ALINA CHESNOKOVA
LOGISTICS & WAREHOUSING
ALINA CHESNOKOVA
TITLE: VICE PRESIDENT, GLOBAL 3PL COMMERCIALISATION
COMPANY: CENCORA
INDUSTRY: HOSPITALS AND HEALTH CARE
LOCATION: LONDON, UK
Alina has worked at Cencora for almost three years, following a career at McKesson and McKinsey & Company. She has worked internationally, leading teams across transformation projects.
To help manage their operations, many organisations rely on third – party logistics providers. By outsourcing their supply chain and fulfilment operations, the organisations can grow to scale without spending time and resources on sending the product out.
3PL organisations handle warehousing, inventory management, order picking, packing, shipping and return logistics – that way, the organisations relying on them can focus on internal operations.
These relationships can act as a lifeline to companies around the world, as 3PLs have the knowledge and the capabilities to ensure the logistics operations work as smoothly as possible, taking care of cross-border regulation changes, optimising trade routes and inventory management.
In the complexity of today’ s global supply chain, 3PLs are critical to managing demands of shipping, especially as ecommerce has driven the need for fast and reliable delivery.
Alina Chesnokova, Vice President of Global 3PL Commercialisation at Cencora, and Saurabh Pitkar, Director of Product Management, Agentic Commerce at Dell Technologies, have seen the different sides of 3PL relationships, with strong understandings of how organisations cannot operate smoothly without them.
A need for reliable delivery Though different organisations have different demands for logistics, the basics are the same; they need reliability, speed, scale, expertise and visibility.
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