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Do You Know Your Suppliers? Counting the Cost of Ignorance

QAD

In April 2022, allegations arose claiming children as young as 10 in Ghana , West Africa were harvesting cocoa beans for food industry giant Mondel?z In Bangladesh in July 2021, a fire at a food factory claimed the lives of at least 52 people, some of whom were children. z International, which owns Cadbury. A similar study in the U.S.

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One Man’s Trash: How Blockchain Can Target Food Waste to Help End World Hunger

Material Handling & Logistics

As it turns out, the solution to this growing problem may lie in our own refrigerators. billion metric tons—gets lost or wasted. What’s more, net food losses in developed countries (222 million metric tons) equate to nearly all of the food produced in Sub-Saharan Africa yearly (223 million metric tons).

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KPI Key Performance Indicators in Supply Chain & Logistics

Logistics Bureau

Purchasing and supplier management. A KPI is a metric… but not just any metric. A KPI is a metric focused on a KEY element of business, departmental, or team performance. There is really nothing wrong with capturing a lot of metrics, especially with today’s powerful analytics software solutions to help.

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