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This Week in Logistics News (April15 – 20)

Logistics Viewpoints

Evans Chebet of Kenya won the men’s division with a time of 2:05:54, for an average pace of 4.8 Helen Obiri of Kenya won the women’s division with a time of 2:21:38. billion for Bollore logistics unit Retailers Tackle Cardboard Overload With Made-to-Fit Boxes Robust.AI minutes per mile.

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The Remarkable Supply Chain of the Coffee Bean

Unleashed

In between this process, the beans go through international transporters, export sellers and retailers like grocery stores, cafes and specialty shops. Coffee retailers Campos Coffee source their beans from Kenya to Columbia to Brazil. Transporting. The Demand for Coffee.

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The Future of Food Security

Enterra Insights

Solutions require action in many economic sectors including agriculture, transportation, distribution, energy, and retail — as well as efforts directed at confronting climate change. The WWF developed these levers by studying food systems in four different countries: Brazil, Colombia, Kenya, and UAE. .” What Can Be Done?

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The Need For Supply Chain Innovation: Why You Should Watch These Four Trends ?

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Conversely, new players like Amazon and Alibaba have revolutionized not only the retail but also the logistics industry. He also served as Director, Strategy and Business Development for Family Services at UBS Wealth Management, and led a UN financed market entry and financing program in Kenya. MORE FROM THIS EDITION.

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Richard Markoff: “Don’t be too rigid in what we define”

Supply Chain Movement

We have already opened business affiliates in Saudi Arabia and Kenya. million points of deep trade in India, mostly very small shops, so we won’t be running the same promotions there as in multinational retail stores. Also, to meet this challenge, we need to know the expectations of consumers and their buying habits.

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

Requis

Of course, if you’re talking to major retailers, they’ve known this for decades, that the business foundation is supply chain. It won’t be enough to say, “this is fair trade coffee from Kenya”, people are going to want to see information going a few levels back from that, that the inputs are sustainable as well. That’s hard to do.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 6-10, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Coca-Cola Targets Small Retailers With Coke on Demand App (WSJ – sub. The international shipment of flowers to Royal FloraHolland from Kenya, Mandarin oranges from California, and pineapples from Colombia were also used to validate the solution for shipments coming into the Port of Rotterdam.