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New Bookends: The Tale of Supply Chain Global Leaders in Consumer Products

Supply Chain Shaman

These giants drove slight improvements in operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) despite a slowing economy. Over the past two years, P&G made impressive gains in operating margin and inventory turns, but the company failed to equal the ROIC test for asset utilization. Good Times Ahead.

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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. A world transformed. billion metric tons as of 2017.

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Podcast: Rob O’Byrne on Digital Transformation, Sustainability, and Diversification in Sourcing

Requis

Manufacturing sites have been rationalized in terms of, “we don’t need five factories in this country, we only need three, then two, then we don’t need them at all, we’ll move them to China”. Sourcing has probably been the biggest thing over the last decade or two, coupled with that reduction in local manufacturing of course.

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

RELEX Solutions

Are there any differences in lead times for supply from manufacturers, any country laws and regulations or duties and border controls that could slow down supply? These will need to be factored in to their forecasting and inventory management. Local customs can be very important.

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 How to Become a Top Seller on Noon?

Vinculum

To be a seller on Noon, you need to have a trading license and register here in Egypt, UAE, and KSA. Letter from distribution authorization or a manufacturer certificate or permit. Still, the inventory is kept separate for all the available options. Registration. Residence ID or passport. Proof of purchase. VAT certificate.

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Middle East e-commerce profits have surged 4-fold in the last five years

Vinculum

Many companies like Go-Global and others in some Middle East countries like the United Arab Emirates have high expectations of raising the audience’s purchasing power and establishing a solid connection with the manufacturer to cling to their choices. These strategies will be successful when the youth are governed more by smartphones.

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Become A Top Seller on Noon

Vinculum

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. Letter from distribution authorization, or a manufacturer permit/certificate. Registration. Passport or Residence ID. Residence Visa for non-nationals. Proof of purchase/invoice.