IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 30, 2023

Our industry expertise, end-to-end approach from strategy to implementation, and dedicated sustainability practice, ensures your supply chain can adapt to today’s challenges and prepare for future opportunities, while minimizing risks, reducing costs, and driving continuous improvement in both environmental and social performance.

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Supply Chain Brain

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

An understanding of ESG risk will become essential in light of investor and consumer demands, the financial impact of regulatory penalties, and carbon taxes

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Supply Chain Brain

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Lynx Logix will identify trends, patterns and issues within distribution networks with features like lane risk profiling, distribution network mapping, AI, machine learning and situational awareness.

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Supply Chain Brain

MAY 4, 2021

Overhaul, a real-time supply chain visibility and risk-management technology provider, has announced the launch of TruckShield, an industry-first, risk-management technology solution for North American motor carriers.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

DECEMBER 4, 2023

SDI is the supply chain solutions and services company that specializes in helping large, multi-site facilities and plant maintenance leaders reduce costs and risks while driving overall performance results and outcomes. There’s freight savings, consolidation savings – now you’re able to leverage that spend.”

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Supply Chain Brain

OCTOBER 27, 2021

a supply chain monitoring, mapping and resiliency solution, announced a new collaboration to drive greater supply chain transparency, risk mitigation and business continuity for U.S. Premier Inc., a technology-driven healthcare improvement company, and Resilinc Corp., healthcare providers.

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FourKites

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Our topic for the day was the importance of location data in building the digital infrastructure for the supply chain of the future. It’s prompted organizations to take a harder look at investing in risk mitigation, future-proofing against further disruptions, and accelerating their existing digital transformation initiatives.

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ivalua

JUNE 22, 2022

Get up to speed with the newest changes and learn what it takes to enable effective, scalable supplier collaboration –including how to reduce risk, improve supply chain visibility, and build operational resilience and responsiveness. Ivalua’s latest eBook is the foundation for a smarter, more resilient supply chain.

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Supply Chain Brain

MAY 2, 2023

Demi Obayomi, vice president of Sapphire Ventures, discusses mainstreaming supply chain visibility, the critical role of the customer experience, and the need for comprehensive risk management.

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Supply Chain Brain

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As the popularity of e-commerce grows, companies struggle with the business risk of misloaded packages. New supply chain visibility solutions can help fix the problem.

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Procurement Leaders

JANUARY 29, 2024

In association with SAP: Discover the actions and capabilities that are enabling leading organisations to improve supply chain visibility

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SCMDOJO

JUNE 14, 2023

But before we get to that, let’s establish why supply chain visibility matters. Why Supply Chain Visibility Matters In the First Place Supply chain visibility refers to the ability to track and monitor products as they move through the supply chain.

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In this piece, we talk to Julie Gerdeman, CEO of Everstream Analytics, a risk analytics provider that features logistics risk management, predictive insights and weather forecasting capabilities. ( Read more. ).

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

As teams worked with suppliers through creative solutions, it became obvious that transparency and supplier risk management are essential components to maintain stability during crises like these. But building an agile, resilient supply chain doesn’t happen overnight; it requires forethought and planning.

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SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

DECEMBER 1, 2022

New cloud application from Amazon Web Services improves supply chain visibility and delivers actionable insights to mitigate supply chain risks, lower costs, and improve customer experiences.

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ivalua

JUNE 18, 2020

Sub-Tier Supplier Management – The Covid-19 crisis revealed the risk exposure of many organisation’s supply chains due to their suppliers’ suppliers. The new release enables visibility into a supplier’s Sub-tier network so customers can better understand their true supply chain risk.

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Procurement Tactics

JUNE 5, 2023

Furthermore, a global supply chain can be complex and involve a wide range of stakeholders, including suppliers, transportation providers, regulatory agencies, and customers. The use of advanced technologies and logistics strategies is often necessary to manage the complexity and risks associated with a global supply chain.

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Spend Matters

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Categories: Procurement Systems & Architecture , Supply Chain Visibility Tags: PRO In this Spend Matters PRO Vendor Analysis, we give an overview of Circularise, a blockchain-based traceability solution that helps companies trace products and materials to verify their origins, certificates, CO2 footprints and other material data.

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Spend Matters

JANUARY 30, 2023

Categories: Procurement Strategy & Planning , Supply Chain Visibility Tags: PRO This Spend Matters PRO Vendor Analysis provides an overview of Portcast and its solution for cargo tracking. The modern supply chain is convoluted. It enhances logistics visibility and provides intelligence insights.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Supply Chain Risk and Supply Continuity: Risk moved front and center of Procurement during the pandemic, as procurement organizations grappled with constrained supply chains. For many organizations risk has become not only an executive committee issue, but a board-level discussion,” he said.

