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What is supply chain resiliency?

IBM Supply Chain Blog

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. Take out too much inventory, and you add risk.

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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. Customers receive orders on-time without backlogs.

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Predictive Procurement: Overcoming Challenges in Health and Pharma

Arkestro

To address supplier challenges, you must ensure your preferred providers can meet your changing needs and that you have a diverse supply base. Supply Chain Visibility. Supply chain visibility is another critical issue. Predictive Procurement Supports Supply Chain Resilience and Visibility.

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AI in commerce: Essential use cases for B2B and B2C

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Only 14% of surveyed consumers described themselves as “satisfied” with their experience purchasing goods online. As the future of commerce unfolds, each use case interacts holistically to transform the customer journey from end-to-end–for customers, for employees, and for their partners.

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Building resilient healthcare supply chains

IBM Supply Chain Blog

The good news is, it’s possible to alleviate these perilous pain points by building healthcare supply chain resilience. Supply expenses escalate due to over-ordering, waste and emergency orders. Supply expenses escalate due to over-ordering, waste and emergency orders.

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

Supply Chain Trend

IBP requires cross functional alignment to eliminate silos, to achieve accountability for delivering strategic, financial and operational outcomes, and to enable scenario planning that provides forward visibility into the consequences and risks of decisions (Sorensen, 2020). Automation versus Augmentation.