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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.

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

IBM Supply Chain Blog

An observability solution offers valuable insights to multiple stakeholders engaged in software development and operations, with benefits that extend to developers, operations teams, product managers and even business stakeholders. Our customers have been able to achieve tangible results using real-time observability.

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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. It’s a challenge that shippers and carriers worldwide are battling every day.

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

Planergy

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. Vendor analysis is crucial for risk management. What is Vendor Analysis?

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12 considerations when choosing MES software

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Implementing such solutions could be the key to a new era of productivity for your organization, but implementing new and expansive IT software can be intimidating. As your company grows and expands its manufacturing capabilities, an MES can provide the necessary tools for managing larger and more complex production workflows.

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Mastering Operations Strategy: A Guide to Streamlining Business Operations

Pipefy

This operations overview, or process visibility , can reveal common areas of waste and bottlenecks that cost companies millions in time and revenue each year. An operations strategy is a deliberate, company-wide plan that drives the production and distribution of goods and services.

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The advantages and disadvantages of hybrid cloud

IBM Supply Chain Blog

With a hybrid-cloud architecture, the airlines can deal with fluctuating volumes of data, such as during the busy holiday travel season, which requires scaling up resources and data in real-time to improve workflows and deliver better customer experiences. more value than a single public cloud alone.