Diamond Sponsor

Established in 2001, Barloworld Logistics has grown into a significant supply chain solutions business in southern Africa with complementary operations in the Middle East. Combining a smart approach with innovative thinking and supply chain foresight, we design, implement, manage and operate smart supply chain solutions that grow our clients’ bottom lines. Smart Partnerships form the cornerstone of creating a competitive advantage for our clients. Not only do they enable us to create truly customised supply chain solutions, but a culture of collaboration and accountability. Through partnerships with key industry players, Barloworld Logistics has developed numerous in house and world-class competencies and received many industry and supplier accolades and awards.

Diamond Sponsor

Transnet SOC Ltd is a transport and logistics company, wholly-owned by the Government of the Republic of South Africa. With about 55 000 employees and assets in excess of R350 billion, Transnet is uniquely positioned to provide integrated, seamless transport solutions for its customers in the bulk and manufacturing sectors. The company is investing R340 – R380 billion over the next ten years on revitalising and expanding its rail ports and pipelines infrastructure including buying and building thousands of locomotives and construction of a new petroleum products pipeline and addressing the maintenance backlog, especially at its rail freight division.

Gold Sponsor

CHEP is a global provider of supply chain solutions serving the consumer goods, fresh food, beverage, manufacturing and retail sectors in more than 60 countries.  We offer a wide range of logistics and operational platforms and support services that are designed to increase performance and lower risk, while protecting the environment. Our platform solutions are designed to have environmental benefits.  Through product load and truck load optimisation, we reduce waste, fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.  Through Value Chain Analysis and Environmental Impact Analysis, we eliminate inefficiencies that produce waste.

Gold Sponsor

For over 70 years, Fortna® has partnered with the world’s top brands to transform their distribution operations into a competitive advantage. Fortna helps clients make and keep bold promises to their customers – fast, accurate and cost-effective fulfillment consistently at every touchpoint, across every channel. Our expertise spans distribution strategy, distribution center operations, material handling automation, supply chain systems and warehouse execution systems. We built our firm on a promise – we develop a solid business case for change and hold ourselves accountable for results.

Gold Sponsor

Imperial Logistics is a mainly African and European logistics provider of outsourced integrated value-add logistics, supply chain management and route-to-market solutions – customised to ensure the relevance and competitiveness of our clients.

With established capabilities in transportation, warehousing, distribution and synchronisation management and expanding capabilities in international freight management, the business operates in specific industry verticals – consumer packaged goods, specialised manufacturing and mining, chemicals and energy, healthcare, automotive, machinery and equipment and agriculture. In South Africa we are proudly considered as a leading logistics provider across the entire supply chain – renown for driving innovation and continuous improvement. Our work in the demanding African continent has likewise earned us the reputation as a leading distributor of pharmaceuticals and consumer packaged goods in Southern, East and West Africa. While internationally, years of hard earned experience now see us occupying leading positions in exacting industries such as chemical and automotive.

Silver Sponsor

JDA Software is the leading supply chain provider powering today’s digital transformation.  We help companies optimize delivery to customers by enabling them to predict and shape demand, fulfill faster and more intelligently, and improve customer experiences and loyalty.  More than 4,000 global customers use our unmatched end-to-end solutions portfolio to unify and shorten their supply chains, increase speed of execution, and profitably deliver to their customers.  Our world-class client roster includes 76 of the top 100 retailers, 77 of the top 100 consumer goods companies, and 8 of the top 10 global 3PLs.  Running JDA, you can plan to deliver.

Silver Sponsor

Worldwide, Jungheinrich is one of three leading companies in the material handling equipment, warehousing and material flow engineering sectors, as well as the European leader in warehousing technology. Established in Hamburg, Germany, in 1953, our company offers the full range of material handling products and services.

Rather than taking the “one size fits all”​approach, we focus on providing the best solution for the long-term profitability of your enterprise. Our approach to intralogistics is cross-industry and, as an active player in developing its future, we are committed to blazing new trails on behalf of our customers.

Silver Sponsor

Redefine Properties (JSE: RDF) is one of the country’s leading diversified real estate investment trusts (REIT), owning and managing a portfolio of revenue generating retail, office and industrial assets in South Africa and internationally. Redefine Properties superior returns are achieved by investing in and managing high quality property assets that are optimally funded to provide sustained and growing income for shareholders. Redefine has grown its portfolio outside South Africa to include significant investments in the UK, Australia and Poland. Redefine’s diversified property portfolio is currently valued at R84.1 billion comprising local and international property investments and is a JSE Top 40 Index listed company. Redefine has a diversified industrial property portfolio across Johannesburg, Cape Town and KZN, offering a wide spectrum of usable areas and customised designed facilities to cater for manufacturing, warehousing and small-to medium-sized enterprises. This balanced sub-sector spread continues to enhance Redefine’s defensive property asset pool while we continue in monitoring sector trends to capture opportunities as they arise.

Silver Sponsor

The RTT Group is a leading logistics partner specialising in multiple distribution strategies through our focused divisions: Distribution, Style, Courierit and Warehousing. We aim to deliver intelligent logistics for our customers in Africa and internationally; solutions that integrate seamlessly with in-house client / customer or 3rd party supply chain systems for true end to end supply chain solutions. At RTT we are passionate about supply chain excellence and believe that through smart planning we can help our clients achieve efficiencies in their supply chain while delivering on their strategic objectives.

Bronze Sponsor

Datalogic is a global leader in the automatic data capture and process automation markets, specialized in the designing and production of bar code readers, mobile computers, sensors for detection, measurement and safety, RFID vision and laser marking systems. Datalogic solutions help to increase the efficiency and quality of processes in the Retail, Manufacturing, Transportation & Logistics and Healthcare industries, along the entire value chain. The world’s leading players in the four reference industries use Datalogic products, certain of the attention to the customer and of the quality of the products that the Group has been offering for 45 years. Today Datalogic Group, headquartered in Bologna (Italy), employs approximately 2,700 staff worldwide, distributed in 30 countries, with manufacturing and repair facilities in the USA, Brazil, Italy, Slovakia, Hungary and Vietnam.  In 2016 Datalogic had a turnover of 576.5 million Euro and invested over 50 million Euros in Research & Development, with an asset of more than 1,200 patents in multiple jurisdictions. Datalogic S.p.A. is listed in the STAR segment of the Italian Stock Exchange since 2001 as DAL.MI.

Bronze Sponsor

Right from first-mile pickup to last mile delivery and from manufacturing plant to retail stores, FarEye has revolutionized the entire chain of logistics processes for shippers & carriers alike. FarEye’s digital logistics platform can build applications with a simple drag and drop feature, enabling enterprises to reduce time to build new processes from quarter(s) to week(s). SAIF funded FarEye continues to grow at an astounding 362% year on year with global giants like Walmart, Dominos, Hilti, Noon and Amway as a part of its client portfolio.

Bronze Sponsor

Peopleshop is a Career Consultancy, specialising in the niche areas of Supply Chain and Finance, with a core focus on building high performance teams. Peopleshop was founded on our company’s motto: “Refentse” – meaning to overcome or conquer. We work with our candidates to overcome their present career position and strive to achieve, by realizing their dreams and potential. Services include executive search, supply chain and finance recruitment, executive coaching, career mapping, psychometric assessments and a newly established EQ Consultancy.  Our aim is to move both company and individuals from success to significance.