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4 strategic sourcing use cases to strengthen your supply chain

IBM Services

For sourcing teams, that means pivoting their mindset around selecting suppliers from a tactical, lowest-cost-above-all approach to a strategic one. Where tactical sourcing is a short-term strategy, strategic sourcing is for long-term business goals. And from that group, 71% would pay a premium for it.

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Mainframe and the cloud? It’s easy with open source

IBM Business Partners

Open-source software. DevOps, open source and the mainframe Open-source software and DevOps share a common philosophy and technical underpinnings. Tools-based automation is an important enabler, but DevOps is more a change in human perception and behavior than a technological effort. The key to this deep relationship?

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Driving manufacturing transformation in the aerospace industry

Capgemini

Early pilot initiatives have demonstrated that digital technologies help build on the foundations laid by Lean Manufacturing and extend those benefits to entire facilities or even to end-to-end supply chains. Concurrently, manufacturers are under pressure. AEROSPACE MANUFACTURING JOURNEY. Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0

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Three Leading Sectors Benefiting from Manufacturing in Mexico

Ivemsa

Mexico has been a manufacturing leader but has recently surpassed China as the top trade partner with the U.S. and other foreign manufacturers expanding their operations can depend on the blueprint that Mexico has in place. Over the past 20 years, the number of aerospace manufacturing firms has grown over triple in size.

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Data – The Lifeblood of Intelligence Automation

Perficient Digital Transformation

intelligence automation). This article breaks down how data powers intelligence automation. If the tools we use for intelligence automation are not built around our customers, we will not be providing a truly personalized user experience. Data completeness – Various data sources typically exist within an organization.

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Understanding the Internet of Things (IoT) and Its Connection to Automation

Automation Anywhere

From the way we shop and travel to the way manufacturers monitor and manage inventory to the way farmers keep track of their livestock, IoT has transformed life in many areas and gone from just a crazy vision to an essential reality. The advantages of automation in IoT Automation offers many advantages to your business processes using IoT.

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Overcoming Supply Chain Woes with Intelligent Automation

Automation Anywhere

To help resolve the crisis, many businesses across industries are turning to intelligent automation to get goods moving again to enterprises, stores, and shopping sites. How intelligent automation can help Solutions for the crisis have included utilizing self-driving trucks to solve the driver shortage, moving supply chains back to the U.S.