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Streamlining supply chain management: Strategies for the future

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Supply chain disruptions are caused by a variety of factors, from pandemics, natural disasters and political instability to supplier bankruptcy and IT failures. Automation Automation can streamline supply chain operations, from order fulfillment to inventory tracking.

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Inventory Management — Everything You Should Know

Procurement Tactics

Inventory management is a way for companies to figure out what and how much they should order, and when to do it. It keeps track of inventory from the time it is purchased until it is sold to customers. Lead Time Management This technique refers to the time it takes from placing an order to receiving it.

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Don’t let the shipping container crisis ruin Christmas this year

IBM Supply Chain Blog

This year, rather than offering big discounts or slashing prices, consider promotions that encourage loyalty (after all, repeat customers are your best customers), offer bundles (combining two or more items), and consider high-value, low-cost freebies with purchase. Consider supplier alternatives. Prepare for more in-person shopping.

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The Supply Chain Management Playbook: Your Game Plan for Operational Success

World of Procurement blog

It involves the active streamlining and integration of key processes across purchasing, manufacturing, warehousing, and transportation. Information must flow constantly to enable planning and management of inventory, production scheduling, order fulfillment, and more. It improves product availability and order fulfillment rates.

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The Reality of Automation in Procurement!

Supply Chain Game Changer

It helps bring predictability to Strategic Sourcing, automates Transactional Procurement (or P2P cycle), and enables proactive Supplier Risk Management. Collaborating with the suppliers without any systems would mean wasting time searching through voicemails, printed documents, and email threads to locate the needed information.

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Business process management (BPM) examples

IBM Supply Chain Blog

And while enterprise resource planning (ERP) integrates and manages all aspects of a business, BPM focuses on its individual functions—optimizing the organization’s existing, repeatable processes end-to-end. BPM can also provide real-time visibility into claim status and performance metrics.

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Elevate Efficiency: A Guide to integration of WMS for E-commerce

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A warehouse management system is a software solution that provides transparency and visibility to the entire warehouse operations. WMS is efficient enough to manage Inventories, order fulfillment, and inbound-outbound deliveries of any single warehouse or multi-location warehouse cluster.