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Sustainable Supply Chain Management.

ModusLink Corporation

Furthermore, the notion of Sustainable Supply Chain Management is often linked with social responsibility or environmental management (Ali Esfahbodi, 2016). This will aim at reducing environmental impact from the acquisition of raw materials to the final use and disposal of the product (Ali Esfahbodi, 2016). 2016, March 16).

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Accelerate Digitisation in the Supply Chain – Leveraging a Data-driven Approach to Optimisation – LogiSYM August 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

In 2016, Seamless was awarded the Global Telecoms Business Award for Software and Applications Innovation, showing their commitment to providing exemplary and innovative technologies through a result driven approach, and demonstrating that the success of their customers is embedded in their core DNA.

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Reducing Food Waste

Elementum

trillion per year, about the same as the 2016 GDP of the United Kingdom. A software engineer developed a similar app in Nigeria called Chowberry, which enables retailers to sell food items nearing their expiration date to low-income consumers at a cheaper price.

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Reducing Food Waste

Elementum

trillion per year, about the same as the 2016 GDP of the United Kingdom. A software engineer developed a similar app in Nigeria called Chowberry, which enables retailers to sell food items nearing their expiration date to low-income consumers at a cheaper price.

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Selling E-Commerce in Africa

APICS

In Lagos, Nigeria, curbside salespeople used to offer anything from plantain chips to mobile phones. In fact, street trading and street hawkers are a cultural tradition in this largest city in Nigeria.

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Podcast: VC Brian Aoaeh on the Future of Supply Chain Investment

Requis

By 2016 it was pretty certain that supply chain was where I would focus—in fact in the same year I authored a blog post on trucking which, to my complete surprise, was very well received by executives in the industry, by startup founders, by other investors, and by academics. It was during that process that I honed in on supply chain.

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Creating a Smart City One Building at a Time

Enterra Insights

Much of that growth (35%) will take place in three countries — India, China and Nigeria. 2] John Gordon, “ Building a Digital City ,” Longitudes , 3 July 2016. [3] 6] Gale Morrison, “ Smart Cities, Challenging Issues ,” Semiconductor Engineering , 1 December 2016. ” IT Pro Portal , 15 May 2018. [4]