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Smarter, Low-Risk Commodity Buying

ToolsGroup

By FinStock South Africa. The importance of having the right inventory at the right price to service customer demand is crucial. The trade-off between low cost, long lead time inventory and higher priced short lead time inventory is a daily decision to balance the risk of unsellable stock versus stock outs.

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Beyond The Data with William Sandoval

The Logistics of Logistics

Data is a big buzzword across industries, but how about when it comes to logistics? William shares how they transform data into critical actionable information that optimizes and powers operations throughout businesses. Beyond The Data with William Sandoval. Our topic is beyond the data with my friend William Sandoval.

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Preparing Your Supply Chain for 2023 – 4 Areas of Focus

Logility

Clean data and documentation to make managing government intervention easier. Then we saw a glut of inventory hit the shelves in late summer when those bottlenecks were addressed. Germany, South Africa, and South Korea were abundant in 2022. Last year’s shortages = next year’s oversupply 2.

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OMG: Does Omicron Mean the Supply Chain Will Suffer from Long-Haul Covid?

Enterra Insights

It only took days following the announcement out of South Africa that a new coronavirus had been detected for that variant pop-up around the globe. In South Africa, where the Omicron variant was first detected, only 25% of the population is vaccinated. The Omicron Virus. ”[3].

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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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Accelerate Digitisation in the Supply Chain – Leveraging a Data-driven Approach to Optimisation – LogiSYM August 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Tracking the inventory and reorder point gives organizations complete control over their stocking policies is one of the many functions that it deploys. These solutions also provide granular control over data and real-time visibility to manage the entire sales and distribution chain and automate or digitize processes.

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How manufacturers can respond to supply chain disruptions

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

The further disruption caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could cause major disruptions to the global supply chain and impact South Africa. Supply chains over the years have predominantly focused more on minimising end-to-end costs, reducing inventories while driving up asset utilisation. Supply chain challenges.