article thumbnail

World Bank Revises 2023 Global Growth But Downgrades 2024

Supply Chain Matters

On a regional scale, the bank anticipates that growth among emerging market and developing economies will diverge this year, picking up in East and Central Asia , Pacific as well as Europe while moderating in all other regions, particularly Latin America , Middle East and North Africa countries. percent in 2023, compared to 4.1

article thumbnail

Supply Chain Leadership Driving Industry 4.0 & Resilience During Crisis – LogiSYM July 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

This can be applied to inventory management, fleet and order tracking, ID badging. This helps improve order management and accuracy, shorten estimated transit times (ETAs) and minimise out-of-stock situations. Amazon’s supply chain heavily depends on the outsourcing of its inventory management.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Supply Chain Roundtable Series: Getting Demand Forecasting Right 

Unleashed

We’ve got two clients who brew beer: one local, and one across the border in South Africa. And the product in South Africa’s done really well in the market there.” “The Forecasting from the business is something that should be managed across multiple departments.

article thumbnail

Unleashed SME Supply Chain Resilience Roundtable: Improving Cash Flow in a Manufacturing Business

Unleashed

In South Africa, there are a lot of third-party fulfilment companies , so costs were going up with them.” His team rely on Unleashed inventory management software to pull that data and break it down into accessible reports. And from 2017–2023, we managed to amass a huge amount of data.

article thumbnail

This Week in Logistics News (October 12-16, 2015)

Talking Logistics

Cosco, China Shipping Group in Advanced Merger Talks (WSJ – sub. SMC³ Acquires Transportation Costing Group. The combined companies will have a more balanced geographical footprint with approximately 61% of revenue in Europe, Middle East and North Africa, 17% in Americas, 16% in Asia (APAC) and 6% in Sub-Saharan Africa.

article thumbnail

Starbucks Appoints New Supply Chain Chief

RFgen

Gibbons worked to revolutionize inventory management within the company. All production planning, replenishment and new product launches fell under plan, source was broken into coffee and non-coffee items, make became all manufacturing, and transportation, distribution, and customer service were grouped together as deliver.

article thumbnail

Starbucks Appoints New Supply Chain Chief

RFgen

Gibbons worked to revolutionize inventory management within the company. All production planning, replenishment and new product launches fell under plan, source was broken into coffee and non-coffee items, make became all manufacturing, and transportation, distribution, and customer service were grouped together as deliver.