SUPPLY CHAIN GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS: CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Application Deadline: Friday, December 22, 2023Link to apply http://bit.ly/ScholarshipsatCARISCA23 The Centre for Applied Research and Innovation in Supply Chain – Africa (CARISCA) at KNUST invites eligible candidates in Ghana to
CARISCA helps create Ghana’s Health Supply Chain Master Plan
Ghana’s health supply chains are a critical factor in whether the country will be able to meet this ambitious goal. Recognizing that fact, in 2015, Ghana produced a five-year Health Commodity Supply Chain Master Plan. The plan identified challenges in Ghana’s public health supply chain, outlined objectives for the future, and proposed interventions.
The Role of Supply Chain Management in Healthcare Access in Ghana
This report assesses the potential of Ghana’s healthcare supply chain to ensure
availability, adequacy, accessibility, affordability, and appropriateness of essential medicines.
Policy Brief: Thriving Through Disruptions: Enhancing Supply Resilience with Effective Leadership
CARISCA investigated how Ghanaian pharmaceutical and healthcare organizations use transformational, contingent reward, and management-by-exception leadership styles to build supply resilience.
Policy Brief: Food Losses along the Cassava Supply Chain in Ghana: Causes and Solutions
This policy brief explores the causes of losses in the cassava supply chain and proposes solutions to mitigate them.
Ghana’s latest Logistics Managers Index reveals slight economic slowdown from boisterous start in 2023
KUMASI, GHANA (Sept. 25, 2023) – Increasing warehousing and transportation capacity combined with decreasing prices in both metrics are driving an economic slowdown in Ghana.
Developing and Utilizing Relational Political Resources to Navigate Institutional Complexities
Counterfeit and pirated goods are a problem globally. The fake-goods market has been valued higher than the GDP of some major economies, including those of Ireland, Portugal and Israel.
In Sub-Saharan Africa, the problem is especially acute—and life-threatening. More than 435,000 deaths per year are linked to falsified or substandard antimalarial drugs and antibiotics alone.
CARISCA’S Director of MERL featured on Business and Financial Times
CARISCA’s Director of MERL, Kekeli Adonu shares her thoughts the impact of Niger coup on onion supply chain. Read the full article at thebftonline.com
Dare to Cheat? The Liabilities of Newness and Foreignness in Containing Sustainability Fraud in China
As stakeholder pressure to protect the environment grows dramatically, sustainability fraud—fraud and misconduct committed with sustainability data—has become a growing concern in operations and supply chain management. Many large corporations have been found guilty of making deceptive claims of being environmentally compliant.