World of Procurement blog

MAY 10, 2024

Predicting future spend : By analyzing historical spend data, AI algorithms can create spending forecasts, predict seasonal demand changes, and model the impact of external factors on budgets. 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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SCMDOJO

JULY 24, 2023

Contract Logistics is a critical aspect of the supply chain that often remains behind the scenes but plays a significant role in ensuring the efficient movement and management of goods. Contract logistics is a specialized service offered by third-party logistics (3PL) providers to manage supply chain operations on behalf of a company.

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Pipefy

OCTOBER 25, 2023

From reducing waste and containing costs to mitigating risks such as procurement fraud and inflated expenses, procurement’s insights and expertise can help businesses navigate some of their most pressing challenges. All this combined is a recipe for end-to-end operational inefficiency.

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Empowering CPO

JULY 16, 2023

Managed procurement services can be defined as an external service that helps streamline a company’s acquisition processes, offering an end-to-end solution that takes into account all aspects of procurement – from sourcing to payment. This is where managed procurement services come into the picture.

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Pipefy

JUNE 5, 2024

This approach to taking your business to the next level often involves end-to-end (E2E) processes to deliver solutions. This guide examines the benefits, challenges, and major steps of implementing these processes and includes real-world examples. What is an end-to-end process?

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Supply Chain Trend

DECEMBER 22, 2023

However, only 3% of companies apply automated execution and 7% autonomous end to end planning. Intelligent IBP effectively combines human and machine strengths with good decision practices to consistently make timely, high-quality, horizon agnostic business decisions. 2% of managers apply best practice decision methods.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 26, 2023

The result: reduced costs, less waste and documented ROI for your automation efforts. It allows DevOps teams to write code, integrate it, run tests, deliver releases and deploy changes to the software collaboratively and in real-time.

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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. Generative AI can produce high-quality text, images and other content based on the data used for training. Gear up robotics AI is not just about asking for a haiku written by a cat.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MAY 17, 2024

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. It can also significantly impact real-time fraud detection and prevention, minimizing financial losses and improving customer trust. 

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Empowering CPO

JULY 16, 2023

Managed procurement services can be defined as an external service that helps streamline a company’s acquisition processes, offering an end-to-end solution that takes into account all aspects of procurement – from sourcing to payment. This is where managed procurement services come into the picture.

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Pipefy

MAY 23, 2023

Because of this, carrying out its operations manually is time-consuming and incredibly expensive for businesses. Savvy leaders are quickly adopting e-procurement solutions to lower the time, costs, silos, and strained supplier relationships that plague manual operations.

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Supply Chain Trend

AUGUST 13, 2020

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

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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

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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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Supply chain collaboration is a hot topic today and no wonder: companies that collaborate effectively across the supply chain have enjoyed dramatic reductions in inventories and costs, together with improvements in speed, service levels, and customer satisfaction. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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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. The ultimate goal of SCM is to reduce costs while satisfying customer demands.

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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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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Along with cost savings, procurement managers are focusing on optimizing and automating processes. 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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ivalua

MARCH 9, 2023

S2P is the end-to-end process that encompasses all the activities between an organization and its suppliers. By gaining visibility into spending patterns, demand, supplier performance, and supply markets–opportunities will be uncovered.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 4, 2024

Conversely, it has a larger scope than task management, which deals with individual tasks, and project management, which handles one-time initiatives. By establishing standardized workflows and decision rules, BPM streamlines the claims process by reducing processing times and minimizing errors.

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Pipefy

JANUARY 30, 2024

Improvements to existing procurement processes, procedures, and operations are as time-sensitive as ever. Because procurement teams provide critical insights to inform business strategy , identifying opportunities to cut costs is one of the most important ways they do this.

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Procurement Software

MARCH 5, 2024

Multi-functional technology enables you to train anywhere at any time, while ever-learning programming allows you to experiment and practice to achieve different outcomes. LavenirAI allows you to train anywhere, any time, so you can stay at the top of your game.

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Pipefy

MAY 9, 2023

Effective modern procurement requires end-to-end process tracking to both view and control the costs, sourcing, quality, and delivery times associated with acquired goods and services. Supplier KPIs Suppliers, by definition, comprise a crucial link in your supply chain.

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Empowering CPO

JUNE 25, 2023

It’s a delicate balancing act, where businesses must juggle quality, cost, supplier relationships, and risk management, all while keeping an eye on their bottom line. These systems streamlined the procurement process, improving efficiency and reducing costs.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 2, 2023

They don’t want to fill out a form to request a quote, send an email to get pricing information, or wait to get simple answers; they want real-time answers and action. Customers who flooded Camping World’s call center were often met with long wait times or were dropped accidentally.

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Pipefy

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Procurement solutions encompass a wide range of specific functions due to the many aspects of the procurement process, including purchase requests centralization, procure-to-pay, sourcing, budget management, supplier management, and forecasting. What are e-procurement tools? The features of these solutions can vary widely.

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Procurement Software

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

It generates insights on bottlenecks, variants, and cycle times to drive process improvements. Workfellow offers a next-generation end-to-end visibility into workflows, systems usage, and tasks. These all help to drive supply chain impact.

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Spend Matters

JUNE 19, 2023

Why buy a Spend Analytics solution Spend analytics helps generate business-relevant spending insights across internal spenders and the supply base by leveraging historic and predictive datasets across the enterprise. Click to enlarge Exploring the actual market state of the top 5 capabilities 1.

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Procurement Software

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Apadua Monitor is what their website describes as ‘an easy-to-use, collaborative Quality Assurance System that pays full attention to the knowledge and sentiment of each individual stakeholder.’ M&A) The solution gives you full spend visibility. Its focus is on real time contract management for professional services spend.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

Meeting these demands requires creating seamless and secure customer journeys built on real-time insights and data. Recently Adobe named IBM its International Delivery Quality Partner of the Year for the third year in a row.

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Procurement Software

JULY 4, 2023

It aims to make the procurement process more efficient, transparent, and cost-effective. It can help organisations reduce costs, optimise supplier relationships and increase compliance. It also provides real-time data and analytics that can be used to improve purchasing decisions. What is procurement tech?

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Procurement Software

JANUARY 23, 2024

At the same time, it also provides AI-powered management of contractual obligations and deliverables. End-to-end encryption provides a uniquely secure way to sign and store contracts, eliminating the need for dedicated servers and VPN connections. It simplifies contracts, making them easy to understand, manage and interact with.

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Procurement Software

JUNE 4, 2024

As supply chain technology improves for transportation, inventory management and warehousing, the procurement tools for manufacturing businesses now need to step up. This exciting trend persuaded us that it’s about time we featured an article on these procurement tools specifically. And stepping up, they indeed are.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Last year, as life sciences organizations were consumed by the recovery from COVID-19, their focus had to shift rapidly to mitigating supply chain constraints, labor and skill shortages, and by the end of the year, inflationary pressures—all of which were exacerbated by the Russia-Ukraine war.

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