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What You Can’t See Can Hurt You – Is Your Supply Chain Really Transparent?

Logility

Shipments without origin documents are being turned away from ports, creating expensive disruptions and inventory that doesn’t reach its destination, affecting the overall supply chain and your business health. The stakes are high. Audits are often ineffective as they are currently used. Supply chains are opaque.

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Earth Day spotlight: What it means to be a Benefit Corporation in CPG

crisp

Christin spoke about how the B Lab assessment requires taking a rigorous inventory of business practices, but that it includes an Excel document that includes every question, respondent’s answers, and the points and how they were weighted.

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Responsible Sourcing! Making Sustainability Happen for Real!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Sustainability is created by the farmer in the coffee fields of Colombia. If you haven’t seen the full document and are looking to realize responsible sourcing, I suggest you take a look. It’s created when we know who we’re buying from, where we’re buying from, and why we’re buying from them. It’s created at our suppliers.

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Software unleashes inventory solution for liqueur manufacturer

Unleashed

The product itself is cold-brew, pressed coffee using speciality lot Arabica beans from Colombia and Kenya blended with high-quality grain spirit to make the final product that you see today.”. With some background setups in customers, suppliers, pricing, items, document templates and so on, transaction efficiency is high.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 6-10, 2017)

Talking Logistics

The international shipment of flowers to Royal FloraHolland from Kenya, Mandarin oranges from California, and pineapples from Colombia were also used to validate the solution for shipments coming into the Port of Rotterdam.

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Coffee Shipping 101: Costs, Challenges, & How-to Ship

ShipBob

Coffee is often harvested in countries such as Ethiopia, Colombia, and Peru. Some destination countries may have restrictions or require additional documentation for coffee shipments based on where the beans were harvested.

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Can Your Shipment Benefit from Free Trade Agreements (FTAs)?

Shapiro

Benefits of FTAs are not applied automatically and all programs have specific conditions, detailed rules of origin, and documentation requirements that must be met. FTAs help to create an open and competitive international marketplace. Do you know which countries we have an FTA with? NAFTA : Canada & Mexico.