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Building Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

I am half-way through a spring speaking tour that will wrap-up in June with a speech in South Africa and Peru. I believe that supply chains build economies and save the world. I also believe that supply chains need a revolution. This requires bi-directional communication between trading partners in the value chain.

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Embracing the South American Ecommerce Marketplace

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Online retailers in South America have been struggling for years to overcome several obstacles to success, including extensive customs delays, poor transportation infrastructure, and the lack of end-to-end supply chain visibility. End-to-end supply chain visibility. Within each challenge lies opportunity.

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Logistics in Latin America: A Mosaic of Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities

Talking Logistics

However, if you import in Brazil or Peru, for example, when a shipment arrives at the port, it has to be moved first to a fiscal warehouse to clear customs, which adds lead time and cost to the end-to-end supply chain process. Technology also plays an important role, as Ricardo explains in the clip below.

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Updated IT Subway Map: Major acquisitions in SC software

Supply Chain Movement

Software vendors such as Riskmethods, Achilles and MetricStream offer solutions which provide an overview of all suppliers in the end-to-end supply chain to indicate the possible impact of disruptions and suggest alternatives. directly from their suppliers, from their own warehouse or even from a retail store). Norfolk Island.