IBM Supply Chain Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The supply chain plays a pivotal role in delivering goods and services to both businesses and consumers, serving as the connective thread between industries, nations, communities and all components of the value chain. Our dependence on supply chains is most pronounced in ensuring food supply.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 3, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Putting a Shine on Supply Chain’s Image! Supply Chain has historically been considered a back office function, necessary but lacking in prestige and strategic value. The Coronavirus pandemic created a dramatic and highly visible disruption in that paradigm.

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HICX

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

As an increasing number of organizations engage with vendors on a global level to fulfill their supply chains, the need for supply chain robustness has never been so critical. This has been acutely highlighted since the turn of the decade due to global events.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 7, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Supply Chain as a Service (SCaaS)! Digital Supply Chain strategies article and permission to publish here provided by Alejandro Carrera. Effective digital supply chain strategies can help organizations stand out from the crowd. Subscribe Here!

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SCMDOJO

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Here, we’ll discuss how it becomes useful for SCMs and what are some blockchain supply chain examples. Understanding Supply Chain The production industry uses a variety of procedures to serve its consumers through the market; all these activities can be covered under one umbrella term: supply chain.

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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. Supply chain mapping has plenty of more far-reaching benefits, too.

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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. Supply chain mapping has plenty of more far-reaching benefits, too.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

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. Logs Logs include discrete events recorded every time something occurs in the system, such as status or error messages, or transaction details.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

This comprehensive approach enables teams to uncover insights into how the entire system operates, identify performance bottlenecks, detect anomalies and, ultimately, deliver a more reliable and efficient experience for users. It is achieved through observing real-time frameworks, performance-monitoring libraries and crash-reporting tools.

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SCMDOJO

MAY 7, 2024

Supply chains are vital to businesses, facilitating the movement of goods, services, financial flows, and information. Enhancing supply chain resilience as well as supply chain visibility is crucial in today’s interconnected world. However, they are also susceptible to disruptions and risks.

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World of Procurement blog

MAY 10, 2024

By leveraging technologies like machine learning, natural language processing, and neural networks, AI-driven solutions can help procurement teams work smarter, faster, and more efficiently. One of the biggest challenges in procurement has been gaining visibility into exactly where money is being spent across the organization.

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Arkestro

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The pandemic and resulting supply chain disruptions have added extreme pressure on the health and pharma sector to address shortages quickly and efficiently. Constrained supply chains and the associated shortages have resulted in mounting pressures for organizations to diversify their supplier bases.

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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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Orderhive

JUNE 1, 2022

Enterprises have begun to create digital twins of different aspects of supply chains for simulation purposes. Multiple approaches to supply chain twins show greater value in identifying supply chain bottlenecks, meeting sustainability, and improving efficiency. What is a supply chain digital twin?

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 26, 2023

Automation is often centered on efforts to optimize spend, achieve greater operational efficiency and incorporate new and innovative technologies, which often translate into a better customer experience. You gain full-stack visibility to better understand your environment and speed up innovation. But where to start?

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 2, 2023

But now, IT is much more of a team sport, and the older approaches aren’t always effective or cost-efficient. 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

AUGUST 26, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Supply Chain Visibility Has Never Been More Important! Supply Chain visibility article and permission to publish here provided by Adam Miglio. By event I am referring to both LRIP (low-rate initial production) and full rate production.

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Pipefy

MARCH 6, 2023

Following recent events like the pandemic, the shift to non-office work models, and supply chain pressures, the demand for business process transformation has accelerated. This includes initiatives aimed at improving product development, customer experiences, and operational efficiency.

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Pipefy

JANUARY 11, 2023

The need for efficient and error-proof procurement processes has never been greater. Following recent unprecedented events and disruptions, one thing has become clear: procurement optimization is no longer just about cost-effectiveness or efficiency. . Time-consuming invoice reconciliation (28%).

