"BTS is a world leader in partnering with leading corporations to build engagement, alignment and energy around key strategic priorities. Our unparalleled experience in applying discovery-based learning technologies to engage people has helped win the minds and hearts at all levels of our clients' organizations. These technologies include innovative, customised computer-based and board simulations. We improve the way companies engage their people in the change process. The result is action that leads to expected business outcomes.
We have extensive experience engaging organizations in a multi-phased strategic alignment and execution process to ensure transformational change at every level of the organization. More than 25 of the world's largest corporations measured by market capitalisation are BTS customers."
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Tel: +27 12 663 6909
Website: www.bts.com
"IMPERIAL Logistics is a leading logistics and supply chain management company in Southern Africa. It provides customised value-added logistics services and supply chain solutions to blue chip customers in almost every industry. IMPERIAL Logistics is about more than transport, warehousing, logistics and distribution. It's about adding value, improving service, reducing costs, understanding our customers' businesses and exceeding their individual supply chain requirements. IMPERIAL Logistics is a division of the IMPERIAL Group and is home to more than 70 operating companies. In Sub-Saharan Africa operations are segmented into four key divisions, namely Transport and Warehousing, Consumer Products, Specialised Freight and Integration Services. IMPERIAL Logistics International focuses on European markets and comprises four operating units, namely Panopa Logistik, Neska, IMPERIAL Reederei and Brouwer Shipping"
Contact Details:
Tel: +27 11 821 5500
About UTi Worldwide
UTi Worldwide Inc. is an international, non-asset-based supply chain services and solutions company providing air and ocean freight forwarding, contract logistics, customs brokerage, distribution, inbound logistics, truckload brokerage and other supply chain management services.
UTi's purpose is to deliver competitive advantage to each of its clients' supply chains and aims to be the market leader in client centricity. This is achieved through the long-term relationships their expert logistics teams build with clients, and the passion and dedication with which they deliver supply chain solutions.
Contact Details:
Tel: +27 11 457 2600
Website: www.go2uti.com
Oliver Wight are leading business improvement specialists who educate, coach and mentor people to lead and sustain change on the journey to business excellence and outstanding business performance.Oliver Wight supports its clients by providing best practice knowledge transfer
through education events. By mobilizing a critical mass of motivated key
influencers and opinion leaders; we enable the application of best practice to
the client's business through facilitated workshops; and provide on-going
coaching support through design and deployment.
As a professional services company, Volition offers specialist skills to address supply chain challenges. The company employs more than 100 professionals who operate across Southern Africa. The Volition team structures itself according to the skills required to support its clients' needs with expertise spanning the end-to-end supply chain domain, including procurement, operations planning, distribution logistics and value chain integration. Over the past seven years, the Volition client base has expanded into all industry sectors, such as FMCG, Banking, Public Sector, Petrochemical, Automotive and Mining Supply Chains, resulting in long-term mutually beneficial relationships.
Volition is now an integral part of the IMPERIAL Logistics group of companies. IMPERIAL Logistics is a division of Imperial Group (Pty) Ltd and is recognised as the leading logistics and supply chain management company in Southern Africa, with an extensive international footprint in Europe.
Volition maintains a focus on passionately driving sustainable business improvement through applying the capabilities of its people, creating value for all stakeholders. It is this passion that has resulted in Volition successfully completing projects that have generated billions of Rands in value for its clients.
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Tel: +27 11 259 4380
Website: www.volition.co.za
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Value Logistics has firmly entrenched itself as a market leader through innovative, optimal logistics provision in warehousing, distribution and customised supply chain solutions. On average 40 000 parcels are moved through Value's national infrastructure on a daily basis to around 80 000 drop points in Southern Africa. With a fleet of 4 500 vehicles ranging in size from a 1 ton to 35 ton and in excess of 200 000 sqm of warehousing space under their control a robust IT platform integrates all the links by providing the visibility and control that is required to run this mammoth operation.
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Tel: +27 860 1000 46
Website: www.value.co.za
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Afresh Consult is an authorized distributor of the multi-award winning HansaWorld ERP/Business Solutions in many African Countries, with offices in South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Kenya.
