B-Connect Partners with Supply Chain Junction to Power Manhattan’s Solutions in Egypt
SCJunction
JULY 28, 2021
We are pleased to announce a new partnership with B-Connect and HO Group in Egypt.
The Consequences of Supply Chain Constipation
Enterra Insights
MARCH 29, 2021
As most adults know, constipation involves the difficult passage of necessary items through the tail end of the body’s supply chain. This blockage has created havoc in the global supply chain. based International Chamber of Shipping, told them, “It just shows you how vulnerable our supply-chain lines are.
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The Food Supply Chain and the War in Ukraine
Enterra Insights
APRIL 25, 2022
Against an already turbulent backdrop of global inflationary pressures amid rising food and energy prices and disrupted supply chains following the coronavirus pandemic, the war between Russia and Ukraine is exacerbating supply and demand tensions, damaging consumer sentiment, and is threatening global economic growth.”[1]
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Ever Given Causes Massive Supply Disruption - Visibility to Product is Critical to Mitigating Supply Chain Dislocation
3rdwave
MARCH 28, 2021
Suez Canal, Egypt, March 24 - One of the world’s largest containerships ran aground in the Suez Canal blocking commercial container traffic and throwing global supply chains into chaos.
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Energy Crisis in Asia and Europe: The Supply Chain Impact
Resilinc
MARCH 28, 2023
February 2023 saw supply chain struggles continue across Asia and Europe due to dwindling energy supplies, ongoing effects of COVID-19, high inflation, and more. Asia Energy Crisis Currently, both China and Pakistan are suffering a major energy crunch from dwindling energy supplies and high global gas prices.
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What You Can’t See Can Hurt You – Is Your Supply Chain Really Transparent?
Logility
NOVEMBER 9, 2021
Increasing scrutiny of labor practices requires supply chain technology that proves accountability and compliance. Consumers are demanding greater transparency and want more information about worker treatment in the supply chain. . Key Takeaways. Lack of transparency also carries a huge reputational risk.
Disruption in supply chains is nothing new
Gravity Supply Chain
APRIL 20, 2022
Most disruptive of all is not having an outward-facing order-focused supply chain. Disruption in supply chains is nothing new. Wave after wave is now hitting us without sufficient time for supply to reach demand. Wave after wave is now hitting us without sufficient time for supply to reach demand.
A Brief History of WMS in the Supply Chain
GlobalTranz
NOVEMBER 22, 2017
The development and history of warehouse management systems (WMSs) have had a profound impact on how the supply chain functions. The concept of warehouse management originated in ancient Egypt as people sought ways to manage grain gathered from crops.
How a Leading MENA-based B2B Food and Grocery Platform Saves 45% Distance Travelled With Locus Solutions
Locus
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
In 2017, two entrepreneurs observed that Cairo’s food and grocery supply chain was riddled with inefficiencies, piling up unnecessary expenses and missed growth opportunities for both retailers and suppliers. Over the years, the company has consistently grown its presence to over ten cities in Egypt and serves over 55,000 merchants.
Industry Insights: Cargo Vessel Blocks Suez Canal - Impact on Supply Chain
EnVista
MARCH 26, 2021
On Tuesday, March 23, 2021, a cargo ship became wedged in the Suez Canal near Suez, Egypt, halting marine traffic from one of the busiest waterways in the world. The 224,000-ton vessel measuring nearly four football fields in length, suffered poor weather conditions including 40-knot winds and a sandstorm that caused low visibility.
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This Week in Logistics News (July 20 – 26)
Logistics Viewpoints
JULY 26, 2024
The new issue for the global supply chain comes amid a rise in global demand, with shipments up 13% year-over-year in June. Air freight supply has increased, but only by 3% year-on-year, already causing higher costs for shippers due to the limited capacity. And now on to this week’s logistics news.
Take a Bold Step Today! Join us as Supply Chain Business Developer
DiManEx
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
The team is awesome, with Nour from Egypt, Adrian from Romania, Gloria from Uruguay and Michel from Belgium, just to name a few of our stars! You’ll be visiting customers frequently, helping them use our platform more and explaining how to use our really unique analytics to improve their supply chain dramatically. Send Email.
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New Bookends: The Tale of Supply Chain Global Leaders in Consumer Products
Supply Chain Shaman
AUGUST 5, 2015
These consumer products global leaders paved the road for supply chain excellence by defining new supply chain practices. Today, each leader wants to take their empowered team to new supply chain heights. At Supply Chain Insights, we published a report card yesterday. Who is poised to win?
World Food Day 2023
Enterra Insights
OCTOBER 12, 2023
It was not by chance that the first civilizations in Mesopotamia and Egypt flourished around this precious resource by developing on the banks of rivers and on the rich soils of floodplains.
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130 8 Ways Cloud Technology Is Changing the Game For Supply Chain Management
GlobalTranz
JULY 23, 2015
History has taught supply chain management organizations one common factor: failure to adjust to societal changes will contribute to business-downfall. Cloud computing technology has allowed supply chain management providers to take advantage of a new era of processes, specifically those relating to the ethereal space.
