Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 14, 2022

But major players in the world’s chocolate industry have joined forces to stop deforestation in major cocoa producing countries, namely Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. One of the commodities making headlines for deforestation is cocoa. This all points to the move towards sustainable cocoa production.

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SCM Research

MARCH 22, 2012

Therefore, e-waste, which contains valuable materials like gold, often ends up in incineration plants or, illegally, in Ghana, where it destroys both the people’s health and the environment. It is complicated to recycle electronic waste properly. Producers are responsible for e-waste.

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Supply Chain Brain

APRIL 10, 2023

Clearance was given after claims that the cargo was from Kazakhstan, but data intelligence firms Vortexa and Kpler showed it originated from Russia.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MARCH 22, 2022

For example, the One Network platform for supply chain planning and execution is used by the Ministries of Health in Nigeria, Ghana, and Rwanda, providing comprehensive inventory visibility across all health facilities for real time supply demand matching and collaborative decision making.

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SupplyShift

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Cocoa beans grow best in hot and rainy regions hugging the equator, places like Ghana, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Ecuador, Peru and Papua New Guinea. It takes 500 cocoa beans to make a pound of chocolate and each cacao tree can only make about two pounds of chocolate a year.

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QAD

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

They originated from the Akan culture of the Gyaman people in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. These are two of the more popular Adinkra symbols in Ghana, and both have been or are presently featured on Ghana’s 200 cedi banknote. A great example of this are the African Adinkra symbols.

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QAD

JULY 7, 2022

In April 2022, allegations arose claiming children as young as 10 in Ghana , West Africa were harvesting cocoa beans for food industry giant Mondel?z Recent High Profile Cases. It doesn’t take a very deep search to uncover recent global headlines of abuses in production. z International, which owns Cadbury. ” .

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Sourcemap

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The First Step to Traceability: Stenciling Batch Numbers on Bags of Cocoa at a Depot in Ghana. There’s a lot of hype around using blockchain to trace supply chains. How does it stand up in the real world? The most widely publicized blockchain pilots involve shippers and retailers - the ‘last leg’ of a global supply chain.

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SupplyShift

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Cocoa beans grow best in hot and rainy regions hugging the equator, places like Ghana, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Ecuador, Peru and Papua New Guinea. It takes 500 cocoa beans to make a pound of chocolate and each cacao tree can only make about two pounds of chocolate a year.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 20, 2020

Today the company has over 230 team members located across the globe including Singapore, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Sweden, South Africa, Ivory Coast, France, Romania, UAE, Ghana, and Nigeria.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 16, 2015

With a network of seven distribution centers (in Copenhagen, Jordan, Dubai, Nairobi, Tanzania, Cameroon, and Ghana), UNHCR can ship core relief items from these stockpiles to assist up to 600,000 people within 72 hours, if needed.

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2013

She’s also participated in three Johnson & Johnson-sponsored UCLA Anderson Management Development Programs : the Head Start Management Fellows Program, the Health Care Executive Program and the Management Development Institute in Ghana. The J&J Program was an incredible complement to this work,” she says.

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ModusLink Corporation

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

It’s a growing problem with no easy solution: with the expansion of technology, an increasing amount of electronics waste is ending up in developing countries such as Ghana, India and parts of China. Most of this e-waste comes from the US and Europe, while only a small amount of it is produced locally.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

And some of the best quality cocoa originates from Ghana. The cocoa pods’ journey typically begins on plantations or small family farms in tropical areas , such as South and Central America and West Africa – where over 70% of cocoa production takes place, with the Ivory Coast being the world’s leading producer. The Journey.

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SupplyShift

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

In 2017, some of the largest cocoa producers and the World Cocoa foundation agreed to sign the Cocoa & Forests Frameworks for Action with the aim of ending deforestation caused by cocoa production in Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire. Such efforts are impossible without being able to trace the cocoa to the source.

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ChainPoint

MAY 7, 2019

million children are exposed to the worst forms of child labour* on cocoa farms in countries such as Ghana and Ivory Coast, the two main producers of cocoa in the world. He was shocked to find that child labour was still endemic in the cocoa industry. An estimated 1.8

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Requis

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Growing up in rural Ghana, Aoaeh and his family struggled to afford medications that relieved his grandfather’s rheumatoid arthritis. As supply chain investor Brian Aoaeh pointed out to us , the costs of broken and inefficient supply chains end up getting passed on to the end user.

