SAPICS is currently embarking on a great initiative aimed at addressing and serving the needs of students and graduates in the field of supply chain management. Our youth development programme seeks to tackle youth unemployment and grow young talent for South Africa's supply chain industry by equipping young professionals with the necessary skills that will ensure that they are industry-ready for job opportunities. Many graduates in South Africa still lack the skills, resources and experience to fully capitalise on job opportunities in the industry.
To this end, SAPICS has created a formal youth programme that students and graduates can join through the association's Student Membership and Young Professionals Membership respectively.
Membership Benefits
As a student or young professional, you can gain free access to our Young Professional and Student Webinars by visiting our events page and registering as a guest.
You may also join the association as a SAPICS Student Member to gain access to additional benefits for R150 excl. VAT* per year or as a SAPICS Young Professional Member for R250 excl. VAT* per year.
Our membership benefits include:
- SAPICS Young Professional & Student Conference - Virtual Registration
- Young professional registration rate to attend the CSCA (Certified Supply Chain Analyst)
course - Receive regular and informative communications from SAPICS
- 2 points earned per year towards an individual's APICS Certifications (CPIM, CSCP, CLTD) as well as points towards your IBF CPF maintenance
- Access for free to all SAPICS Member Only events per the SAPICS Event Calendar.
- Access to the recordings from the SAPICS Annual Conference at no additional fee
- The opportunity to be nominated to serve on SAPICS Young Professional and Student leadership committee.
- SAPICS members receive a monthly digital magazine from FOCUS on Transport and
- Logistics.
- Access to the SAPICS Mentorship Programme
Resources
- SAPICS Young Professionals & Student Members are encouraged to follow The Student Success Coach podcast with Peter Alkem. He has a huge student following and offers study advice. The podcast highlights different courses that students can undertake. You can listen on Spotify: https://studentsuccess.coach
- Recordings from the online Young Professional & Student Conference (8 September 2022)
- Call to action: Youth, take up space! - Monde Twala
- #YouthMatters: Oratile Seabela, Founder of Malii on Championing your dreams into reality by: Robin Fredericks
- Young Professionals say Supply Chain is a good career choice
Previous Events
- 2021 SAPICS Young Professional & Student Conference
- Coffee Chat
- Improving Forecast Accuracy with Seipati Sello
- End-to-End Supply Chain Planning with Grant Swanepoel
- Career Mastery: Climbing the Career Jungle Gym | The People Shop
- Products to People: a PPE Initiative for Community Workers
- Making Difficult Conversations Easy - 3 Keys to Mastery | Sponsored by Imperial
- Navigating Business Consulting in the Supply Chain Domain
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Mentorship
SAPICS believes that in order to build strong supply chains in the future, young professionals need guidance, mentoring, and to be involved in the transfer of knowledge and skills. The role of Associations is key to this development.
A committee has been formed to work together to run the programme. This in its-self teaches committee members new skills. Portfolios have been assigned to members, and they will be asked to report to the management team at SAPICS on a regular basis. Young scholars and young professionals join the Association for R 250.00 for 12 months and regularly receive articles and information pertinent to them. Other benefits include free attendance at the webinars and the Young Professional Conference, and a discount to attend SAPICS partner events. The Association has a career portal on its website, and young members can load their CVs onto the portal at no charge.
A series of webinars have been arranged. The topics covered are CV writing, interview techniques, life and personal skills, workplace skills, up-managing, project writing skills and using social media as a tool. The topics will be linked to the supply chain industry to make it relevant.
Mentoring is frequently referred to as a youth development strategy—one that uses positive youth-adult relationships to provide broad guidance and support rather than aiming to fix a problem or teach a specific skill. Mentoring programmes often include basic information about adolescent development during mentor training, encouraging mentors to be “developmental” rather than “prescriptive” in their work with young people.
Several mentors from the SAPICS membership body have been identified and will work with the young members.
Young Professionals Committee Members
- Kholofelo Mabila
- Dineonkobeng Maepa
- lonathan Sudi Anzuluni
- Rehema Amisi
- Rita Gwanime Anton
- Tebogo Kgatle
- Tsoakae Rakgadi Mokhatla
- Gwen Sebopa
- Kim Archary
- Gugu Mhlanga