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Consumer Goods, Ebola, Boku Haram, and African Logistics

Logistics Viewpoints

Logistics in Africa is tough. Africa just does not have the infrastructure, has an education gap, and does not widely deploy technologies like GPS tracking that are common in the West.

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The 8 Personas of Highly Effective Leaders

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The 8 Personas of Highly Effective Leaders Opinion Editorial by Rajesh Achanta , Vice President -Supply Network Operations, Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa (AMA) at P&G I recently had the opportunity to share with thought leaders and supply chain professionals at LogiSYM Asia Pacific in Singapore,on how organisations can work on Leveraging (..)

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The Consequences of Supply Chain Constipation

Enterra Insights

Goodman ( @petersgoodman ) and Stanley Reed report, “As the world absorbed the reality that the Suez Canal [would] remain blocked for at least several … days, hundreds of ships stuck at both ends of the channel … began contemplating a far more expensive alternative: forsaking the channel and heading the long way around Africa.

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Risk Management Can Be a Competitive Advantage, Part One

Enterra Insights

McKinsey & Company analysts, Ziad Haider , Andrew Grant, and Anke Raufuss , add, “In between navigating the fallout from Europe and unfolding strategic competition in Asia, multinational corporations must also manage a host of long-tail political risks and conflicts across other geographies, including Africa and South Asia.”[6]

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The Critical Intersection of Humanitarian Logistics and Food Supply Chains

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The UAE’s strategic location between East and West, with access to a vast consumer base across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, presents an opportunity to serve as a central hub for food storage and distribution, contingent upon addressing key global food logistics challenges.

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How Will Climate Change Impact Supply Chains in 2024?

Resilinc

While the system often brings heavy rainfall to the Southern US and Mexico, this can result in drought in other regions such as Australia, Indonesia, parts of southern Asia, and Central and West Africa. Delicate crops such as sugar, rice, and wine grapes are especially at risk of being affected by outlier conditions in 2024.

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Q&A with Sidney Johnson: Veteran Supply Chain Practitioner and Resilinc Advisory Board Member

Resilinc

We were also in Europe, North Africa, and Asia. One of the biggest experiences I bring to the Advisory Board is my understanding of supply chain and supply chain risk. Having lived, worked, managed, and led global teams for 13 years, I saw what building a strategy from the ground up looked like.