Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Logistics in Africa is tough. Africa just does not have the infrastructure, has an education gap, and does not widely deploy technologies like GPS tracking that are common in the West. Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) Global Trade Logistics Outsourcing Retail Supply Chain Risk Management'

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Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

I have been talking to a number of FMCG Regional and Market Leaders in the past few months about the supply chain challenges that they face in African and Middle Eastern Markets. Most understand the benefits of a Sales and Operational Planning (S&OP) process. Many have already implemented S&OP with varying degrees of success.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2013

Until then, I am traveling to South Africa to speak at SAPICS 2013 on the book Bricks Matter. On the trip to and from South Africa (16 hours door-to-door), I started writing the new book that I will be publishing in 2014. I have never been in Africa. Is there a multi-tier exchange that I should include in my October report?

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 21, 2023

He began his career in the South African Air Force and later spent more than a decade with the International Air Transport Association (IATA), where he held various leadership positions in South Africa, Spain, and the United States, including President of Cargo Network Services Corp., IATA’s U.S. cargo subsidiary.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 20, 2022

Wingcopter to deploy 12,000 drones across Africa. Wingcopter this week announced a partnership with Continental Drones designed to establish a massive delivery network spanning 49 countries across Sub-Saharan Africa. Autonomous vehicles in the news: Embark Trucks completes autonomous driving tests in winter conditions.

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ivalua

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The Group operates 120 production plants in 19 European countries and a further 10 countries in the Americas, Asia, and Africa. The Group is made up of twelve world-renowned brands from seven European countries: Volkswagen, Audi, SEAT, ŠKODA, Bentley, Lamborghini, Porsche, Ducati, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, Scania, and MAN.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 25, 2021

By FinStock South Africa. The importance of having the right inventory at the right price to service customer demand is crucial. Nowhere is this truer than on commoditized products. With commodity buying, customers have a wide range of vendors to buy from and switch often to protect their margins.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 12, 2024

But now ships between Europe and Asia are instead going around the Cape of Good Hope on the southern tip of Africa, which can add anywhere from 10 days to a month of travel time compared to the Red Sea/Suez Canal route. Rates for 40-foot containers from Asia to North Europe are at $8,764.14.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 14, 2022

Wumdrop is a successful last mile logistics company in South Africa. We figured the lesson of removing anxiety from a delivery was a scalable opportunity in South Africa. Because we were decent at pitching and fairly charismatic, it was easy for us to raise capital in South Africa. The following text has been edited.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The latest edition of the LogiSYM conference catering to the Middle East/North Africa region, LogiSYM MENA, took place online on August 24. And to the event partners for their role in ensuring another successful LogiSYM event for the Middle East and North Africa region.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 20, 2022

He holds an MBA from Cambridge University in the UK, and degrees in economics and law from the University of Natal in South Africa. Prior to starting NYSHEX with the mission to enable more reliable shipping, Gordon spent 12 years with a carrier at Maersk and 3 years with a shipper at SABMiller (now ABInbev). About NYSHEX.

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AIMMS

APRIL 11, 2018

It depends where you look, but for instance, in smaller markets like South Africa, food companies are hard-pressed to compete in the globalized market. Feed costs are much cheaper in Brazil than in South Africa. This is just an example of the challenges presented by the globalized market.

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Freightos

JULY 23, 2024

For many other regions, though – including intra-Asia, the Middle East, South Asia and parts of Africa – carriers continue to announce significant GRIs and Peak Season Surcharge increases, supported by some shift of capacity to the main ex-Asia lanes as rates soared.

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Freightos

JULY 30, 2024

Asia and Africa lanes, which may likewise indicate that more capacity is becoming available across networks as a result of easing conditions on the main trade lanes. These trends suggest that rates may have already reached their peak season high and could ease further. Some carriers have also started reducing their surcharges for some S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Dominic Regan is Senior Director for Oracle’s Logistics applications strategy across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. These improvements raise the bar as a key differentiator for companies that are competing for the same customers, transportation capacity or both.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 10, 2022

In a recent FarEye webinar , an executive at Massmart, a Walmart-owned retailer and the second-largest distributor of consumer goods in Africa, talked about how you can’t assume bicycles can deliver across a whole city. There are roads that are safe for bikes, and roads that are not. The bike routes must be carefully mapped.

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The Logistics of Logistics

APRIL 10, 2024

Customer-Centric Approach: AJEX adapts to customer needs and expectations, offering reliable and trusted shipping, clearance, and logistics services in the Middle East, Africa, and the Indian sub-continent. Ecommerce Experts: AJEX is experiencing rapid growth due to the booming ecommerce market in Saudi Arabia.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

50% of the interviewed companies have implemented re-shoring initiatives in the last 3 years for up to 20% of their Asia-based production capacity.

