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This Week in Logistics News (April15 – 20)

Logistics Viewpoints

Evans Chebet of Kenya won the men’s division with a time of 2:05:54, for an average pace of 4.8 Helen Obiri of Kenya won the women’s division with a time of 2:21:38. The 127th running of the Boston Marathon took place on Monday. An estimated 30,000 athletes from over 100 countries participated. minutes per mile.

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Out of Africa

Supply Chain Shaman

One of my favorite presentations at the event was by Francis Marabula, Executive head of Supply Chain, Safaricom, Kenya. He spoke of M-Pesa and the evolution of new models for mobile commerce in Kenya. The M-Pesa mobile application now represents 30% of GDP in Kenya with 60,000 outlets.

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Supply Chain Secrets Going Global – But Where Should we Share Them?

Logistics Bureau

The seminars will cover basic supply chain management, and more advanced elements such as strategy, outsourcing, cost to serve, benchmarking, and so on.”. Benchmarking and KPI development. Rob O’Byrne, Founder, Supply Chain Secrets. Supply chain technology, systems, and solutions. So… Where Should We Go? Germany – Hamburg. Peru – Lima.

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Podcast: Rob O’Byrne on Digital Transformation, Sustainability, and Diversification in Sourcing

Requis

We have a couple of people in our business who are amazing at building online analytics tools to analyze inventory, provide benchmarking, and all sorts of diagnostic tools. A few years later, he started acquiring other firms, including Dawson Consulting and Benchmarking Success. He has founded and helped several causes.

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Download now: 3PL Subway Map Europe 2016

Supply Chain Movement

In addition, when benchmarking their logistics providers, only 8% of respondents rated the importance of innovation and it was ranked in fourth place. Holy See (Vatican City State). Iran, Islamic Republic of. Isle of Man. Kazakhstan. Korea, Democratic People's Republic of. Korea, Republic of. Kyrgyzstan. Lao People's Democratic Republic.

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Strategic moves among logistics providers

Supply Chain Movement

In addition, when benchmarking their logistics providers, only 8% of respondents rated the importance of innovation and it was ranked in fourth place. Holy See (Vatican City State). Iran, Islamic Republic of. Isle of Man. Kazakhstan. Korea, Democratic People's Republic of. Korea, Republic of. Kyrgyzstan. Lao People's Democratic Republic.

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SCM Map Europe: European location decisions remain complex

Supply Chain Movement

The LPI is an interactive benchmarking tool which has been developed to help countries to identify the challenges which are standing in the way of improvements to logistics and trade flows. A second important feature to have been added in this version of the SCM Map of Europe is the World Bank’s Logistics Performance Index (LPI). Isle of Man.

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