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Dr Tshepo P H U T I Mabotja
  • 5 CRAIGSIDE ROAD
    BEREA
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  • Tshepo Mabotja, a distinguished individual, has earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Operations Management from the esteemed University of Johannesburg. Presently, he serves as Adjunct Professor at Vaal University of Technology, among other positions he occupies in the academic sector. He served as a Supply Chain Management Specialist at the Management College of South Africa (Mancosa) within the Faculty of Supply Cha... moreedit
Company operations and global trade necessitate storage. Warehouse management is essential for meeting customer expectations, ensuring product availability, and delivering globally swiftly and affordably. A company's international... more
Company operations and global trade necessitate storage. Warehouse management is essential for meeting customer expectations, ensuring product availability, and delivering globally swiftly and affordably. A company's international competitiveness can suffer from warehouse instability. This study assesses warehouse performance for competitive advantage. The report also explores top management's disregard for warehouse management's impact on manufacturing competitiveness. This paper reviews warehouse management system research from several industries. Reviewing literature for gaps and flaws. Quantitative methods include industrial specialized surveys. Three varied South African manufacturing enterprises will be case-studied. Deduction is used to analyze industry expert consultation data. Due to its accessibility and data collection suitability, convenience sampling was employed to choose participants. This study discovered many warehouse management issues in South African industrial firms. Integration and automation are lacking in current systems, hampering global competitiveness. Warehouse movements and infrastructure damage increased without zone selection. Technology-illiterate warehouse workers slowed operations. The study offers zone picking, warehouse training, and warehouse system integration and automation to address these difficulties. South African industrial firms should strengthen warehouse management systems, according to this study. These organizations can enhance operational efficiency, save money, and compete globally with the suggested changes. Zone picking, warehouse system integration, and worker technical training can alleviate challenges and provide companies an edge. This study highlights warehouse management's often overlooked significance in manufacturing competitiveness. International organizations can do better by studying warehouse management system problems and solutions. Practical warehouse management advice from this study increases South African industry competitiveness.
Abstract : Warehousing plays one of the most vital parts in any organization, and is fundamental in facilitating global trade. A firm with a viable warehouse management system can easily meet customers’ demand. Additionally, warehousing... more
Abstract : Warehousing plays one of the most vital parts in any organization, and is fundamental in facilitating global trade. A firm with a viable warehouse management system can easily meet customers’ demand. Additionally, warehousing also ensures that goods are readily available and delivered faster at reasonable prices to a network of global clients. However, if it is not properly structured and managed, it can hinder a company from competing globally. To this end, the overall aim of this study was to explore factors affecting warehouse influence on ability to gain competitive market advantage. Research has revealed that warehouse management as a core enabler of manufacturing competitiveness continues to be underappreciated by top management. To achieve the aforementioned goal, this study adopted a two-fold approach. Firstly it critically analysed a set of previous studies that were conducted on warehouse management systems within various business organizations. This helped in identifying gaps existing in the current literature. Secondly, the study used a quantitative approach to administer questionnaires to various experts from different manufacturing firms in order to address the identified flaws. The data collected from various consultations with industrial experts were analysed using deductive reasoning techniques. Respondents were from manufacturing using a case study with three different firms located in the province of Gauteng. The participants that took part in this study were chosen by means of convenience sampling. This method was preferred due to its ability to give the researcher an opportunity to select participants that were easily accessible. The findings of this study have revealed that current warehouse management systems put in place by most of the South African manufacturing firms are unintegrated and unautomated. This in return hinders the industry from gaining global competitive market advantage. Additionally, the results demonstrated that there is a lack of zone pickings, which causes a lot of unnecessary movements and consequently damages the warehouse system. Furthermore, it was observed that most staff working within the warehouse division are technology illiterate which also creates a lot of delays. Despite, the fact that we live in a highly digitalized century, it is worrying to note that the appetite to adopt digital-based WMS is very low.M.Tech. (Operations Management
In today’s competitive market environment, the pressure is on to companies or organizations to find new ways to add value and to deliver goods to customers grow even stronger. The growing demand for companies to compete with its goods... more
In today’s competitive market environment, the pressure is on to companies or organizations to find new ways to add value and to deliver goods to customers grow even stronger. The growing demand for companies to compete with its goods globally in terms of costs, proper quality materials and other services has had an increase to the desire to come up with innovative or effective warehousing techniques. Warehousing has become the critical function with the rise of mass production systems, warehouse is where goods are stored, and it is a distribution center for raw and finished goods. Therefore, warehousing and distributions center have similar functions, as goods are stored. They both perform critical functions of storage and movements of products. Warehouse is the core function in any organization, whereby organizations can supply a customized or structured resources/services for their consumers in order to have advantage over their competitors. This means that an organization that c...