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teams with the best quality and Supplier landscape best priced products possible Al Fakher Tobacco’s supply chain to become more competitive. landscape is made up of two world“We also need to be flexible class manufacturing facilities in the in order to meet sudden peaks UAE, one dedicated to the local in demand, while at the same market and the other, larger site time offering consistency in our producing for export. The company product quality. All of this helps also hosts a network of warehouses the company to become across the country containing more competitive in tailored storage systems our markets.” for particular products Al Fakher’s and materials product range used. And it is the consists of more suppliers of such than 100 flavours materials, and across standard, having visibility over Number of employees gold and special the entire network, at Al Fakher Tobacco edition ranges, that is the number one with accessories priority for Tahboub. such as high quality “The most important part glass shisha also sold worldwide. of our supply chain operations is “We have also entered the vapour choosing the right suppliers,” he market which is massively popular explains. “If you choose a good one in the UK and the USA, which your life will become much easier. makes it crucial that we are flexible Al Fakher is risk certified and we to meet ever-changing customer work with top risk management demands with new products and providers in the world to identify, variations,” Tahboub adds. assess, and mitigate risks. “We have to diversify our
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