The teams focused their efforts on a few of the highest-value S&OP levers in order to review the current planning process, identify gaps in the planning infrastructure and analytically understand demand and supply variability.

In the US and UK, the recent labor market puzzle can be partly explained by mismatch, the pandemic’s effect on women (in the US) and older workers leaving the work force. Almost two years after the pandemic upended labor markets, job openings are plentiful in many advanced economies, yet workers have not fully returned. The

Shipping costs soared over the past year as consumers unleashed pent-up savings to buy new merchandise while the pandemic continued to snarl the world’s supply chains. Container rates have more than quadrupled since the start of the pandemic, with some of the biggest gains concentrated in the first three quarters of last year. Lockdowns, labor shortages,

he members of the G20 have reached an agreement on a deal that would set a minimum tax rate for major companies, German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said on Saturday. The comments came amid talks between the finance ministers from the world’s largest economies in Venice, Italy. While progress was made, a final agreement on

Former Finance Minister, Seth Terkper, has said government’s proposed Electronic Levy (E-Levy) will distort the tax structure, arguing that it will lead to paying double tax and also result in paying taxes on savings, which is inappropriate. He said the situation will lead to the avoidance of tax where people will be seen going back

Imagine you go to pay for your morning coffee and your stored-value card returns an error message, or the wallet in the payments app on your phone isn’t opening because the company providing the payment service has gone bankrupt. Worse, what if you live in a rural area and the e-money service provided through your

Allowing for more exchange rate flexibility can help reduce FX borrowing needs, as well as lower the FX risk premium in domestic interest rates, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has recommended. “Greater exchange rate flexibility, with interventions limited to smoothing sharp fluctuations, can help reduce FX borrowing needs as well as lower the FX risk

Public sector workers looking forward to a huge wage increment will not get it because the Finance Ministry says there is simply no money to meet such demands. And indeed this situation is likely to persist until 2024 as the Technical Adviser at the Ministry Dr Samuel Nii Noi Ashong called on the country to

Ghana’s imports cover of 5.2 months is projected to decline to 3.2 months by the end of 2021 and further to 3.0 months by the end of 2022. The projection by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is contained in its latest 2021 October Regional Economic Outlook for the Sub-Saharan Africa Region. The projected decline in the country’s gross

Social Entrepreneur, Vincent Dzokoto wants the suspension of exploration and production contracts on the Keta Delta Block. According to him, there hasn’t been a sustained effort to forge cooperation between the communities within the Keta constituency and the government about plans to advance the exploration of oil. Swiss African Oil Company and PET Volta Investments