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Out of Africa

Supply Chain Shaman

One of my favorite presentations at the event was by Francis Marabula, Executive head of Supply Chain, Safaricom, Kenya. He spoke of M-Pesa and the evolution of new models for mobile commerce in Kenya. Mobile penetration is forecasted to be 85% of the households in Afria by 2015.

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Podcast: Rob O’Byrne on Digital Transformation, Sustainability, and Diversification in Sourcing

Requis

There are much better planning and forecasting systems now. Then there’s the intermediate level, where we’re seeing much better use of technology in terms of forecasting. There’s a huge swathe of companies that have shockingly poor forecasting accuracy. Planning and forecasting.

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Richard Markoff: “Don’t be too rigid in what we define”

Supply Chain Movement

We have already opened business affiliates in Saudi Arabia and Kenya. The consumer products business unit needs supply chain standards that allow sophisticated customer collaboration, global data synchronization, and collaborative forecasting and replenishment. For example, there are 8.5 What do you do about these challenges?

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Automation Hero April 2020: Shamil Patel from Allparts

EazyStock

It’s a family-run business that my father started over 30 years ago in Kenya, wholesaling vehicle service items in our own brand name “Allparts” ?Until As it was still a small company with only 20 SKUs, an Excel sheet with formulas was enough to help forecast imports.?Now Congratulations on winning the award, Shamil!

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List of Top 65 Marketplaces Across the Globe in 2019

Vinculum

With more than 4 million customers and the forecasted GMV of £20 billion by 2020 , Jet is highly recognized and trusted marketplace in the US. Launched in 2014, Kilimall operates in Nigeria, Uganda and Kenya. Selling on Jumia can help you reach 80% African population that visit this marketplace.

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Updated IT Subway Map: Major acquisitions in SC software

Supply Chain Movement

This young, publicly listed American software vendor recently bought out Terra Technology, a specialist in demand sensing (short-term forecasting based on point-of-sale data). Holy See (Vatican City State). Iran, Islamic Republic of. Isle of Man. Kazakhstan. Korea, Democratic People's Republic of. Korea, Republic of. Kyrgyzstan.

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Mindmap for Global Logistics Integration

Supply Chain Movement

Poor forecasting leads to rush orders to meet the delivery requirement demands of customers. Holy See (Vatican City State). Iran, Islamic Republic of. Isle of Man. Kazakhstan. Korea, Democratic People's Republic of. Korea, Republic of. Kyrgyzstan. Lao People's Democratic Republic. Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.