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Go Horizontal!

Supply Chain Shaman

I did not understand warehousing and transportation until reassignment to a logistics role in 1985. Typing this quickly in the Atlanta airport as I run for a plane for Lima, Peru. This lack of alignment is an impediment to improving balance sheet results. I am a product of traditional, silo-based thinking. What do you think?

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Embracing the South American Ecommerce Marketplace

CH Robinson Transportfolio

It’s worth mentioning that China, the largest trading partner of Brazil, Chile, and Peru, invests heavily in the region, providing more than $140 billion (USD) in loans for infrastructure improvements in the past decade, according to The Business Year. While surface transportation remains stagnant, ocean freight shows promise.

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Building Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

I am half-way through a spring speaking tour that will wrap-up in June with a speech in South Africa and Peru. Include the supplier’s warehouse and manufacturing locations. On Monday, I would speak in Orlando Florida at the Terra Technology event; and on Wednesday, present the keynote at the Logistic Summit & Expo in Mexico City.

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This Mexico-Based E-commerce Business Reduced 66% Delivery Costs With Locus

Locus

Currently, they have operations in Brazil, Peru and five cities in Mexico: Monterrey, Guadalajara, Queretaro, Puebla and Mexico City. When it was first launched in 2019, Mexico-based Jüsto was an e-grocery platform that wished to disrupt the consumer industry and become Latin America’s favorite supermarket by 2030.

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8 Inventory Costing Methods That You Might Not Know About

EMERGE App

And $1,000 owed to the warehouse for storage costs. George sells hand-painted beads imported from Peru. Michael eventually received a bid of $25,000 for all his obsolete stock from a retail liquidator. He also had to pay $3,000 commission to the agent who found the buyer for him. 25,000 – ($3,000 + $1,000) = $21,000.

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Logistics in Latin America: A Mosaic of Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities

Talking Logistics

However, if you import in Brazil or Peru, for example, when a shipment arrives at the port, it has to be moved first to a fiscal warehouse to clear customs, which adds lead time and cost to the end-to-end supply chain process.

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List of Top 65 Marketplaces Across the Globe in 2019

Vinculum

With 24×7 availability, Fulfilled by Sears (FBS) is an order fulfillment service from Sears that manages warehousing, pick/packing and shipping of customer orders for your business. Linio is a Latin American marketplace with presence in 8 countries – Mexico, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, and Argentina.