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.

Supply Chain Efficiency 130

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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. A supply chain control tower can connect many sources of data-driven information and improve end-to-end visibility.

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HICX

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Building the Optimal Supplier Experience. Providing an optimal supplier experience is only possible through a deep understanding of how your suppliers are expected to interact with an organization and then streamlining those processes in a ‘supplier-centric’ way. How to use segmentation to drive the supplier experience?

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Procurement Tactics

DECEMBER 7, 2022

It optimizes the cash flow that enables the business to lengthen its payment terms to its suppliers while providing an option for when a supplier will be paid. While suppliers can gain quick access to money the buyer owes them, the latter can get more time to pay their balances. Ultimate Supplier Plotting Checklist 2022.

Supply Chain Efficiency 181

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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.

Inventory 187

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ivalua

JUNE 27, 2022

With new accelerated payment capabilities, users can more readily capture supplier discounts, support growth, and strengthen the supply chain. . Ivalua’s global reach of buyers and their suppliers helps us deliver on our mission-providing access to working capital to businesses so they can grow and thrive. It Pays to Partner!

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Procurement Tactics

MAY 22, 2023

It also requires close collaboration and coordination among all the stakeholders in the supply chain, including suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers. Reliable and real-time data is crucial for customers to plan effectively, anticipate demands, and understand purchasing patterns of their customers. Why is it important?

Logistics 207

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 30, 2023

The industrial sector is facing a perfect storm when it comes to their supply chains: an outdated reliance on manual processes, raw materials demand that will likely outpace supply, as well as potential resource constraints. What can help improve visibility and resiliency in the industrial sector supply chain?

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

For sourcing teams, that means pivoting their mindset around selecting suppliers from a tactical, lowest-cost-above-all approach to a strategic one. Sourcing and procurement professionals operating with a strategic sourcing mindset assess a supplier’s quality, reputation and service.

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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.

Procurement solutions 83

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ivalua

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Suppliers need bidding and contract transparency. 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. The public needs spend and supplier selection transparency. Why Ivalua for Public Sector?

e2e 113

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Procurement Tactics

JUNE 28, 2023

It typically looks for details such as supplier information, item descriptions, quantities, prices, or arrival dates. Supplier Performance The quality, timeliness, and adherence to contractual commitments of suppliers shall be monitored. This approach promotes efficiency throughout the whole procurement process.

Supply Chain Efficiency 178

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Enable End-To-End Order Visibility. Order visibility is tracking the number of items inside a warehouse. With order visibility playing a significant role in eCommerce fulfilment, business owners must enable end-to-end order visibility. Select Credible Suppliers. Key Takeaway.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 14, 2020

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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Procurement Leaders

JUNE 13, 2022

Securing this level of visibility in the construction sector is challenging for several reasons: Much of the work on HS2 is broken into stand-alone projects made up of unique combinations of contractors and suppliers. Engaging with suppliers to collect the necessary data. Developing a risk methodology to assess suppliers.

Supply Chain Efficiency 130

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

With greater tracking and traceability, for example, comes real-time demand insight. When a customer is in the process of checking out at a grocery store, it provides real-time insights into the current demand for specific items. The FDA FSMA will require companies to think deeply about their entire digitalization efforts.

Supply Chain Efficiency 116

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The power of supplier diversity in procurement: Driving business success through inclusion — Whether they are carrying out their own CSR strategy or responding to third-party initiatives and demands, businesses have their role to play in encouraging greater diversity among their suppliers.

Procurement 89

Procurement e2e Contract Sourcing 89

Spend Matters

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The impact of Covid-19 on demand, the opening and closing of borders, factories and ports, the obstruction of the Suez Canal and the war in Ukraine have created a nightmare for supply chain and procurement professionals. Read more. )

Risk management 74

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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.

Innovation 52

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Barkers Procurement

JANUARY 26, 2024

In recent years, we have seen the demand placed upon the Procurement function significantly increase. Stakeholders are becoming more demanding, and both suppliers and procurement functions are finding themselves managing more ESG priorities and having to meet more requirements. The Pressures That Procurement Faces In 2024.

