23-24
November, Kyiv hosted the largest logistics exhibition in Ukraine,
dedicated to the All-Ukrainian Logistics Day. The event brought together experts from the logistics
industry experts, including representatives of international and regional companies, 3PL operators, freight forwarding companies, customs brokers, suppliers of IT solutions and logistics equipment, etc.
More than
1000 participants from various industries who work daily to solve
the most important tasks and optimize the supply chain, gathered to share their
experience and find the best solutions.
One of the
of the speakers at the conference was Ekaterina Kuzmina, Head of Procurement and Sustainable Development
of Procurement and Sustainable Development at AB InBev Efes Ukraine. In her report, she
spoke about the development of communication and cooperation between the company and logistics
partners and highlighted the principles that guide AB InBev Efes Ukraine in
during such partnerships.
At the
At the beginning of her speech, Kateryna Kuzmina shared with the participants the goals and challenges that, in her opinion, are
facing the brewing business today. It is about sustainable development of the company,
building long-term partnerships, finding new ways and solutions to
to optimize business costs.
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Having talked about the
components of successful procurement, she added her insights on how businesses can achieve
profit.
In her report, Kateryna Kuzmina also mentioned how AB InBev Efes
Ukraine in the context of logistics. In February and March 2022, and with the subsequent de-occupation of the company's home
regions of the company, logistics faced strategic challenges,
aimed at restoring business through the import of imported goods.
"At first, it was international transportation, and later
it was international transportation, and only then local production and local transportation
production and local transportation. When Chernihiv Brewery reopened in the fall of 2022.
Chernihiv Brewery reopened, the number of shipments increased significantly, because our
transportation partners believed in us and helped us rebuild our distribution," she
she recalled.
Therefore,
in her opinion, successful cooperation in the logistics business
is based on human relations. That is why when choosing a supplier of
logistics services, the company relies on certain qualities and criteria that should be
to be a supplier-partner of AB InBev Efes
Ukraine.
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"In our procurement, we are guided by the following principles: transparency, openness,
respect for new and trusted suppliers, and confidentiality. We
care not only about how to choose suppliers, but also about how they treat us.
treat us. It is important for us to have reliable partners and to be
reliable partners," she emphasized.
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In today's complex realities, it is mutual trust, mutual assistance and confidence in
AB InBev Efes Ukraine as a representative of sustainable business has become a guarantee of
of cooperation with companies in the logistics sector. Thanks to a long-term partnership in the
the company was able to successfully overcome the challenges that it faced on the way
on the way to restoring the breweries and business.
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In addition to
In addition, an important policy for AB InBev Efes Ukraine is to ensure high
quality of services and safety of drivers of companies providing logistics services. Cargo
is transported and stored by people, so it is extremely important for the company to ensure
ensuring safe working conditions for them. Our company makes every effort to ensure that
each driver had proper working conditions and always had the necessary individual
protection, such as safety shoes and signal vests.
Nowadays, the work of logistics companies
companies is very important for the whole country. It was the carriers who were the first to
to provide products to the de-occupied territories. In February 2022, European companies
stopped working in Ukraine altogether, there were no air travels, and sea traffic
almost stopped. Only our people and vehicles remained.
Humanitarian aid is mostly based on
humanitarian aid is mostly based on road transport logistics.
A striking example is the company's Water for Life initiative, which brought 5
million cans of clean drinking water were imported to Ukraine. This allowed us to
to partially meet the needs of Ukrainian communities without access to drinking water in
Donetsk, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Chernihiv, Kharkiv and
Kherson. The water was also used to support the work of hospitals in Kyiv and
Mykolaiv, educational institutions in Chernihiv region, resilience centers and reception centers for
IDPs in the cities of Zaporizhzhia, Pokrovsk, Chernihiv, Khmelnytskyi, and others.
"Water
was provided for evacuation trains, sent to hospitals, we were one of the first to provide clean water
of the first to provide clean drinking water to the residents of Kherson region after the
Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant in June 2023. So, indeed, in today's conditions it is difficult to
to overestimate the role of logistics for businesses, consumers and communities," she emphasized.
she emphasized.