IBM Supply Chain Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

On December 5–6, 2023 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, hundreds of developers and software engineers will come together at PrestoCon 2023 to support and learn more about Presto, the open-source SQL query engine for data analytics and the Open Data Lakehouse.

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The Good Spending

MAY 7, 2022

My Udemy course “Adaptive Sourcing: Agile Procurement in Practice.” Please review my new course on Udemy, “ Adaptive Sourcing: Agile Procurement in Practice.” It is half exercises, case studies, and ideas for multimodal sourcing strategies to practice straight after learning. This course unites two worlds – IT and Procurement.

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Una

JULY 13, 2023

The Definition of a Sourcing Hero Past guests from The Sourcing Hero podcast provide the definition of a sourcing hero and give examples of heroism in a business context. The definition of a sourcing hero At the close of every episode, it has become a tradition of sorts for Kelly to ask each guest a question.

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The Good Spending

AUGUST 17, 2023

In our earlier posts, we used to praise strategic sourcing. 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. A sourcing strategy is a vital element of this audit trail.

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Una

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

The Definition of a Sourcing Hero | Part Two Past guests from The Sourcing Hero podcast provide the definition of a sourcing hero and give examples of heroism in a business context. The definition of a sourcing hero At the close of every episode, Kelly traditionally asks each guest a question. Make it normal, basically.

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The Good Spending

JANUARY 26, 2022

Thoughtful sourcing management contributes to the competitive advantage. Yet, selecting the sourcing process - single or multiple - is a powerful tool to manage prices, improve relations , and mitigate risks. single sourcing attracts mostly negative vibes due to: greater dependency on a supplier, increased vulnerability of supplies.

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ivalua

JUNE 26, 2023

Vishal Patel and Peter Hunt delivered their session ‘Creating Value with Strategic Sourcing’ to discuss how Procurement professionals are recognizing that the fast-paced digital landscape of today demands new approaches to category management and strategic sourcing. The answer is simple – automation. See you soon!

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Step 2: Create a custom API source Navigate to the Source section within the created event notification instance. Click on Add > API Source. Provide a name and description for the API source. Click Topics. The Topic details panels will open. Your topic will be displayed in the Topics list.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Secrets are stored in a dedicated Secrets Manager instance, built on open source. Necessary components like topics, sources, destinations, and subscriptions are created in the Event Notification Instance. If and only if it that particular certificate was rotated, then it can pass through to the topic.

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The Good Spending

JANUARY 3, 2022

Early Supplier Involvement to the rescue from bad sourcing In many companies, the sourcing process remains a disappointment for internal stakeholders and suppliers. The need for agile sourcing is undeniable. Nowadays, everyone carols Agile procurement and sourcing but forgets to explain it.

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Procurement Insights

MARCH 2, 2024

A Procurement Perspective In the procurement world, what are the most discussed topics when it comes to technology? I am also hearing some rumblings about Artificial Intelligence (AI) These seem to be the two technology headline topics we are seeing on almost a daily basis. Taxes, except value-added taxes, are also included.

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Una

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In this episode of The Sourcing Hero podcast, Host Kelly Barner welcomes back Kris Lance, Senior Director at Una, for a recurring monthly conversation about current news stories. It is the shortest operational ocean route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and plays a critical role in U.S.

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Spend Matters

MARCH 28, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) comes in many forms (for a complete history of AI in procurement see our recently published autogmentation series) and despite being a consistent ‘hot topic’ for well over a decade now, continues to grow and evolve each year in the procurement industry.

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Jaggaer

AUGUST 12, 2020

For the first three months after Covid-19 hit, virtually every sourcing project , in every sector , was put on hold while companies tried to assess the situation and how best to deal with the epidemic. Get the white paper on Sourcing Strategies: Why One Size Does Not Fit All , written by Michael Lamoureux of Spend Matters.

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Una

AUGUST 30, 2023

In this episode of The Sourcing Hero podcast, Host Kelly Barner welcomes back Kris Lance, Senior Director at Una, for a recurring monthly conversation about current news stories. Trust is the easiest thing in the world to lose and the hardest to get back – and it plays an important role in every type of relationship.

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Procurement Heads

DECEMBER 7, 2022

I really enjoyed those projects and that led me to more and more projects focused on procurement and then into the procurement and sourcing focussed consulting practices and then into the role that I am in now within industry. The two key functional areas are strategic sourcing and category management. How big is the function?

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Spend Matters

MARCH 18, 2024

Day one — which Spend Matters did not attend as it was for customers and partners only — consisted of solution-focused sessions covering various topics: AI and generative AI, risk management, external workforce management, etc. Procurement can ‘reinvent’ itself to meet growing complexities and need for performance. 1,500 last year).

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The Good Spending

JUNE 25, 2023

The response I received created a sense of Deja Vu from previous inquiries on similar procurement topics. It can be used for any other topic related to procurement. E.g. strategic sourcing is the methodology of leveraging purchasing power and selecting suppliers to achieve control and value. My Udemy course "Procurement Lab."

