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Supply Chain Secrets Going Global – But Where Should we Share Them?

Logistics Bureau

Procurement and purchasing. Inventory management and optimisation. Here are some of the topics our students typically learn about: Opportunities for cost reduction and service improvement. Supply chain strategy development and alignment. Supply chain and logistics outsourcing. Career development in supply chain and logistics.

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Supply Chains have always shaped the World

Enterra Insights

Paul Simpson reports, “Excavations of the dry bed of the ancient Lake Olorgesailie, in southern Kenya, led by American paleoanthropologist Rick Potts, suggest that our ancestors created the first supply chain between 305,000 and 320,000 years ago, at least 80,000 years older than we previously thought.”[1] ”[6].

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May 2019 Automation Hero: Elsante Mnzava of Mkenga Group

EazyStock

All with the goal of maximizing the company’s bottom line by minimizing the incidence of stock outs and materially reducing or eliminating excess inventory. If we look at just one customer, Amex Auto Spares based in Nairobi, Kenya with 5 branches across the Country. So which types of tasks have we helped our clients automate?

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May 2019 Automation Hero: Elsante Mnzava of Mkenga Group

EazyStock

The ultimate goal is to maximise a company’s bottom line by minimising the incidence of stock outs and reducing or eliminating excess inventory. Today, Amex Auto Spares’ local procurement staff spend considerably more time negotiating the best pricing with suppliers rather than trying to figure out what to buy!

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

Requis

Because one of the major costs in a business, if you take in procurement and cost of goods, is supply chain. They were saying that their inventory is through the roof, demand is up, but that they were not tracking inventory properly, and production runs were running out of room— but it’s all exacerbated by the current situation.