APICS and the American Society of Transportation and Logistics (AST&L) announced yesterday that the boards of directors of both organisations have approved an agreement under which AST&L will merge with […]
Tag Archives | supply chain
Making sense of Big Data
Big data can translate into big profits for your business. But, much like a new language, you need to put effort into understanding the numbers or else they won’t mean […]
Efficient supply chains can reduce school costs
Ordinary school systems in the US are scoring A’s for efficiency and accountability as they apply supply chain concepts to their tired old systems. Schools that are implementing these concepts […]
African supply chains need rethink
Wayne Whiffler, Executive Director at EY, says an entire rethink of the integrated supply chain operating model is needed when doing business in Africa. “Upon entering African markets, the complexities […]
SAPICS 2015: Overcoming the Major Problems of ERP
Real World Lessons You Won’t Learn at Business School Most Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementations are way too complicated, with too few people in the organisation who understand how to […]
A global first in supply chain education
26-year-old Kyle Eckstein, who has worked for SAB for the past three years as a production planner, has become an APICS CPIM (certified in production and inventory management) in record […]
Bridging the gap
The fastest growing young professional supply chain community in the world, SCNext, is partnering with SAPICS, South Africa’s leading community of supply chain and operations management professionals, to see […]
Over R300 million invested in springboard into Africa
Developing South Africa as a logistics hub is key to DHL’s long term growth plans for the region as the company invests over R300 million in both its Supply Chain […]
Avoid festive season delivery bottlenecks
By Shane de Beer, Sales and Marketing Director at express courier company TNT As the festive season gets into full swing it is important that small and medium businesses plan […]
Impact of wearable technology on the supply chain
Wearable technology innovations in the supply chain could be the answer to both streamline and protect the supply chain industry. This is according to Morne Janse van Rensburg, CEO of […]