How much is a day’s work worth to your company?

Owing to the importance of data recovery, Dovetail has added its Disaster Recovery solution as a service to its solution suite and aims to launch this service in October. The DR solution serves as an insurance policy to customers- should a client’s server crash they...

25.2% of South Africans unemployed- StatisticsSA

Statistics South Africa Statistics South Africa reports that South Africa’s population comprised 51 770 560-million in 2011. Sadly the unemployment rate has gone up with 0.4 of a percentage point quarter to quarter to 25.6 %. This renders more than a quarter of...

Carbon Tax’s Effect on SA’s Road Freight Sector

The road freight industry is one of the highest taxed industries in South Africa. Coupled with the continuous rise of petrol and diesel prices, this industry is heavily burdened and will not easily absorb a carbon tax. Carbon tax is set for implementation in South...

Supply Chain Skills Gap Widening

The skills shortage in South Africa, highlighted in the University of Johannesburg’s Supply Chain Skills Gap Survey 2012, stresses the need for qualified professionals in the Supply Chain industry and reveals that the skills gap in South Africa’s supply...

Supply Chain Risks

How do you manage supply chain risks?  ShopSA warns that supply chain risks as well as their potential impact on business performance and  shareholder value are on the rise. One of the reasons for this is globalisation, While the connection of global industries and...

Professional Online Training: Gaining Steam

Great Blog Post by Supply Chain Group LeanCor: The popularity of online training, also referred to as eLearning, is skyrocketing.  Since the mid ’90s, the employment of computers for training purposes has seen steady growth and benefited from enormous technical...