Afresh Consult focuses on the Retail, Distribution, Transport, Hospitality, Rental and Manufacturing Industries but also services customers in the Agriculture, Banking, Creative, Medical and Publishing Industries.
Afresh Consult offers implementation, Development and support of the range of fully integrated HansaWorld ERP, CRM, SCM and accounting software. As a specialist ERP consulting house, Afresh Consult also offers Change Management, Business Process Re-engineering and Training. HansaWorld has 45 modules and 74 000 installations globally.
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Tel: +27 84 581 7422
Website: www.afreshconsult.com
"Since 1991 APC Storage Solutions S.A. have developed a solid corporate structure consolidating its presence nationally in competitive markets. APC was founded with a passion for two things, creating a quality internationally made product from the best material available and providing a professional personalised service that only APC can offer.
With an ever growing economy worldwide we understand that optimal use of space, storage and material handling solutions is an integral part of a successful business. In view of escalating market demands in storage systems, constant designing and development of research programs with regard to both large and automated rack clad buildings and small and medium sized facilities are rated high on our priority list."
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Tel: +27 861 61 61 61
Websites: www.apcgroup.co.za
www.shelving.co.za
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Only 15% of the potential cost savings and service enhancements in a supply chain come from simple cost cutting. 85% comes from re-engineering and integration. Barloworld Logistics is South Africa's leading integrated logistics player. Through client collaboration and industry thought leadership, Barloworld Logistics delivers a customised solution that achieves the best overall results.
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Empowering through education - this is our motto, and also what we strive to do every time we are given the responsibility of teaching someone new skills in Supply Chain Management.
BizzPro is an accredited training provider, an Authorized Education Provider for SAPICS, a Study Centre for CIPS and a SYSPRO official training centre.
Our sister company, BizzSkill is a highly focused recruitment service company specialising in placing positions within the Supply Chain. One of key value-add services lies in that we assess all candidates to confirm their knowledge prior to submitting CV's to potential employers.
Based in Johannesburg, South Africa, Business Modelling Associates provides integrated planning, predictive modelling, and decision support technology and services that assist companies to uniquely integrate and align financial and operational planning. Business Modelling Associates is the exclusive Distributor for Enterprise Optimizer® across Africa, the Middle East and UK. Developed by US based River Logic, Inc. Enterprise Optimizer® is the only technology that can present a holistic, unified model of a business from a financial and operational perspective simultaneously. It can radically change and support the way companies make important decisions, in order to determine the truly optimal financial impact on the entire organisation before action is taken. For more information visit www.businessmodelling.com 
CargoSolutions is the supply chain optimization unit within Cargo Carriers Ltd, a JSE listed logistics service provider.
CargoSolutions assists organizations to leverage their supply chains for a decisive competitive edge. We utilize the Theory of Constraints methodology, as well as enabling supply chain and logistics execution management systems. CargoSolutions is also the African implementers for the Symphony supply chain optimization software.
We have gained considerable experience in the FMCG, footwear, building supplies, plastic extrusion, steel, electronic assembly, general manufacturing, and sugar industries. We also serve a number of other logistics service providers.
For more information, see www.cargosolutions.co.za
Tel: 011-485 8700
The Consumer Goods Council of South Africa (CGCSA) is a Section 21 company representing over 11,000 member companies in the retail, wholesale and manufacturing of consumer goods. 
CHEP is the global leader in pallet and container pooling services, serving many of the world's largest companies. CHEP has more than 7,500 employees and operates in 45 countries. Combining superior technology and an asset base of more than 300 million pallets and containers, CHEP offers its customers exceptional value, a platform that enables reduction in customer product damage and an environmentally sustainable logistical solution. Supply chains served include consumer goods, produce, beverages and automotive, with global partners that include Procter & gamble, SYSCO, Kellogg's, Kraft, Nestle, Ford and General Motors.
