The leading integrators of supply chain solutions
Supply chain management in action

Supply Chain and Logistics Management is fast becoming the strategic cornerstone in the ongoing battle to create competitive advantage.

Barloworld Logistics was established to take advantage of the integrated logistics opportunities that have recently emerged. The opportunity to simultaneously reduce costs and increase service levels to customers exists because previously disconnected portions of the supply chain can now be integrated in a demand network that quite simply change existing business paradigms.

Whilst Barloworld Logistics’ key value add is its ability to integrate supply chains, its core capabilities include all the traditional logistics functions from Inventory optimisation to transportation (see services).

So sure is Barloworld Logistics of its ability to add value through integration, that it is prepared to invest both intellectual capital and physical assets into solutions and to defer its reward until the benefits are evident to its customers.

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Findings of the 2006 report
  • SA companies are still focusing on the traditional, silo-based areas of their supply chains for cost and service advantage.
  • Companies rated their supply chain responsiveness highly, but one third of their capital is applied to acquiring and holding inventory.
  • Some 63% of respondents only improve their supply chains when they encounter a problem.