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LOGISTICS
Delegates at the Transport Forum, held at Stellenbosch University.
The critical need to improve
South Africa’s logistics
The heads of IMM way for their own development, the Africa, for example, could benefit
Graduate School’s profitability of their organisations from raising logistics competence
and the value of the supply chains
levels. Ojala pointed out that
supply chain and in which they operate. To do this, although performance with regard
export management they need to be professionals in to costs and processes was very
important, reliability within supply
logistics!”
believe the future and service delivery was ranked
could be in the hands logistics affect national and global even more important by logistics
professionals. While cost-cutting
wellbeing
of the young logistics And it doesn’t end with the was always on the agenda, concerns
professionals, a view individual, the organisation or their regarding sustainability, service,
and competence were higher on
overall supply chain. National and
backed up by experts global economic wellbeing is also the agenda. Traditional trade and
speaking at the recent impacted. Speaking at the Transport transport facilitation remained at the
Forum held at Stellenbosch
core of logistics performance.
Transport Forum. University in August 2018, Professor At the same meeting, Professor
Lauri Ojala asserted that logistics Jan Havenga identified the rising
r Beverley Waugh and Dr performance is critical to the cost of logistics as a major concern
Myles Wakeham from the national performance of economies, for South Africa. He noted that
IMM pose the question, can and that trade logistics are a key government needs to be aware of
a logistician be referred to as a element of global economies. this and involved in addressing
professional? “We seek to equip He noted that logistics should thus various issues in the inefficient
school-leavers, and employees and be a cross-cutting policy concern in supply of logistics. South Africa
employers already in the workplace, all countries, focusing inter alia on has a “built-in” problem because
with knowledge and skills to perform measuring supply chain efficiency, of the overland distances involved
their specialised tasks and fulfil identifying problem areas, and in local logistics, and the fact that
their professional roles in the providing key information necessary economic density is spread and
supply chain, in the best possible for supply chain managers. South mostly situated away from the ports:
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