Egypt Waves Goodbye to Suez Canal Saga With Payoff and a Party
Supply Chain Brain
JULY 7, 2021
For a nation that provides safe passage for so many ships through its waters, Egypt is reserving rather special treatment for the Ever Given.
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In Focus: Emerging Medicinal Delivery Trends in Egypt and the Middle East Featuring Vezeeta
Locus
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
The e-pharma market is one of the fastest growing industries globally and this growth is reflective in Egypt and the Middle East as well. Research shows that the online pharmacy revenue in Egypt is around $914 million in 2022 and will reach $1.86 billion in 2027. Similarly, revenue in the UAE is about $112.70 Schedule Demo.
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The Future of Food Security
Enterra Insights
DECEMBER 21, 2022
One of the topics discussed at the recent COP-27 gathering in Egypt was global food security. New technologies and data generation can transform business practices across the agricultural value chain and address bottlenecks in, productivity, harvesting, market access, finance, and supply chain management.”[1]
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Asian Paints Successfully Digitizes the Source to Contract Process in Collaboration with Ivalua & Durvah
ivalua
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
This deployment is another significant step forward in the digital transformation of their overall supply chain processes, a journey that started last year with the successful rollout of Ivalua Sourcing solution for direct materials. .
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CPG Companies Support Regenerative Agriculture
Enterra Insights
DECEMBER 1, 2022
” Cronin adds, “This kind of cross-supply chain partnership could become increasingly common. The plan was released just days before the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27) in Egypt.”
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Three Supply Chain Risk Management Lessons You Can Learn from the Suez Canal Block
CH Robinson Transportfolio
APRIL 27, 2021
Now that we can view the incident in hindsight, I wanted to share three risk management lessons you can take away from this to create a healthier supply chain. . The entire supply chain can be impacted by one accident. Adding a week to the delivery timeframe for perishables can kill the entire supply chain.
Middle East eCommerce Reimagined
Vinculum
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
Countries like Iraq, Egypt, Oman, Lebanon, Morocco, Jordan, Algeria, and Saudi Arabia have the fastest growing young generation, with a median age of 22 years old. Countries like Iran, Egypt, and Bahrain are some of the countries rank in the highest internet users with more countries on the list. Summary- Key Points from the Webinar.
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Spire and Gravity Supply Chain solutions helping restore flow of goods
Gravity Supply Chain
MAY 20, 2022
Spire and Gravity Supply Chain solutions helping restore flow of goods by giving customers more visibility and greater confidence to accurately predict delivery times. As this new global economic system grew, a corresponding supply chain—complex, powerful, virtually unquestioned—became its structural support system.
Overcoming complex logistics in building better cities
DELMIA Quintiq
APRIL 16, 2014
Whether it is shipping pipes to Egypt for irrigation projects or support trusses to build bridges in Italy, the logistics puzzles of the materials industry are varied and complex. Fact: Bigger and better cities of tomorrow cannot be built by companies with outdated and inefficient supply chains.
The History of Shipment Tracking
Turvo
JULY 2, 2020
The simple truth is that the modern idea of tracking and digital supply chains —seeing locations in real-time and following them through delivery—is another innovation in a long line of people asking, “when will it be here?” Of course, Ancient Egypt largely relied on slave labor to make this possible.
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An Update from Sharm El-Sheikh on Decarbonisation of Transport
The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society
JANUARY 3, 2023
US-China bilateral climate talks resumed in Egypt after rift over Taiwan. LogiSYM Supply Chain Magazine – December-January 2023. Trends Transforming Logistics and Supply Chains In the MENA Region in 2023. Wolfgang Lehmacher is operating partner at Anchor Group and advisor at Topan AG. MORE FROM THIS EDITION.
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Christmas 2023
Enterra Insights
DECEMBER 25, 2023
According to History.com, “The history of Christmas trees goes back to the symbolic use of evergreens in ancient Egypt and Rome and continues with the German tradition of candlelit Christmas trees first brought to America in the 1800s.”[4] The evergreen trees we associate with the Christmas holiday became a tradition in Europe.
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How SCF addresses the global financing gap for SMEs
Taulia
MAY 18, 2022
In 2018, Taulia estimated that $14 trillion in working capital was locked up in global supply chains. To counter tight credit access in the supply chain, large corporate buyers have sought out innovative fintech solutions for supply chain finance (SCF) to provide a reliable, cost-effective source of cash to SMEs.
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Optimizing Last-Mile Fulfillment for FMCG Businesses in the Middle East
Locus
JULY 25, 2023
Food delivery platforms like Deliveroo and Otlob in Egypt and Careem NOW in Saudi Arabia have also started offering groceries on their platforms alongside their roster of meals from restaurants. Locus solutions improve operational, tactical, and strategic decision-making, bringing efficiency, consistency, and transparency to the supply chain.
