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. Set credit limits.

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. DIO: [link] pp.1-19.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

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

article thumbnail

Trade Gecko Sunset: 9 Risks, Tips & Insights from the Experts

Unleashed

Whether you’ve done anything about it yet is another story… We spoke to two software implementation experts – one based in the UK, the other in South Africa – about how late is too late to make the change to new software, and what TG-based businesses should think about now ahead of the dreaded sunset date. We tend not to do it.

article thumbnail

26 logistics professionals reveal the biggest trends in logistics technology

6 River Systems

The big corporations and companies have had ERP systems to manage the moves. They have data all over; a lot of big logistic companies are referring data as new oil. Zipline already delivers medication to areas in Africa that are difficult to access. IoT devices are making travel safer and performance more efficient. SupplyPike.

article thumbnail

Supply Chain Management in a VUCA World

Enterra Insights

For years the military has used the acronym VUCA to describe what, in wartime, is often referred to as the fog of war. Back in 2011, supply chain analyst Trevor Miles ( @milesahead ) noted there is a similar sounding word supply chain managers should associate with VUCA. Wake up to the new reality that VUCA is a new norm.”[1]