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Out of Africa

Supply Chain Shaman

Most global multinational companies have a solid base now in South America and Asia, but the race is on for Africa. I spent this week at SAPICS in South Africa. At over 1,000 delegates, the conference is a large supply chain event. There are few global conferences that can boast this level of attendance. Map Outside-in.

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Logility President Allan Dow and VP Business Development, Diane Ngabire named Supply & Demand Chain Executive 2024 Pro’s to Know

Logility

Ngabire is the cofounder of Code4dev Foundation, a non-profit organization that promotes computer literacy, inspires innovation, and bridges the digital divide by providing computers and supply chain education to students in Burundi, Africa. It also provides advertisers the analytics, data, and ability to reach their target audience.

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Trends, Technology and Sustainability in Focus at LogiSYM MENA 2021

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The latest edition of the LogiSYM conference catering to the Middle East/North Africa region, LogiSYM MENA, took place online on August 24. In the first conference segment in the afternoon, the theme shifted to Sustainability – a subject that was hardly discussed at LogiSYM just a few years ago.

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River of demand

Supply Chain Movement

I was reminded of his comments about a change of era as I listened to an interesting presentation by Anton van Beek, a board member of the multinational Dow Chemical Company, at a recent sustainability conference. suitable for the production of biobased plastics in order to meet future demand in a sustainable manner.

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aim10x Executive Council welcomes a new leader in the heavy automotive industry.

o9 Solutions

With over 35 years of experience in supply chain, notably in the heavy automotive industry, Claudio Strobl has overseen operations across Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas. His extensive participation as a speaker at international conferences further attests to his vast expertise and leadership in the field.

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Logistics Take Centerstage at the African Energy Week 2023 Conference

Supply Chain Brain

During a panel discussion, participants examined the efficient services being provided by the energy sector with Dennis Malkoc, the business development manager at Universal Africa Lines.

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Future of End-to-End Supply Chain Management: 3 Megatrends to Watch For

Kinaxis

Kevin O’Marah , the Chief Content Officer for SCM World, shared his predictions on three megatrends coming to the supply chain industry as the opening keynote presenter at Kinexions, Kinaxis’ annual user and training conference. Asia and Africa will continue to widen the gap as the most populous regions. More people means more demand.