IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

But not all cloud solutions are created equal, and it’s important for IT and line-of-business teams to work together to find a partner that offers the services their business needs. Helping companies accelerate business transformation and growth IBM Consulting™ and Microsoft bring out the best of SAP and modernize the enterprise.

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Spend Matters

DECEMBER 19, 2023

SAP Spend Connect – October 2023, Vienna SAP held its annual Spend Connect conference (previously known as SAP Ariba Live) in Vienna, Austria from October 9 to 11. We attended to get the latest on product announcements and catch up with clients and SAP executives. EcoVadis , Fairmarkit , Scoutbee , ZIP and others).

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 3, 2024

With SAP , we’re working together to incorporate additional AI, machine learning and other intelligent technologies into SAP solutions that can lead to better business outcomes for our joint customers. An important distinction for IBM is our longstanding policy that such data belongs to the partner.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MAY 9, 2023

It’s why we gave partners access to the same training and enablement as IBMers last year, launched a new partner program in January, and continue investing in and growing the IBM Ecosystem. So, it should come as no surprise that partners are front and center during our annual Think conference this week.

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Procurement Tactics

JUNE 7, 2023

Defining Supplier Collaboration Supplier collaboration refers to the process of actively working with suppliers and partners to achieve shared goals and mutual benefits. It is a strategic method of managing suppliers, where the focus is on aligning suppliers and partners with your business strategy.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Accelerating business transformation with SAP HANA on Power As the 2027 end of mainstream maintenance for SAP’s legacy ERP is approaching, our customers are all in different stages of their business transformation journey.

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Spend Matters

AUGUST 3, 2022

The coming wave is perhaps best illustrated by the vendor that acquired the largest share of the procurement technology market by pioneering the very concept of “spend management” and an S2P suite: SAP with its acquisitions of SAP Ariba, Fieldglass (for contingent labor spend management) and Concur (for “expense management”).

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Spend Matters

APRIL 17, 2024

To potential buyers — Relish offers smooth operations and enhanced data validation capabilities with its seamless integration with existing systems and workflows, particularly if customers use solution providers with which Relish has proven integration, such as Coupa and SAP. The Invoice Assistant is designed to connect with various systems.

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ivalua

JULY 12, 2021

Templegate Technologies , is a alliance partner for award winning Cloud Software Solution in Procurement Automation & Spend Management. Founded by an Team of IT professionals who have spent decades in Technology companies like SAP, Oracle and Infor working in the area of Supply Chain Management.

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Spend Matters

JANUARY 12, 2023

Categories: Conferences , SAP Tags: PRO Earlier this year, I traveled with a small Spend Matters team to Dallas to attend the SAP Spend Connect conference, the SAP version of the venerable Ariba Live event that met annually for the two decades prior to the pandemic. Read more. ).

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ivalua

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Key factors in the decision were positive user feedback and rapid adoption, demonstrated ease of integration to SAP and other backend systems, robust capabilities and flexibility to cover a diverse range of business activities across multiple geographies and industries. “As Ivalua was officially selected after a successful pilot.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JANUARY 26, 2024

SAP observability Real-time monitoring is vital for SAP BTP cloud-native applications. We extended our coverage and currently, Instana supports SAP BTP Kyma cluster monitoring. We also did the same for our SAP ABAP sensor, which is used to monitor the platform and transaction metrics from the ABAP stack.

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Procurement Insights

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The notable shakeup comes for vendors like SAP Ariba and GEP, which no longer feature in either the leaders’ or the visionaries’ quadrant. They need to invest in a partner that has demonstrated agility and commitment to constant innovation.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 27, 2023

Another recent study from the IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV) and SAP surveyed 2,125 senior executives involved in their organizations’ environmental sustainability strategies. SAP and IBM understand how to help companies move the needle on their ESG commitments, without sacrificing their business needs or profitability.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JULY 27, 2023

The most effective way to help businesses fully and quickly access the potential of generative AI is through an ecosystem of partners with access to AI technology that is accurate, scalable, and adaptable, in combination with the skills and expertise to solve real problems. Education is a cornerstone of our approach with partners.

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Categories: ERP , Perspective , Procurement Systems & Architecture , SAP , supplier networks , Technology Tags: PRO The pace of change in business is unprecedented, especially in our strained and inflationary global supply networks. But, if they can be harnessed, those networks also offer untapped potential for innovation.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

JANUARY 24, 2023

Mindy is the Vice President of Global Marketing at SAP over Digital Supply Chain, where she leads the content and events strategy while bringing an eye for metrics and ongoing improvement. Supply chains need to evolve from low cost and optimized to risk-resilient and sustainable and SAP can help. Find out more at sap.comscm 1.

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 4, 2023

P2P Due to its growth-by-acquisition strategy, SAP Ariba ’s source-to-contract and source-to-pay offerings are strengthened by their position within the SAP Business Network. Tonkean’s capabilities place it among the new solution category of intake management solutions that seek to enhance user experience and adoption.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 8, 2023

While many may see IBM and Microsoft as competitors, we are much better partners bringing the best of both companies together to accelerate impact and influence at scale. We boast a robust partner network of hybrid multicloud, AI and security professionals and teams that are vertical smart and multicloud adept.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Jason Kelley, Global Managing Partner and Strategic Partnership Lead, IBM Consulting, believes that today, organizations need to work with an ecosystem of partners to succeed, even if they’re competitors. ” Creating a network of strong strategic partners is just the beginning. “It’s ‘coopetition.’”