This Week in Logistics News (August 22-26, 2016)
Talking Logistics
AUGUST 26, 2016
Now, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week. Nike Forms Supply-Chain Pact With Apollo (WSJ – sub. Here are some additional details from the article: Welspun says it has commissioned an accounting firm to review its supply chain. Are Your Sheets ‘Egyptian Cotton’?
Globalization is not dead!!
Cathy Roberson
APRIL 2, 2021
Welcome to Rethinking Supply Chains by me, Cathy Roberson. I also do random supply chain projects for folks. How supply chains are evolving has always fascinated me so I plan to focus on this in upcoming posts. I write for publications such as the Journal of Commerce and Air Cargo World. in 2020. .”
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Nine Myths of S&OP Technology Selection
Supply Chain Shaman
AUGUST 21, 2015
Squeezing in this much time to write this deep report between working on the Supply Chain Insights Global Summi t and finishing customer deliverables is tough. The solution needs to mature, but the good news is that SAP is investing in supply chain. Life is busy at Supply Chain Insights. This is not unusual.
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From Dirt to Denim: A Global Textile Logistics Story
CH Robinson Transportfolio
APRIL 1, 2019
From Vietnam, China, Egypt, Israel, and the U.S., it takes supply chain experts to move raw materials and bring the finished product to your doorstep. For instance, our global textile logistics team uses country-specific knowledge and expertise across trade lanes to take your everyday blue jeans from dirt to denim.
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Doing Business in Thailand
QAD
JANUARY 9, 2020
Supply Chain Infrastructure for Manufacturing. Thailand’s transportation and communication pathways are well-developed for manufacturing supply chains. The 2017 estimated GDP is $1.236 trillion, between Australia at $1.248 trillion and Egypt at $1.204 trillion. Tourism and services account for 55.6%
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COP27 attempts to Steer Shipping Industry to New Direction.
All Things Supply Chain
JANUARY 16, 2023
The most recent (COP27) was held in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt between Nov 6, 2022 – Nov 18, 2022. The importance of COP27 is now being recognized as this is the…
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Child Labor Used to Pick Flowers for Famous Perfume Brands
Supply Chain Brain
MAY 28, 2024
Filming secretly at night in Egypt, BBC journalists found at least four different locations where jasmine was being picked by children younger than 15 years old.
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This Week in Logistics News (November 4-8, 2013)
Talking Logistics
NOVEMBER 8, 2013
As was confirmed for me yet again this week at a conference, the most utilized supply chain and logistics application, the reigning champ of them all, is the Excel spreadsheet. Global Supply Chains Open Door to Fraud ( CFO.com ). Forget cloud, social, and mobile. Forget WMS and TMS. Forget BI and analytics.
DP World Adding 3M TEU of Handling Capacity in 2023
Supply Chain Brain
AUGUST 16, 2023
million additional TEUs in the Dominican Republic, a projected 579,000 TEUs in Turkey, 500,000 more TEUs in Egypt and 200,000 additional TEUs in Saudi Arabia. The expansion includes 1.2
The Rise of China-Africa Trade: Why Transportation and Logistics Should be Front and Center
BlueYonder
AUGUST 6, 2013
But the impact of these ‘empty moves’ can be mitigated with smart supply chain planning disciplines. Poor infrastructure and lack of funds to develop modern transportation systems hinders efforts at creating efficient supply chains to seamlessly flow goods in and out. And everyone knows this is a big challenge in Africa.
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Interoceanic Passages
Abivin
DECEMBER 5, 2022
In the current global economy, the closure of a maritime chokepoint would have significant economic ramifications due to the disruption of trade flows and even some supply chains (e.g. By the time Egypt nationalized the canal in June 1956, all British troops had left. Gibraltar and Suez during World War II).
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[INFOGRAPHIC] Interesting Facts & Financial Breakdown of the Global Logistics Market
GlobalTranz
APRIL 22, 2015
Editor’s Note: Almost 14 months ago we wrote one of our most popular posts entitled, “ The History of Supply Chain and Logistics Management ” contained a bit of history, definitions, and a great infographic visually going through the history of supply chain and logistics management.
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Expanding Into New Territories – What Should a Retailer’s Supply Chain Look Like?
RELEX Solutions
APRIL 20, 2017
With any new market a retailer has to understand how the supply chain will evolve and differ from their usual operation. Secondly, they are in a situation where their lead times and supply chain are generally longer, and they therefore need larger safety stock. Local customs can be very important. Andrew Blatherwick.
Is It Time to Concentrate on Climate Adaptation?
Enterra Insights
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
Journalist Tim McDonnell reports, “A major paper released on the sidelines of the COP27 climate summit in Egypt has started a countdown. When that time comes (and it may already have arrived), we are going to have to turn our attention to adapting to the impacts of climate change.
Russia’s Arctic Expansion: The Future of Global Shipping
SCMDOJO
MARCH 22, 2023
Read More: The Endless Complexities of the Ocean side of Supply Chains ] Challenges of Arctic Shipping The Arctic shipping route has several challenges, including the harsh weather conditions, the thickness of the ice, and the lack of infrastructure.
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