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A specialist industrial flooring contractor combining sophisticated technology with quality eco-friendly products to provide: New floors (internal and external) placed utilizing the LASER SCREED METHOD, comprehensive floor repair services, specialist surface treatment utilizing extensive diamond grinding to produce polished concrete that is rapidly being promoted worldwide as the preferred "green" flooring option
Contact Details:
Contact: Peter Norton
Phone: +27 11 323 2900
Fax: +27 11 823 2103
Cell: +27 82 6005619
Website: www.concreteflooring.co.za
Demand Chain Innovations bring you innovative supply chain solutions and support; through international experience; contacts and diverse customer base. We are independent and able to provide objective advice. 
The iWMS mission is to improve our client's profitability, efficiency, adaptability, customer service and employee moral by introducing, selling, implementing and supporting cutting edge supply chain products in the Southern African market.
iWMS is the HighJump Software Associate Partner in the Southern African region and HighJump Software is a global provider of supply chain management software that streamlines the flow of inventory and information from supplier to store shelf.
HighJump Software solutions for distribution and logistics, direct store delivery (DSD), mobility and manufacturing include: Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), Transportation Management Systems (TMS), Route Accounting Systems (RAS), Manufacturing Execution, Mobile Sales and ERP Data Collection.
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Website: www.iwms.co.za
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JDA® Software Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: JDAS), The Supply Chain Company®, is the leading provider of innovative supply chain management, merchandising and pricing excellence solutions worldwide. JDA empowers more than 6,000 companies(including; S.C Johnson & Sons, Bokomo Breakfast Foods, Kimberly-Clark, Clover, Parmalat) to make optimal decisions that improve profitability and achieve real results in the discrete and process manufacturing, wholesale distribution, transportation and retail industries. With an integrated solutions offering spanning the entire supply chain from materials to the consumer, JDA leverages the powerful heritage and knowledge capital of acquired market leaders including i2 Technologies®, Manugistics®, E3®, Intactix® and Arthur®. Visit us on stand A44.
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Open Learning Group (OLG) has a proud history of contributing to quality, accredited education and training in South Africa. Launched in 1997 with the initial objective of improving the education and training of under-qualified teachers, OLG has now expanded into a business where people are being developed and supported on a complete NQF-pathway, from the GET - HET band, and their futures influenced positively. OLG follows a strict model of customer service and support to all stakeholders and as a result over 60 000 learners have been supported with their studies in their lifelong learning quests during the past 15 years.
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(NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's largest business software company. For more than 30 years, Oracle has helped customers get up-to-date and accurate information from their business systems-information used to collaborate, grow their business, measure outcomes, and report results with confidence.
Since launching the world's first commercial relational database in 1977, Oracle has led through continuous innovation and a relentless focus on customer success, providing reliable, secure, and integrated technologies that help customers access the knowledge they need to respond to market conditions with speed and agility. Today Oracle provides database, middleware, and collaboration products; enterprise business applications; application development tools; and professional services for businesses and organizations worldwide. For more information, visit oracle.com
Our main focus is logistics optimisation development studies. Together with your in-house team we can provide the edge for securing new logistics contracts. To keep your operational assets optimal, we also offer periodic operational reviews to cut out or repurpose under-performing assets, and reconfigure your fleet to cope with changing customer and order profiles.
Our products include Vehicle Planning for logistics related tender responses, Strategic Decision Support "what if" scenario option testing, Fleet Composition Profiling - vehicle mix by depot location/country, Daily Operational Fleet Optimisation including route planning, vehicle and load scheduling and Centre of Gravity Studies for new facility location planning.
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Tel: +27 11 524 0431
Cell: +27 72 235 5755
Website: www.pathfindersolutions.co.za
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Pearson VUE is the world leader in Computer-Based Testing, also known as e-assessment, and is attending the SAPICS Annual Conference in order to showcase the many benefits of electronic test delivery over traditional pen and paper tests in assessment programmes. Directors from the company will be present to demonstrate its services to African decision-makers in any sector - public or private - in which the testing of people's skills and competencies takes place.
Pearson VUE's managed test delivery service is proven, scalable, reliable and secure. The company hosts and operates the candidate booking and scheduling system, plus offers global support to both candidates and clients anywhere in the world.
