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570 Tons of Horse S**t and 57.000 Litres of Urine per Day!

Global Trade Management

greenhouse gas emissions totaled 6,347 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents. Costa Rica is showing the world what it takes to be sustainable regarding electricity production. Nevertheless, the country's example proves that sustainability is possible. In 2021, U.S.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 13-17, 2018)

Talking Logistics

My family and I spent more than a week in Costa Rica, where everyone greets you with “Pura Vida,” which means “Pure Life” in Spanish. One example demonstrated how TradeLens can reduce the transit time of a shipment of packaging materials to a production line in the United States by 40 percent, avoiding thousands of dollars in cost.

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KPI Key Performance Indicators in Supply Chain & Logistics

Logistics Bureau

It might help to think of a KPI as something like an instrument on a car dashboard—a speedometer for example. Later in this article we’ll look at some examples of functional and cross functional KPIs. A KPI is a metric… but not just any metric. Against a required standard of performance. Inventory management.

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