Let's Talk Supply Chain

JULY 9, 2023

Operating in over 40 countries worldwide, SEKO lead the industry with innovative and customizable IT solutions, which provide a seamless flow of information to deliver their growing customer base true supply chain visibility. It’s about visibility, it’s about the experience.” You can increase your conversion by providing more options!”

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Spend Matters

DECEMBER 21, 2023

We are highlighting the customer demands, market movements and advances in procurement tech that are exciting the world of solution providers, how they expect them to shape the S2P landscape next year and how they plan to respond to them. Generative AI, in particular, offers transformative potential in optimizing source-to-pay processes.

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World of Procurement blog

MAY 10, 2024

This supports strategic sourcing efforts. Predicting future spend : By analyzing historical spend data, AI algorithms can create spending forecasts, predict seasonal demand changes, and model the impact of external factors on budgets. This maximizes value from sourcing partnerships. This enables more accurate planning.

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SCMDOJO

MAY 7, 2024

Enhancing supply chain resilience as well as supply chain visibility is crucial in today’s interconnected world. The powerful concept of Supply Chain Visibility lies at the core of resilience. Supply Chain Visibility refers to tracking and monitoring the movement of goods, services, and information throughout the supply chain.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 16, 2021

I/T was going to be a source of competitive differentiation. Actual channel demand would in turn trigger subsequent replenishment orders. With a new vision in mind the CIO gathered a few members of his team and within a few days created a model for a new, smart supply-demand ecosystem. Supply Chain Innovation from I/T.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

Integrated planning incorporates supply chain planning, demand planning, and demand forecasts so the company can quickly assess the impact on inventory levels, supply chain logistics, production plans, and customer service capacity. A retail company experiences a sudden surge in online sales due to a viral social media campaign.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

MARCH 16, 2020

For some shippers it is collapsing demand and leaving unprecedented idle capacity. Coming at a time when the pandemic is depressing global consumption of oil thanks to plummeting travel plans and shelter in place orders, it seems counter intuitive that demand to move oil would be at record high volumes.

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Spend Matters

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The company achieves this by using an advanced Al paired with real-world, in-the-moment perspectives from a proprietary network of partners that deliver insights down to the bill of material level. The last few years have put the word “supply chain” in the headlines as so-called supply chain disruptions and shortages have impacted everybody.

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Arkestro

DECEMBER 12, 2022

But those in the health and pharmaceutical industries deal with particularly demanding circumstances. For example, the peaks in demand during the pandemic exposed many organizations to delays, resulting in shortages of critical materials like PPE and ventilators. Supply Chain Visibility. Climate change is also a massive issue.

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SCMDOJO

MAY 6, 2022

Many supply chain systems are closed-source, all-in-one, proprietary, expensive, and difficult to customize ( read Why ERP Sucks ). The benefits include cost savings and a quick turnaround time from development to implementation. Reduces Time to Market. However, Finance is now Fintech and Marketing is now Digital Marketing.

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Pipefy

OCTOBER 25, 2023

To do this, procurement teams require visibility into their data, control over their processes, and a seat at the business strategy table. By working with procurement, connecting disparate systems, implementing fraud controls for these specific areas, tracking end-to-end vulnerabilities across financial and operational processes is possible.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 26, 2023

It allows DevOps teams to write code, integrate it, run tests, deliver releases and deploy changes to the software collaboratively and in real-time. You gain full-stack visibility to better understand your environment and speed up innovation.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 2, 2023

While the microservices toolchain itself may not explicitly demand new social practices on the surface, realizing the full benefits of this technology requires a change in work habits. Using real-time monitoring and visualization tools, operations teams can track the health of distributed systems and detect anomalies or failures.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 29, 2021

Supply Chain Investment Challenges – Real and Imagined! Amid the thick covid-clouds, organizations are preparing to make their way back to regular business to maximize profitability and make up for the lost time. Manufacturers with a global supply chain network took the brunt of suspended operations during the pandemic.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The dynamic, open-source , microservices-based configuration of Kubernetes can be a great fit for businesses that are looking to maximize infrastructure agility. In DevOps , the concept of observability has evolved to refer to the end-to-end visibility of a system state as dictated by telemetry data.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 3, 2021

The Coronavirus pandemic created a dramatic and highly visible disruption in that paradigm. When the pandemic winds down there is a very real danger that people will go back to doing, and viewing, things the way they were before the pandemic. Supply Chain is a massive source of competitive advantage and differentiation.

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Pipefy

DECEMBER 6, 2023

No matter how much they differ, efficient and friction-free workflows typically share the following traits: they provide visibility, employees are aligned on changes and requirements, fosters accountability, and creates a positive business impact. Visibility Each step in a workflow should be visible.

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Arkestro

JUNE 6, 2023

Ultimately, both want the same goal — ensuring business outcomes are positive, timely, and on-budget. Purchases in Time and Budget: How many purchases are on budget and on time? Procurement Cost Reduction: How are costs being reduced over time? Emergency Purchase Ratio: How many unplanned purchases are being made?

