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When, while the lovely valley teems with vapour around me, and the meridian sun strikes the upper surface of the impenetrable foliage of my trees.
It seems as if the global economy is slowly starting to stabilise, but this isn’t having a massive impact on the sad state of heavy commercial vehicle (HCV) sales. When can we expect this to change? GG VAN ROOYEN looks at what the rest of 2009 holds in store for HCV sales.
If there is any upside to an economic downturn, it’s that it forces companies to do things more efficiently. And, as delegates to this year’s SAPICS Conference discovered, many supply chain operations are in desperate need of streamlining.
August is BRT awareness month, as the City of Johannesburg prepares to launch the Rea Vaya Starter Service on 30 August 2009. The road to bus rapid transit (BRT) implementation in South Africa has been a long one. As the flagship public transport project in the City of Johannesburg’s extensive transportation upgrades currently gets underway, Rea Vaya has received a lot of attention of late, most notably as a result of strong opposition to the system from local taxi associations.
The first results in the WesBank-sponsored Focus on Excellence Awards programme prove beyond a doubt that the concept of loyalty is alive and well. “Transport operators only buy on price. Sure, they take service and parts support into account. But price is the overriding factor.” If I have heard a comment like this once, I have heard it a thousand times. And, guess what? That’s not always true, as the Focus on Excellence Awards reveal.
As someone who has worked with many diverse companies over the last 10 years in the role of a supply chain service provider annually scrutinised for cost reduction, improvements and strategic solutions, ALYDA LE HANE of the Supply Chain Council has personally been in the spotlight to deliver against one, if not all, of these requirements. This dilemma is neither unique nor isolated, she writes.
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