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What You Can’t See Can Hurt You – Is Your Supply Chain Really Transparent?

Logility

Companies are using social audits, which are often ineffective without essential support. . True supply chain transparency means your company knows exactly what is happening upstream in the supply chain and can share this knowledge internally and externally. Lack of transparency also carries a huge reputational risk.

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Supply Chain Roundtable Series: Getting Demand Forecasting Right 

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Mark Houghton – CEO at Radical Cloud Solutions , our cloud solution specialist in Zimbabwe. It’s easy to get excited about a new product launch, especially when there’s historical evidence in the company to validate it. But just because something worked before doesn’t mean it’ll hold up in future market conditions.

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How Procter & Gamble is thriving on supply chain complexity

ToolsGroup

Now, speaking at September's Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference in London , P&G’s product supply director Onofrio Caradonna reveals how the company is applying planning capabilities to its distributor network. GDM now serves more than 100 distributors on five continents and in 180 countries from Argentina to Zimbabwe.

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Commodities Used in Electric Car Batteries: An Update on Lithium and Nickel

Resilinc

China has also invested in lithium production in other nations like Zimbabwe and Bolivia , underscoring the strategic significance of lithium in achieving low to zero-emission technology objectives. Companies should also keep up with the latest news surrounding electric car batteries and related commodities.

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Supply Chain Planning in Emerging Markets: Four Points to Remember

ToolsGroup

In previous years, many companies only focused on getting product into Jakarta (the country’s largest city) and satisfying demand there. For example, at a major beer company customer of ours distributing in Africa, most dealers were manually entering their supply chain data at the local Internet café.

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Is Online Gambling Possible in Namibia?

Supply Chain Game Changer

It’s the south-most African country, sharing borders with Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique. Payment Methods: Unfortunately, not all international payment processing companies offer their services in Namibia. If surrounding countries are something to go by, South Africa is the closest to Namibia.

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3 Companies Using an MRP System

Unleashed

Here we look at the way three companies have implemented an MRP system, and how this has benefitted their businesses in different ways. How MRP helped Paddock Gear & Engineering expand Paddock Gear & Engineering (Zimbabwe) supplies products to blue-chip companies in the power transmission industry.