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Strong winds regularly disrupt operations at the Port of Cape Town, creating delays that can extend well beyond the harbour. Transnet is now considering wind shields,...
By Melinda Ellis van Zyl,enterprise sales lead, Shiprazor The online retailers who win Q4 are the ones who do the hard work in September. By the time November...
Supply chain leadership has never been a simple job. Leaders are expected to balance cost, efficiency, customer expectations, supplier relationships, technology, people and an increasingly unpredictable...
Not too long ago, many procurement decisions followed a familiar pattern. If a product could be sourced overseas at a lower price, it often made commercial...
Customers rarely think about procurement. When they walk into a shop, place an online order or receive a delivery at their door, they’re focused on one...
Not long ago, most deliveries followed a fairly predictable route. Products arrived at a large distribution centre, were stored until needed and then transported to stores...
The South African Freight and Logistics Association (SAFLA) and the Road Freight Association (RFA) are jointly calling for an immediate, unified recovery plan to restore predictable cargo...
Logistics has a visibility problem and it is costing the industry women. South Africa’s freight and logistics sector is not short of ambitious women. Rather, it...
A procurement manager in Durban needs a bonded warehouse. A few years ago she would have searched Google, scanned the first page and made three phone...
The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) will bring leaders from Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe together at Automechanika Johannesburg for its Regional Conference 2026, taking...
South Africa’s e-commerce sector is booming. The market is on track to surpass R130 billion in turnover this year. Local online sales are growing at roughly 20% and the sector...
Written by Ernst van Biljon, Dean of Research, IMM Graduate School Peak season is not won when the trucks start moving and the orders begin to surge....
The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport South Africa (CILTSA), brought warehouse leaders, technology specialists and supply chain professionals together in Johannesburg on 9 July for its...