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ivalua

JUNE 16, 2021

In fact, a survey conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) found that 96% of respondents from the Middle East region were reconfiguring their supply chains in October 2020 — much higher than the global average of 83%. What’s more, PwC found that the average investment in risk management among MENA companies was $1.5

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Una

APRIL 23, 2024

Why Do We Need Supply Chain Visibility? Tips for Building an Effective Procurement Data Strategy Robots in Procurement Supplier selection & risk management Think of machine learning as your trusted advisor when it comes to choosing and monitoring suppliers.

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Spend Matters

JANUARY 17, 2024

From planning a product, design and simulation, to optimizing a specific process across the supply chain, customer expectations for AI integration continue to evolve as new applications for supply chain automation are discovered.

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ivalua

JUNE 1, 2022

Procurement teams had to work closely with suppliers to find creative ways to solve problems, and they instantly realized the benefits of transparency in their supply chains and supplier risk management for business continuity in times of crisis. Why is visibility so important?

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Over the course of our brand new four-part series, we’re going to talk about why optimized and actionable data is more powerful than mere visibility; and why organizations need good data, not lots of data. We’ll be revealing the true cost of compliance; and changing the way we think about risk in logistics.

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Spend Matters

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The point Kraljic made those decades ago was that the stability businesses once enjoyed had ended and now they needed a new strategy to address the constant threat of supply interruptions and the opportunities presented by new technologies. For this, you really need supply management.

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Strategic Sourceror

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

As any supply chain professional will tell you, managing various day-to-day operations and keeping track of everything going on in the supply chain are among the most difficult parts of the job. Higher levels of proactivity The ideal supply chain should be proactive to risk and change rather than reactive.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 26, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Supply Chain Visibility Has Never Been More Important! Supply Chain visibility article and permission to publish here provided by Adam Miglio. And the limitations in supply chain visibility seem to start right here. Subscribe Here!

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ivalua

MARCH 16, 2021

Procurement teams had to work closely with suppliers to find creative ways to solve problems, and they instantly realized the benefits of transparency in their supply chains and supplier risk management for business continuity in times of crisis. Why is visibility so important?

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Procurement Tactics

AUGUST 23, 2022

Reducing exposure to existing procurement, financial, and legal risks. . Creating policies and contingencies easily to mitigate risks. . Possible methods to use to eliminate risks. Contract management solutions can help improve contract efficiency, and allow better supply chain visibility and management of obligations.

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ivalua

JANUARY 31, 2022

Disruptions in global supply chains, labor market shortages, strong consumer demand. How can we mitigate technical, logistical, weather-related, and demand-driven supply chain disruptions? Organizations must shift focus toward strengthening their procurement processes and procedures to gain 100% supply chain visibility.

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Procurement Leaders

JUNE 13, 2022

To directly address the impact on suppliers delivering these critical works, the Procurement & Supply Chain function requires visibility deep into multi-tier supply chains. Developing a risk methodology to assess suppliers. Creating dashboards to display supplier and contract information and risk scores.

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NLPA (Next Level Purchasing Association)

JANUARY 17, 2023

Risk Management : Provisions must be made to manage the following types of risks: Supply Risk: The possibility of production line shutdown, failure to meet customer requirements, and/or other catastrophes due to the non-availability of certain goods or services at a particular time. Supply Chain Agility and Visibility.

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Supply Chain Brain

APRIL 20, 2018

Now it has emerged as a tool for assessing the financial stability of suppliers and other supply-chain partners. The concept is embodied in a financial-risk score known as FRISK, developed by CreditRiskMonitor. Show notes : A paper on “Assessing Public Company Financial Risk by Crowdsourcing the Research of Credit Professionals.”

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Arkestro

DECEMBER 12, 2022

It’s vital that supplies are predictable, so you can get the products and services you need. To address supplier challenges, you must ensure your preferred providers can meet your changing needs and that you have a diverse supply base. Supply Chain Visibility. Supply chain visibility is another critical issue.

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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. Customers face significant frustrations that erode brand trust and sales without supply chain visibility.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

IBM will use the AI capabilities of Planning Analytics with Watson® to bring Navy food supply data together and harness its insights. Fleet Forces Command, together with its partners, to better plan, predict and balance food supplies while reducing supply chain risks. This will allow U.S.

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