IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Businesses with optimal supply chains achieve 5-15% lower supply chain costs , 20-50% less inventory holdings, and up to 3X cash-to-cash cycle speeds. Tackle your most complex supply chain challenges. Tackle your most complex supply chain challenges.

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SCMDOJO

JULY 7, 2023

However, this initial success was soon overshadowed by a series of setbacks and challenges that Rivian had to navigate through mainly related to supply chain and production. The production setbacks experienced by Rivian had a direct impact on its reputation and supply chain.

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SCMDOJO

MAY 7, 2024

Supply chains are vital to businesses, facilitating the movement of goods, services, financial flows, and information. Enhancing supply chain resilience as well as supply chain visibility is crucial in today’s interconnected world.

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ivalua

APRIL 27, 2023

CTA April 28, 2023 | | Supply Chain by Vishal Patel Cost, Risk, and Sustainability. The question is, how do you balance all three while maintaining continuous operations and generating revenue at the same time? According to Supply Chain Now’s Greg White, the cracks have been exposed and there is nowhere to hide.

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ivalua

APRIL 27, 2023

Ivalua Spend Management Insights [ivory-search] A Balancing Act: Drive Sustainability while Managing Cost and Risk April 27, 2023 | | Supply Chain by Vishal Patel Cost, Risk, and Sustainability. The question is, how do you balance all three while maintaining continuous operations and generating revenue at the same time?

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ivalua

MAY 6, 2021

The pandemic has accelerated this trend, with the Procurement function front and center in the fight to ensure supply chain resilience and continuity, reduce costs and protect the bottom line. According to Jones, there four key areas in which modern software will enable and empower procurement: 1) Optimize automation.

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World of Procurement blog

MAY 8, 2024

Value-add : Procurement aims to add value by optimizing processes, consolidating spend, and building supplier relationships. The procurement team manages the order, monitors quality, ensures on-time delivery, processes invoices, and handles any issues that arise during fulfillment. Purchasing's value-add is more limited.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MAY 17, 2024

Use case 1: AI for modernization and business model expansion AI-powered tools can be incredibly valuable in optimizing and modernizing business operations throughout the customer journey, but it is critical in the commerce continuum. This content includes product descriptions, images, videos and even interactive experiences.

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Arkestro

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The pandemic and resulting supply chain disruptions have added extreme pressure on the health and pharma sector to address shortages quickly and efficiently. Constrained supply chains and the associated shortages have resulted in mounting pressures for organizations to diversify their supplier bases.

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EazyStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

What are the primary supply chain management trends for 2019? Let’s dig into the future supply chain trends that could transform your supply chain and logistics operations! Distributed Inventory. At what point does long delivery time become a deal-breaker for you?

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Empowering CPO

JUNE 27, 2023

Within this domain, spend analysis plays a pivotal role in enabling informed decision-making and optimizing procurement processes. Traditional approaches to spend analysis relied heavily on manual processes and limited data visibility. This enables better analysis, identification of trends, and informed decision-making.

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Arkestro

MAY 30, 2022

From April 2021’s “ A New Paradigm For Procurement ”: “As enterprises increasingly depend on an expanding and evolving supplier ecosystem, better optimization of strategic planning and procurement is paramount. Procurement and sourcing teams worked tirelessly to find solutions to disrupted supply chains.

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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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IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

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.

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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. Optimized supply chains lead to improved profit margins.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Customers can now ensure greater supply chain resilience through improved supplier discovery and collaboration, increase efficiency across each step of the source-to-pay process and better understand and optimize cost drivers for goods and services purchased. About Ivalua.

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Empowering CPO

JUNE 14, 2023

It is a strategic process that involves identifying business needs, sourcing suppliers, negotiating contracts, managing supplier relationships, and ensuring the timely delivery of high-quality products or services. These models are often accompanied by practices such as annual rate contracts, bulk buying, and just-in-time purchasing.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Today, we are seeing significant digital disruption in the business of trade and supply chain financing that is largely influenced by global events and geopolitics, changing regulations, compliance and control requirements, advancements in technology and innovation, and access to capital.

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Arkestro

JANUARY 9, 2024

According to Deloitte, the manufacturing industry was in contraction throughout most of 2023 due to challenges like increased lead times, tight labor markets, and rising costs. As we move into 2024, procurement teams continue to face hurdles like supply chain volatility, geopolitical tensions, budget restrictions, talent shortages, and more.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

ERP vs. Best-in-Class for Healthcare Supply Chain Management? Are ERP systems better than best-in-class supply chain solutions for managing healthcare supply chains? That’s the question we set out to answer in our recent panel discussion with Procurement and Supply Chain experts. The verdict?

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