile and Lean Supply Chain Supply Chain Optimization 130

Supply Chain Brain

APRIL 14, 2023

It is clear that under these circumstances, where demand is volatile, supply uncertain, and capacity short, manufacturing needs to adopt a digital supply chain twin to obtain resilience and an end-to-end visibility across your supply chain to make the right decisions. But where do you begin?

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ivalua

JUNE 17, 2022

This is being driven by consumer demand for greater transparency, compliance demands, tougher regulatory enforcement, and the growing emphasis on CSR. In this regard, monitoring supplier performance, compliance, and the flow of materials from the lowest tier of supply to the end consumer is key to promoting end-to-end visibility.

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Procurement Insights

APRIL 4, 2025

The lack of end-to-end connectivity delayed efforts to streamline operations across its growing portfolio. Reeses) with new snack lines, forcing tough choices like SKU rationalizationreducing variety to focus on high-demand itemswhich risked alienating consumers seeking diverse offerings.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 81

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Supply Chain Brain

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Digital technology in the supply chain, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, supports end-to-end decision-making, and visibility into both network-wide supply-demand information and operational level response.

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Procurement Tactics

JUNE 8, 2023

Thus, ensuring that you can always fulfill the demands of your customers. This helps companies ensure they always have enough stock to meet customer demands and warns them if they are running low. Just-in-Time (JIT) This is a strategy where inventory is ordered and received just in time for production or customer demand.

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Procurement Tactics

MAY 22, 2023

Integration of different logistics activities provides visibility of the entire operation to key stakeholders and management, which can lead to better decision-making based on solid data. Reliable and real-time data is crucial for customers to plan effectively, anticipate demands, and understand purchasing patterns of their customers.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 30, 2023

Visibility. Visibility into other key inventory (e.g., safety equipment, parts for trucks, and raw materials for infrastructure), weather events, customer demand levels, and logistics can help prevent disruption in operations, too. Visibility into other key inventory (e.g.,

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 13, 2020

Since we’ve been discussing recently how invaluable end-to-end supply chain visibility is to managing disruption , here are a few more – quite achievable – scenarios when leveraging the software: Reduce inventory liability. Let’s say the new system will provide visibility to reduce excess and obsolete inventory by 25%.

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Pipefy

APRIL 22, 2025

AI also helps forecast demand, identify spending patterns, and even flag chances to renegotiate. End-to-End Integration: The Backbone of Procurement Automation A platform is only as good as its connections. It shifts your team from task-driven to strategy-focused.

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ivalua

OCTOBER 29, 2019

It is one thing to make tenders public, and another to offer suppliers visibility into the end-to-end bid management process and final award decisions. Government agencies have to facilitate transparency and openness while never losing sight of why that visibility is needed.

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Procurement Leaders

JUNE 10, 2024

Just 1% of respondents to a poll Procurement Leaders conducted at the World Procurement Congress said they have “excellent” multi-tier visibility of the supply base. Which leaves 28% of those who responded admitting that the visibility they have is “not great” and, at best, goes as far as Tier-1. This is surprising.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

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.

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ivalua

OCTOBER 29, 2019

They also want transparency, but in their case, it is visibility into new bids, the state of existing bids, awards, and payment status. Our Public Sector solution will grow with you, configure to your specific needs, and most importantly meet your ever-changing demands. Frankly, they are struggling.

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Procurement Tactics

DECEMBER 7, 2022

After all, in traditional ways, buyers tend to delay payment while sellers demand to be paid as soon as possible. . The purpose of financial supply chain management is to achieve and maintain visibility into all of the processes. . When this happens, it results in more visibility throughout the physical supply chain.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

DECEMBER 9, 2024

His passion for enhancing supply chain efficiency through technology is complemented by deep expertise in managing end-to-end supply chain processes across various industries. We have to use technology to match that speed. More data is good, but it doesnt always lead to accurate forecasts.

