ASIA 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 .”
Similarly , Essilor distributes all its Middle Eastern products from Dubai
“ 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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