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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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Identifying Supply Chain Automation Opportunities

Automation Anywhere

For manufacturers, top of mind is finding new ways to streamline operations. Manufacturers have always and continue to invest significant time and money to try and ensure that these resources are utilized as efficiently and effectively as possible. Manufacturers were affected disproportionally by the epidemic.

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Mass customization requires new product-development strategies

Capgemini

Facebook Twitter Linkedin The benefits of mass customization are significant but, to succeed, most manufacturers require better collaboration and digital continuity across order management, design, engineering, and production teams. However, mass production left little room to tailor products for specific customers.

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Process Excellence: A transformational lever to extreme automation

IBM Services

For this reason, it’s worth examining how efficient the sourcing process is, how to control maverick buying and reduce revenue leakage and how to create a standardized buying experience across the organization. Why process excellence matters A mid-size organization will spend the equivalent of several billion U.S.

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How to choose the best enterprise asset management software

IBM Business Partners

One business’ assets might be thousands of miles of electrical wiring, while another’s might be manufacturing equipment or warehouses. Whatever the case, large organizations can benefit from enterprise asset management (EAM) software to manage all the physical stuff the company owns.

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Integrated supply chain management drives superior business outcomes

Capgemini

Our two organizations work together to unify planning, procurement, order fulfilment and billing, with direct links to and from both manufacturing and analytics and reporting. With a global background, he excels in digital strategy, shared services, process design, and project management. First Name * First Name is not valid.