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 19, 2024

Discover Ways to Boost Supply Chain Visibility through Digital Marketing Supply chain visibility is essential for providing a superior customer experience and sustaining customer loyalty over time. Each of these experiences damages the customer relationship.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

Using multiple platforms to discover apps and manage laptops and mobile devices negatively impacts the IT and security team’s efficiency and productivity in continuous application patching. These capabilities help identify and block advanced threats like ransomware and cyberattacks in real-time on any type of endpoint.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 13, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. At Supply Chain Game Changer we believe in sharing experiences and expertise from people in every industry and from across the globe. After growing it from an idea on a napkin to more than 300 employees, we decided it was time to take on a new challenge. Subscribe Here!

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 30, 2023

In the healthcare supply chain, there are three main challenges pharmacies, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and patients are facing: shortages and delays; lack of convenient and cost-effective fulfillment options; and rising counterfeiting and regulatory changes, along with a persistent need for better drug cold chain management.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 24, 2024

In 2024, the logistics and supply chain industry will continue its transformative journey, driven by technological advancements and growing consumer expectations. According to industry reports, over half of business leaders acknowledge the need for supply chain improvements, with 52% believing they could enhance their operations.

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World of Procurement blog

MAY 8, 2024

What is Supply Chain Management (SCM) Supply Chain Management (SCM) is the management of the flow of goods, services, information and finances as they move from raw materials to final product, from manufacturer to consumer. Optimized supply chains lead to improved profit margins.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

In the trucking sector, the biggest change has been the federal government's movement to impose fuel efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions standards on all heavy-duty trucks. This has been a priority of shippers for a long time in order to optimize their supply chains. More demand for rail, particularly from the U.S.

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SCMDOJO

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Additionally, when you need to oversee a considerable number of Stock Keeping Units (SKUs), it is like a nightmare without an efficient tool. This article will walk you through the basic understanding of the warehouse management system (WMS), its features, how and where it fits with the supply chain, and different WMS systems.

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 25, 2022

In the current era, it is clear that new modes of production are concomitant with new modes of distribution, which advances the field of logistics, the science of physical distribution or even supply chain management. Reminder of Key Definitions – Logistics & Supply Chain Management. and J-P Rodrigue (2004)).

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Finale Inventory

JUNE 29, 2022

Continue reading for more information about shortages and surpluses and how Finale Inventory’s scalable inventory management system can help your business thrive. There are several scenarios that can cause an inventory surplus: 1. What Is a Surplus? Inaccurate Demand Forecasting. Effects of a Surplus. Planning Ahead.

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ivalua

MARCH 9, 2023

Similar to how CRM manages everything around the customer, an S2P platform manages everything around the supplier. ​ It is a crucial process for organizations that are looking to streamline their procurement activities, better manage spend and suppliers and increase operational efficiency. What is Source-to-Pay?

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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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IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

For years, supply chain professionals have measured success by how well they have been able to drive down costs and drive up efficiency. Just-in-time (JIT) became an artform and masters of the practice achieved new levels of precision.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Supply chains are under enormous stress. As supply chain leaders, we’ve seen unprecedented levels of disruption, challenges with our ecosystem trading partner networks, tariff wars, real wars and tremendous turnover in human capital. Senior supply chain leaders are retiring in record numbers.

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Procurement Software

JANUARY 9, 2024

Canopy Canopy is a vendor master data and supplier management platform that aims to provide complete visibility of your suppliers’ information. Additionally, real time communications functionality gives you immediate collaboration on service improvement planning between you and your suppliers.

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Solvoyo

MARCH 5, 2021

Remember those times when we used to stroll down the block and find local stores such as the mom-and-pop diners and get the chance to relish the coziness and sense of family environment there. Digital commerce efficiently requires the digitalization of many customer-facing operations and sourcing and procurement.

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Finale Inventory

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Scanning a label takes a fraction of the time needed to jot down even the briefest of details – and items are immediately visible in your online system with full product details available. Cycle counting is the practice of counting a rotating subset of your inventory on a regular, frequent basis. Adopt continuous cycle counts.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. The Supply Chain Detective and the Distribution Centre Disaster! But when it was time to make change happen the level of resistance, from the CEO on down, was incredible. This change paradox, and the resultant paralysis, could only be solved by The Supply Chain Detective.

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