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Barkers Procurement

JANUARY 26, 2024

In recent years, we have seen the demand placed upon the Procurement function significantly increase. Stakeholders are becoming more demanding, and both suppliers and procurement functions are finding themselves managing more ESG priorities and having to meet more requirements. We recognise that one size does not fit all.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 30, 2023

For example, the chip shortage has been a call to action for both original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and suppliers. A lack of MRO inventory visibility can lead to a lack or obsolescence of key parts. On a parallel track, companies have been trying to stay on pace to accelerate the transition to electric vehicles.

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Spend Matters

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Risk reduction is especially important in the supply chain, where leaders are focused on supply and supplier transparency to assess vulnerabilities. We’re also seeing that suppliers are no longer being viewed simply as vendors, but strategic partners. Here are a few of the top concerns we’re hearing.

Procurement 102

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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

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

AUGUST 21, 2023

With over $8 billion of product sourced, nearly 1 million RFQ’s and over 50,000 buyers and suppliers involved, they are the world’s largest manufacturing marketplace. Shapeways is allowing anyone to get access to on-demand manufacturing services at scale.” Today I’m joined by MFG.

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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. From cloud-based platforms to advanced supplier data analytics , digital solutions are addressing the challenges of supply chain management.

Supply chain management 52

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SCMDOJO

JUNE 21, 2023

SCaaS is a technology-driven approach to managing supply chains, offering comprehensive end-to-end solutions for businesses. SCaaS providers typically use advanced technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and blockchain to improve visibility, traceability, and collaboration across the supply chain.

Supply Chain Optimization 89

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Arkestro

DECEMBER 12, 2022

But those in the health and pharmaceutical industries deal with particularly demanding circumstances. Limited Supplier Network. Relying on a limited number of suppliers can lead to back-orders and other delays. Supply Chain Visibility. Supply chain visibility is another critical issue. Geographic Market Shifts.

Real-time Visibility 52

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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.

e2e 145

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SCMDOJO

OCTOBER 14, 2023

It has made visible changes in the SCM systems. transparency, traceability, security and robustness are the main demands of blockchain-based SCM solutions. It has greatly increased the demand for blockchain-based solutions. It brought visible changes to SCM systems and businesses’ growth using blockchain supply chain systems.

Supply Chain Efficiency 87

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Supply Chain Opz

JANUARY 17, 2017

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.

e2e 40

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

JUNE 27, 2022

Markets that were considered untouchable two years ago have been rocked by consumer demand that arose just as supply-side networks were thrown into flux due to Covid-19. The good news is that we’re starting to see some light at the end of the tunnel. It’s time for a plan. Thankfully, importers aren’t on their own.

Import 52

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 2, 2021

From supply disruptions , to rapidly changing consumer behaviour leading to increased difficulty for demand forecasting , to challenges companies face when protecting their front-line supply chain workers , the pandemic has raised a whole host of challenges — making supply chains one of the more disrupted aspects of the economy.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 105

Agile and Lean Supply Chain Supply Chain Efficiency e2e Supply chain 105

Barkers Procurement

AUGUST 2, 2023

In recent years we have seen the demand placed upon the Procurement function significantly increase. Questions such as: What vulnerabilities do current suppliers have? What are the events impacting the end-to-end supply chain? How are suppliers managing the Cost of Goods Sold (COGS)?

Supply Chain Efficiency 52

Supply Chain Efficiency Procurement e2e Agile and Lean Supply Chain 52

ivalua

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Enormous, complex, global enterprises use procurement technology to manage their spend, suppliers, contracts and bids every day without seeming to run into the same stumbling blocks as the public sector, which operates on a smaller and more localized basis.

e2e 113

e2e Bidding Contract Budget 113

Pipefy

DECEMBER 20, 2023

With the analysis of supplier performance data, purchase managers can make decisions that benefit the company faster and more accurately. It also benefits end-to-end procurement management since visibility and transparency are emphasized. Supplier performance assessment to improve selection.

Supply Chain Efficiency 52

Supply Chain Efficiency Procurement Agile and Lean Supply Chain Strategic planning 52

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. Organizations, which are looking to automate their processes significantly by 2025, need to insist that major suppliers have clear strategies to ensure a seamless transition of the processes.

Supply Chain Optimization 135

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