To mark Women’s Month in South Africa, SAPICS, The Professional Body for Supply Chain Management, gave 15 unemployed women the opportunity to complete a training course geared towards helping them re-enter the workforce and attain a professional designation in supply chain management.
SAPICS partnered with long-time education partner, the Centre for Logistics Excellence (CLX), to run the one-day “Supply Chain 101” programme for the women, who were all required to have a matric certificate and been previously employed for at least one year. ‘We are proud to have enabled them to take the first step towards entering the supply chain profession as recognised supply chain practitioners,’ comments SAPICS president Mungo Park. He explains that the Supply Chain 101 course is a prerequisite for SAPICS’s newly launched entry level professional designation.
‘The ‘Professional Processor in Supply Chain Management’ designation is the starting block for individuals wanting to be recognised as supply chain professionals,’ Park expands. ‘The women were all given Processor level membership of SAPICS after completing the Supply Chain 101 course and they have all been encouraged to take the Processor test and achieve the first level of professional designation. It is SAPICS and CLX’s hope that by earning this designation, the trainees will be able to demonstrate to future employers their level of commitment to the profession and to their own professional development,’ he concludes.
