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The Green Corridor: Cures from the Sky! Healthcare Distribution is Driving Itself Into a More Environmentally Friendly Direction

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

In addition to blood distribution, Zipline also operates drones In Ghana where they were able to get vaccines out, countrywide to fight COVID 19. Singapore for example has allowed for delivery to ships in its waters. Drone delivery is very much encouraged and allowed in advanced metropolitan areas when there are appropriate user cases.

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The Truth about Electronic Supply Chains (part 1/2)

SCM Research

Computers are a typical example of planned obsolescence. Therefore, e-waste, which contains valuable materials like gold, often ends up in incineration plants or, illegally, in Ghana, where it destroys both the people’s health and the environment. It is complicated to recycle electronic waste properly.

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Solving The Cold Chain Challenges

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

For example, the One Network platform for supply chain planning and execution is used by the Ministries of Health in Nigeria, Ghana, and Rwanda, providing comprehensive inventory visibility across all health facilities for real time supply demand matching and collaborative decision making.

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Is Your Halloween Candy Responsibly Sourced?

SupplyShift

Cocoa beans grow best in hot and rainy regions hugging the equator, places like Ghana, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Ecuador, Peru and Papua New Guinea. In Indonesia, for example, large tracts of rainforest have been cut down to make room for oil palm plantations, sometimes destroying important orangutan habitats. grams per chocolate bar.

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A Tale of Black Art

QAD

A great example of this are the African Adinkra symbols. They originated from the Akan culture of the Gyaman people in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. For example, Sankofa is the symbol for the wisdom gained by learning from the past to build for the future, reflected in the bird’s head turning back for “wisdom” in the shape of an egg.

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Do You Know Your Suppliers? Counting the Cost of Ignorance

QAD

In April 2022, allegations arose claiming children as young as 10 in Ghana , West Africa were harvesting cocoa beans for food industry giant Mondel?z For example, new laws have been or will soon be enacted in the U.S. Recent High Profile Cases. z International, which owns Cadbury. and across Europe.

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Is Your Halloween Candy Responsibly Sourced?

SupplyShift

Cocoa beans grow best in hot and rainy regions hugging the equator, places like Ghana, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Ecuador, Peru and Papua New Guinea. In Indonesia, for example, large tracts of rainforest have been cut down to make room for oil palm plantations, sometimes destroying important orangutan habitats. grams per chocolate bar.