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Thursday, June 9, 2011 - 21:28
The final principle that we’ll address in this blog series is Optimization. This principle supports using advanced inventory analytics, along with traditional planning systems, to drive immediate and meaningful results in “right sizing” of inventories.
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Wednesday, June 8, 2011 - 18:21
In our last entry, we discussed the importance of visibility and how it helps leaders make informed decisions that help establish optimal inventories. The second principle of our Smarter Inventory Framework, collaboration, focuses on the importance of a serious commitment to collaborative planning practices to improve inventory forecast accuracy.
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Tuesday, June 7, 2011 - 09:56
In our introductory Smarter Inventory Management blog, we touched upon the “doing more with less” mantra, which is well publicized across all levels of government. Budget deficits are forcing organizations to look deeply at how to improve efficiency, and inventory optimization is a key improvement lever for market leaders in every industry.
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Monday, June 6, 2011 - 13:30
Government agencies can constrain costs by applying stricter management on their supply chain. Though some agencies’ supply chains may be unpredictable (FEMA’s or DoD’s for example), there are still some viable solutions and methods to improve inventory management for every agency. The next three blog posts will describe the concepts behind inventory management, which consists of three fundamental principles: Visibility, Collaboration, and Optimization.
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Friday, June 3, 2011 - 15:54
In this final post on energy management, we’ll share how our experiences, and the concept of energy management, can be applied to help the public sector achieve similar savings. We’ll also introduce some ideas that can help government agencies accelerate energy cost reductions—even during this extended period of budget pressures.
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Thursday, June 2, 2011 - 15:09
In the last post, we used IBM BTV as an example of how the goal to increase reliability and to become more competitive in the chip manufacturing market evolved into a terrific Energy Management Program (EMP). In this post, we’ll describe the high-level nuts and bolts of an EMP, and how it can be applied to federal agencies to help cut costs, reduce CO2, and wean the country from its dependence on foreign oil.
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - 11:52
A quick read through any newspaper can bring up some dismal facts about the state of our nation and the current geopolitical climate. Among these pressures, which include a soaring deficit, budget challenges, and high unemployment, is the issue of energy independence.
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Friday, May 27, 2011 - 15:02
In the past few blogs we’ve thrown a lot at you. Ultimately, we want to show you how these principles can be applied to government agencies. And, based on current government organization successes, and our own internal experience, we believe that these concepts can help government agencies get the most bang out of the taxpayer’s buck.
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Thursday, May 26, 2011 - 13:42
Once you’ve made all these changes to your procurement organization and processes, you want them to last, right? The last principle of IBM’s Smarter Spending approach, “Control”, helps organizations sustain the value found in "Visibility" and secured by the "Leverage" techniques. It would be a waste to make all of these changes and not have them last, and for government agencies, these cost saving measures need to last.
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Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 12:32
In our last post, we discussed the role of visibility and how it can help organizations identify and prioritize procurement transformation efforts. In order to drive sustained value, you need to use that gained insight to take action. Some of these actions, which we’ll discuss today, are concepts like demand management, strategic sourcing, and the selective use of managed spend providers, which can help government organizations stretch dollars in tight times, without compromising performance.
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