Think 2020 Webinar – May 5, 2020

Reducing the cost complexity and risk of supplier onboarding and management.

This 25-minute webinar will be available via digital Think platform (#7083) on May 5, 2020 at 11:45 a.m. ET. Please join Anita Bubna (Flex), Praveen Rao (IBM) and Vincent Nguyen (IBM) as they discuss Trust Your Supplier’s role in onboarding suppliers.

Suppliers are critical to your business, but effectively managing those relationships can be complex, time-consuming and expensive. Join this session to learn how Trust Your Supplier can help you shorten supplier onboarding time as much as 90 percent by improving supplier discovery, qualification, validation, onboarding and lifecycle management. Then, we’ll explore the benefits of digitizing transactions that streamline ordering and invoicing processes. You’ll hear real-world examples of how IBM AI and blockchain are providing multi-enterprise visibility for B2B transactions. Finally, understand how supply chain leaders are leveraging these solutions today to grow and scale their supplier communities while reducing cost, complexity and risk.

More about IBM’s annual event:

“Learn about the latest advancements in open technologies from hybrid multicloud to data and AI. Interact with the luminaries who are using this tech to transform our lives. Root your reinvention in this year’s reimagined event experience. Join us. Let’s get thinking.” 2020 THINK Digital Event Experience

Register for a free pass to any of these THINK experiences by creating an IBMid at https://www.ibm.com/events/think/.

THINK Panel Discussion – May 6, 2020

Discussion on TYS as a new blockchain-based solution for supplier information management.

As part of the 2020 THINK Digital Event Experience, Praveen Rao, Digital Supply Chain Executive for IBM, will lead a panel discussion about Trust Your Supplier as a new blockchain based solution for a faster way to qualify, onboard and manage suppliers. This session will be available for viewing on demand (#7151) beginning May 6, 2020.

Panelists include:

  • Bob Murphy, Chief Procurement Officer, IBM
  • Praveen Rao, Digital Supplychain Executive, IBM
  • James Gellert, Chairman and CEO, RapidRatings
  • Brian Farley, Senior Director, Partnership Solutions Strategy, Dun and Bradstreet
  • Emily Rakowski, Chief Marketing Officer, EcoVadis

In these uncertain times, new supply chain realities are forcing businesses to urgently reassess their supply base. No businesses can afford to have inefficient supplier qualification and on-boarding processes, but any increase in due diligence risk is unacceptable. To address these unprecedented challenges, IBM and Chainyard have created Trust Your Supplier (TYS), a blockchain-enabled solution to speed the process for buyers, suppliers and external validators. Join this panel discussion to hear from IBM’s Chief Procurement Officer and other executives from Dun & Bradstreet (D&B), EcoVadis and RapidRatings on how TYS uniquely enables efficient supplier on-boarding and other benefits.

More about IBM’s annual event:

“Learn about the latest advancements in open technologies from hybrid multicloud to data and AI. Interact with the luminaries who are using this tech to transform our lives. Root your reinvention in this year’s reimagined event experience. Join us. Let’s get thinking.” 2020 THINK Digital Event Experience 

Register for a free pass to any of these THINK experiences by creating an IBMid at https://www.ibm.com/events/think/.

DMSCA – February 28, 2020

Praveen Rao presented at the Diverse Manufacturing Supply Chain Alliance Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona. Trust Your Supplier was highlighted as a component of the evolving DMSCA Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain enabled marketplace withTYS providing a trusted access to supplier compliance data and providing credibility & compliance of network members with increased opportunity for visibility across the entire network of buyers and suppliers.