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This website provides information on Professor Boateng’s current work programme, experience and affiliations, and focusses attention on the dynamic world of supply and value chain management and executive development.
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The second edition of the Executive Insights Series: Compendium of Supply Chain Management Terms provides its users with an easily accessible reference guide to an array of supply chain related terminologies and their meanings. Displayed in alphabetical order, the compendium offers a quick and easy guide to important supply chain management terms, abbreviations and synonyms, while simultaneously presenting various supply chain measurement definitions, performance measurement metrics, and the latest supply chain related global statistics. Whether you are a practitioner, policy maker, academic, or are simply interested in broadening your knowledge on the burgeoning practice of supply chain management, this compendium will be of significant value to you.

The Executive Compendium to Supply Chain Management Terms provides supply chain management executives and professionals with access to terms, abbreviations, and acronyms related to the international supply and value chain industry. Displayed in alphabetical order, the Compendium offers a quick and easy guide to important supply chain management terminology. As part of his not-for-profit, socially responsible, executive skills development resource initiative, Professor Boateng used his vast supply chain experience to personally select each of the terms presented in the Compendium.

Designed to develop supply chain management (SCM) knowledge among executives, policy makers, and decision makers, An Executive Insight into Strategic Sourcing aims to increase region-wide awareness of the multifaceted links between the supply chain management function and long-term industrialisation, job creation, poverty alleviation, and socio-economic development in Africa. In particular, it offers insight into the positive role that effective strategic sourcing can play in company performance, industrial competitiveness, service delivery outputs, and the realisation of Africa’s long-term socio-economic developmental efforts.