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Supply Chain Roundtable Series: Getting Demand Forecasting Right 

Unleashed

Mark Houghton – CEO at Radical Cloud Solutions , our cloud solution specialist in Zimbabwe. Begin with high-level market data and work down to revenue A common mistake when trying to predict demand is to rely solely on internal data. You can be very busy looking at data and gaining information from it. near Exeter.

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How Procter & Gamble is thriving on supply chain complexity

ToolsGroup

GDM now serves more than 100 distributors on five continents and in 180 countries from Argentina to Zimbabwe. Most did simple forecasting using huge spreadsheets based mainly on historical data and limited market intelligence.”. It ingests data mainly from P&G’s Microsoft SQL Azure and SQL Server databases.

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

Logility

Logility’s corporate responsibility solution combines audit and self-assessment data in a way that is highly effective at identifying suppliers who are not engaged in ethical social practices. This means companies must adopt technological solutions to supply chain management and social responsibility.

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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. Challenges and Opportunities Recent developments in the lithium industry have presented a mix of challenges and opportunities.

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Supply Chain Planning in Emerging Markets: Four Points to Remember

ToolsGroup

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. GDM now serves more than 100 distributors on five continents and in 180 countries from Argentina to Zimbabwe.

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3 Companies Using an MRP System

Unleashed

How MRP helped Paddock Gear & Engineering expand Paddock Gear & Engineering (Zimbabwe) supplies products to blue-chip companies in the power transmission industry. Now you have an outline of how MRP works, we can turn to three case studies that show how manufacturers have used this software to streamline and/or expand their business.

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Do Consumers Care About Ethical Sourcing?

Logistics Viewpoints

According to the data from the OpenText survey, yes. But, in 2019, the Trump Administration stopped imports of clothing, gold, diamonds, and other items believed to have been produced with forced labor by companies based in Brazil, China, and Malaysia, as well as some gold mined in eastern Congo and diamonds from a region in Zimbabwe.