YAfrica has been providing Supply Chain Improvement Services in Southern Africa since the year 2009. We serve our clients and aim to be the business partner of choice in implementing supply chain strategies and improvement initiatives.
PURPOSE
Yafrica provides Supply Chain Management Improvement Services by aligning the technical supply chain solutions and the people enablement.
WHAT
Our services allow clients to address the major SCM challenges related to:
» SCM Cost Containment.
» SCM Visibility.
» SCM Risk Management.
» Customer Demand/ Service Delivery – about meeting and exceeding customers’ expectations;
» Globalization /Localisation- understanding of each geographic location and community where our clients’ business footprint operates.
WHY
» Clients need to adapt to changes and challenges in their environment.
» Clients are looking to drive significant improvement across their organisation.
» Clients want to assess the real potential.
» Clients team needs to build coherence amongst themselves about the need.
» Client team needs to reflect and establish where the improvement lies, and what the priorities are.
» Client needs to align people to achieve the targets
» Client needs to reframe its SCM digital challenge in the new economy of open digital ecosystems with connective, co-creative participants
“The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated change and moved desired changes in the supply chain space forward by at least ten years“
HOW
We bring all our tools, skills, knowledge, understanding and experiences and share willingly to:
» Identify potential areas of SCM performance improvement,
» Provide a better understanding of the potential opportunity,
» Ensure consensus amongst the team on the size of the opportunity.
» Create understanding of the key levers that will deliver the result;
» Define challenging but achievable priorities and targets.
» Develop a plan and resourcing requirements to move forward and ownership of that plan
WHEN
Importantly our assessment is completed with the client involvement so that:
» Opportunities arise for reflection, problem solving and skills transfer.
» Management own the answers and,
» Management are prepared to commit to the process and the changes needed to deliver the improvements
WHO
We have provided services to both private and public sector clients. These clients have given good references for the work completed by YAfrica. (these references are available on request)
Our selected resources have garnered significant business insights, skills and broad business knowledge gained across various industries both from a functional responsibility and project perspective. They are skilled within both people enablement practices and supply chain disciplines.
They are also skilled in functionally applying supply chain and logistic principles to commercial matters in a practical and realistic way. They are flexible and innovative in adapting and applying knowledge and experience to different circumstances and environments in both the public and private sector. This is also illustrated in their individual profiles.
WHERE
The YAFRICA company name was chosen to represent a focus on our geography and our desire to contribute towards its well-being.
CONTACT
william.sharp@yafrica.co.za
johann@yafrica.co.za