SAPICS Directors

Reuben Badana
CPIM, CSCP, President of SAPICS

Reuben joined Oracle in 2006 as a Supply chain Specialist responsible for Supply chain management Solutions entailing, advanced Procurement, inventory optimization, warehouse management, production planning / Scheduling and demand management. A member of SAPICS for 21 years with service as a director on the board. He has taught and continues to teach a variety of SAPICS/APICS courses. He is a chairperson for Tirisano Ka Batho Consulting (TKB). Reuben is certified as a Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) and at a fellow level CFPIM and holds a BA degree in Logistics management, a National Diploma in Organization and Work-study and a Management advanced program certificate from WBS. Reuben is a frequent speaker at SAPICS Conferences and at Marcus Events.

Cobus Rossouw
CSCP

Cobus is the Chief Executive Officer of the Integration Services Division of Imperial Logistics ("ILIS"). In this capacity, he is a member of the executive management team of Imperial Logistics, the leading logistics and supply chain management company in Southern Africa with revenue exceeding R10bn and profit approaching R1bn per annum.
The Integration Services Division is responsible to complement and enhance the existing service offerings of Imperial Logistics with professional services, leveraging people, process and information technology assets. Cobus is responsible for, amongst other business units, Volition - the specialist supply chain consulting business that Imperial Logistics invested in during 2008.

Cobus obtained engineering and commerce qualifications from the University of Pretoria. With his focus on industrial & systems engineering and business logistics, his career was destined for Supply Chain Management. Cobus also studied towards a MBA at UNISA and qualified as Certified Supply Chain Professional through the Association for Operations Management, APICS.

After seven years Louis Heyl and Associates, Cobus joined the Board of Directors of Cadbury South Africa in 1996, where he was responsible for operations planning, procurement and distribution. Cobus also led the implementation of end-to-end enterprise systems and the development of value-based strategies. In 2001 Cobus rejoined the professional services industry and assisted to build Volition to be the largest SCM consulting provider in South Africa.

Cobus is a Director and chairman of the EXCO of SAPICS, the Association for Operations Management of Southern Africa.

Rob McKenna

Rob started his work working life as a metallurgist and materials engineer from Wits building Rooivalk helicopter prototypes at Denel Aviation. During his time there he became interested in operations management and completed a GDE in Industrial Engineering at Wits. Realising that the military aircraft industry was not exactly booming in South Africa in the 90's he left to do an MBA at the Graduate School of Business at UCT.

Joining SAB after business school Rob started working in the supply chain field having great fun doing network optimisation proposals for the SAB Coca-Cola investments in ABI. In fact that was so interesting to Rob that he moved across from SAB to ABI to develop the supply chain planning function which he then spent 5 years doing. This was highly fulfilling as the team literally built the capability from the ground up with each year bringing new capabilities on board while coping with the ever increasing complexities and demands of the transforming soft drinks industry in South Africa. Rob's last two years in corporate were in a new role moving out of being soft drinks planning manager and taking on a supply chain development role for both beer and soft drinks where he looked after the CO2 risk mitigation projects and projects aimed at the business process optimisation across the SAB supply chain.

Rob has now started his own organisation focusing on small to medium sized companies to service that market with a combination of supply chain consulting and business coaching. Rob believes that there is great potential for business success in South Africa and that many organisations collapse at the point where they are about to become successful because they lack the support they require to deal with sudden growth.

Bruce Rowe

Bruce is the managing director of Mpowered Business Solutions and has been with the company since 2005.

Bruce worked in the investment banking industry in the UK prior to joining Ernst & Young South Africa as a management consultant. Bruce subsequently worked for Dimension Data, Commerce One and Volition Consulting services prior to becoming the MD of Mpowered.

Bruce has assisted various multi-billion rand companies, as well as a host of medium to large companies, develop and implement their BBBEE strategies.

Bruce is committed to driving transformation awareness and action within the supply chain profession and believes that SAPICS should lead the way in this process.

Ken Titmuss
CPIM, CFPIM, CSCP

Ken, has an Honours degree in Production Engineering from Loughborough University in the UK as well as his CFPIM and CSCP from APICS in the USA. For the last 13 years Ken has run his own business, Kent Outsourcing Services (KOS), focusing on education and consulting in manufacturing, materials and supply chain management. KOS is a member of the PSQ consulting group which is the SAPICS Franchise holder in Cape Town. During this time he has worked with over 120 companies in Southern Africa in many sectors including, automotive, engineering, electronic, electrical, food, agriculture, fishing, clothing, medical and mining, to mention a few. Ken has been a member of SAPICS since 1989 serving on the Cape Town Chapter since then. He has also been a member of the SAPICS national board for many of those years, serving as President for two of them. Ken has regularly presented papers and workshops at SAPICS and other supply chain conferences over the years in South Africa. In addition, he presents SAPICS education courses, seminars and workshops both publicly in Cape Town or in-house to his clients around the country.

Liezl Smith
CPIM, CIRM, CSCP, Director, SAPICS, South Africa

Liezl holds a B Eng (Industrial electronics) from the University of Stellenbosch. She has also received certification from APICS in CPIM, CIRM and CSCP. Her career started in operations - she moved into management consulting, logistics consulting and advanced planning consulting. Currently she owns her own consultancy business, performing a range of services on an outsourced basis. Her specialty is Supply Chain and general business training and consulting to help companies unlock value.

Colin Seftel
CPIM, CFPIM, CSCP

Colin was born in Cape Town, and educated in Zimbabwe and England, where he graduated from the University of London with a BSc Engineering. After working on the Zambian Copperbelt as an electrical engineer, he joined Eskom as a project engineer, and was eventually appointed to the Koeberg Nuclear Power Station project. After its completion, he was given the task of assessing the spare parts requirements and optimising the power station's spares inventories. In 1989, he joined Petrel Engineering, a manufacturer and major exporter of marine equipment, as Materials Manager, later becoming Operations Manager, until his retirement in 2009. Since 1994, he has also worked as a consultant on a part-time basis, assisting other companies with ERP and ISO 9000 systems implementations. Colin has presented papers at the SAPICS conferences in 1994, 1995, 1998 and 2004. In 1996, he became the first practitioner in South Africa to be awarded the CFPIM qualification.

Tracy Cheetham
CPIM, CSCP

As a past president of SAPICS, during a time of transition which required vision, resilience, courage and integrity to steer the organization into a new era of professionalism and sound financial management, Tracy brings the following to SAPICS:

• Continuity
• Varied and interesting network of contacts
• A passion for South Africa and all it's people
• A focus on continuous improvement, innovation and implementation
• Insight into the development of the Supply Chain and Operations Management profession
• Dedication to ensuring that while SAPICS may be a section 21, it still has Corporate Social Investment responsibilities
• Unshakeable commitment to the developing knowledge and skills in the area of operations and supply chain management in Africa

Tracy is thankful to have served as a board member for several years but has served many more as a volunteer. Tracy has promised that should she not have the opportunity to continue to serve as a board member that her volunteer commitment and service to SAPICS still stands.

Tracy is currently working for APICS on contract where she is the Director of International Services.