The supply chain is experiencing a period of significant change. Changing business and customer requirements are putting new and greater pressures on the business, and emerging technologies are offering intriguing ways of working.
Indeed, digital transformation is poised to change the supply chain more profoundly...
Published: Aug 14, 2018
Cognitive technologies, also known as artificial intelligence, are perhaps the most transformative of our era. In fact, technology and economics are aligning in a way that puts society at a tipping point.
Cognitive technologies can understand all forms of data and continually learn about that data and related subjects...
Published: Aug 29, 2018
Introducing IBM Watson Supply Chain Business Network
Supply Chain Business Network correlates related documents so business users can quickly find related supply chain transactions, and pinpoint issues without involving IT... and natural language search and conversation allows them to get the answers they need fast,...
Published: Aug 22, 2018
Visibility leads to improved insights and better collaboration with partners in the network, so it’s no wonder it’s a top priority for supply chain leaders in 2017.
Join us as Christian Titze, Research Director for Gartner with more than two decades of professional experience in general IT and supply chain...
Published: Aug 22, 2018
Your supply chain impacts the quality, delivery and costs of your business’s products. Watson Supply Chain can elevate your existing systems to provide greater visibility, transparency and insight into supply chain data and processes.
Watson's Supply Chain solution is:
Supply Chain Optimization
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Published: Aug 22, 2018
All customers expect their purchase to show up as expected and on time. But if you’re a supply chain professional, like so many we work with, you know there are thousands of things that have to be executed perfectly for that customer to have their anticipated experience.
And we know things can, and do, go wrong....
Published: Aug 22, 2018
Many organizations face questions relative to the strategies they should put in place to thrive in a customer- centric economy and an environment where deep infrastructural changes are being driven by disruptive technologies and the rapid emergence of digital commerce channels.
Faced with these forces,...
Published: Aug 22, 2018
Customer expectations for the combined brand experience are higher than ever.
This puts more pressure on retailers to merge their physical and digital processes. Despite omnichannel retailers’ efforts to achieve this goal, results continue to fall short — especially when it comes to delivering merchandise....
Published: Aug 14, 2018
How can retailers efficiently leverage inventory from one channel to serve another without breaking the bank?
See how IBM Watson Order Optimizer helps Fulfillment, Operations, and Inventory:
Gain a holistic view of omni-channel operations across different functional areas
Optimize in real-time...
Published: Aug 22, 2018
Some of the major and key challenges that have arisen today are that the majority of retailers lack experience in implementing a distributed order management (DOM) system, resulting in challenges around design, scope, implementation time scales and costs. These can cause unplanned compromises in the final implementation....
Published: Aug 22, 2018
ATB Financial, a Canadian retail banking institution with more than 5,000 employees, was experiencing declining employee retention, particularly with newer hires within their first year of employment. ATB suspected this was the result of low employee engagement scores. These engagement and retention challenges had begun...
Published: May 01, 2014
The security of online services is a topic of increasing interest to enterprises as the number of third party hosted service offerings has expanded in recent years. The emergence of various “cloud computing” concepts and definitions has highlighted not only questions about data ownership and protection, but...
Published: Feb 09, 2014
In order to come out on top in the marketing world, you must structure for customer centricity. But how do you go about creating the stepping stones for a cohesive bigger picture?
This whitepaper will show you how to:
Set up journeys effectively across customer channels and screens
Balance customer experience...
Published: May 15, 2018
Since 1996 businesses have been using pay-per-click advertising (PPC) to drive targeted traffic to their website. With their monopoly position, the majority of this money has gone to Google. Over time, the way that PPC works has become steadily more sophisticated, and more expensive. What was once a cheap way of generating...
Published: Aug 02, 2015