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156 fortunate to partner with companies who understand our needs as well , even though they themselves may not be ready for it in their own businesses ,” Pillay explains . “ In some cases , we have had our partners learn from us and implement our processes into their business ; we have supported and assisted them in doing this as part of our partner engagement and development programme .
“ Forming relationships and connections between partners through digital platforms is high up on our agenda . Supply chain technologies are evolving at a rapid rate and the important thing is to think of the big picture , start relatively small but try and scale up as quickly as possible . Integrated platforms allow for real time-data sharing and live updates . If you are not working towards building relationships in digital space , your reaction time to new information will slowly but surely take longer than your competitors who are becoming increasingly focused on this . Again , I cannot emphasis enough that people are more important that the technology you implement .”
SEPTEMBER 2019