IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Generative AI is powering a new world of creative, customized communications, allowing marketing teams to deliver greater personalization at scale and meet today’s high customer expectations. Enterprise marketing teams stand to benefit greatly from generative AI, yet introduction of this capability will require new skills and processes.

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Spend Matters

MARCH 3, 2023

Once we discover an interesting vendor, we conduct a pretty granular examination of the solution’s capabilities, market presence and roadmap and offer insights into its value proposition.

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SCMDOJO

MAY 2, 2024

In response to these challenges, the leaders must rethink their supply chain strategies, focusing on building resilience. By proactively investing in supply chain resilience, organizations can identify and assess vulnerabilities, prioritize risk mitigation measures, and develop strategies to enhance their ability to withstand disruptions.

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Our coverage also explores the latest thought leadership topics about procurement and supply, the technology that serves it and comparative analyses based on demos and the scoring of 500+ RFI requirements across 12 source-to-pay (S2P) categories that create our Vendor Ranking data.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 17, 2022

Content Marketing Strategy – The Decisive Guide! As the technologies develop, the means for promoting logistics services with a digital marketing strategy has also changed. For instance, logistics marketing heavily relies on digital channels of communication. What is logistics marketing?

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ivalua

APRIL 27, 2023

Those are three hot topics in the enterprise today. FCL is a wholesaling, manufacturing, marketing and administrative cooperative that has been recognized by a wide variety of awards. We’re looking for cost mitigation strategies and new ways to deliver value,” she said. “To To do so, we need to get creative and curious.”

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ivalua

APRIL 27, 2023

Those are three hot topics in the enterprise today. FCL is a wholesaling, manufacturing, marketing and administrative cooperative that has been recognized by a wide variety of awards. We’re looking for cost mitigation strategies and new ways to deliver value,” she said. “To To do so, we need to get creative and curious.”

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Supply Chain Brain

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Talent availability and fit is consistently a topic of concern among senior supply chain leadership. The competitive job market, impacts from the pandemic, and increased regional demand for hourly talent have amplified this ongoing challenge. Labor growth strategies have historically focused on acquiring talent through pay incentives.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 28, 2023

With nearly 5 billion users worldwide—more than 60% of the global population —social media platforms have become a vast source of data that businesses can leverage for improved customer satisfaction, better marketing strategies and faster overall business growth.

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ivalua

APRIL 8, 2020

This multi-channel strategy tailored to suppliers’ capabilities is what differentiates best-in-class from a peer group as a report from The Hackett Group reveals. This is a method medium-size companies have already integrated in their supplier innovation strategy. For example, last year’s topic was about digital marketing.

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ivalua

APRIL 8, 2021

China first was a common strategy employed by many organizations. With diverse suppliers generally being local, that meant supplier diversity competed against the core supplier strategy. As the risk involved in such strategies became clear once Covid-19 struck Wuhan, companies looked at diversifying their supply base.

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Spend Matters

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Categories: CSR , Procurement Strategy & Planning , Procurement Systems & Architecture , Sustainability , Technology , Vendor Snapshots Tags: PRO In the first part of this series we gave a high-level overview of the providers included in the recently launched TechMatch for carbon management. Read more. ).

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ivalua

APRIL 5, 2023

The 12 Customer/Partner Day breakout sessions featured Ivalua’s talented solution and product experts–bringing innovation and “groundbreaking” discussion topics into the mix! For Ikea, digital transformation strategy and adaptability is the key to their growth and success.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 11, 2023

It covers the basics of procurement, including procurement strategies, contract management, and supplier selection. We also offer other additional courses taught by qualified experts that focus on trending and current topics such as how to handle a business case and modern warehousing. Rating: This course is rated 5 out of 5.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Businesses that place the emotional needs of the buyer persona at the forefront of the customer experience strategy fosters great relationships. Here are seven customer experience trends that can help business leaders elevate their companies and improve their CX strategies. We’re #2.”

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The Thomas Blog

AUGUST 15, 2022

Today, marketing without a business plan in place is nearly impossible if you want to drive results—and it's even more true in the manufacturing sector. You need to align your strategy of bringing in new clients with how you're planning to expand into new markets, work at capacity, and expand your company.

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The Good Spending

MARCH 3, 2024

By offering services that support the product throughout its lifecycle, companies can enhance customer satisfaction, build long-term relationships, and differentiate themselves in competitive markets. This is where the main topic of this post resides. Ultimately, they attempt to secure new revenue streams.

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Procurement Tactics

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Russia’s export statistics are a very hot topic due to the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. We will discuss some topics that are crucial to the situation of Russia regarding its exports. . Ukraine is one of the key players in the world markets for sunflower oil, sunflower seeds, barley, wheat, corn, and colza seeds.