Contact Details:
Person: Willem Matthysen
Tel: +27 76 539 8915
Fax: +27 86 538 6538
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The name PICSIE is an acronym for Production & Inventory Control, Systems & Industrial Engineering. From its inception some 25 years ago, PICSIE BOOKS has been supplying Industry, Academia and students with books in the expanding field of Operations Management. Its name is linked to SAPICS and its relationship goes back to those early years.
Although the primary focus of PICSIE BOOKS is in publications relating to the Management of Operations, over the years the bookstore has broadened its scope and nowadays it sources and supplies books in a whole range of subjects. Indeed, "We'll get any book for you" that is available. Several books have been published by PICSIE PRESS, the publishing arm of the company. Phone, fax or e-mail us for a quotation and availability.
Please click here to access the Reference Books page for our contact details and price list.
We are a team of professional engineers, who are passionate about physical asset management and focussed on ensuring that our clients' assets operate at their optimum. Realising that physical asset management was an underdeveloped field in the South African market, we set out to do research on best practices, methodologies, tactics and strategies, and started developing both a Pragma Methodology and an Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) software tool.
Doing Physical Asset Management the Pragma Way, has grown into a reputable service and product and our client base has expanded beyond the borders of South Africa, to Europe, South America, Canada, Australia and the Middle East.
4 billion times a day in over 180 countries, Procter & Gamble brands touch the lives of people around the world. With the strongest portfolio of trusted, quality, leadership brands, including Pampers®, Always®, Pantene®, Mach3®, Pringles®, Iams®, Oral-B®, Duracell®, Olay®, Head & Shoulders®, Wella®, Gillette®, Braun® and Fusion®, our goal is to improve life daily through our products, people, and initiatives.
Procter & Gamble is driven by passionate people and a common purpose to bring trusted brands to consumers around the world. P&G grows by touching and improving more consumers' lives in more parts of the world... more completely.
At PSQ, our philosophy is that People, Systems and Quality are the foundation for any successful company.
QAD is a leading provider of enterprise applications for global manufacturing companies. QAD ERP solutions provide critical functionality for managing manufacturing resources and operations within and beyond the enterprise, enabling global manufacturers to collaborate with their customers, suppliers and partners to make and deliver the right product, at the right cost and at the right time. Manufacturers of automotive, consumer products, electronics, food and beverage, industrial and life science products use QAD applications at approximately 6,100 licensed sites in more than 90 countries and in as many as 27 languages. For more information about QAD, telephone +27 (0)11 461 6900, or visit the QAD Web site at: www.qad.com. "QAD" is a registered trademark of QAD Inc.
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Tel: +27 11 461 6900
Website: www.qad.com
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RedPrairie delivers productivity solutions to help companies in three categories-inventory, transportation and workforce. We provide these solutions to manufacturers, distributors and retailers around the world looking to support business strategies for increasing revenue, reducing costs and creating competitive advantage.
With 20 global offices providing services to 34,000 customer sites in more than 40 countries, we understand that making the switch to new technology is hard. It takes time. It takes resources. And sometimes it even takes a leap of faith.
That's why our team takes the time to truly understand your business goals. And why we're focused on providing proven solutions that drive real productivity-from single point solutions to smart, integrated platforms. So you can reduce inventory and transportation costs, and help employees work more efficiently.
Schnellecke SA started operations at VWSA Uitenhage in 1995 and 2008 at Ford and Nissan in Pretoria. Well thought-out transport solutions, value-adding logistics, engineering, supply chain management, production and assembly of automotive parts and components are our products. We have established ourselves in the market as a logistics systems service provider. With a broad base and 24-hour operation, Schnellecke manages and controls over 83 000m² of warehouse space in Uitenhage and approximately 30 000m² in Pretoria. Our main consideration is the integral contemplation of logistic processes - from the place of origin to the place of consumption - anywhere in the world.
Softline ACCPAC is a provider for business management applications including financial, distribution & warehousing, CRM, project management, service management, manufacturing and retail management solutions; including reporting, business intelligence and workflow to the mid range and enterprise market.
