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- Early last year, another German shoe line announced an investment of $2.66 million to expand its presence in Kenya by 2025.
- The distribution centre is at the Freight Forwarders Solutions warehouse in Tatu City.
- In recent years, German firms have shown increasing interest and investment in East Africa.
German-based cleaning equipment manufacturer Karcher has announced an approximate $3.25 million investment in the Kenyan market. The firm is setting up a regional distribution centre in Nairobi as a business expansion strategy to evade the toughening global import supply chain due to high logistics costs resulting from pirate attacks in the Red Sea corridor.
The distribution centre is at the …
- KEMSA said it had invested more than KSh 30 million to facilitate efficient service provision from the Kisumu regional supply chain centre
- KEMSA is executing a three-pronged transformation strategy (KEMSA2.0) geared at enhancing its customers’ experience
- The county has accessed health supplies from KEMSA worth more than KSh 122million in the last financial year, comprising TB drugs, Antiretroviral therapies, HIV test kits and antimalarials
The Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (KEMSA) said it had invested more than KSh 30 million to facilitate efficient service provision from the Kisumu regional supply chain centre.
On August 19, 2022, the CEO of KEMSA Terry Ramadhani said the Authority is executing a three-pronged transformation strategy (KEMSA2.0) geared at enhancing its customers’ experience by providing quality, assured, efficient supply chain solutions for health commodities. She spoke when she hosted Homa Bay County Governor-Elect Gladys Wanga in her office.
What is KEMSA’s strategy?
As part of the …
This and other challenges including unpredictable prices of farm produce and a lack of working capital often plague small restaurants and food vendors across the continent.
This is what largely drove the creation of TopUp Mama- Former Kibanda TopUp- in Kenya.
The firm launched in February 2021 in Nairobi and has reported significant growth over the past year since its inception.
Founded by Njavwa Mutambo, Emilie Blauwhoff and Andrew Kibe, the startup has grown 10-fold in just over a year with more than 3,000 merchants (1,000 active) using its platform to make orders every month.…
Supply chain software company MACmobile has launched a new platform that can support “live” streaming of formal market retail “sales out” data from till points as well as map the relevant stock holding in store simultaneously in the Kenyan Market.
This follows a partnership with Cognizance Processing who built the platform and will be available for Kenya wholesalers and retailers.
The platform will reflect “sales in” data to retailers while mapping stock holding in the multiple warehouses being used in the distribution supply chain.
Daily retail sales feeds and basket data feeds (when made available), stock in store and stock at the distribution centre, can be recorded and made available in a live feed to a dashboard.
This enables the manufacturer to identify Key Performance Areas (KPAs) against which performance benchmarks are established and deviations reported against. The deviation reporting is live and communication is made to merchandisers and/or retail …