Business Sense: The sari-sari store goes digital
Packworks CEO Bing Tan is helping sari-sari stores get savvy with big data to navigate supply chain issues and inflation
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Packworks CEO Bing Tan is helping sari-sari stores get savvy with big data to navigate supply chain issues and inflation
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SARI-SARI stores serve as the very fabric of the country's retail landscape. They're as embedded in our culture as finding a store run by a local family on practically every street corner, even squeezed into skinny alleyways. If you're lucky (or maybe not if you're over it), you might see some kids gathering around and playing with the TikTok-popular clacking 'lato-lato.'
Filipino technology startup Packworks has formally launched its Mobile Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform for sari-sari stores following a successful US$2M seed round. Leading end-to-end logistic group Fast Group and global private equity firm CVC Capital Partners led the said seed round, w