One then wonders about why our supply chains sustainability strategy and transformation policy is removed from core public policy priorities and development blueprints, yet the broad issues of supply chain take up to 70% of all annual budget allocation.

The initiative on supply chains sustainability aims to harness excellence in innovation and technology for facilitating the integration of premier capabilities development among practitioners and stakeholders involved in rebuilding supply chains in a sustainable and transformative manner. Supply chain thought leadership needs to bring to bear a keen focus on the quality of growth in Africa by advocating for the back-to-back data quality in policy planning and analytics that benefit board-level strategic priorities and decision making for competitive productivity and distribution.

Focusing on R&D within supply chains in emerging markets to generate new knowledge necessary to deepen and enhance the sustainable transformation of supply chains in the context of the Covid-19 recovery process and beyond is a key priority. We are also keen to foster programs, products, and services that support both public and private firms to embed and integrate sustainability practices, enhance learning, ownership, transparency, visibility, accountability, mitigate risk, open new revenue avenues, and foster excellence in reporting sustainability practices and knowledge sharing framework. Further, we support organizations to address business fragility, develop fast and deep insights, knowledge for driving agile and sustainable transformation in supply chains.