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Is Online Gambling Possible in Namibia?

Supply Chain Game Changer

With respect to online gambling in Namibia vs South Africa, the African countries have been surprising us with the ever-growing statistics for the gambling market. When you think of Africa, you generally feel about relatively developing nations with recurring social issues. The ban was lifted as scheduled in 2006. Final Words.

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Talent Trap

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2006, I met a man by the name of Dick Clark that traveled the world working on role definition of planners for Procter & Gamble. In 2006, I asked Dick why it was taking him so long to define the roles of planning within P&G. Out of Africa. This year P&G will be over $83 billion in revenue.

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Managing Efficiently an Extended Supply Chain – An Electrium Story

DynaSys

Electrium is one of the UK’s leading electrical groups and since January 2006, has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Siemens Holdings plc. Electrium have recently acquired a business unit in South Africa, formerly part of the Crabtree family.

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New Bookends: The Tale of Supply Chain Global Leaders in Consumer Products

Supply Chain Shaman

The report analyzes supply chain performance and improvement by the Consumer Products Leaders in the period of 2006-2014. In the selection of time frames to analyze, we look at the long-term view including the recessionary period of 2006-2009, the post recessionary period of 2009-2014 and the more recent time period of 2011-2014.

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Illegal Supply Chains: selling stolen and counterfeit drugs

The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

billion between 2006 and 2012 to fight Malaria in Africa that kills 600,000 annually.    Despite Novartis’ efforts in distributing its malaria drug (Coartem) on a non-profit basis, they discovered most of the drugs were stolen and then resold in the black market and counterfeited Coartem was sold throughout Africa

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The History of the Shipping Container

Freightos

Asia, South Africa, Australia/NZ, North America and South America are all largely containerized. By 1983, container ships are carrying 12 million TEUs , with trade routes extending to the Middle East, South Asia and Africa. Companies can now own stakes in several transport modes, enabling the growth of intermodal carriers.

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How Do You Define a Mature Supply Chain Planning Organization? (Part 1)

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2006, they made a decision to implement a supply chain planning solution. Tomorrow, I board my long flight from South Africa. At that time, they planned on spreadsheets. Their goals were lofty, but their understanding of supply chain planning was hazy. It was badly implemented by a system integrator. ” So, help me out here.