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July 26, 2021

G7 Approves Global Trade Digitization

On 29th of June 2021, the G7 members voted to approve a new law - Uniform Rules for Digital Trade Transactions (URDT) Version 1.0, which is to be implemented by the 1st of October 2021. Uniform Rules for Digital Trade Transactions (URDT) is a game-changing law that lays down a high-level framework outlining obligations, rules, and standards for the digitization of trade finance. This has been welcomed as a great step forward in the trade digitization process towards complete digitization of global trade.

July 5, 2021

Reshaping Forestry Trade with Digitalization

The ongoing digitization is transforming the business environment in a variety of different industries. As a result, business manufacturers are gaining more competitive advantages by implementing these emerging technologies and new digital solutions. While the digital revolution has changed most industries, its influence on the forestry trade has been comparatively limited.

June 24, 2021

Implementation of ACI System Is Postponed till October 1st, 2021

After careful consideration and in light of the ongoing trial, Egypt’s Ministry of finance made the decision to postpone the mandatory application of the ACI system till October 1st 2021. The implementation date was previously scheduled for the 1st of July 2021, but it was decided to extend the trial period till the end of September.

June 22, 2021

Benefits with Supply Chain Software

The global economy is constantly changing and so is the way of managing businesses. In the time of digital transformation, which one could argue that we are in now, it is a key factor for companies to use state-of-the-art solutions in order to stay competitive. In the recent years many different supply chain SaaS has appeared, and it is very logical since supply chain management (SCM) is a very wide concept in which many parts are typically managed very primitively.

June 14, 2021

Centersource Technologies - The Integrated Partner to CargoX

The supply chain industry is a complicated, multi-faceted process that entails everything starting from warehouse activities to logistics. In today’s supply chain management process, business functions require more flexible processes, innovative provisioning systems to scale their operations that necessitate real-time information and intelligence.

June 7, 2021

How a Digitalized Future Affects Sourcing Strategy?

Digital procurement will automate many repetitive tasks in order to cut costs and increase efficiency in the near future. Sourcing strategies and many high-level decisions will be increasingly based on analysis of data that is conducted by artificial intelligence. A common belief is that operational jobs will suffer more than jobs of a strategic nature as machines and software get smarter, but there is no consensus on that in the scientific community and many factors are actually pointing to the contrary.

May 31, 2021

Advance Cargo Information Declaration - Egypt Customs Regulation

Rapid digitization is causing tectonic shifts in the supply chain sector across industries. These advancements are aimed at transforming the way supply chains function and deliver value. In accordance with new digital procurement strategies, the new Egyptian customs law - Advance Cargo Information declaration is becoming mandatory for all Egyptian import shipments.

April 22, 2021

New Egypt Advance Cargo Information declaration effective from October 1, 2021

Egyptian Ministry of Finance (Customs Authority) activate article 39 of customs law 207 of 2020 and issue decree 38 of 2021. Which requires a unique customs registration number (Advanced Cargo Information Declaration (ACI) for each incoming shipment imported into Egypt that must be included on all shipping documents.

April 7, 2021

What to Expect at the Timber & Technology Conference 2021

As with most global supply chains, the timber industry is in a perennial search for end-to-end visibility - an arduous objective considering the market fragmentation and the data silos that remain unused across the value chain. With stakeholders drawing wafer-thin profit margins from timber operations, visibility into the value chain becomes crucial, as this could help them with demand forecasting and in optimizing sourcing patterns.

March 25, 2021

Importance of Visibility in Digital Supply Chain

A customer orders an item from a seller who might be sitting across the world; the item then travels from its place of production (the seller) via a transit mode (shipping) to reach its destination (the customer). This complete process is what makes up the term supply-chain. The word “chain” is deliberately used as a part of the term to denote the several steps (or the chain of processes) involved to “supply” products or goods from the seller to the customer.

February 23, 2021

Centersource Technologies Debuts as Innovator at the JOC TPM

After the “pandemic”, digitalisation is probably the most talked about aspect of the shipping industry, possibly only eclipsed by the “exorbitant container shipping rates” in the short term.

February 4, 2021

The Most Important Changes In Incoterms 2020

Incoterms are the international rules that determine the responsibilities, costs and risks between the seller and the buyer. They are universal rules that bring predictability to the business. It’s important to keep in mind that this is not the full sales contract, only part of it incorporated into the contract.

January 7, 2021

Smart Information Flows: Key to Successful SCM

Supply chain management (SCM) is concerned with the coordination and management of organizations within a supply chain. Logistics is the part of SCM that manages the flows of goods and information within the organizations’ direct operations sphere.

November 10, 2020

Digital Supply Chain with Circular Economy Heading Towards Remarkable Business

Manufacturing industries have started to adopt circular economy framework as an alternative to a traditional linear economy in which resources are made, used and then disposed of.

October 14, 2020

The power of RFID Technology in Logistics

RFID technology has been created as far ago as 1973, however it has only recently gained widespread commercial popularity reaching a market value of over $10 billion and is believed to become ubiquitous in the next decade. At its core, RFID is a data collection technology that can scan multiple sources at once in an instant.

August 27, 2020

Digital transformation and what it means for forestry industry and global supply chains

In 2019 Centersource has completed a survey amongst a number of companies that collectively export, transport or import over nine million cubic meters of lumber materials annually. We have asked these companies if they were satisfied with the work tools currently available to them. As a result, over 90% have replied with a definitive “No”.

May 14, 2020

Recommendations for Creating Value with BI/Analytics in the Supply Chain

If you are a supply chain professional you probably already know this: Building analytics solutions that produce actual value is usually a very complex endeavor which requires a lot of thought, time and effort.

March 20, 2020

How to maintain Business Continuity and Coordination during Crisis through Smart Tools, Automation and Integration

Because of coronavirus, we now face the biggest challenge in living memory to business continuity and coordination. This is a challenge for any organization, but it may be particularly challenging for industries with global supply-chains and large partner networks. So, when everybody across the supply-chains works remotely - how can you coordinate it?

2020-07-02

The Case for digitization of the Forestry Industry

My father started his company in the forestry industry exactly forty-five years ago. Back then typewriters, mail, calculators and telex (which was later replaced by fax) were the main tools required to conduct business.

2020-01-02

The Case for Industrial Digital Data Sharing and How to Decrease Risk by Linking Transparency, Compliance and Accountability

Companies are only as proactive, effective and organised as the employees they have and the tools available to them. Having worked in the industry for almost a decade and having worked globally with many companies of all sizes, including the largest, I noticed that they all share the exact same problems and suboptimal processes.

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