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How a Leading MENA-based B2B Food and Grocery Platform Saves 45% Distance Travelled With Locus Solutions

Locus

In 2017, two entrepreneurs observed that Cairo’s food and grocery supply chain was riddled with inefficiencies, piling up unnecessary expenses and missed growth opportunities for both retailers and suppliers. Over the years, the company has consistently grown its presence to over ten cities in Egypt and serves over 55,000 merchants.

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Expanding Into New Territories – What Should a Retailer’s Supply Chain Look Like?

RELEX Solutions

These will need to be factored in to their forecasting and inventory management. Examples include, countries like Egypt where the soles of shoes should not be displayed upwards, and in the US where men buy shirts not just based on collar sizes but arm lengths as well. Local customs can be very important. Other blog posts.

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Spire and Gravity Supply Chain solutions helping restore flow of goods

Gravity Supply Chain

Just-in-time (JIT) inventory management became crucial to the nation’s meteoritic industrial growth, including Toyota’s eclipsing North American and European automakers as the world’s largest automakers for their time. billion metric tons as of 2017. A world transformed. In 1956, manually loading a ship cost $5.86

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 How to Become a Top Seller on Noon?

Vinculum

The right time for shopping in the marketplaces in the GCC region is Noon to gain around 2 million customers’ attention from last 2017 years. To be a seller on Noon, you need to have a trading license and register here in Egypt, UAE, and KSA. Still, the inventory is kept separate for all the available options. Fulfillment.

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Become A Top Seller on Noon

Vinculum

To give you a background, Noon is one of the biggest marketplaces in the GCC region, which is a fully homegrown digital marketplace active since 2017. Owning a valid trading license and being a registered company in the UAE, KSA and Egypt are the two important prerequisites for being a seller on Noon. Registration. Fulfilment.

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E-Commerce in the Middle East

Vinculum

Some of the Middle East countries like Egypt and Iran are ranking at the top-most level as internet users. The number of users is gradually increasing since 2017 to 48,211,493. Despite being a desert area, the internet utility has enhanced significantly.