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Solving The Cold Chain Challenges

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

by Diane Reynolds – Project Director Healthcare Transformation at One Network Enterprises. Multiparty Networks are Proven Technology. 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.

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Smarter, Low-Risk Commodity Buying

ToolsGroup

By FinStock South Africa. Calculating and maintaining optimal levels of inventory is increasingly complex in this market as a result of long lead times, exchange rate volatility, economic factors, tariffs, political unrest, pricing trends, etc. One of our customers sources materials from a global network with long lead times.

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Advanced analytics meets social good: how Angel Flight West optimizes flight routes for families in need

AIMMS

North Star Alliance , for instance, uses optimization to find optimal locations for its mobile HIV-AIDS clinics in Africa. Most recently, we encountered Angel Flight West , a non-profit organization that is using AIMMS-based optimization to plan flights for families in need. Angel Flight West route optimization in AIMMS.

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3 companies tell you their success with Quintiq

DELMIA Quintiq

Though operating in different industries, these big names in e-commerce logistics, oil & gas and humanitarian efforts rely on the same optimization technology provided by Quintiq. The organization manages a global network of 650 warehouses, 900 WFP-owned trucks and 35 fleet workshops. The answer is Quintiq. DHL eCommerce.

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The Rise of China-Africa Trade: Why Transportation and Logistics Should be Front and Center

BlueYonder

President Barack Obama’s trip to Africa in early July had many media outlets lamenting about the U.S. being late in recognizing the trade potential with Africa, and that the States had ceded the trade supremacy to China. Secondly, logistics infrastructure in Africa is terribly inefficient.

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Managing Supply Chain Disruptions in the Middle East

Locus

Africa-based executives had by far the highest rate of reporting logistics shocks (48%), not a surprising result given the poor state of infrastructure across much of the continent. They have started earmarking their investments for food supply chain networks since the pandemic. Optimize sourcing decisions. Cyber attacks.

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Modeling brewing capacity to drive cost savings at HEINEKEN

AIMMS

To learn more about these efforts, we spoke with Wilko Sierksma , HEINEKEN’s manager for Network Design and Global S&OP. . We are also tasked with building and maintaining the company’s centralized network design capability. The main reason was that we were trying to manage our investments as optimally as possible.

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