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Challenges and risks associated with lack of real-time monitoring in SAP

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Real-time monitoring in SAP BTP lets users harness the power of proactive detection and transform their operations, eliminating problems related to sluggish performance, downtime and troubleshooting errors. In addition, real-time monitoring helps to comply with SLAs, reduce risks and safeguard your operations.

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How to Drive Internal Adoption of Your Real-time Transportation Visibility Platform

FourKites

At its core, rolling out a real-time transportation visibility platform – or any enterprise technology, for that matter – is both a change management project and a leadership opportunity. Understand where your supply chain digital strategy is going in your company, and tightly link a visibility tool with that effort.

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A Snapshot of Supply Chain Technology

Una

Zero visibility of the risks their ships faced, from storms to piracy and political instability, rendered those on shore helpless to intervene. That is why the most important gains in supply chain technology have been in the area of visibility. This allows for faster, more accurate, and more secure transmission of trade documents.

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The Benefits of Cashless Procurement Systems

NLPA (Next Level Purchasing Association)

A report by the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry states that digitizing procurement processes can reduce processing times by up to 60%. Every payment is documented electronically, making it virtually impossible to divert funds or manipulate invoices.

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4 ways generative AI addresses manufacturing challenges

IBM Supply Chain Blog

At the same time, there is this huge sustainability and energy transition wave. Various initiatives to create a knowledge graph of these systems have been only partially successful due to the depth of legacy knowledge, incomplete documentation and technical debt incurred over decades. They are often disparate, siloed, and multi-modal.

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The Future of EDI for Supply Chains

Let's Talk Supply Chain

Standards such as X12 and EDIFACT were introduced to help define the specifics of each type of document companies might want to exchange (ie Purchase Orders, Shipping Notices, Invoices, etc). These standards help define the data for each document and the way in which the documents need to be communicated.

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The Contract Management Playbook: Strategies and Secrets for Total Control

World of Procurement blog

Contract management also provides financial visibility into agreements and helps capture important data to inform business decisions. Lease agreements - Contracts for renting equipment, real estate, vehicles, etc. Clearly documenting obligations of each party is essential. They become unmanageable as contract volume grows.