Get in on the Nigerian Export Game

In a bid to boost presence in the international market, the Nigerian government has approved what it calls The Commerce 44 initiative. The policy involves the tax-free export of 11 categories each of solid minerals, agricultural products and groups of locally-manufactured items to 11 international markets.
The categories are as follows:
Agricultural Category
Cocoa, cotton, cassava, gum Arabic, [...]

Doing Business

The World Bank provides plenty of statistics for economics in different countries. They even have a website for doing business in various countries.
This report is one such report. Here, you can see the economies of Nigeria by different criteria: income per capita, the informal sector, and population, and this report summarizes the procedures, time, and [...]

Outsourcing Logistics

As most large businesses move towards lean operating methods, outsourcing logistics requirements can help to reduce your company’s costs, improve your customer service quality, and increase the synchronization of activities throughout your supply chain. It can also help to identify opportunities to generate savings in your transportation, warehousing, and private truck fleet operations.
Sometimes a mix [...]

Logistics

Logistics is the art or science of moving resources efficiently with the minimum of cost and disruption from one place to another. I saw this  definition on Wiki:
“Logistics is the process of strategically managing the procurement, movement and storage of materials, parts, and finished inventory (and the related information flows) through an organisation and its [...]

Logistics Performance Measurement and the 3PL Value Proposition.

Excerpts copied from Logistics Quarterly the official magazine of the Logistics Institute. For the whole article, click here

The case for logistics performance measurement
The five most recent studies published by the Council of Logistics Management on the subject of performance measurement in logistics had three significant findings in common (Kearney 1984; Bowersox et al 1989; [...]

The Supply Chain

Wikipedia defines the Supply chain as “.. a business process that links suppliers, manufacturers, warehousing, logistics, retailers and the end customer in the form of a linear integrated skill and resource pool with the aggregated goal of delivering a product or service. It encompasses all activities and the flow of information both upstream and downstream [...]