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The Need For Supply Chain Innovation: Why You Should Watch These Four Trends ?

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The Need For Supply Chain Innovation: Why You Should Watch These Four Trends ? The fundamental trend reshaping supply chains over the last two decades has been the shift from supply push to demand pull through the rise of e-commerce. The Need For Supply Chain Innovation: Why You Should Watch These Four Trends ?

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The introduction of E-Procurement.

ModusLink Corporation

Lack of a strong business relationship, financial support, and organizational priority can also from obstacles as developing countries are usually late adopters and do not invest money into early adopters’ trends. International Non-Governmental Organisations in Kenya. Retrieved March 2020, from Edicomgroup.com. 2017, April).

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Winner of the last quarter: Unilever’s Marc Engel

Supply Chain Movement

In his 20-year career with Unilever, Engel has worked in Singapore, the Netherlands, UK, Brazil, Switzerland and Kenya. He is an Executive Board Member of Kenya Association of Manufacturers and a member of the Supervisory Board of PostNL.

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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] Principle 7.

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Commerical Air Cancellations Quarantine Ebola Supplies

MIT Supply Chain

Kenya Airways : Suspended commercial flights to Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone on August 19. Let’s hope this is a trend, reconnecting health workers in West Africa with global stocks of critical supplies. Asky Airlines : Stopped flights to Liberia and Sierra Leone on July 29.

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

Requis

That’s been a massive trend. It won’t be enough to say, “this is fair trade coffee from Kenya”, people are going to want to see information going a few levels back from that, that the inputs are sustainable as well. What happens to your products at the end of their life cycle?

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This Week in Logistics News (March 6-10, 2017)

Talking Logistics

The international shipment of flowers to Royal FloraHolland from Kenya, Mandarin oranges from California, and pineapples from Colombia were also used to validate the solution for shipments coming into the Port of Rotterdam.