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World Food Day 2023

Enterra Insights

”[2] The Coleridge poem to which I referred was “ The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” One source of water that coastal communities must consider is ocean water. This marked the capacity to collect drinkable water from salt water of the seas and ocean, allowing for a new source of water supply.”

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ERP Aids Your Sustainability Initiatives

QAD

Sustainable manufacturing refers to the ability to manage manufacturing operations “in an environmentally and socially responsible manner,” according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Sustainability is a topic of growing importance for customers, investors, governments and manufacturers across the globe.

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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. Presently, their major focus lies on local production, warehousing and strategic sourcing. Optimize sourcing decisions.

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Improve Supply Chain Management to Improve Business

Enterra Insights

A supply chain is an end to end process which typically begins with the sourcing of raw materials and concludes with the sale of a good to the final customer.”[1] Sourcing : “Source processes involve obtaining goods and services to meet either planned or actual market demand. ”[7]. ” 3.

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Technology Can Help Feed the World, Part 2

Enterra Insights

Some experts are now referring to the technological revolution unfolding in agriculture as “Farming 4.0.” ” Analysts from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) add, “Over the past decade, public and private sources have dedicated impressive amounts of energy and resources to digital agriculture in developing countries.”[2]

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Trends in Sustainability: Deglobalization will accelerate in 2024

Freightera

This is changing fast with the rapid rise of economic power by China, India, Brazil, Russia, the MENA region, and now Africa. The primary market is increasingly Asia, not North America or Western Europe, and the primary economic growth in the coming years is expected to occur in China, India, SE Asia, and Africa, not in the “West”.

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66% of CEOs are concerned about human rights risks within their supply chains…

Proxima

The 1990’s saw some stand-out divergence of declarations across Islam, Africa, Latin America, and Asia, reflecting a fact that is abundantly clear still today: rights are valued within the context of different social and economic structures. Many violations are a result of natural tensions between typical supply chain models.