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The Supply Chain Impact of Europe’s Refugee Crisis

Kinaxis

According to a recent UNHCR report , nearly 60 million people were forcibly displaced in 2014 from countries such as Iraq, Eritrea, and Afghanistan. Unfortunately, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres, its income in 2015 will be 10% less than in 2014. Of those 60 million people, 19.5 Funding is lacking.

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May 2019 Automation Hero: Elsante Mnzava of Mkenga Group

EazyStock

EazyStock’s Tanzania-based Partner Elsante Mnzava helps distributors in Africa become more competitive with automated processes. In fact, when we first started our business in 2014, the companies which bought our enterprise-level business management platforms where firms whose shareholders were based outside of Africa.

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May 2019 Automation Hero: Elsante Mnzava of Mkenga Group

EazyStock

My dearest and beloved late Father was from Tanzania in East Africa, my dearest and beloved Mother is from Sierra Leone in West Africa and I grew up in Zambia and attended secondary school in Swaziland—both in Southern Africa. So I am anchored to the Continent in a unique way that I take every opportunity to boast about!

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S.E.C. Approval of Conflict Minerals Rules: a landmark in supply chain disclosure requirements

EcoVadis

Countries covered by the new rules in addition to the DRC include South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Angola, the Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic. First specialized disclosure report to be filed on May 31, 2014 (for the 2013 calendar year) and annually on May 31 every year thereafter.

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3PL Subway 2015: Strategic movements among logistics providers

Supply Chain Movement

After years of declining revenues in European logistics services, the business started to stabilise in 2013/2014. Tanzania, United Republic of. However, Technavio’s analysts now forecast the 3PL market in Europe to grow at a CAGR of 2.87% over the period 2014-2019. South Georgia and The South Sandwich Islands. Switzerland.