We will be showcasing Sage ERP X3, an enterprise ERP system catering for high end Financial, large scale Distribution & Warehousing and complex Manufacturing requirements that maintains simplicity and flexibility - providing ease of use, speed of implementation and low cost of ownership: principles on which the success of global giant Sage Plc is founded.
SCJ was established to specialize in the sales, implementation and support of the Manhattan Associates suite of products in Southern Africa.
Since incorporation of Supply Chain Navigators in 2001 we have implemented numerous very successful projects together with our partners, who are all major players in the field of advanced planning and operational management software. We provide a diversity of standard software solutions that are used and proven all over the world. As system integrators with over 20 years of experience in the logistics and supply chain industry, we focus on operational software systems, such as:
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Tel: +27 11 455 6543
Fax: +27 86 679 9315
Website: www.navigators.co.za
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SYSPRO is an internationally-recognized, leading provider of enterprise business solutions. Formed in 1978, SYSPRO was one of the first software vendors to develop an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution. Today, SYSPRO is a global business solutions vendor with offices on six continents and over 1500 channel and support partners. Over 12 000 licensed companies across a broad spectrum of industries in more than 62 countries trust SYSPRO as the platform on which to manage their business processes.
SYSPRO's mission is to continually develop remarkable software that simplifies operational effectiveness and keeps customers in control of their businesses. Our vision is focused on delivering customer needs today and in the future.
T4 Systems has supplied software to the South African Logistics industry for the last 25 years. Our products are now an integral part of market leading solutions in Southern Africa and throughout Europe, including:
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Tel: +27 11 678 2457
Website: www.T4.co.za
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Recruitment - a vital, but often neglected, part of the human supply chain. It is often, wrongly thought, to be a ‘once-off' process, the laws governing other procurement processes are rarely applied to the procurement of a company's greatest asset.
To maximize ROI, it must be credited with VIP Status.
One of the ways of guaranteeing ‘TQM' in your recruitment process is to partner with a specialist recruitment firm, which knows your business and requirements. Our specialist consultants are dedicated to provide exceptional service, objectivity, honesty and results.
16 500 candidates
75% EE candidates placed (2009)
TNT Express in Southern Africa has been in operation since 1975 and forms part of the Global TNT network. Spanning over 200 countries and delivering over 3.6 million consignments a week; our dedicated employees are specifically trained to assist with all your domestic and international express distribution requirements.
Our global door-to-door services are trusted by companies of every size; who rely on TNT to meet their business challenges every day. To learn more about our products and services, visit our website at www.tnt.com or speak to one of our friendly and professional agents when you call us on 0860 122 441.
TrenStar South Africa is a market leader in Mobile Asset management, offering an integrated solution which encompasses Advanced Information Technology, Logistics Services, Reusable Packaging and the tracking and tracing of mobile assets via unique Barcoding and or RFID. TrenStar SA serves a broad spectrum of industries including amongst others, automotive, FMCG, retail, chemical and pharmaceutical and mining.
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Tel: +27 11 559 2817
Fax: +27 11 559 2806
Website: www.uj.ac.za
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The Unit for Supply Chain Management is a centre of excellence in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at the University of Pretoria, with the aim of contributing towards the development of logistics and supply chain management practice in Africa.
We strive to keep South African industry at the cutting edge of new development through access to both local and international knowledge.
The Unit offers a progressive range of continuing education programmes designed to develop management potential and competencies at all managerial levels.
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Tel: +27 12 420 4635
Website: www.up.ac.za
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VSc Solutions is a global supply chain consulting and technology company. VSc provides custom solutions that are scaleable to any industry and any supply chain environment with the key focus on delivering profits and enhancing our clients' competitive advantage. Services include Transport Management Solutions, Supply Chain Consulting and Systems Integration & Visibility.
At VSc, we believe that an investment in technology is more than just implementing the solution. We work with our clients to identify goals, measure results and continue to provide ongoing service to ensure that tangible value is realised.
To find out more contact VSc Solutions on 0861 933 393 or visit www.vscsolutions.co.za.
Rigid flexibility is the key to success. We understand no single methodology solves every problem for every organisation. Meet Sandy Miller at the X-Stream Leadership Group stand and find out more about this USA based organisation.
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