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Responding in real time to changing market dynamics

IBM Supply Chain Blog

These shifting dynamics bring about unexpected disruptions—like changes in levels of demand—impacting your ability to effectively manage your inventory, satisfy your customer needs, and ultimately your bottom line. For example, you could renegotiate a supply contract to keep business inventory costs low.

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Debunking observability myths – Part 2: Why observability is important for everyone, not just SREs

IBM Supply Chain Blog

This need becomes apparent when teams progress several steps into the process, only to discover that their old approaches do not effectively address the management costs introduced by the new technology. Product managers: Observability data can provide product managers with valuable insights into user behaviour and application performance.

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How to Choose the Right Last-Mile Delivery Technology for Your Business

Let's Talk Supply Chain

Will my deliveries reach my customers on time? How do I manage my fleet? Creating something from the ground up also needs time. Purchasing last-mile technology nearly always guarantees faster deployment times and reduced capital expenditure. These features can help streamline driver operations and improve productivity.

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6 Critical Supply Chain KPIs!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Product Management KPIs! In supply chain, simply observing your entire supply chain in action to assess it is not possible, but with data and a reliable performance management system like The Owl, you can at-least have a real-time view of your supply chain performance through KPIs and metrics. Subscribe Here!

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AI for Better Supplier Collaboration: First, Get Your Data in Order

Jaggaer

The result has been isolated applications, e.g. for supplier management and for P2P working in parallel with siloed data sets and limited or no synergy. A “wish list” was given in the area of supplier collaboration on the part of “mature procurement leaders”: Supplier enablement: accelerating time to value and driving supplier loyalty.

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Vendor Analysis: What Is It, Process, Types, and Best Practices

Planergy

Modern Spend Management and Accounts Payable software. How to gain visibility and control of your indirect spend. How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. Taking your time throughout the process ensures you get the best possible match. What's Planergy?

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Making Sense of New Data in the Supply Chain

Supply Chain Opz

To get started making sense of all this data, supply chain managers should adhere to the following steps: 1. In light of this growing number of smart connected devices, its important that supply chain managers can access information from anywhere, at anytime, on any device to be able to make real-time supply and demand decisions.

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