Secrets of success for digital trendsetters

Today’s digital customers are looking for unique experiences at a hyper speed, making a super-flexible supply chain as critical as a super-efficient one. However, many organisations haven’t realised the full, value-driving potential of digital...

Are your suppliers friends or foes?

In a perfect world, the relationship between client and supplier should fundamentally be based on mutual trust. Legally speaking, the relationship is formally guided by King III and protected by legislation such as the Public Finance Management Act, specifically...

Technology’s role in economic transport hubs

Technology-enabled public transport systems have the potential to become far more than merely ways to get people from the proverbial ‘A to B’, writes Harry van Huyssteen, transport industry subject matter expert at T-Systems South Africa. With innovations...

Maintain a successful vendor selection process

It is important to do business with the right vendors if you want you want to stay on the right side of the law while ensuring that the business’ needs are met. With hundreds of suppliers offering relevant products and services, the vendor selection process can...

The supply chain advantage

It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that this saying has been overhauled for the digital era. Organisations are swimming in lakes of information and, to take the analogy even further, dripping in data. But few are able to translate this data into something...

Enterprise apps will have an impact on transport, logistics

While the current wave of app development is relatively new and the platforms still evolving, apps represent an increasingly important channel for companies to deliver content, information and services to users. This according to Cassie Lessing, MD of the Strato IT...