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LOGISTICS Get educated at the IMM
Graduate School
“South Africa is a spatially challenged South africa needs skilled
country and its ton-kilometre logisticians The IMM Graduate School offers
productivity is among the worst in the Krygsman noted that South Africa several online short courses in
world,” said Havenga. is underperforming, not necessarily subjects relating to transport and
because of infrastructure, but due to logistics, including:
Logistics management in South inadequate skills, needed in part to Basic of export trade: Develop
Africa therefore involves “more “translate the benefit of infrastructure insight into risks, regulations and
effort to do the same thing better!”. to increased economic output”. cultural issues in export trade, and
Havenga asserts that as a result Transport infrastructure is a necessary how to approach promoting your
of much South African transport but insufficient condition for economic product in a foreign market.
usage being outsourced to blue- development: An educated and
chip logistics service providers, the trained labour force is also needed. Project management: This course
country has up until now been able In addition, Krygsman identified outlines the practical capabilities
necessary to define, create, plan,
to achieve and sustain fairly good key problems in the supply chains implement, control and complete a
logistics statistics. The South African of organisations in South Africa as project successfully.
logistics service provider industry including unnecessary regulations
has achieved excellent results and and documentation, and inadequate Export financial risk management:
logistics managers have been well coordination between industry Gain an in-depth understanding of
trained. However, he noted that skills and ports – leading, for example, the foreign exchange market, the
workings of foreign currency and
the management of exchange rate
south Africa is a spatially and risk fluctuation. Explore export
costings according to Incoterms®
2010 and the payment options
challenged country and its available to the international trader.
ton-kilometre productivity is among Transport (freight transport
operations, supply chain
the worst in the world. operations and green logistics):
Gain an in-depth understanding of
the structure and operation of all
in South Africa are becoming one of to congestion in ports resulting in types of freight transport, including
planning and demand, regulation,
the greatest challenges, especially the unnecessarily high capital and other control and business practices
shortage of logistics service provision costs for the organisations involved. related to the industry.
skills. It was agreed that a stronger The cost of doing business and
concentration on a few strong centres inefficiencies are unnecessarily and Export administration: Explore
of excellence is necessary to address unacceptably high. the major factors influencing the
this. successful execution of an export
All role players in South African order, including the export process,
In addition to these points, Professor supply chains must focus on making service providers, transport modes,
Stephan Krygsman identified the it easier and more efficient to do customs and documentation, and
insurance.
need for governments to create an business. Adequate skills are needed
enabling environment for education for this, and these requirements are Logistics (Warehousing, Inventory
and research, long-term planning, urgent for the welfare of the country & Procurement): In this short
infrastructure for transport, for and its people overall. course, you’ll learn how to
example, and so on. effectively implement strategies
to ensure warehousing, inventory
management and procurement is
working optimally.

everley Waugh has been Myles Wakeham is an academic and For more information on these
involved in transport, businessman. He was instrumental short courses, please visit
distribution, logistics and in introducing and adopting CIPS at www.immsc.co.za
supply chain management since the CPUT as a series of qualifications. or call 011 628 8000.
early 1990s. For the last 25 years, He has consulted to a variety of
she has also been in education, institutions and organisations and
training and development in these is involved in international research.
fields. She has completed several He holds an MBA and PhD, and
economics, transport, logistics, and has taught extensively in the fields
supply chain related qualifications, of supply chain management,
including a doctorate. operations, marketing, and business.

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