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Going The Extra Mile: How DP World’s DUBUY.com is Boosting Coffee Exports from Rwanda

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The issue lay in the packaging being used. The local farmers needed to find a way to transport their coffee beans in packaging that ensured their quality – keeping the beans fresh, air-tight, and at the optimal temperature to ensure the coffee would arrive in the best condition for consumption.

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People and Halal Supply Chains

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

This has implications for raw materials, ingredients, primary packaging, intermediate goods as well as end-product goods flows. In the Middle East you have halal-exclusive (like the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) and a combination of halal-exclusive and halal-segregated retailers (like the United Arab Emirates).

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

Talking Logistics

For grocers, the picker may choose either voice activation or browser-based devices to pick products for packaging on carts and for those carts to be marshaled into staging areas before being loaded for home delivery, “click-and-collect” store areas, or for “drive-through” models as used in mainland Europe. . .”

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Seasoned Leadership in Action™ – An Interview with Wolfgang Lehmacher!

Supply Chain Game Changer

As President and CEO GeoPost Intercontinental, I was heading the global network and businesses in Europe, the CIS, the United States, Hong Kong, India, the United Arab Emirates, and Africa. Wolfgang Lehmacher. In 2010, I joined global strategy firm CVA to head the global logistics practice.

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23 logistics professionals share the #1 way to reduce logistics costs

6 River Systems

Product responsibilities have ranged from medical electrical equipment all the way down to a single wall hypodermic needle, each product with its own logistics and packaging issue. As a result, picking and packaging orders becomes hassle-free and less time-consuming, helping us significantly reduce other costs.

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Complex costs of transportation

Supply Chain Movement

A TMS with inventory allocation enables shippers to monitor shipments down to the package level. The location of any package that is part of an order can be traced; status information about time, quality, and relevant financial aspects all need to be recorded and monitored during transportation execution. Tanzania, United Republic of.