Strange things have been happening in oil markets of late, leading to massive hikes in fuel prices in countries around the world, including South Africa. And even though our fuel price has just dropped, the future still looks ‘interesting'. 3 Sep 2008
Researchers expect that post-Olympic slump will see reallocation of manufacturing IT budgets. Are there lessons for South Africa and post-2010? The World Cup is not the Olympics, but it is a huge event - can we too, expect a downturn? After all, other countries have also seen downturns after hosting the Olympics. 2 Sep 2008
Woolworths has a steady supplier base. It has teams of scientists developing new products. Woolworths's reputation as a tough and demanding buyer of products and services precedes it. Suppliers confirm this and CEO Simon Susman concedes that working with his company “can be challenging”. 29 Aug 2008
South Africa's Production Price Index (PPI) has increased by 18.9% year-on-year in July from 16.8% year-on-year in June. 28 Aug 2008
The Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality is set to double the number of food garden projects set up in the area to respond to the challenge of high food prices and poverty. A resolution was taken at the second annual Ekurhuleni Women's Agricultural Summit which was hosted by the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality and Ekurhuleni Women in Agriculture this week to set up another 1500 food-producing projects. 28 Aug 2008
The Ekurhuleni Agricultural Summit, which opens on Tuesday, 26 August 2006, will be used to re-evaluate women's role in ending poverty and creating more jobs in the sector. Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality spokesperson Zweli Dlamini said they wanted to reposition agriculture as a sector that can provide viable economic and growth opportunities rather than being a merely subsistence sector. 25 Aug 2008
The new wool season kicks off on Wednesday when close on 12 000 bales will be offered at auction in Port Elizabeth, Cape Wools announced today, Monday 18 August 2008. 18 Aug 2008
The Presidential Working Group on Commercial Agriculture has earmarked four key areas where they will encourage communities to use their land efficiently by working together to produce food for their subsistence. 13 Aug 2008
Where are the opportunities that always lie in times of economic change? What should the owners of and participants in global supply chains be doing to maintain or extend their competitive advantage in this global economic downturn? 11 Aug 2008
Poor people, especially in the rural areas, are finding it difficult to cope with the rocketing high food prices on their thin wages or social grants. 8 Aug 2008
Government is to intensify the support it provides to emerging farmers to increase local production as part of efforts to combat rising food prices and decrease its reliance on imports. 7 Aug 2008
Factory gate prices for June 2008 has surprised many economists coming in significantly under what was expected at 16.8% year-on-year (y/y) for June 2008, reported Statistics South Africa (Stats SA), Thursday, 31 July 2008. 31 Jul 2008
Business process flexibility versus the cost of technology in the supply chain is an ongoing debate within many companies. Jane Thomson, MD of Softworx, an EOH company and distributor of Infor in Sub-Saharan Africa, says savvy manufacturers have recognised the effectiveness of an integrated Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system in enabling effective response to change and, reducing long-term IT costs. 18 Jul 2008
The two-day food summit currently taking place at Gallagher Estate in Midrand will enable the Gauteng Department of Agriculture to formulate a position on the pricing of food. 11 Jul 2008
Soft goods such as coffee, sugar, cotton and orange juice are nowhere near their all time high prices like so many other commodities such as energies, grains and metals. The soft sector of this market may be the next leader of the commodity bull market. Within the soft commodities, coffee futures may be next to make a historic market run. 10 Jul 2008
The green movement in business is moving beyond recycling paper, water bottles and soda cans. Companies such as IBM are starting to capitalize on the "greening" of the supply chain, especially when it comes to controlling carbon dioxide emissions. 8 Jul 2008
While food prices have been stable or have fallen in relation to our incomes for much of the past thirty years, the past two years have indicated clearly that the era of cheap food is over. Rising food prices place a severe burden on the poor and government must intervene to support the needy in facing higher food prices. However, higher food prices also provide an opportunity to profit from producing more food for our people. 3 Jul 2008
The current supplychainforesight research into the state of the industry's supply chain demonstrates a sector where strategic supply chain thinking has traditionally been in short supply, but that those companies who are focusing on it are earning competitive advantage. 27 Jun 2008
the company of wine people recently won the JF Hillebrand Supply Chain Partner of the Year Award for 2008. 20 Jun 2008
High cost of food blamed on climate change. 9 Jun 2008
