IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 30, 2023

Visibility. Visibility into other key inventory (e.g., Automate to ensure consistent service levels Without real-time demand sensing combined with visibility into performance across supplier networks, increasing grid/energy demands for consumers and growing communities can lead to product excess or shortages.

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Procurement Tactics

JULY 20, 2023

However, with the advancement of technology, businesses now have access to software that simplifies and automate the entire order management process. In this article, we will explore what supplier order management software is, its benefits, and some of the best software options available in the market.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

In today’s complex global business environment, effective supply chain management (SCM) is crucial for maintaining a competitive advantage. Here’s how companies are using different strategies to address supply chain management and meet their business goals.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 7, 2020

In the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic the need for complete, end to end Supply Chain visibility has never been more important! The necessity for visibility started with store shelves being emptied of toilet paper , food, and various household items. Full visibility as to your whereabouts exists and is used every day.

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Procurement Tactics

AUGUST 23, 2022

Contract Management Process — Everything You Should Know. The contract management process is an essential part of the organization to handle contracts with its third parties. For this article, we will talk about what the contract management process is. So without further ado, let’s start uncovering contract management. .

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Procurement Insights

MARCH 18, 2024

“Supply chain visibility refers to the ability to track and monitor products, materials, and information as they move through the various stages of a supply chain, from the sourcing of raw materials to the delivery of the final product to the end consumer. Keep that in mind.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Successful strategic sourcing often results in process optimization, cost management, customer satisfaction, risk management , increased sustainability and other benefits. Sourcing teams are automating processes like data analysis as well as supplier relationship management and transaction management.

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ivalua

AUGUST 21, 2022

Sustainable and socially responsible procurement practices that cover the full spectrum can provide end-to-end visibility that facilitates monitoring and compliance, and delivers continuous value to the business. Among these practices are supplier identification through sourcing, relationship management, and reporting.

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Procurement Tactics

AUGUST 19, 2022

Vendor Management Best Practices — The Ultimate Guide of 2022. Vendor management best practices are utilized to boost business growth and productivity. For this article, we will discuss what the best practices in vendor management are. We will also share the benefits of vendor management that will captivate you to use it. .

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Instead of freezing your way through the holidays, consider taking a more proactive stance to diagnose, handle and react to outages during these peak periods (and all the time, really) with an AI-powered approach to incident management.

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Spend Matters

APRIL 5, 2023

Categories: Contract Management , Procurement Systems & Architecture , Solution Providers , Source-to-Contract Tags: PRO This Spend Matters PRO Vendor Analysis provides an overview of Spendflo and its solution for SaaS procurement and management.

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 10, 2023

As business travel rebounds to pre-pandemic levels, finance leaders must leverage this window to reassess, re-evaluate, and re-imagine travel and expense management processes and strategies. Business travel isn’t going anywhere. And those predictions have certainly rung true.

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HICX

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Hackett research has shown that supplier onboarding is becoming more of a critical development area for companies particularly as organizations place a greater focus on managing supply base risks.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 19, 2022

Supply chain management and contract lifecycle management are key ingredients to business success. The journey from idea to end product to shipment and delivery is exciting, yes, but rather complicated — fueled with many moving parts. How well a company manages its supply chain processes can directly impact its bottom line.

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Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 3, 2021

Digitization promotes end-to-end supply-chain visibility, providing managers with intelligence on supply-chain performance, and also information on the nuts and bolts of their logistics operations.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

JUNE 5, 2023

Logward is a logistics technology company offering supply chain management as a service, delivering end-to-end visibility as well as control over freight shipments through cloud based solutions. 31.33] An overview of Logward’s Transport Solutions, and the visibility it provides.

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SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

JULY 6, 2023

Supply chain leaders must take advantage of the push for new networks that bring end-to-end visibility to problems. both upstream and downstream.

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Spend Matters

AUGUST 28, 2023

In this Spend Matters Vendor Analysis Update, we give an updated overview of Zivio, a solution that helps organizations (buying organizations and MSPs) manage sourcing for complex services categories, such as legal, marketing or facilities management.

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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.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 30, 2023

80% of manufacturers report MRO asset management in their facilities needs improvement 60% of construction companies admit their industry is behind when it comes to adopting digital technology 5 ways the industrial sector can improve its supply chain resiliency 1. This equipment is critical to expanding capacity for chip production.

