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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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Optimizing Last-Mile Fulfillment for FMCG Businesses in the Middle East

Locus

Supermarkets and grocers across the region now sell their products on digital platforms. Some have introduced on-demand delivery services to cater to home-stuck consumers’ rising demands for groceries and prepared meal delivery. Address verification and mapping are common problems faced by logistics planners.

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The Consequences of Supply Chain Constipation

Enterra Insights

As most adults know, constipation involves the difficult passage of necessary items through the tail end of the body’s supply chain. This blockage has created havoc in the global supply chain. based International Chamber of Shipping, told them, “It just shows you how vulnerable our supply-chain lines are.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 4-8, 2013)

Talking Logistics

As was confirmed for me yet again this week at a conference, the most utilized supply chain and logistics application, the reigning champ of them all, is the Excel spreadsheet. In other news… JDA Software to Release Next-Generation Solution for In-Store E-Commerce Picking Operations. On the 3PL front, C.H.

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An Update from Sharm El-Sheikh on Decarbonisation of Transport

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Opinion Editorial by Wolfgang Lehmacher, Operating Partner at Anchor Group and Mikael Lind, Senior Strategic Research Advisor at Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE) and Professor at Chalmers University of Technology. Carriers will be incentivised or obliged to service these maritime routes only with zero emission ships.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 22-26, 2016)

Talking Logistics

It’s the 100th anniversary of the National Parks Service, and like millions of other Americans and foreign tourists, my family and I spent our vacation visiting several parks over the past week, including the Grand Canyon, Bryce, and Zion (with stops in Sedona, Lake Powell, Lower Antelope Canyon, and Hoover Dam along the way).

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Overcoming complex logistics in building better cities

DELMIA Quintiq

We talked about production planning in building better cities , but what about logistics? Whether it is shipping pipes to Egypt for irrigation projects or support trusses to build bridges in Italy, the logistics puzzles of the materials industry are varied and complex. Transport & Logistics'