Interview With The Author: Susan Heller Evenson on Green Coffee Logistics
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In this episode, Roast publisher Connie Blumhardt talks with author Susan Heller Evenson about the article "An Era of Unreliability: Post-Pandemic Green Coffee Logistics" from Issue 123: May | June 2024. Read the article here.
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Excerpt From the Article
“For coffee roasters and importers, managing coffee inventory effectively is usually a logistical high-wire act, given coffee’s long value chain. But in the past few years, it has become harder than ever to create a coffee purchasing plan and attendant timescale because coffee prices, transportation prices and shipment timeframes have fluctuated at unprecedented levels. How did the shipping and logistics situation in the coffee industry turn so dire? What were the factors that got us here and how are they related? And what in the heck is market backwardation? The way to weather any storm is to understand which way the winds are blowing and act accordingly. Knowing a little background about the conditions that caused the storm doesn’t hurt either.”
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