Business Chief Asia Magazine – February 2019

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TECHNOLOGY

partners to distribute our products throughout the country,” Zhirnov says. “If you have 30 plants and you are sending products to smaller markets, Malaysia for example, it’s quite costly to continuously feed into the country directly from across the global plants. Therefore, we send upstream shipments to our regional docking hubs and distribute products from there.”

“ We have more than 30,000 suppliers, of which 1,000 are logistics and supply chain vendors” — Vladimir Zhirnov, Global Sourcing and Procurement Director of Supply Chain & Transport at Essilor

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