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Elaborate on the problems associated with retail transport |
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Answer» 1. Maintaining supply chain efficiency in face of increasing risk and unpredictability. 2. Infrastructure congestion exacerbated by unforeseen or uncontrollable events. (a) Natural disasters (b) Labour strike and shortages (c) Terrorism 3. Heightened supply chain security. 4. Increasing costs (a) Inventory just-in-time to just-in-case. (b) Congestion e.g. demurrage, fuel, traffic, mitigation fees, container fees. (c) Security. 5. Using retail transport for cross border is very complex, time consuming and costly, for example, retail companies needs at least 12 different permissions issued by different authorities. 6. For import and export of goods needed customer clearances before sending to distribution centers. |
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