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
What keeps marketing teams from reaching for the stars and succeeding? Common culprits include a lack of time, resources, IT support and management buy-in.
This tip sheet will help you map out a plan to get started on the most important programs for your business and move through the process to achieve your...
Published: Apr 23, 2018
Marketers need integration and coordination among systems to manage and optimize individual dialogues in real time, across channels, devices and contexts, on a continuous basis. Vendors from advertising, marketing automation and analytics disciplines are converging on this opportunity.
This Magic Quadrant is intended...
Published: Jul 01, 2016
Field service management teams want to keep costs down, while improving their customer service relationships.
This can be hard for organisations in any industry—often, reducing costs hurts customer relationships—but IoT provides a way for field service organisations to achieve this goal.
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Published: Jan 12, 2018
The potential value of social media for B2B marketers is clear – just as with any other business, it provides a cost-efficient way of reaching a large audience and supporting your content strategy.
But what is also clear is that not all B2B brands use social media well and can struggle to emulate the success...
Published: Oct 01, 2015