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Hiring a Singapore Agent to Navigate Local Customs Clearance Can Boost Productivity, Efficiency

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

As a key Southeast Asian hub, Singapore is a small but important market for many overseas sellers. Foreign trading companies may find it daunting or time-consuming to juggle multiple custom duties, especially if Singapore is an unfamiliar market to them. 2) Managing multiple payments and papers to clear Customs.

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Digital Megatrends – Shaping Supply Chain Innovation

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

In Singapore, for instance, there was a period when eggs were running out as consumers hoarded them. In the logistics circles, this is known as the bullwhip effect which surfaces from a sudden spike or drop in and can significantly affect profit margins. Then people’s basic needs came under threat. FALLOUT FROM LABOUR CRUNCH .

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Green Corridor: Gemba Your Way to Green!

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Compel staff to think twice before printing out hard copies of any document! Tim Foote runs Susymbio, a boutique consulting firm advising clients on e-commerce logistics solutions and provides sustainability program management services. Safer and Faster: Singapore’s Known Consignor Regime. Replace florescent lights with LEDs!

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The State of Digital Freight: The 4×4 Blueprint for Freight 2020

Freightos

The journey to digitize freight, while initially off to a slow start, has gained momentum in the last two or three years. It should come as no surprise that we are running out the clock until Amazon competes with more aspects of the logistics industry. Four Core Themes Shaping Logistics. Online freight booking.

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The Green Corridor: Food for Thought

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The process of extracting mineral wealth such as gold, diamonds or oil for instance has been well documented to cause environmental harm as well as societal harm in some countries. Do their methods and documented standards meet your organisation’s values or does more need to be done? Test the supplier’s methods.

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The Global Trade Compliance Market is Crazy!

Logistics Viewpoints

Many multinationals have engineered their global supply chains to minimize taxation by creating subsidiaries in low taxation nations like Switzerland, Ireland, and Singapore. First, even if fines are not applied, goods moving across borders with incorrect documentation can be held up at the border. For example, the U.S.

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Is your freight invoice accurate? A new study claims it might not be.

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Shipping freight across the world is a complex matter. But what is even more complicated is freight billing and handling freight payments: what a cargo owner is initially quoted is often different from what he later is asked to pay. Billing inaccuracy and payment challenges are massive problems in the logistics industry.

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