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Digital transformation for Africa’s manufacturing and distribution CIO and CFO

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

SYSPRO listens to different perspectives at two events in Kenya – one the CIO view and the other the CFO view on Digital Transformation – both November2021. SYSPRO Africa first visited Mombasa Kenya at the main gathering in East Africa of CIOs – CIO 100. The Manufacturing 4.0 Here we shared our experiences.

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Revealed: The Sectors Cutting Product Lead Times Fastest

Unleashed

It’s been a long two years for manufacturing and logistics businesses at the sharp end of rapidly-changing global events. Some moved from just-in-time to just-in-case, even if this meant more cash tied up in inventory and a higher risk of waste. Biggest reduction in lead times since the height of the pandemic.

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Software unleashes inventory solution for liqueur manufacturer

Unleashed

The product itself is cold-brew, pressed coffee using speciality lot Arabica beans from Colombia and Kenya blended with high-quality grain spirit to make the final product that you see today.”. Unleashed does that and keeps track of inventory down to batch and unit of measure with ease.”.

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Health Supply Chains: Checking in with Deborah Dull

Logistics Bureau

One point of focus explores how to incentivise the large pharmaceutical manufacturers to make generics and lower-cost items that could then be shipped to where they’re needed. Kenya is a big exception. Of course, she is also passionate about other aspects of supply chain operations, especially inventory and its management.

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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]

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

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

It is prime time for visibility / inventory management tools and outsourcing. But Asia will continue to grow as a manufacturing base and consumer market. He also served as Director, Strategy and Business Development for Family Services at UBS Wealth Management, and led a UN financed market entry and financing program in Kenya.

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Richard Markoff: “Don’t be too rigid in what we define”

Supply Chain Movement

Consumer products place priority on margin and inventory and that requires close collaboration with our customers to squeeze out as much efficiency as possible. We have already opened business affiliates in Saudi Arabia and Kenya. We have 42 factories and we manufacture 86% of what we sell. For example, there are 8.5