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Streamlining supply chain management: Strategies for the future

IBM Services

In today’s complex global business environment, effective supply chain management (SCM) is crucial for maintaining a competitive advantage. Here’s how companies are using different strategies to address supply chain management and meet their business goals.

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4 strategic sourcing use cases to strengthen your supply chain

IBM Services

In this age of supply chain disruptions that hold the power to upend entire industries, strength and resilience across the entire value chain is no longer a nice-to-have—it’s a survival tactic. Where tactical sourcing is a short-term strategy, strategic sourcing is for long-term business goals.

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Responding in real time to changing market dynamics

IBM Services

In IDC’s 2022 Global Supply Chain Survey , they identified that “lack of visibility and resiliency to see necessary changes in time to react effectively” was the most problematic and unaddressed deficiency in modern supply chain management and inventory optimization.

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Business process reengineering (BPR) examples

IBM Services

Background of business process reengineering BPR emerged in the early 1990s as a management approach aimed at radically redesigning business operations to achieve business transformation. This might include streamlining payroll processes, digitizing HR operations or automating invoicing procedures.

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Procurement Costs and How Businesses Can Reduce Them

Planergy Software

By understanding how procurement costs are created and the tools and process improvements you can use to reduce them, you can: bolster your company’s bottom line; strengthen your inventory and supply chain management; and build strong supplier relationships, too. Automating core procurement processes.

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What Is Dropshipping? The Pros and Cons For Business

Planergy Software

How better management in AP can give you better flexibility for cash flow management. Fulfillment Inventory Management Supply Chain Management. To start, there are marketplace directories like Spocket and Wholesale Central to help you find suppliers and source products. Download Free Copy.

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The Benefits of Localized Supply Chain

Planergy Software

How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. The Benefits of Localized Supply Chain. Sourcing Supply Chain Management. Resilient supply chains implement capacity and inventory buffers. Download Free Copy.