Compared to March last year, road freight, air freight and pipelines have shown improvement...
Potatoes SA shares Limpopo Province potato farmer Johan Holtzhausen's story as he details how he had contracted Covid-19 and at the same time faced challenges that his business went through due to Covid-19...
In terms of handset sales, Tecno Mobile has outdone tech giant Samsung across Africa...
The recovery of the South African new-vehicle market remains largely subdued, due to continued stock shortages, but there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel...
Sandra Fraga, chief sales and marketing officer at Syspro, unpacks the journey behind the software development company's rebrand...
Evan-Lee Courie 19 Apr 2021
South Africa's agricultural sector was one of the only shining stars in the economy in 2020, escaping the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic relatively unscathed...
When the Ever Given container ship choked off traffic in the Suez Canal for almost a week in late March 2021, it made headlines around the world...
Nada R. Sanders 12 Apr 2021
South Africa's biggest food producer Tiger Brands said on Wednesday it expected headline earnings from continuing operations to rise as much as 20% in the six months to 31 March...
Mastercard Foundation and African Leadership Academy call on young African entrepreneurs to join the Anzisha Prize Fellowship program...
Last year I predicted that "at the dawn of this new decade it is clear that traditional print publishing as we know it will never return to the glory days of record-breaking advertising revenue and circulation."...
Josephine Buys 29 Jan 2021
The shipment of goods to suppliers has become technologically sophisticated. Delays in getting out the Covid-19 vaccine to people show that the breakdowns come down to something more basic...
Anna Nagurney 11 Jan 2021
With the worldwide roll-out of a Covid-19 vaccine, life and economies could potentially see a return to some semblance of normality by the end of 2021...
Richard dos Santos 21 Dec 2020
In a collaboration between the PRC, BRC and Nielsen, the new 4 Way Fusion is a product that contains an unprecedented 953,909,612 data points, making it a tool for media decision-makers wanting to understand how local consumers interact with the media and make their buying decisions...
Largely due to global supply chain disruptions brought about by Covid-19, more big South African fashion brands are committing to producing fashion at home. What are the implications?...
Issued by Lontana Apparel 16 Nov 2020
Industrials, manufacturing and transportation (IMT) companies have some of the most complex supply chains of any sector and have been particularly hard hit by quarantines, travel restrictions, and other disruptions brought about by the global Covid-19 outbreak...
An Africa-wide innovation challenge, modelled on the successful SA EO Challenge, is seeking the best ideas in the downstream application of space technology...
The minister of agriculture, land reform and rural development, Thoko Didiza, has extended the validity period of the Covid-19 Disaster Agricultural Support Fund Voucher...
On a trip to Denmark to discuss the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with the National Business Initiative's (NBI) counterparts there, the one issue on which we struggled to connect was inequality...
Steve Nicholls 30 Jul 2020
Data is key in helping to deal with the impact of Covid-19 and intelligent systems can help organisations allocate resources more efficiently...
Akesh Lalla 28 Jul 2020
Part 1 of this article looked at the mergers and acquisitions market in South Africa; this part will explore M&A conditions in other parts of the continent...
The global impact that the Covid-19 pandemic has had not only on public health, but on business, cannot be underestimated...
Soromfe Uzomah 27 Jul 2020
Manufacturing is a key driver of job creation and national economies in general. But a component of manufacturing that is often taken for granted is supply chains...
Christopher Veerasamy 6 Jul 2020
In the last several months, Covid-19 has taken up nearly every news headline in nearly every country in the world. The health impact, testing, confinement, and trying to curb the pandemic have rightly been at the forefront...
Mimi Alemayehou 6 Jul 2020
Manufacturing is a key driver of job creation and national economies in general. But a component of manufacturing that is often taken for granted is supply chains...
Christopher Veerasamy 2 Jul 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic will have economic consequences for many countries. In Nigeria, the country's lockdowns froze economic activities, causing job losses and supply chain disruptions.
Tolu Olarewaju 22 Jun 2020
Many Unilever brands form part of South Africans' everyday defence against the coronavirus...
Lauren Hartzenberg 15 Jun 2020
The modern world is facing a unique and unprecedented time. Lockdown and social distancing measures have been introduced across the globe, with South Africa implementing some of the strictest regulations.
Lucy Desai 29 May 2020
The outbreak of Covid-19 has caused disruption across the globe and has led to two simultaneous crises...
Kavir Bhoola 14 May 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic and emergency measures taken by the South African Government have caused unprecedented business disruption. They have forced companies to respond to new and ever-changing risks and challenges, from employees' health and safety to site closures, supply chain disruptions and decreased demand for many goods and services...
Giles White 16 Apr 2020
South Africa started 2020 on the ropes with economists generally expecting the annual GDP growth to be below 1%...
Nicole Paige, Michael Denenga and Ashford Nyatsumba 2 Apr 2020
South Africa started 2020 on the ropes with economists generally expecting the annual GDP growth to be below 1%. This already weak outlook has been exacerbated by the impact of Covid-19 and the consequent curtailment of economic activity...
Nicole Paige, Michael Denenga & Ashford Nyatsumba 27 Mar 2020
A new WWF South Africa report, Agri-Food Systems: Facts and Futures, has called for a fundamental overhaul of our food system which, in its current form, it says, is a threat to the environment and human health...
A glitch in a supply chain can cost an organisation up to 10% of its shareholder value, and even put the company out of business. Supply chain disruptions are therefore widely regarded as one of the greatest risks facing manufacturers...
Supply chain risk in sub-Saharan Africa remains the highest in the world and continued to increase during the third quarter of the year...
Similar to competing in the Formula 1, businesses in today's ever-changing omni-channel environment need superior skill, agility and collaboration to succeed...
Doug Kimball and Srinivasan Muthusrinivasan 2 Aug 2016
According to a recent survey conducted by Mazars during June 2016, across 120 respondents, many retail organisations lack a clear understanding of the purpose of the internal audit function...
If you're in any doubt as to the cogency of this statement, just think Volkswagen, Malaysia Airlines, FIFA, SAA, Bill Cosby, Sony, Penny Sparrow, Chris Hart and Nicole de Klerk...
Teresa Settas 24 Feb 2016
GS1, a neutral, global NPO organisation that develops and maintains the most widely used supply chain standards system in the world, has announced its GS1 Global Registry has reached 15 million product items...
As the festive season approaches, businesses should put an emphasis on proactively managing their supply chains to meet customer demand.
Adam Orlin 20 Nov 2013
Foreign-produced goods are increasingly in demand by South African companies. To mitigate the risk of supply chain disruptions, it is critical that local businesses develop a comprehensive importing strategy.
The global supply chain survey being undertaken by Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT) can be completed electronically in 12 minutes and affords South African supply chain and operations professionals the opportunity to participate in global research that is extremely significant for SAPICS and for the local supply chain community. It ends at the end of February 2010.