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Spend Matters

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Spend Matters constantly updates its understanding of the state of the procurement tech market via RFIs for our SolutionMap dataset, vendor interviews, global event attendance and product demos with the aim of keeping tech-selection decision makers ahead of market trends. What are the challenges and asks of your customers?

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Procurement Sustainability Supply chain Suppliers 89

The Good Spending

JANUARY 21, 2024

On the other hand, price is a standard measure that indicates the competitive market for such a product. This method allows SaaS businesses to remain competitive in the market while aligning their offerings' perceived value with others. Otherwise, it can be commoditized , i.e., undifferentiated from similar offerings in the market.

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Procurement Tactics

JANUARY 9, 2023

So without further ado, let us dive into the topic. . Although sustainability has many requirements, leading companies continue to prove that sustainable strategy and operations create real competitive advantages that include high profitability for businesses in the long term. . We will tell you ways to have a sustainable business.

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The Good Spending

JULY 11, 2022

As a consultant and tutor, I can spend long hours explaining each topic in detail. Procurement training topics of this Udemy course 1. The actual cost of Time-to-Market. Reverse marketing. Sourcing strategy. Such training is abundant elsewhere on Udemy. Definitions of Agile. Iron Triangle of Project Management.

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SCMDOJO

AUGUST 21, 2023

As TikTok and influencers gain prominence, they’re reshaping consumer behavior and marketing. In contemporary marketing, influencers act as brand advocates, showcasing products and services through creative, relatable content. Join the TikTok transformation for a riveting supply chain revolution!

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NLPA (Next Level Purchasing Association)

MARCH 16, 2023

The Procurement Director and Manager are responsible for executing spend management strategies and ensuring that procurement activities are aligned with organizational objectives. Therefore, it is crucial to understand the different perspectives of key stakeholders to develop a comprehensive and effective spend management strategy.

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ivalua

MAY 17, 2023

Thank you to our guest speakers, Solution Consultants, and the Product Marketing team! Upcoming Ivalua Events Paris Recap Eloise Barnum Content Marketing Manager, Product Marketing Eloise Barnum leads the Global Content initiatives for the EMEA and AMER Product Marketing team at Ivalua.

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Spend Matters

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Supplier diversity is increasingly becoming a hot topic for supply chains as regulatory bodies and corporate boards work to solve the various supply chain disruptions that have lingered since 2020. differentiates itself from broader supplier management solutions by specializing in exclusively supplier diversity. Here’s why Supplier.io

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Positive Purchasing

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Taking place on 24-25 January in Stockholm, Sweden, the conference will bring together market-leading suppliers with prominent purchasers, decision-makers, officials, elected representatives, and influencers from town and county councils, healthcare authorities, and other public service providers.

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ivalua

JANUARY 30, 2023

For most procurement (and supply chain) professionals, the topic of Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions should be coming at you from every direction. Below, we list a few high-level actions to get you started: Establish a strategy to generate reliable Scope 3 emission data based on categories and spend. POs, and invoices).

Procurement 130

Procurement Category management Suppliers Data 130

ivalua

JANUARY 30, 2023

For most procurement (and supply chain) professionals, the topic of Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions should be coming at you from every direction. Below, we list a few high-level actions to get you started: Establish a strategy to generate reliable Scope 3 emission data based on categories and spend. POs, and invoices).

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Procurement Category management Suppliers Data 130

The Good Spending

AUGUST 17, 2023

A sourcing strategy is at the core of strategic sourcing. This post will look at a sourcing strategy from an uncommon perspective, trying to prove its vital importance for the procurement profession. Sourcing strategy benefits You can find dozens of arguments supporting the importance of a sourcing strategy.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

Expressing and communicating a mission-based strategy In recent years, organizations have embraced subjects like Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), environmental protection and other social justice topics. As such, future CX strategies will be more data-driven than ever before.

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Data Purchasing Strategy Customer relations 94

ivalua

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The past few years have highlighted serious deficiencies in prevalent supply chain strategies and the major risk that disruptions pose to corporate success. Loss of sales and market share are the most visible and measurable impacts. More robust contingency plans that complement current strategies might suffice. .

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Una

APRIL 30, 2024

In this edition, we’ll move away from food topics for a bit to check out the supply chain impacts of the Baltimore bridge collapse. It’s worrying, but even more disheartening was the misguided focus of topics and how quickly “the masses” seemed to move on from such a critical event. labor market landscape. I Love Feedback!

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SCMDOJO

JUNE 6, 2023

Business is fast-paced and competitive in the modern world; the market is also saturated. Data analytics, among more modern topics, require extensive research to reach enlightenment on the topic. You can send a ‘ do my essay ’ request on Studyfy today to hire help with complex topics such as this one.

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Procurement Software

JANUARY 16, 2024

Running a few pre-planned eAuctions and refreshing your category strategies every couple of years are not the hallmarks strategic procurement team. And let’s face it, most category strategies are a box-ticking exercise. When that happens, inevitably these category strategies rarely see the light of day.

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