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Procurement Heads

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

From then, seeking a new challenge, I moved to LV= to IT procurement a couple of years later and didn’t look back until earlier this year when I was presented with a great opportunity to head up the non-Claims Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) team here at Allianz Holdings, after first TUPE’ing across at the start of 2020.

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Supply Chain Brain

MAY 31, 2023

Instead, they pivoted to defensive resilience strategies and reliance solutions that add end-to-end shipment visibility, real-time response to manage disruption, and data analytics to optimize future performance.

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Spend Matters

JANUARY 5, 2024

Its approach uses an all-in-one spend platform that combines expense management, corporate cards, travel and business accounts. Gatekeeper combines contract lifecycle management with third-party risk management, two areas that are related but usually addressed with disparate software tools.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Do you have a Freight Management Strategy or are you Spinning your Wheels? Freight Management Hell article originally published by, and permission to publish here provided by, Adam Robinson at cerasis.com. The road to freight management Hell is laden with poor freight visibility and outdated systems.

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HICX

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Despite wider global markets beginning to settle and inflation falling, this trend will likely continue with organizations investing more in managing their supply chains. Since then, there has been a renewed focus on digitalization of supply chain management that provides a holistic view of the supply chain with transparency.

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Supply Chain Brain

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Digital technology in the supply chain, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, supports end-to-end decision-making, and visibility into both network-wide supply-demand information and operational level response.

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The Good Spending

APRIL 30, 2023

Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) does the rescue by effectively managing contracts from initiation to execution and beyond. Typical misconceptions about Contract Lifecycle Management Despite many apparent virtues of CLM, several misconceptions often surround it. 1️⃣ CLM is only for large enterprises. ?

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Spend Matters

JULY 10, 2023

The complexity of S2P with its use of multiple systems to address each aspect it covers, manual processes, data quality issues and process variations can make managing the end-to-end process difficult. Organizations need to invest in technologies that improve visibility and control over the entire S2P process.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

IBM Consulting is uniquely positioned to provide exceptional FinOps and TBM services, from strategic planning to operating model implementation and managed services. Supported by an all-encompassing end-to-end toolchain, IBM Consulting distinguishes itself as an industry leader in the marketplace. And by acquiring Apptio Inc.

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ivalua

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Nowadays, Procurement practitioners primarily talk about emerging topics like the reduction of scope 3 emissions, supplier-enabled innovation and supply risk management. Many large organizations implement a Procure to Pay platform with the aim to deliver efficiency, visibility, simplicity, and compliance.

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Procurement Tactics

MAY 22, 2023

Integrated logistics, also known as integrated supply chain management, refers to the coordinated and seamless management of all the activities involved in the movement and storage of goods and materials. Efficiency in inventory management By integrating the different operations, inventory management can be significantly improved.

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ivalua

JUNE 17, 2022

In this regard, monitoring supplier performance, compliance, and the flow of materials from the lowest tier of supply to the end consumer is key to promoting end-to-end visibility. Resilient organizations are also capable of pivoting rapidly and adapting to disruptions without significant increases in operational costs.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

MARCH 12, 2023

As the only parcel TMS provider enabling end-to-end supply chain visibility, from shipping analytics and automation to customer delivery experience management, organizations are optimizing their shipping operations with Enveyo’s cloud-based suite of solutions.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Managing data is difficult. This can lead to data becoming siloed and difficult to manage. With the ever-present threat of cyberattacks, it is more important than ever to ensure you have full visibility over your data storage and a simple way to configure your data for extreme resilience.

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ivalua

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Jarrod McAdoo, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Ivalua. Tools for business optimization and risk management (including AI) — Improve business planning accuracy and decision making frameworks. Risk management. For example, Procurement would probably not select or manage the company’s tax advisor or specialized legal services.

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Procurement Tactics

DECEMBER 7, 2022

We will tell you how it works and how you can manage it. Additionally, we will discuss the three processes of financial supply chain management. What is Financial Supply Chain Management? This approach involves the procure-to-pay cycle, order-to-cash cycle, and working capital management. . Procure-to-pay cycle.

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