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JANUARY 26, 2024

SAP observability Real-time monitoring is vital for SAP BTP cloud-native applications. We extended our coverage and currently, Instana supports SAP BTP Kyma cluster monitoring. We also did the same for our SAP ABAP sensor, which is used to monitor the platform and transaction metrics from the ABAP stack.

Innovation 44

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

ERP systems by deployment options Some of the more well-known ERP software offerings are SAP S/4HANA , Oracle Netsuite , Microsoft Azure , Infor CloudSuite and Acumatica Cloud ERP. The use of an ERP team or partner is recommended to help lead and handle any implementation questions.

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Procurement Insights

APRIL 4, 2024

And while the SAP Ariba application has done the job it was required to do, eVA’s effectiveness has little to do with the technology and more to do with the methodology the Virginia Brain Trust employed. Successful Providers Select Successful Practitioners Like the Barilla Group and o9 Solutions, Inc.

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ivalua

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Key factors in the decision were positive user feedback and rapid adoption, demonstrated ease of integration to SAP and other backend systems, robust capabilities and flexibility to cover a diverse range of business activities across multiple geographies and industries. “As Ivalua was officially selected after a successful pilot.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

APRIL 2, 2023

SAP is committed to supporting and elevating a new generation of women to profoundly lead and impact global supply chains and are proud to support the Women in Supply Chain Series and its efforts. Supply chains need to evolve from low-cost and optimized to risk-resilient and sustainable and SAP can help.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JANUARY 29, 2024

The organization relies on SAP architecture to run its critical resources and recognized its on-premises servers that were supporting the SAP infrastructure were out of date. million km. Instead of purchasing more hardware, the organization shifted to a cloud-based strategy.

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Procurement Tactics

MARCH 27, 2023

SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (APO) SAP APO is a cloud-based software tool that helps its users to plan, execute, optimize, and track their logistic processes on the operational and strategic levels.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

Hospital/Logistics/Finance digital transformation The journey between IBM Consulting and Singapore General Hospital, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, and Changi General Hospital started in 1999 when IBM Consulting implemented the three mission critical SAP Hospital/Logistics/Finance systems.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MAY 25, 2023

Our CoE is ready to help accelerate our clients’ business transformations with enterprise-grade AI, including the newly announced IBM watsonx , as well as technology from our ecosystem of business partners. The CoE is off to a fast start.

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Another big event on our roadmap is that we have been named an SAP-endorsed partner, which means our product will be embedded in the SAP Ariba solution. We are creating bundles and packages with rapid AI enablement and quick wins for all aspects of change management.

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Procurement Heads

MARCH 16, 2023

ITAA was started by three partners, all have different skill sets and expertise across the software industry, and combined all of those together to create an organisation that initially was focused on software, audit defence, software optimisation, and advisory negotiations. You can watch their conversation below.

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Procurement Insights

MAY 25, 2024

(December 3rd, 2007) Colgate-Palmolive (ranked #3) – first post: 1998 to 2007 to 2024 DND, Virginia and Colgate-Palmolive’s Timeless Formula For Digital Procurement Success (February 7th, 2024) Microsoft (ranked #4) – first post: Microsoft Acquires SAP? (A

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 4, 2024

The state had integrated a second management system into its procurement process, which required the two systems, SAP SRM and SAP ECC, to exchange data in real time. The state used IBM Process Mining to map out its current workflow and track the progress of the SAP SRM system integration. This created an expensive problem.

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World of Procurement blog

APRIL 23, 2024

Examples include SAP Ariba and Coupa. Vendor Partnerships: Choose vendors not just as suppliers, but as partners who are committed to your success and can offer ongoing support and innovation. Sourcing Software: Helps companies find and acquire goods and services by managing RFQs (Request for Quotations) and bidding processes.

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Procurement Software

AUGUST 8, 2023

Ariba was still predominantly an eAuctions platform and had yet to be acquired by their German parent company SAP, which didn’t happen until 2012. And that’s also not considering that it was typically the larger consultancies who Coupa were partnering with. Along with SAP Ariba, they have captured an impressive market share.

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The Procuretech Podcast

AUGUST 1, 2023

This conversation looks at making life easy with an intuitive front-end that seamlessly works in tandem with a SAP environment. Full disclosure, ebidtopay is one of our software partners at ProcurementSoftware.site , and you can reach out to me if you'd like to learn more about them. Catalogue procurement is not new technology.

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The Procuretech Podcast

AUGUST 1, 2023

This conversation looks at making life easy with an intuitive front-end that seamlessly works in tandem with a SAP environment. Full disclosure, ebidtopay is one of our software partners at ProcurementSoftware.site , and you can reach out to me if you'd like to learn more about them. Catalogue procurement is not new technology.

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