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SCOPE Preview: Tackling Rapid Changes in the Supply Chain
The Supply Chain Operations Private Exhibition (SCOPE) will be holding its spring event in Atlanta on April 15-16. IBM is a key sponsor of this event, which is aimed directly at supply chain executives, because SCOPE takes a minimalist approach …
Smarter Transportation: Transforming TMS to Meet the Needs of Smarter Customers
Global supply networks are growing increasingly complex, demand is getting harder to predict, regulations are getting tighter, costs are rising, and the pace of business is accelerating. And today’s Smarter Customers are more demanding—they want it yesterday, and through multiple …
Strategic Supply Chain Management: The Infographic
The following is a guest post by Terrence Curley, IBM Director, Products – B2B & Commerce.
Do you know what the future holds for strategic supply chain management? At IBM’s Smarter Commerce Global Summit 2012 Orlando, we created the …
Posted in Commerce, Procurement
Tagged Procurement, Smarter Commerce Global Summit Orlando, supply chain, Terrence Curley
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Insights from Procurement Leaders Forum
The following is a guest blog by Patrick Quirk, CEO, IBM Emptoris.
On Wednesday, I was fortunate enough to attend the Procurement Leaders Forum in Boston, where several dozen chief procurement officers (CPOs) gathered to discuss “the path to influence, …
Posted in Commerce, Procurement
Tagged compliance, CPO, Patrick Quirk, Procurement, risk, Smarter Commerce, supply chain
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Super Storm’s Ripples into the Supply Chain
“Neither snow, nor rain, nor gloom of night …” the familiar words known as a creed for postal workers, actually originated from an inscription on the main post office in New York City. Those words could as well be ascribed …
Posted in Commerce
Tagged Doug MacDonald, hurricane, logistics, Procurement, Sandy, supply chain, transportation
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The Supply Chain delivers 27 candy corns for each and every American
The following is a guest blog by Brad Loetz, President, REMEDI Electronic Commerce Group.
In 2011, 35 million pounds of candy corn were produced for Halloween, equating to 9 billion pieces – or 27 pieces for every person …
B2B Integration: The Infographic
An integrated supply chain is just as important to meeting customer needs as marketing and sales operations. Supply chain innovation, which often relies heavily on the broader ecosystem of partners and suppliers involved in the process, ensures that companies can …
Innovation in Contract Management Helping to Transform Procurement For Competitive Advantage
The International Association of Contract and Commercial Managers (IACCM) conference will be held next week in Houston TX. I’m looking forward to getting valuable insight from global thought leaders and hearing about some of the most pressing issues and challenges …
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Tagged Bill Huber, ConocoPhillips, global sourcing, IACCM, Matt McGovern, Nils Svanberg, Procurement, supply chain, vendor risk assessment
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IBM’s New Optimization Solution Can Help Ensure Accurate Inventory Stock Levels
This week, we were at the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) conference in Atlanta, talking with customers about the challenges they’re facing with increasingly complex and demand-driven supply chains. Those challenges affect the entire fulfillment process, from …
Posted in Commerce
Tagged Analytics, CSCMP, inventory, Optimization, Smarter Commerce, supply chain
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IBM Advances Trends in Smarter Supply Chains at CSCMP
At next week’s Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) conference, IBM will be exhibiting and speaking on topics designed to help attendees create more agile, responsive supply chains. In today’s interconnected world, supply chain innovation is at the …
IBM Named Top 100 Logistics IT Provider for 2012 by Inbound Logistics Magazine
Customers – both consumers and businesses – are dictating how they wish to conduct business. Armed with instant access to information, they are more service-, price- and availability-savvy and demanding. But, customer preferences, important as they are, represent only one …
Delivering an Adaptive Supply Chain through Standards
Written by Dr. Angel Luis Diaz, Vice President of Software Standards for IBM Software Group.
In this age of the Connected-Customer– the notion of what constitutes “value” has shifted from the hands of the service provider into the hands …
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Tagged Analytics, B2B, EDI, Smarter Commerce, standards, supply chain, supply chain management, transportation
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Analytics: The Enabler that Drives Results
By: Fran O’Sullivan, general manager of IBM Integrated Supply Chain
From back-office supply chains to front-office sales and marketing programs, analytics is the enabler that can drive results in every function across the enterprise. As companies collect Big Data that …
How to Design a Smarter Supply Chain
Managing a global supply chain network has always been a constant balancing act. As companies look to be smarter about their supply chain operations, that balancing act takes on greater importance when they face unpredictable high growth opportunities or volatile …
Friday Factoid: May 4
Did you know only 53% of supply chain executives include customer input in supply chain planning? Despite the rise in the importance of creating a great customer experience, two out of every three companies struggle to accurately identify their customers’ …
Oil refineries, e-readers and human rights – connecting the dots
In today’s paper, Delta Airlines announced that they were purchasing an oil refinery from ConocoPhillips in Pennsylvania. They’ll spend $150 million on the acquisition and another $100 million to optimize the refinery for jet fuel production. Included in the purchase …
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Tagged business models, electronics, industries, manufacturing, Smarter Commerce, supply chain
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HP Hood Delivers Smarter Logistics with Cloud Solution
Technology has empowered consumers with greater access and transparency to information. It has significantly raised their expectations for relevant communications, superior service, competitive prices and on-time delivery. So the question is, how do you meet such customer demand, while orchestrating …
Synchronize Your Supply Chain to Achieve Smarter Commerce
If 87% of organizations in a recent survey view their business community as critical to their overall success, why do only 24% of them say they can effectively collaborate with their business community?
It was interesting when we asked the …
Posted in Commerce, Uncategorized
Tagged B2B, collaboration, impact, integration, Managed File Transfer, retail, Smarter Commerce, supply chain, value chain
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Supply Chain Visibility – Smarter Commerce, the Perfect Order and You
Supply chain disruptions have serious consequences. However, many companies continue to rely on manually-intensive processes to collect supply chain data from disparate systems and multiple trading partners, compiling it into spreadsheets. Even in the best case scenario, today’s complex supply …
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Tagged Jace Davis, order lifecycle, perfect order, Smarter Commerce, supply chain, visibility, white paper
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Attacking Supply Chain Volatility at SCOPE
In a couple of weeks, IBM will be participating in SCOPE East, the Supply Chain Operations Private Exposition, to be the week of April 23 in Chicago. The conference is an excellent opportunity to talk with supply chain professionals …
Posted in Commerce
Tagged Michael Watson, Richard Douglass, SCOPE, Smarter Commerce, supply chain
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