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Smarter, Low-Risk Commodity Buying

ToolsGroup

By FinStock South Africa. The importance of having the right inventory at the right price to service customer demand is crucial. The trade-off between low cost, long lead time inventory and higher priced short lead time inventory is a daily decision to balance the risk of unsellable stock versus stock outs.

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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

In 2016, Seamless was awarded the Global Telecoms Business Award for Software and Applications Innovation, showing their commitment to providing exemplary and innovative technologies through a result driven approach, and demonstrating that the success of their customers is embedded in their core DNA.

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Supply Chain Roundtable Series: Getting Demand Forecasting Right 

Unleashed

Unprecedented supply chain challenges have meant the risks and consequences of over- or understocking have been felt around the globe. We met with five supply chain experts to discuss how crucial demand forecasting is for mitigating risk, and what businesses can do to improve forecast accuracy. Take that step back.

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Unleashed SME Supply Chain Resilience Roundtable: Improving Cash Flow in a Manufacturing Business

Unleashed

In our latest Supply Chain Roundtable, four supply chain experts share their advice on avoiding insolvency during turbulent times. with 20+ years of supply chain experience. In South Africa, there are a lot of third-party fulfilment companies , so costs were going up with them.”

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Supply Chain’s Must Adapt Before Global Conditions Change

Enterra Insights

VUCA is a term first used in the military that started creeping into supply chain discussions several years ago. Back in 2011, supply chain analyst Trevor Miles ( @milesahead ) noted there is a similar sounding word supply chain managers should associate with VUCA. Pro-active supply chain transformation.

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News Round-Up: 3 Businesses Prioritizing a Green Supply Chain

RFgen

Eco-friendly initiatives have gone from marketing tactics to strategies for improving supply chain efficiency and benefiting from cleaner technologies. Apple not only announced its intention to promote green supply chain practices, it recently released data demonstrating exactly what it has done on behalf of the planet.

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News Round-Up: 3 Businesses Prioritizing a Green Supply Chain

RFgen

Eco-friendly initiatives have gone from marketing tactics to strategies for improving supply chain efficiency and benefiting from cleaner technologies. Apple not only announced its intention to promote green supply chain practices, it recently released data demonstrating exactly what it has done on behalf of the planet.