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The Green Corridor: Resilience from Diversification

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

I recently came back from vacation in Malawi a land-locked country of 19 million that surrounds Lake Malawi. Like many countries today, Malawi struggles to provide basic services to a large number of its people. This allows the local power system on the whole to be massively more resilient.

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Fixing supply chain inefficiencies: what we did and why it’s hard

Provenance

Here’s what we did accomplish: We were able to get more money invested in social and sustainable impact without having to add more money into the system. The trade finance system is inefficient. Provenance worked on this groundbreaking solution to redesign the way money flows for Unilever’s tea farmers in Malawi.

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5 tips and tools for collaborative working while remote

Provenance

On one project we brought together stakeholders from Singapore, Malawi, the West Indies, the Netherlands and London. Image credit: The Provenance team use the I-DO-ART system for ensuring all meetings have a purpose and set expectations). Finding a conferencing tool in advance that all systems can use is also key.

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Sustainable Forestry: Can We Get It Right?

EcoVadis

In Malawi, deforestation for human settlement and agricultural land has triggered soil erosion with direct impact on lake Malawi’s fish supply, which showed a 90 percent decline over the last 20 years. It is estimated that about 12 percent of global anthropogenic CO2 emissions are generated from deforestation and forest degradation.

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4 Technology Trends Set to Transform Your eCommerce Business

Vinculum

Apart from Ghana, many countries like China, Chile, Australia, Estonia, Malawi, Italy, Ireland, Singapore, South Korea, UK, and US are adapting this tech-trend to deal with the pandemic situation. The key advantage of cloud-based e-payment system is the flexibility it offers which is more adaptable and acceptable for today’s consumers.

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S.E.C. Approval of Conflict Minerals Rules: a landmark in supply chain disclosure requirements

EcoVadis

Countries covered by the new rules in addition to the DRC include South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Angola, the Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic. Implementing a supply chain management system for that purpose is going to be a daunting task, with the burden being put on 1st tier suppliers.

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Updated IT Subway Map: Major acquisitions in SC software

Supply Chain Movement

as the advance of e-commerce continues, companies with an omnichannel approach are increasingly implementing specific order management systems. Companies have an ever-growing need for systems integration, not only internally but also externally with their chain partners. Lao People's Democratic Republic. Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.