- Business Economics, Strategy (Business), Project Management, Business Administration, Accounting, Service Operations Management and Quality of Services, and 5 moreLogistics and Supply Chain Management, Purchasing and Supply Management, Artificial Intelligence, Fourth Industrial Revolution, and Blockchain Technologiesedit
- 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... moreTshepo 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 Chain Management. He provides academic guidance, strategic business-related perspectives, and comprehensive program quality administration for a diverse range of undergraduate and graduate educational programs. In addition, he assumes the role of an academic Programme Coordinator, wherein he supervises the assessments, curriculum development to ensure that they meet the requisite standards of quality and level, through a process of rigorous evaluation.
The areas of his expertise encompass procurement, inventory management, overseeing production processes, IT systems, engineering, and strategic planning. The individual in question boasts a wealth of knowledge spanning over a decade and thirteen years in the realm of commerce, having occupied various roles within the domains of information technology and supply chain management. Furthermore, he has cumulative five-year tenure of delivering lectures in higher education. The individual in question has successfully created over four distinct programs that have been approved by the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA). These programs include the Advance Diploma in Supply Chain Management, the Higher Certificate in Logistics Management, the Bachelor of Commerce in Supply Chain and Operations Management Program, the Bachelor of Commerce in Logistics and Transport Management Program, and the Bachelor of Commerce Honours in Logistics Management.
Additionally, he has occupied management roles within the pharmaceutical sector, as well as supply chain and engineering positions within the mining industry, all of which were senior. Dr Tshepo Mabotja possesses a wealth of expertise in the areas of Supply Chain, Operations, Production, Planning, Procurement, and Information Technology, which he has acquired through his extensive tenure in the corporate sector.edit
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.
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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...