23 articles in this issue
Stephen Kruger,Noleen Pisa
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A.G. Du Toit Valentine,Leila L. Goedhals-Gerber
AbstractBackground: There is a logistical gap in the first section of the apple supply chain that affects the temperature profiles of apples further downstream in the supply chain.Objectives: This article’s main objective is to confirm whether the logisti... see more
Aletta S. Tolmay
AbstractBackground: The South African automotive industry includes complete supply chains. The South African automotive supply chain stakeholders operating within the global arena are faced with opportunities as well as challenges. The South African gover... see more
Chengedzai Mafini,Asphat Muposhi
AbstractBackground: South Africa has a high rate of small to medium enterprises (SMEs) failure, especially in the manufacturing sector. The operational challenges confronting manufacturing SMEs are acknowledged by the Global Competitiveness Index that ran... see more
Abel Dzuke,Micheline J.A. Naude
AbstractBackground: The public sector occupies a key role in the economy comprising the appropriation of state revenue to purchase goods and to render services productively, while ensuring the optimum utilisation of available funds and resources to benefi... see more
Hans W. Ittmann
AbstractBackground: Freight transport infrastructure is an indispensable requirement for economic growth, development and prosperity. Public–private partnerships (PPPs), as a mechanism to fund and construct freight transport infrastructure, have been sugg... see more
Jyoti D. Darbari,Vernika Agarwal,Venkata S.S. Yadavalli,Diego Galar,Prakash C. Jha
AbstractBackground: Designing and implementation of reverse logistics (RL) network which meets the sustainability targets have been a matter of emerging concern for the electronics companies in India.Objectives: The present study developed a two-phase mod... see more
Andries Botha,Jacomine Grobler,V.S. Sarma Yadavalli
AbstractBackground: The automotive parts supply chain measures its success in terms of parts availability and stock required to achieve the availability target, measured as allocation fill rate (AFR). The supply chain strives to achieve an AFR target of 9... see more
Akyene Tetteh,Sarah Dsane-Nsor
AbstractBackground: Although the Internet boosts business profitability, without certain activities like efficient transportation, scheduling, products ordered via the Internet may reach their destination very late. The environmental problems (vehicle par... see more
Fanny Saruchera
AbstractBackground: Although rail transport appears to be well established and outperforming other transport modes in Europe and beyond, in the majority of developing economies it was observed that firms and travellers were, on the contrary, shunning from... see more
Petrus J. van V. Coetzee,Pieter A. Swanepoel
AbstractBackground: During the past few years, with the increase in air traffic and the expansion of airports, very few industries had such a large spatial development and movement impact as that of airport-related clusters or airport regions. Although mu... see more
Poobalan Pillay,Chengedzai Mafini
AbstractBackground: The construction industry in South Africa has a lot of potential but its performance is still restricted by numerous internal and external challenges. Unless these challenges are identified and understood better, further growth of this... see more
Claudia Karrapan,Mndeni Sishange,Elana Swanepoel,Peter J. Kilbourn
AbstractBackground: In South Africa, deemed the ‘gateway to Africa’, there is limited evidence of the existence of a survey ranking third-party logistics providers (3PLs). This lack of comparative information of the major 3PLs based on key outsourcing a... see more
Douglas N. Raza,Peter J. Kilbourn
AbstractBackground: In modern days’ dynamic consumer markets, supply chains need to be value driven and consumer oriented. Demand planning allows supply chain members to focus on the consumer and create optimal value. In demand planning, Point-of-Sale (PO... see more
Arno Meyer,Wesley Niemann,Justin Mackenzie,Jacques Lombaard
AbstractBackground: Reverse logistics (RL) practices have previously been viewed as a cost drain, but have received greater attention from practitioners because of increasing competition and dwindling margins.Purpose: The purpose of this generic qualitati... see more
Anathi Hlotywa,Emeka A. Ndaguba
AbstractBackground: There has been considerable decline in the investment on road transport infrastructure in recent times, as a result of the dwindling economic investment owing to lowering gross domestic product (GDP) since 2009.Objective: The objective... see more
Amit Govind,Rose Luke,Noleen Pisa
AbstractPurpose: The aim of this exploratory study was to investigate how management practices and processes contribute to stock-outs in the warehouse retail liquor sector in Johannesburg.Research design: A pragmatic research philosophy was used in a mult... see more
Simon Simba,Wesley Niemann,Theuns Kotzé,Assilah Agigi
AbstractBackground: The supply chain risk management (SCRM) process is aimed at the implementation of strategies that assist in managing both daily and exceptional risks facing the supply chain through continuous risk assessment to reduce vulnerability an... see more
Johan B. Smit,Joubert van Eeden,Frances E. van Dyk
AbstractBackground: Many participants in the South African wine industry still exhibit low supply chain maturity in the management of their supply chains. This hampers export performance and ultimately client satisfaction. The development and tracking of ... see more
Smart Dumba
AbstractBackground: Literature on the negative socio-economic and environmental externalities generated by informal public transport (IPT) in developing countries is vast, vibrant and growing fast. These externalities include but are not limited to noise,... see more
Ntombizodwa J. Matsoma,Intaher M. Ambe
AbstractBackground: The decline in the productivity of the South African clothing industry was attributed to changing trends in the number of clothing production organisations, which together with a decline in manufacturing output and a fluctuation in emp... see more
Themari Eicker,Jacoba O. Cilliers
AbstractBackground: Small businesses are seen as the impetus behind a country’s economic growth. The South African government’s continued commitment to prioritise the development of small businesses, the promising rise of the retail sector in South Africa... see more
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