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The Future of Global Food Security

Enterra Insights

In the past half-decade, armed conflicts escalated across the world: Syria, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Nigeria, Myanmar. In addition to those who grow, raise, and produce our food, individuals and organizations involved in how that food is stored, processed, packaged, transported, and sold must also be involved. Then suddenly, wham!

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Health Supply Chains: Checking in with Deborah Dull

Logistics Bureau

But with supply chains’ sole purpose being to meet demand, it becomes challenging to make assumptions and then learn anything back about those assumptions. Transportation outside of a capital city is typically informal—think, a family with a truck. So that’s one big tough one. Challenge #2: Underdeveloped Networks.

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Mindmap for Global Logistics Integration

Supply Chain Movement

Goods have to be transported across the globe and across the neighbourhood. Goods have to be transported across the globe and delivered to different destinations – from congested cities to remote, rural areas. The main challenge in logistics is an increasing complexity of trade-offs in transport planning. Costa Rica.

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The Amazing Supply Chain of Your Morning Coffee!

Supply Chain Game Changer

A widespread tale sets the scene in the kingdom of Kaffa , in Abyssinia – which today is Ethiopia – where a shepherd one day observed that his sheep were unusually cheerful after eating white blossoms and red cherries from a previously unknown plant. The Journey. The entire supply chain is linked by several intermediaries.

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KPI Key Performance Indicators in Supply Chain & Logistics

Logistics Bureau

When a KPI shows that performance is consistently meeting or exceeding the required level, you can decide to raise the bar and set a higher standard to aspire to. Transportation. This means that fluctuations are immediately visible and if performance moves in the wrong direction, action can quickly be taken to address the situation.

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

ShipBob

The use of packaging materials and the carbon footprint of transportation contributes to environmental concerns. Additionally, by distributing your inventory across multiple fulfillment centers, you minimize the need for air transportation, which produces more carbon emissions than ground transportation.