IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

But with all of this new capacity, how are renewable energy resources really being used? Here, we will look at examples and applications of renewable energy across a variety of industries, its impact on energy systems and the energy technologies that will drive its use in the future. What is renewable energy?

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The following are examples of strategic sourcing use cases: Transparency and traceability From fast fashion to fluorite, consumers and stakeholders are keyed into product provenance—expecting brands to uphold ethical, responsible sourcing practices.

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Spend Matters

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The post AI in Procurement and ‘Autogmentation’ Part 4 — Procurement use cases of AI and Generative AI appeared first on Spend Matters. In This content is for members only. Visit the site and log in/register to read.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

Let’s start with some commonly used terms: Disaster recovery (DR): Disaster recovery (DR) refers to an enterprise’s ability to recover from an unplanned event that impacts normal business operations. Failover and failback both use data replication and are widely used in DR strategies for data centers and communication networks.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Marketers use ML for lead generation, data analytics, online searches and search engine optimization (SEO). For example, many use it to contact users who leave products in their cart or exit their website. Voice-based queries use Natural Language Processing (NLP) and sentiment analysis for speech recognition.

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Pipefy

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Orchestration and choreography are different approaches used to manage how the many components interact within this architecture. This is possible by adopting a platform that integrates all software or applications used across different teams, according to their needs. The use of digital technology is accelerated.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 26, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll look beyond the basics like root cause analysis and anomaly detection and examine six strategic use cases for AIOps. AIOps helps you operationalize this approach by using data-driven cloud spend decisions to safely balance cost and performance. of global electricity use. But where to start?

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HICX

MARCH 30, 2023

In this article, we discuss how segmentation can be applied to the growing number of use cases that are emerging in the Procurement function, with guidance on how the segments may be defined, how they can be used in the execution of initiatives and the wider benefits that result.

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SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Generative AI will quickly and significantly alter many aspects of supply chain — from overall strategy to the day-to-day activities of employees and their teams.

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Supply Chain Brain

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Your supply chain is predictably unpredictable, especially when it comes to integration. As your trading partner’s expectations continue to rise, and more applications are added to your technology stack, it’s imperative to identify integration gaps within core revenue processes such as load tender-to-invoice or order-to-cash.

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Zycus Cognitive Procurement

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The insights it provides, are being used to make better decisions, improve processes, and drive business growth. The Gartner report referenced herein makes a compelling case about 5 top use cases where advanced analytics and here’s our top picks: Cost and Price Visibility. manage risk and streamline processes.

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Supply Chain Brain

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The digital twin of a warehouse — a real-time, 3D virtual representation of an actual facility down to the space, people, equipment and inventory — lets operators monitor activity, respond instantly to disruption and model future scenarios to improve performance.

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Jaggaer

JULY 11, 2023

Read now: JAGGAER Annual ESG Report Highlights Customer Use Cases Enabling Best Practices. JAGGAER's latest news on procurement & sourcing.

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Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 14, 2023

Digital twins — dynamic 3D replicas of complex industrial operations — have been in use for decades in high-end production lines, power plants and laboratories.

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Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 14, 2023

Moving products and materials around manually is costly and inefficient. Traditional material handling equipment has limitations as well. Make your employee’s lives easier, your operations more productive and leave the materials movement to flexible, cloud-driven autonomous mobile robots.

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Spend Matters

APRIL 17, 2023

Categories: Procurement Strategy & Planning Tags: Blockchain Blockchain is making its mark throughout the entire source-to-pay process, from preventing risk in invoices, POs and contracts to tracking products in the supply chain and automating operational processes.

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CPO Rising

MARCH 21, 2022

Ardent Partners’ 17th annual State of Procurement report — CPO Rising 2022: The Data Revolution — is coming soon and I want to thank the 350+ procurement leaders who’ve taken our annual survey. I can’t believe that writing this report is something I have done for 17 years and running.

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Procurement Leaders

MARCH 25, 2024

We have sessions distributed across the two-day agenda that go deep and broad on the subject, from CPO Challenger sessions focused on strategy development to case studies of implementation and various conversations that explore the issue.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

While Kubernetes has become the de facto standard for container management, many companies also use the technology for a broader range of use cases. Read about the history of Kubernetes Today, Kubernetes is widely used in production to manage Docker and essentially any other type of container runtime.

