Trust and payment systems key to strengthening West African farm supply chains amid EU rules
Recent events in West Africa have shown that the weakest point in a farm-to-factory chain is often not production, but trust. In The Gambia, groundnut growers in Jokadou entered the 2026/2027 rainy season still waiting for money from sales made before the previous trade season…
South African restaurant tech market heats up with Pilot’s AI-driven Margin protection tool
Pilot is trying to turn restaurant AI from a presentation buzzword into a margin-protection tool. Trade titles reported on 3 September 2026 that the South African hospitality software group had launched Navigator as a plain-language query layer over its point-of-sale data, (bizcommunity.com) and Pilot’s own…
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Russia has long been a difficult market for outsiders to read, and for investors the challenge has only deepened since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The country still offers the lure of vast natural resources, a large domestic market and a technically skilled workforce, but those advantages…
Reassessing offshore aluminium fabrication: consistency, quality, and logistics are key to successful sourcing
For US procurement teams weighing fabricated aluminium components for a new programme, the decisive questions are usually practical rather than technical. Can the supplier hit the delivery window? Will tolerances hold across repeated runs? What happens if a shipment arrives with defects or a finish…
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In procurement and supply chain management, the push for greater efficiency has encouraged many organisations to rethink how they deal with suppliers. One model that has gained traction is the master vendor approach, in which a single supplier acts as the main point of contact and coordinates much of the…
When every proposal arrives sounding equally assured, procurement stops getting useful information from the page. That is the deeper problem lurking behind the latest wave of AI-assisted vendor submissions. A shortlist that once would have split cleanly between polished contenders and obviously weaker ones can…
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View AllDeepFabric has moved six AI agents into live use at Kenco in just three months, a pace that stands out in a field where many enterprise AI projects never make it beyond demonstrations. The tools are now active across commercial, operations, transportation and client services, and the two companies are…
AI moves from pilot projects to core operations in procurement and sustainability, but widespread integration remains a challenge
AI is moving from experimentation to everyday use in supplier risk and sustainability work, but most organisations are still a long way from fully embedding it, according to new sector data from Achilles. In a survey of 2,805 organisations across Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy,…

