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Revolutionizing Freight Forwarding Using Tech with Lionel van der Walt

The Logistics of Logistics

He began his career in the South African Air Force and later spent more than a decade with the International Air Transport Association (IATA), where he held various leadership positions in South Africa, Spain, and the United States, including President of Cargo Network Services Corp., IATA’s U.S. cargo subsidiary.

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Smarter, Low-Risk Commodity Buying

ToolsGroup

By FinStock South Africa. The need arose to provide planners with data to support the decision of when to buy the product locally at a higher price versus the cost of lost sales during a potential stock-out. The importance of having the right inventory at the right price to service customer demand is crucial.

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

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

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. Post-deployment, Seamless accompanies its clients with data-driven, actionable insights, enabling them to optimize their platforms and processes for a streamlined supply chain.

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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. At the same time, you have all these terms – machine learning, artificial intelligence, big data.

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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. Germany, South Africa, and South Korea were abundant in 2022. We are advising clients to: . Utilize scenario planning in cases such as when to onshore versus offshore to evaluate sourcing options in the wake of government intervention .

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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. At the same time, you have all these terms – machine learning, artificial intelligence, big data.