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Customer-facing AI use cases Deliver superior customer service Customers can now be assisted in real time with conversational AI. The IBM team is even using generative AI to create synthetic data to build more robust and trustworthy AI models and to stand in for real-world data protected by privacy and copyright laws.

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SCMDOJO

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Now, real-time connections provide more accurate data and information, which helps create collaboration in the digital world. It has made visible changes in the SCM systems. transparency, traceability, security and robustness are the main demands of blockchain-based SCM solutions.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The demands for faster, more affordable processes are growing in stride. This reduces the risk of fraud and theft by enhancing visibility to the freight in the yard, which in turn provides additional integrity into the supply chain. E-commerce will continue to grow significantly through 2020 and beyond. Dock Scheduling System.

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SupplyShift

DECEMBER 6, 2021

In the wake of supply chain disruptions and global shortages, businesses are quickly recognizing the need for greater visibility over their supply network, from documenting the origin of material components to tracking shipments. For your supply chain map to have any real benefit, you must go beyond your direct suppliers.

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SupplyShift

DECEMBER 6, 2021

In the wake of supply chain disruptions and global shortages, businesses are quickly recognizing the need for greater visibility over their supply network, from documenting the origin of material components to tracking shipments. For your supply chain map to have any real benefit, you must go beyond your direct suppliers.

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SCMDOJO

MAY 13, 2022

Fast moving forward into 2022 ongoing widespread congestions in ports, container shortages, and volatile shifts in demand for goods from Western economies causing freight rates to skyrocket ended up adding extreme pressure on the main cost drivers of the ocean side of the supply chains and beyond. Source: project44 Monthly report.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 10, 2021

I quickly became very familiar with the standard half-sized and full-sized (40″ x 48″) pallets that the company was using at the time, though I was unaware of the Pallet Supply Chain. The backbone of the Digital Supply Chain of the future is end to end electronic connectivity and real time visibility as to the movement of goods.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 21, 2020

You reduce cost, you eliminate opportunities for error, you reduce time, you reduce inventories, and you strengthen your Supply Chain’s ability to operate in the face of any disastrous situation. The Don’t Touch philosophy is not restricted to physical goods and materials.

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Pipefy

MAY 23, 2023

Because of this, carrying out its operations manually is time-consuming and incredibly expensive for businesses. Savvy leaders are quickly adopting e-procurement solutions to lower the time, costs, silos, and strained supplier relationships that plague manual operations.

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Pipefy

JANUARY 11, 2023

A shift in business demands and the role of procurement. Procurement teams are now expected to perform as a strategic, value-creating business partner that improves business agility, financial visibility, process resilience, and competitiveness. Time-consuming invoice reconciliation (28%). Complex approval processes (29%).

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

The HBR article talks about how more companies are automating functions like demand forecasting, which has long been seen as more of an “art” than an exact science. This kind of visibility opens up huge opportunities, not only by lowering risk but also by letting companies become more strategic.

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Zycus Cognitive Procurement

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

In good times, operating leverage (ratio of fixed and variable costs) can supercharge profit growth. However, in times of growth, new costs and expenses also tend to creep in, and over time, these costs harden and morph into fixed cost structures. You may provide better demand visibility to the vendor partner.

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Supply Chain Opz

AUGUST 2, 2018

In Global organizations, successful inventory management is a complex science that requires modelling across an entire network to determine interdependencies between locations and the calculation of the ideal inventory targets from raw materials through work-in-progress to finished goods; no small undertaking.

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HICX

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This has led to organizations investing capital in and spending time on optimizing supply chains to cut lead times, improve supplier performance and increase business profitability. These tools can provide real-time insights across the supply chain while predicting future trends, ensuring organizations can remain proactive.

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ivalua

MARCH 9, 2023

A comprehensive Source-to-Pay platform is a critical component of an organization’s IT environment. What is Source-to-Pay? The Source-to-Pay process itself is quite broad but it covers most if not all the aspects of a procurement organization, at least from a process and technology perspective.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Yet it is managed by one or two people, with no support, and no visibility from upper management. Supply chain visibility is also incredibly important these days. You can not get this visibility without a plan. Most everyone felt they were doing a good job already. You must manage Freight and Logistics.

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Supply Chain Opz

JANUARY 22, 2016

The concept of “connected logistics” covers the relevant end-to-end processes of warehouse management, transportation management, track & trace and the entire logistics network. Thus, increased real-time visibility into shipments leads to more efficient throughput of goods and reduced logistics lead times.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

More demand for rail, particularly from the U.S. Given the costs of infrastructure development, I suspect these tight capacities to remain for some time and drilling companies will be looking to other alternatives (namely pipeline, truck, or ship) to move oil around the country. In the rail sector, the big issue is capacity.

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World of Procurement blog

MAY 8, 2024

The ultimate goal of SCM is to reduce costs while satisfying customer demands. Customers receive orders on-time without backlogs. Effective SCM gives businesses an edge over the competition by being more responsive to demand changes and disruptions. Accurate demand forecasts enable effective supply chain planning.

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