Author:Ittman, H; Schoeman, C; King, D; Bean, W; Viljoen, NDate:Mar 2010The 2009 theme for the state of logistics’ survey is ‘Logistics Value and Costs – Driving Macro and Micro-economic Change towards Global Competitiveness and Sustainability’. For South Africa to become and stay competitive internationally the ...Read more
Author:Schmitz, P; Engelbrecht, GN; Bean, WLDate:Jul 2010The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) contracted the CSIR to investigate and propose methods to improve its logistics and inventory accounting capabilities. The CSIR proposed that a supply chain management approach should be followed ...Read more
Author:Freiboth, HW; Goedhals-Gerber, LL; Van Dyk, FE; Dodd, MCDate:Nov 2013There is concern in the South African fruit industry that a large amount of fruit and money is lost every season due to breaks in the fruit export cold chain. The possibility of a large percentage of losses in a significant sector of the ...Read more
Author:Schmitz, P; Scheepers, L; de Wit, PWC; De la Rey, ADate:Sep 2007Spatial data such as roads and land parcels is increasingly becoming a commodity that is being created with the aim to sell or to provide spatial information to other institutions for further processing or to decision makers to aid in their ...Read more
Author:Schmitz, PDate:Jun 2007The objective of this study is to provide a tool, namely the establishment of supply chains and supply chain management to manage this chain, enabling a GIS unit to respond to the needs of their customers with the right product at the right ...Read more
Author:Schmitz, PDate:Sep 2008One of the challenges according to Dangermond (1999) and Tomlinson (2000) for GIS units in the 21st century is to be able to manage themselves successfully in order to deliver the right product at the right time to the right customer. Tomlinson ...Read more