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Optimizing the food industry: a conversation with UniSoma’s Luis Pinto

AIMMS

It depends where you look, but for instance, in smaller markets like South Africa, food companies are hard-pressed to compete in the globalized market. Feed costs are much cheaper in Brazil than in South Africa. How are they faring when it comes to analytics adoption?

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Optimizing the food industry: a conversation with UniSoma’s Luis Pinto

AIMMS

It depends where you look, but for instance, in smaller markets like South Africa, food companies are hard-pressed to compete in the globalized market. Feed costs are much cheaper in Brazil than in South Africa. How are they faring when it comes to analytics adoption?

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2021 Manufacturing Trends Revealed by the Pandemic

QAD

QAD frequently publishes guides to international business by country, such as South Africa, Germany, India and many others; see Doing Business in South Korea. . The role of analytics. As each of these trends pressures manufacturers, they can find solutions in analytics. And more disruption.

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Analyzing Supply Chain Risk

Enterra Insights

A decade ago, supply chain analyst Trevor Miles ( @milesahead ) wrote, “I almost feel that we should be shouting ‘Vuka’ which in Xhosa (one of the South Africa languages) means ‘wake up.’ One answer is advanced analytics. Big Data and Advanced Analytics. Wake up to the new reality that VUCA is a new norm.”[2]

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Out of Africa

Supply Chain Shaman

Most global multinational companies have a solid base now in South America and Asia, but the race is on for Africa. I spent this week at SAPICS in South Africa. At the end of my talk on the first day, I was asked by the audience to share what I would recommend as action steps for South African supply chains.

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Advancing Resilience Amidst Trade Disruptions and Tariff Swings

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

It is subject to constant change in the global ecosystem In recent years, the share of total global trade by emerging economies including the BRIICS (Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia, China, and South Africa) countries has continued to increase rapidly. Real-time data and analytics can help companies respond swiftly to disruptions.

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Podcast: Predictive Analytics and Digital Transformation Pioneer Knut Alicke

Requis

He is based in Germany, and, as a founding partner of the supply chain practice at McKinsey & Company , consults on a variety of supply chain-related business problems, including S&OP and advanced analytics. Some of the OEMs in the automotive industry struggled with the end-to-end processing of leather, which came from South Africa.