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Solving The Cold Chain Challenges

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

One Network has years of experience in healthcare supply networks that provide medicines and vaccines to hundreds of millions of people in Africa and around the globe. It provides real-time status and locations of orders and shipments, predicted future locations, and accurate arrival times. Multiparty Networks are Proven Technology.

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Podcast: Predictive Analytics and Digital Transformation Pioneer Knut Alicke

Requis

He is based in Germany, and, as a founding partner of the supply chain practice at McKinsey & Company , consults on a variety of supply chain-related business problems, including S&OP and advanced analytics. Some of the OEMs in the automotive industry struggled with the end-to-end processing of leather, which came from South Africa.

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Analyzing Supply Chain Risk

Enterra Insights

Supply chains are a mess, inflation is on the rise, the pandemic lingers, natural disasters are intensifying, fraud is growing more prevalent, and global tensions are increasing. James Johnston ( @JamesA_Johnston ), Regional Vice President at Cloudera, notes, “Supply chains can be considered the lifeblood of the global economy.

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New tech coming to ERP systems near you

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Within Africa, the adoption of smart manufacturing technologies and solutions has been far slower. Many African countries are less digitalized than their middle- and high-income counterparts globally, with a technology gap in both access and use. However, there’s no escaping the increasing digitalization of the manufacturing sector.

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Technology Can Help Feed the World, Part 1

Enterra Insights

In the next 35 years, experts predict that we’ll need to double agricultural production to keep pace with population growth, changing diets and increasing demand. Collecting and analyzing big data can not only improve the productivity of individual farms but also help halt a global food crisis. ”[4]. ”[5]. Footnotes. [1]

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Supply Chain’s Must Adapt Before Global Conditions Change

Enterra Insights

He explains, “I almost feel that we should be shouting ‘Vuka’ which in Xhosa (one of the South Africa languages) means ‘wake up.’ ” Glenn Steinberg ( @GlennSteinberg ), global and Americas supply chain leader at EY, asks, “Do you want your company to compete effectively in the rapidly evolving future? It’s Flexible.

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Keeping It Local: How Shorter Supply Chains Impact Supply Chain Planning

ToolsGroup

After decades of longer and more global supply chains, some are becoming shorter and more localized. According to the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), cross border investment and trade have been decelerating for more than a decade. Manufacturing was transformed into a global enterprise. Contracting Supply Chains. .