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What is supply chain sustainability?

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Your customers, employees and shareholders want to know you have a plan to address supply chain sustainability. Supply chain sustainability is defined as embedding environmental, social or corporate governance considerations as raw materials are sourced, converted to products and delivered to market.

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Mindy Davis on Opening Doors for Women in Supply ChainĀ 

Let's Talk Supply Chain

It’s a new year, and Bloomberg has already coined it the 2023 hangover for supply chain leaders. Never in modern history have supply chain leaders had more visibility, vulnerability, or accountability laid squarely at their feet. Meanwhile, new challenges are still coming painfully into focus.

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Smarter Insights, More Innovative Solutions: Why Procurement Needs a Seat at the Strategy Table

Pipefy

To do this, procurement teams require visibility into their data, control over their processes, and a seat at the business strategy table. In a recent survey conducted by Pipefy, 55% of C-suite executives responded that “improved agilityā€ was a primary benefit they expected from process automation software.

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Debunking observability myths ā€“ Part 6: Observability is about one part of your stack

IBM Supply Chain Blog

In modern software and system management, observability goes beyond focusing on just one part of the stack. Technologies like distributed tracing and service mesh enable end-to-end visibility, allowing teams to understand request flows, identify latency bottlenecks and troubleshoot issues across different service boundaries.

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Strategic Procurement: What Is Is and Why Itā€™s Essential for Business ResilienceĀ 

Pipefy

The result is greater supply chain predictability, more accurate decision-making, and better business agility. It also benefits end-to-end procurement management since visibility and transparency are emphasized. What is strategic procurement? This also leads to more advantageous strategic sourcing.

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Technology Support in Integrated Business Planning: Automation, Augmentation and Human Centricity

Supply Chain Trend

Preview In his 2019 Foresight article, Niels van Hove examined eight technological hurdles that must be overcome to enable autonomous or ā€˜lights outā€™ supply-chain planning. He reasoned that to support such planning we need to implement a third wave of integrated supply-chain planning software. Key Points.

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Advanced endpoint protection vs. risk-based application patching vs. laptop management: Similarities and differences

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Gone are the days when antivirus software and a firewall were almost enough to protect an organization from cyberattacks. Modern unified endpoint management (UEM) solutions include laptop management. Trojans, worms and malware are no longer the only cyberthreats keeping IT and security professionals awake at night.

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