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Supply Chain Roundtable Series: Getting Demand Forecasting Right 

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Mark Houghton – CEO at Radical Cloud Solutions , our cloud solution specialist in Zimbabwe. That means analysing the market, global and local economics, your competition, and the latest industry trends before focusing on internal factors such as revenue and profit margins. explains. “The  They may have bought [a product] for $100.

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Commodities Used in Electric Car Batteries: An Update on Lithium and Nickel

Resilinc

In Europe, the Green Deal Industrial Plan will require all new cars sold in the EU to be zero-emission starting in 2035. Lithium—sometimes called “white gold” due to its color and high value— is an essential and reactive metal widely used in various high-tech industries. Here is an overview of each: What is Lithium? What is Cobalt?

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Is Online Gambling Possible in Namibia?

Supply Chain Game Changer

If you have an interest in the iGaming industry, you may know that it’s crucial to figure out whether your country allows gambling or not. But the land-based industry failed to take off the same way it did ten years ago. It’s the south-most African country, sharing borders with Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique.

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Supply Chain Planning in Emerging Markets: Four Points to Remember

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An example is an industrial gas distributor whose customers were as much as 500 kilometers from their supply points, making distribution difficult to execute. GDM now serves more than 100 distributors on five continents and in 180 countries from Argentina to Zimbabwe. Difficulty gathering information.

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3 Companies Using an MRP System

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How MRP helped Paddock Gear & Engineering expand Paddock Gear & Engineering (Zimbabwe) supplies products to blue-chip companies in the power transmission industry. Over the last 30+ years, Kirkstall has grown from a small family-run business into a global supplier in these competitive industries.

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EV segment will likely depend on China for many years

Resilinc

Japanese and Korean auto industry associations have voiced similar concerns, as have U.S. and foreign automakers. Ford has written that an expansive interpretation of the domestic content provisions could make “the clean vehicle credit largely unavailable.” China produced 84.6% for the U.S.,

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Strategic moves among logistics providers

Supply Chain Movement

Manufacturers and retailers welcome the ongoing consolidation in the fragmented logistics industry. Last year was one of the busiest on record in terms of merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the logistics industry. A further 9% thought this was a positive move as it would simplify the fragmented industry.