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Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 22, 2023

Africa’s reserves of critical minerals make the continent key to the success of the global semiconductor and EV markets, but it could also benefit from supply chain diversification.

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 12, 2025

Another example of this can be seen in a study by the World Bank , logistics costs in sub-Saharan Africa are 75% higher than in developed countries due to poor roads, inefficient ports, and limited railway networks. The LagosAbidjan Corridor Project aims to improve trade routes across West Africa by upgrading transportation infrastructure.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MARCH 22, 2022

One Network has years of experience in healthcare supply networks that provide medicines and vaccines to hundreds of millions of people in Africa and around the globe. Multiparty Networks are Proven Technology.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 15, 2021

The iWMS team on this project had folks from the US, South Africa, Ceylon, and India participating in team meetings and individual calls. Lori herself got Covid early in the project, which meant initially she was not able to participate in all the Zoom calls.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

With respect to online gambling in Namibia vs South Africa, the African countries have been surprising us with the ever-growing statistics for the gambling market. When you think of Africa, you generally feel about relatively developing nations with recurring social issues. Gambling in South Africa: How Does it Hold Up Against Namibia?

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Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

JANUARY 10, 2018

Chris Rea has finally found the correct turn off, a lot of people in Africa still don’t know its Christmas and the novelty Santa toilet seat cover is back in the box. Oh, and chocolate Easter eggs are in the shops 4 months in advance.

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DELMIA Quintiq

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Fifteen new startups from Belgium, China, France, India, South Africa and the U.S. This represents a major step forward in our mission to lead the digital transformation of life sciences in the age of personalized medicine and patient-centic experience.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 29, 2021

Goodman ( @petersgoodman ) and Stanley Reed report, “As the world absorbed the reality that the Suez Canal [would] remain blocked for at least several … days, hundreds of ships stuck at both ends of the channel … began contemplating a far more expensive alternative: forsaking the channel and heading the long way around Africa.

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SCJunction

JANUARY 19, 2020

It’s that time of year again. As we’re about to enter 2020, we’re looking back at how this year’s trends compared to our predictions as well as what we can look forward to in the supply chain industry in the new year.

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The Network Effect

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

How one of the largest retailers in Africa is using innovative technology to improve customer service while lowering supply chain. The post How a Leading Retailer is Using a Control Tower to Manage their Supply Chain appeared first on The Network Effect.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

It only took days following the announcement out of South Africa that a new coronavirus had been detected for that variant pop-up around the globe. In South Africa, where the Omicron variant was first detected, only 25% of the population is vaccinated. The Omicron Virus. ”[3].

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2022

Food instability in Africa could be an outcome because Russia and Ukraine supply 29% of worldwide wheat exports and 17% of corn with significant exports to the middle east and Africa. (Ukraine currently provides nearly 70 percent of the world’s neon gas capacity.)

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Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 24, 2023

Modi said the COVID-19 pandemic emphasized the importance and need for resilient and inclusive supply chains during the 15th BRICS Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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AIMMS

APRIL 11, 2018

It depends where you look, but for instance, in smaller markets like South Africa, food companies are hard-pressed to compete in the globalized market. Feed costs are much cheaper in Brazil than in South Africa. This is just an example of the challenges presented by the globalized market.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Just last year, Coca-Cola South Africa, which manufactures Appletiser, said quality testing revealed that the products were “ outside of the acceptable standards ,” and six batches of the product were recalled from retailers within South Africa. Food contamination is a constant threat when you deal with perishable products.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 14, 2013

I will be writing the first draft of the manuscript on my way to South Africa on May 30th. These reports will be the foundation of the new book that we are writing for 2014. We will release preview copies as ebooks over the course of the summer. Talk to you soon! And, we look forward to your feedback!

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Logility

MARCH 11, 2024

Ngabire is the cofounder of Code4dev Foundation, a non-profit organization that promotes computer literacy, inspires innovation, and bridges the digital divide by providing computers and supply chain education to students in Burundi, Africa.

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Logistics Bureau

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Putting Africa on the Supply Chain Map. Rob: So has there been much progress on that, particularly in Africa? I think one, the Association for Supply Chain Management, started a focus on Africa through their foundation. I think many large organizations intentionally forget Africa. And I thought, what a real tragedy.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 20, 2022

Goods move through 25 ports of entry into North America and 10 in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Those goods flowed through three regional hubs – in Singapore, Panama City, Panama and Stabio, Switzerland – to 49 distribution centers, 24 of which VF operates. The company works with 13 ocean carriers and 7 air carriers.

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