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SupplyShift

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

In 2017, some of the largest cocoa producers and the World Cocoa foundation agreed to sign the Cocoa & Forests Frameworks for Action with the aim of ending deforestation caused by cocoa production in Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire. Such efforts are impossible without being able to trace the cocoa to the source.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 4, 2022

Chartered Accountants, in Accra, Ghana between completing his secondary school education and commencing undergraduate study in the United States in 1997. Prior to UBS, he was a pension actuarial analyst at Watson Wyatt Worldwide (now Willis Towers Watson). He was a junior auditor at Issifu Ali & Co.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 19, 2022

India, China, Bangladesh, and Ghana) but those regimes are going to place tremendous fiscal pressure on budgets already stressed by substantial government outlays during the COVID-19 epidemic.” They write, “These problems will spread in the coming months; ultimately all farmers around the world will be impacted.

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Logistics Middle East

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

The company is looking to expand its footprint in Ghana, Mozambique, Angola and Nigeria this year.'

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Proxima

APRIL 13, 2022

The session was attended by procurement professionals from around the world, including India, the UK, Germany, Australia, Ghana and Malaysia. No doubt it will be the first of many, and no doubt the conversation on if procurement and finance can better collaborate will be evergreen. It always can, and that’s the point.

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Vinculum

JUNE 8, 2020

Ghana becomes the first country in the world to deploy drone technology for COVID-19 tests, medical kits and medicine delivery. 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.

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 11, 2014

  The United States and other countries like Great Britain and Australia export much of their e-waste to developing countries such as China, Ghana and India. When improperly disposed of - as over 75% of e-waste is - it becomes toxic to humans and the environment. These exports could increase by over 500% in the next decade.

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RFgen

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Partnering with Zipline to overcome geographic and infrastructural hurdles in countries like Ghana by pioneering drone deliveries. IoT devices integrated with cloud analytics platforms to ensure capture of environmental information, temperature, light levels, and more during shipment.

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EazyStock

MAY 28, 2019

As this month’s Automation Hero, you know how automation can benefit a business. What kinds of tasks have you helped your clients automate?

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Delivering access to education to children in Ghana. Under the B1G1 scheme we have helped worthy causes right across the world, including the following: Bringing fresh water to villages in Cambodia. Providing lunch meals to children in the Philippines. Providing access to healthcare to refugees in Malaysia.

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EazyStock

MAY 28, 2019

As this month’s Automation Hero, you know how automation can benefit a business. What kinds of tasks have you helped your clients to automate?

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DELMIA Quintiq

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Today, Vlisco is an undisputed market leader in Benin, Nigeria, Togo, Ghana, Ivory Coast and the Congo. The textile manufacturer initially focused on the Dutch and Dutch-Indonesian markets, but by the end of the 19th century, it had expanded to the West-African market.

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SCMDOJO

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Isaac Ahasu Location: Ghana Rating: 0/5.0 Fahd has an extensive experience and knowledge of the field so if you are interested or confused by anything at all from the supply chain field, worry no more! Contact Dr. Fahd now!

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ShipBob

JUNE 9, 2020

Inspired by the beauty of the landscapes found in Ghana, Founder Nana Boateng Osei began a project to combine his love of nature, style, and Africa into an eyewear company. In under four years, her hair grew from shoulder length to waist length and wants to help others grow their hair beautifully.

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Kinaxis

JULY 17, 2015

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) recently posted an article about the huge shortfall in the cocoa crop in Ghana. As the WSJ points out, there is a drastic over reliance on the Ivory Coast and Ghana when it comes to the global cocoa supply chain. Together they account for more than half of the world’s cocoa supplies!

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SCM Research

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Herein, the authors focus their discussion on ten selected economies: Algeria, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa and Tanzania. In a new pwc report, Africa Gearing Up , future prospects in Africa for logistics and supply chain management are described.

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Provenance

AUGUST 13, 2018

In Ghana, another startup, BenBen , is using a blockchain-based system to securely certify land ownership. Pilot studies by Provenance have explored how sustainability data can be tracked on blockchains, ensuring trustworthy information about ethical supply chains can be shared with end consumers.

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QAD

JUNE 28, 2022

More recently, Cadbury’s supply chain in Ghana was found to include children as young as 10 working on cocoa farms while missing school. Companies were reminded that cutting corners in competitive production cycles and reaching for cost savings can result in human costs, corruption, environmental risks and a loss of brand loyalty.

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Supply Chain Movement

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Falkland Islands (Malvinas). Faroe Islands. French Guiana. French Polynesia. French Southern Territories. Guadeloupe. Guinea-bissau. Heard Island and Mcdonald Islands. Holy See (Vatican City State).

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Supply Chain Movement

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Falkland Islands (Malvinas). Faroe Islands. French Guiana. French Polynesia. French Southern Territories. Guadeloupe. Guinea-bissau. Heard Island and Mcdonald Islands. Holy See (Vatican City State).

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