Barloworld Logistics: Aligning your supply chain to your business strategy

Bringing the supply chain into the boardroom

At Barloworld Logistics, we believe that, for all businesses in this globalised economy that we live in, the supply chain is a key enabler of successful business strategy. An efficient and effective supply chain now needs to be cognisant of issues affecting supply and demand all over the world. We therefore seek to design, plan, implement and manage cutting-edge supply chain solutions for our clients that enable them to become more competitive, leaner and more effective as organisations.

Blue-chip partners across industries

Barloworld Logistics is the trusted partner of many world-class organisations who look to us to help make their large and complex supply chains even more efficient and effective. Specific clients with whom we are proud to share long-term contracts include Barloworld Equipment, Avis, BP, Eskom, Illovo, Nissan, McDonalds, Nike, Pepkor, TransNamib, Corobrik, PPC, Sasol, Toyota and Unilever.

Having first established ourselves as an innovative, market-leading supply chain integrator in Southern Africa, Barloworld Logistics is now a truly global business, active in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, the Middle East, South-East Asia and the Far East.

Barloworld Logistics' core capabilities

Our focus is customer-centric: concerned with your realities, your requirements and how best we can productively match these with our skills, capabilities and resources. But, our market-leading services and solutions aside, we're able to find the right ways to bring about change; indeed, to make the impossible happen. By doing things differently; by going beyond the benchmark, we're known for our innovative thinking. 

Barloworld Logistics' key competencies

Barloworld Logistics' key competencies include all of the traditional supply chain and logistics functions, from demand planning, freight forwarding and clearing and inventory solutions, through procurement, dedicated transport services and transport management services and warehousing and distribution. We're also able to integrate these and optimise the entire demand network.

Our strategy and tactics

As a leading supply chain management company, we utilise the best resources, capabilities, and technology in the market to design solutions that provide the greatest efficiencies for our clients' supply chains. Our exceptional people - highly qualified, experienced and dedicated to customer service - enable those solutions. But we're not afraid to get our hands dirty, and provide the on the ground physical logistics expertise to back up our intellectual capabilities and management expertise.

Our commitment to empowerment

Supporting both the spirit and the letter of South Africa's empowerment priority, and committed to compliance with national transformation objectives, Barloworld Logistics is proud to be a high-level BEE supplier, with 25% of our equity held by a BBBEE consortium.

This has led us to achieve an ‘A' rating on the EMPOWERDEX Generic Scorecard Verification, as a Level 4 Contributor - so 100% of your procurement through Barloworld Logistics can now be allocated to Preferential Procurement on your own company's scorecard.