Supply chain management is big business in SA: "bits and bytes are easy to move. Containers are a little heavier," writes Kevin Simpson, marketing director at SCS Africa.(Company Focus)

African Review of Business and Technology,  November, 2005  by Simpson, Kevin

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THE PRINCIPLES BEHIND supply chain management are not new, the technology is not new, and the need to cut costs is certainly not new. But suddenly it's a huge thing in South Africa. What has changed? Nothing--except lower interest rates and the dropping of heavy import duties on many items.

For the past five years supply chain integration (and its more recent offspring, trade partner Integration) has been a hot topic at specialist conferences for logistics people, IT people and procurement people. The concepts were fairly straightforward: use the immediacy and error-free nature ...

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