Category: Supply Chain

UNLEASHING AFRICA’S POTENTIAL THROUGH OPTIMISED, LOCALISED SUPPLY CHAINS

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17 October 2022 The biennial Africa Supply Chain in Action (ASCA) event will be held under the theme “Borderless – Unleashing Africa’s Potential.” It aims to grow and strengthen African economies through optimised, localised supply chains.   ASCA is Africa’s largest online event for supply chain and procurement professionals. It was launched in response to COVID-19 and the pandemic’s impact on supply chains, when leading industry organisations Smart Procurement World and SAPICS (The Professional Body for Supply Chain Management) joined forces to create a powerful knowledge sharing, networking and skills…

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THINK GLOBAL AND ACT LOCAL TO REMEDY PROCUREMENT MYOPIA AND ENSURE BUSINESS SUCCESS AND RESILIENCE, EXPERTS ADVISE

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Procurement myopia can be a death sentence for an organisation. This has never been more true than in today’s fragile, post-pandemic and disruption fraught business environment, where economies are still reeling, and business resilience and innovation are more important than ever. “Glocalisation” is a remedy for procurement myopia, according to Dr. Jones Mathew, who is a Professor at the Great Lakes Institute of Management in Gurgaon, India. He was one of the 100 renowned African and international experts who shared their experience and insights with the more than 500 delegates…

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MTN Group partners with Dooka to revolutionise corporate procurement in Africa

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MTN Group, Africa’s largest network operator, has signed a partnership agreement with Dooka, a new African Business-to-Business (B2B) marketplace. This partnership represents a paradigm shift in corporate procurement by bringing the ease of consumer marketplace buying to corporations across Africa. This innovation will lead to equitable access, digital transparency and greater efficiency for MTN’s suppliers. “Our new relationship with Dooka is hugely exciting and brings efficiencies to every level of the supply chain. It stands to transform the way businesses operate across Africa. I am extremely proud that MTN are…

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EMPOWERING SMMES TO ACCESS MARKETS AND SECURE SUSTAINABLE CONTRACTS

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Research has shown that five out of seven small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) fail within their first year of operation. One of the reasons, according to Debbie Tagg, chief operating officer of Smart Procurement World, is that SMMEs in South Africa struggle to access markets and get sustainable contracts. The Absa Enterprise & Supplier Development Event, which is organised by Smart Procurement World, aims to address this, and ensure that SMMEs have the skills, knowledge and connections to access their markets and contribute to economic growth as proficient, corporate…

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TECHNOLOGY BOOSTS PUBLIC HEALTH SUPPLY CHAINS IN AFRICA

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Healthcare in developing African countries is being jeopardised because pharmacists must often take on the job of supply chain planning, including understanding minimum order quantities, demand signals and planning, and inventory management. Having to take on these responsibilities as well as their duties as a pharmacist who must get the right medicines out to patients in need, can result in write-offs and life-threatening shortages. Speaking at the 2022 SAPICS Conference, Vitalliance general manager David Crewe-Brown, highlighted the challenges in the public health supply chain in developing African countries. He also…

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SAPICS ANNOUNCES SPRING CONFERENCE AND ANNUAL YOUNG PROFESSIONAL AND STUDENT CONFERENCE

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Supply chain professionals who were unable to attend this year’s in-person SAPICS Conference in Cape Town will have the chance to catch up on much of what they missed at the upcoming SAPICS Spring Conference. SAPICS, The Professional Body for Supply Chain Management, has announced that its Spring Conference on 7 September 2022 will showcase the “best-of-the-best” from the 44th Annual SAPICS Conference which was held in person in Cape Town in June. “The Spring Conference is a virtual event that is ideal for those who could not join us for…

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MORE SUPPORT AND CAREER PATHING NEEDED FOR WOMEN IN SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

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A lack of career opportunities is the main reason that women leave the supply chain profession, according to respondents in the recently published seventh annual Gartner / AWESOME Women in Supply Chain research survey. MJ Schoemaker, president of SAPICS, The Professional Body for Supply Chain Management in Southern Africa, notes that while supply chain management has come a long way from the once male dominated field in which women only filled service roles, it still has a long way to go in terms of gender parity. “We have seen an increase in the…

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AFRICAN SUPPLY CHAIN COMMUNITY LEARNS HOW TO DO BUSINESS WITH THE UNITED NATIONS

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African companies can do business with the United Nations (UN), and the process has been streamlined by the recent merging of the UN’s previously separate procurement and logistics departments into an integrated Office of Supply Chain Management in the Department of Operational Support. This was the message delivered to around 600 African supply chain professionals at the 2022 SAPICS Conference in Cape Town by Herbert Pechek, who is the Chief of Supply Chain Service at the United Nations Global Service Centre (UNGSC) in Brindisi, Italy. “I am here as an ambassador, to…

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Kwik Launches Kwikstore, an Easy-To-Use E-Commerce Solution to Help African Merchants Sell Online from their Smartphone

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KwikStore is a free ecommerce storefront solution that allows any African business owner, merchant, social vendor entrepreneurs and SMEs to create their own online stores LAGOS, Nigeria, July 22, 2022/APO Group/ —  Kwik (Kwik.delivery) is expanding its offer of digital services today with the launch of KwikStore –  adding yet another exciting service to the already sensational offer it brings to African business owners and social vendors. KwikStore is a free ecommerce storefront solution that allows any African business owner, merchant, social vendor entrepreneurs and SMEs to create their own…

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Press Release : New customers announced by Egyptian digital logistics startup Khazenly

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Baraka Group, Arrow Food Trading and Magma Sportswear among the new customers Multiple industry-leading merchants participate in exclusive event at Sultan Hussein Kamel Palace, The Company hopes to grow the number of merchant customers by six times in the next 12 months Cairo, Egypt: Khazenly, the Cairo-based on-demand digital warehousing and fulfillment platform, announcing multiple new merchant customers at an exclusive event held at Sultan Hussein Kamel Palace in Heliopolis. Khazenly is becoming the partner of choice for a rapidly growing number of merchants for some of Egypt’s most exciting companies…

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