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African manufacturers must remain focused on skills development

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

IDC has estimated that two million jobs in artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things, cybersecurity and blockchain will remain unfilled by 2023 due to a lack of human talent. Africa must be concerned with upskilling. However, an obstacle in the way of this process is the overwhelming global digital skills gap.

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9 Ways Manufacturers Can Develop More Sustainable Products

Arena Solutions

While these environmental consequences have been short-term, they have been enough to attract the attention of world leaders, industries, and governments to develop aggressive environmentally sustainable strategies to curb energy usage and reduce product waste.

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Agriculture, Logistics, and Advance Technologies

Enterra Insights

It will take a combination of strategies involving all stakeholders from farmers to consumers to make food security a reality. One of those strategies necessarily involves the food supply chain. Every one of the opportunities noted above relies on the implementation of an Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem. ”[4].

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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.’ Disruptive technologies such as machine learning, the Internet of Things and blockchain are leading to super-fluid markets: fast moving, fast changing and frictionless.” It’s Agile.

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State of Logistics Outsourcing: Plenty of Room for Growth as Shipper Dissatisfaction & Technology Expectations Increase

GlobalTranz

Other emerging markets include South America (not including Mexico), India, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Mexico. Markets clearly change, and as a leader, we must have flexibility to even change our own strategies to meet the demands of customers. It’s simply our core value to continuously improve.

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How Do You Define a Mature Supply Chain Planning Organization? (Part 1)

Supply Chain Shaman

Management and planning of the entire network against a value network strategy. Recognition of asset strategies in go-to-market plans. The most mature clients are moving to digital manufacturing based on the Internet of Things (i.e. Risk management strategies integrated in network design programs. Procurement.

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

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Internet of Things (IoT) brings more connectivity in the supply chain network to advance visibility and agility to the logistics and supply operations. Customer centricity is not about setting a company strategy through the forecasted demand of the product portfolio in the market. Customer Centricity.