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Jaggaer

APRIL 9, 2025

While many manufacturers rely on ERP systems for procurement, these platforms are designed for broad business management rather than the intricate demands of sourcing, supplier collaboration, and cost control in a manufacturing environment. Customizable workflows, dashboards, and reporting tools can improve user experience and efficiency.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Over the course of our brand new four-part series, we’re going to talk about why optimized and actionable data is more powerful than mere visibility; and why organizations need good data, not lots of data. What are the barriers to achieving true end-to-end visibility? You have to give them the visibility.

e2e 52

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Whether it’s optimizing routes, improving warehouse efficiency, or leveraging technology to enhance tracking and visibility, Distribution Operations play a critical role in the success of any business that relies on the timely and efficient delivery of goods or services. Logistics KPI Dashboard Excel Template 4.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Time and again, we see IT teams struggle to deal with seasonal spikes in demand and outages. One of the best use cases for AIOps is strengthening end-to-end system resilience by consolidating data from multiple sources and correlating events into incidents. This year’s Black Friday sale wasn’t any different.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

MARCH 1, 2025

AI-driven optimization: Automated decision-making for quicker response to changing market demands. End-to-End Visibility: Extensive overview of the entire supply chain network for better planning and coordination. Identify and mitigate risks proactively by analyzing supply chain data in real-time.

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Real-time Visibility Supply Chain Optimization Supply Chain Efficiency Agile and Lean Supply Chain 52

Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 11, 2020

The shock-resistant, resilient supply chain — demand management enables supply chain and financial resilience. Fortunately, supply chain leaders can look to new technologies that dramatically improve visibility across the end-to-end supply chain and drive decision-making to the edges of the enterprise.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

MARCH 16, 2020

For some shippers it is collapsing demand and leaving unprecedented idle capacity. A surge in demand to ship the flood of crude oil unleashed by Saudi Arabia and its OPEC peers is sending freight rates surging and forcing buyers to seek out space on smaller tankers after the largest ones have been booked out, shipping sources said.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Optimizing source-to-paythrough digital transformation streamlines every stage of your procurement strategy, improving visibility, efficiency, and collaboration. These begin with enhanced visibility. Suppliers, in turn, benefit from improved demand forecasting and operational predictability.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Learn more about IBM Food Trust Advanced analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) Analytics engines and their “big data brains” provide real-time sourcing flexibility and visibility to enhance order management and inventory systems. Try out cognitive intelligence free for 30-days.

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Spend Matters

APRIL 5, 2023

The influx of business reliance on SaaS applications has caused these systems to be a headache for many companies, and, according to McKinsey, the demand for these applications has created a global market of $3 trillion that has attracted numerous solutions. Having so many options is not always a good thing, though.

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ivalua

MAY 15, 2022

To address their gaps, Amrest is building an end-to-end procurement process that covers all of their businesses and each unique challenge these operations face. Amrest needed a tool that provided global visibility into all of their brands in order to streamline their purchasing decisions. One Tool, Many Challenges.

e2e 130

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ivalua

MAY 15, 2022

To address their gaps, Amrest is building an end-to-end procurement process that covers all of their businesses and each unique challenge these operations face. Amrest needed a tool that provided global visibility into all of their brands in order to streamline their purchasing decisions. One Tool, Many Challenges.

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e2e Procurement supply chain budgeting Purchasing 130

Supply Chain Brain

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Logistics and transportation executives are accustomed to dealing with rapid swings in demand from consumers, shifts in resource availability, and storms that threaten to upend the global supply chain. Leverage new technologies (machine learning, AI, IoT) for visibility across the end-to-end supply chain.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 1, 2019

This demand would be translated to bills of material and component requirements through manual or semi-automated means. Purchase orders would be written out by hand and mailed or faxed to suppliers with buyers calling suppliers on the phone to tell them about their needs as well as the inevitable changes in demand.

Supply Chain Optimization 82

Supply Chain Optimization Supply Chain Efficiency supply chain software solutions Supply chain 82

ivalua

JUNE 27, 2022

Once an organization has the complete Strategic Payment cycle in place CFOs can use the end-to-end visibility to control bottom-line growth with targeted programs. . C2FO: The on-demand, flexible C2FO working capital platform is a significant component of Ivalua’s modern strategic payments experience.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 29, 2021

The impending changes include connected, end-to-end, value chains, and more intelligent, automated, and autonomous distribution systems. This gives the supply chain manager not only greater visibility into the supply chain itself, but also visibility into the supply chain stakeholder dynamics within or even outside the organization.

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Supply Chain Optimization Supply Chain Efficiency Agile and Lean Supply Chain supply chain software solutions 135

Supply Chain Opz

MARCH 6, 2015

The biggest implication of this new imposition on procurement process is that now procurement managers have to deliver suppliers that are cost conscious and timely in their operations but at the same time can adapt to the changing demands of end customers. Skill gaps will continue to be a challenge for companies.

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