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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. Xeneta’s data analysis shows that containerized imports from the far east to the US increased substantially from 2017 to 2022. minutes per mile.

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Digital transformation for Africa’s manufacturing and distribution CIO and CFO

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

SYSPRO listens to different perspectives at two events in Kenya – one the CIO view and the other the CFO view on Digital Transformation – both November2021. SYSPRO Africa first visited Mombasa Kenya at the main gathering in East Africa of CIOs – CIO 100. Here we shared our experiences. Looking at the CIO.

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Ivalua Announces Carbon Footprint Innovation Cup Winners at Ivalua NOW 2022: How digitally enabled smart procurement can help organizations reduce scope 3 carbon emissions

ivalua

Second place was awarded to the Capgemini / Ivalua team for their CO2 Data Compounder. To offset carbon produced by its event and to support local communities in developing countries, Ivalua has entered a partnership with Treedom to plant and nurture 1000 trees in Cameroon, Columbia, Guatemala, Ecuador, Tanzania and Kenya.

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The Future of Food Security

Enterra Insights

She stated, “We must use big data and digital tools to protect food security and increase climate resilience. New technologies and data generation can transform business practices across the agricultural value chain and address bottlenecks in, productivity, harvesting, market access, finance, and supply chain management.”[1]

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The introduction of E-Procurement.

ModusLink Corporation

Organizations in both public and private sectors are adopting systems such as the Electronic Data Interchange tool (EDI), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and of course the internet to benefit them when sourcing their goods (Adebayo, Dec 2015). International Non-Governmental Organisations in Kenya. 2017, April). Kapepo, S.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 16 – 22)

Logistics Viewpoints

In the professional women’s division, Peres Jepchirchir of Kenya and Ababel Yeshaneh of Ethiopia dropped the majority of the pack during a record-setting 11-mile stretch from mile 6-16. And what a race it was. This is a full five years ahead of the original target of 2030. GW to 10.4

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Revealed: The Sectors Cutting Product Lead Times Fastest

Unleashed

To find out, we have created a Product Lead Time Index using data from our inventory management software to track how product lead times have changed since the height of Covid-19. But which sub-sectors of manufacturing and logistics struggled most to fulfil orders during the pandemic, and how quickly did they rally?