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World of Procurement podcast

JUNE 15, 2021

We covered a lot of ground in this 25-minute podcast and this podcast is going to be exceptionally beneficial to you if you are currently looking at your supply chain and wondering how can we improve visibility, how can we reach our sustainability goals using our supply chains and how do we know what is in this product? So enjoy this episode.

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Procurement Leaders

APRIL 8, 2024

The issue leaders continue to grapple with, however, is identifying and prioritising use-cases for the technology – particularly when budgets are limited. To receive weekly insights from the Procurement Leaders community, sign up to the CPO Crunch newsletter using the link at the top of this page.

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Supply Chain Queen

JANUARY 20, 2024

Here are a few use cases in action ⤵️1. As Davos themes around AI and trust in the future of work, society and health of our planet can be seen across social media, what if AI could create world peace and just societies to progress SDG 16? Conflict Prediction and Prevention??AI AI can analyze large. Read more

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Spend Matters

MARCH 25, 2024

We recently spoke with Stuart Brock , founder and President of startup iKinetiq Innovation Solutions which helps procurement functions design the right strategy to optimize processes, gain deeper insights, and enable data-driven risk management with a focus on using AI technologies responsibly.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

By becoming an AI+ enterprise, clients can realize the ROI not only for the AI use case but also for improving the related business and technical capabilities required to deliver AI use cases into production at scale. Often, this decision is made too quickly. Consider the following: Do you need a public foundation model?

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ProcurePort

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In other cases, demand far outweighs supply, making it hard for buyers to negotiate. The post 7 Purchasing Negotiation Strategies Every Buyer Should Use appeared first on ProcurePort Blog. First, suppliers can eliminate competition by applying a loss-leadership strategy that drives other companies out of business. •

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Procurement Tactics

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Procurement Strategy Case Studies — 5 Insightful Examples. In this article, we will check five procurement strategy case studies that can give you insight into strategies that they have done to streamline their processes. Click on a case to jump straight to it: InDemand’s co-creation model. Combining procurement models.

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Spend Matters

MARCH 20, 2024

Therefore, depending on the technology used and the processes digitized, the impact of technology can be divided into automation and augmentation, with augmentation being more ‘autogmentation’ [/aw-tog-men-tay-shun/] as we call it. Let’s look at more use cases from briefs and demonstrations we received.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JANUARY 8, 2024

That data plays a crucial role in the judicial system, helping investigators, lawyers and judges fit together the circumstances surrounding a particular case in an effort to see that justice is served. As such, the judiciary has long been a field ripe for the use of technologies like automation to support the processing of documents.

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Spend Matters

MARCH 18, 2024

Day two included more than 20 internal and external speakers, practical cases and presentations, offering attendees ample opportunities to learn and network. He also announced the availability of Ivalua’s add-on store through which customers can access and share pre-packaged configurations (templates, workflows, GenAI use cases, etc.).

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

The solution lies in generative AI Let’s explore some of the capabilities or use cases where we see the most traction: 1. Summarization Summarization remains the top use case for generative AI (gen AI) technology. Manufacturers use summarization in different ways.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

Empowering IBM support agents with automation tools and AI for faster case resolution and insights Generative AI offers another advantage by discerning patterns and insights from the data it collects, engineered to help support agents navigate complex issues with greater ease.

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Spend Matters

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Generative AI has captured the attention of many people because of the broad use cases that it can cover (anyone can relate to a tangible use case, which is very different from other past technologies such as blockchain) and of its human-like capabilities which represent a significant new step in AI’s evolution.

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Procurement Insights

MARCH 25, 2024

In the previous three, I provided successful case studies involving the following organizations: GE Capital A.G. Here are three brief video case studies on landing multimillion accounts using only the above advice: Case Study 1 – [link] Case Study 2 – [link] Case Study 3 – [link] Everyone is an expert, right!

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Spend Matters

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Two main trends appear to be driving the development and use of GenAI among the vendor community. There is no requirement for developers, and its use case is very broad – you can feed it something, and it will reply with something. Firstly, they can’t afford not to; it’s the future. This is the basic level.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

“Organizations are responsible for ensuring that AI projects they develop, deploy or use do not have negative ethical consequences,” as per Gartner. ” As AI use cases expand, broadly defined and abstract principles are proving to be insufficient by not providing clear processes for legal and ethical review.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

IBM NS1 Connect Filter Chain™ technology uses the power of DNS to automatically reroute traffic between service providers when there is a network service disruption. Each filter chain uses a unique logic to process queries. The answer you’d want it to deliver in this case is one.

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