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Una

MAY 31, 2023

In this episode of The Sourcing Hero podcast, Host Kelly Barner welcomes back Kris Lance, Senior Director at Una, for a recurring monthly conversation about current news stories. It would seem that there are no easy answers, and lives hang in the balance.

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Una

MARCH 27, 2024

In this episode of The Sourcing Hero podcast, Host Kelly Barner welcomes back Kris Lance, VP and General Manager at Una, for a recurring monthly conversation about current news stories. Today this applies in the form of the Red Sea attacks that continue, and which have escalated, turning global supply chains into a literal battlefield.

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Spend Matters

MARCH 19, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) comes in many forms (for a complete history of AI in procurement see our recently published autogmentation series) and despite being a consistent ‘hot topic’ for well over a decade now, continues to grow and evolve each year in the procurement industry.

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Una

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In this episode of The Sourcing Hero podcast, Host Kelly Barner welcomes back Kris Lance, Senior Director at Una, for a recurring monthly conversation about current news stories. And nothing fights change like the paralyzing behavior of going along to get along.”

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Una

JANUARY 30, 2024

In this episode of The Sourcing Hero podcast, Host Kelly Barner welcomes back Kris Lance, Senior Director at Una, for a recurring monthly conversation about current news stories. When geopolitics is the focus, some players on the world stage have an outsized impact – none more than China.

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Spend Matters

JANUARY 11, 2023

Categories: Analytics , Supply Risk Tags: PRO In this Spend Matters PRO Vendor Analysis, we give an overview of Owlin, a risk and intelligence solution built to help customers monitor what is being said and published about them, their suppliers and, in fact, any topic, e.g., customers, competitors or commodities. Read more. ).

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Procurement Heads

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The energy market in the UK has been a hot topic for months now, with a number of changes taking place that are affecting businesses of all sizes. Renewable energy sources: Investing in renewable energy sources such as solar or wind can help reduce dependence on traditional energy sources and lower costs over time.

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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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Una

MARCH 29, 2023

In this episode of The Sourcing Hero podcast, Host Kelly Barner welcomes back Kris Lance, Senior Director at Una, for a recurring monthly conversation about current news stories.

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The Good Spending

MARCH 3, 2024

Value-Procurement Framework for the Services Sourcing So, we just gradually reached the familiar ground of value delivery. This is where the main topic of this post resides. Yet another tool for your sourcing and category management to consider applying. My Udemy course "Adaptive Sourcing: Agile Procurement in Practice."

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

Configuring sources, topics, subscriptions and email destinations. Configuring sources, topics, subscriptions and SMS destinations. Creating an instance of Cloud Object Storage and authorization between the Event Notifications and Cloud Object Storage instances, sources, topics, subscriptions and destinations.

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ivalua

APRIL 27, 2023

Those are three hot topics in the enterprise today. We’re seeing a lot of interest in ESG, specifically on the topic of measuring and managing carbon emissions,” he said. “At You can connect with Vishal on Linkedin You May Also Like Source to Pay (S2P) What is Source to Pay Best Practice?

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ivalua

APRIL 27, 2023

Those are three hot topics in the enterprise today. We’re seeing a lot of interest in ESG, specifically on the topic of measuring and managing carbon emissions,” he said. “At You can connect with Vishal on Linkedin You May Also Like Source to Pay (S2P) What is Source to Pay Best Practice?

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The Procuretech Podcast

APRIL 26, 2022

Sometimes, an end-to-end source-to-pay (S2P) solution that joins up the dots, and automates a lot of otherwise manual processes, can give a huge productivity advantage. Providing a solid solution for source-to-pay in the mid market - Onventis has survived and thrived. Digital transformation doesn't necessarily have to be complex.

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Una

APRIL 26, 2023

In this episode of The Sourcing Hero podcast, Host Kelly Barner welcomes back Kris Lance, Senior Director at Una, for a recurring monthly conversation about current news stories. This is a crisis that affects us all.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Apache Kafka is a well-known open-source event store and stream processing platform and has grown to become the de facto standard for data streaming. One of the functions of Kafka is to decouple consuming and producing applications, so that they communicate via a Kafka topic rather than directly. What’s next?

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Procurement Templates

APRIL 10, 2022

These are key topics that you should be discussing at your weekly or monthly purchasing team meetings. Many times when meeting with your procurement team, some may wonder if there are existing procurement sources such as government-level procurement agreements and joint procurement programs that can be used. any initial supply chain.

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Una

JULY 26, 2023

In this episode of The Sourcing Hero podcast, Host Kelly Barner welcomes back Kris Lance, Senior Director at Una, for a recurring monthly conversation about current news stories.

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Una

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In this episode of The Sourcing Hero podcast, Host Kelly Barner welcomes back Kris Lance, Senior Director at Una, for a recurring monthly conversation about current news stories. But the end of one year and the start of another is a natural time to reflect back before looking ahead to what the new year may hold.

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