Prof Leila Goedhals-Gerber is a supply chain specialist with focus areas including cold chain logistics, sustainable logistics, driver behaviour and issues relevant to the maritime industry. She obtained her PhD from Stellenbosch University based on research that developed a model that can determine the efficiency of the individual links or nodes in a supply chain as well as determine the efficiency of the entire supply chain. The model also identifies the bottlenecks in a supply chain and therefore makes it easier to determine the steps needed to improve the levels of efficiency in the supply chain under investigation.
Leila is the academic coordinator of the focal area in Logistics and Supply Chain Systems. She is rated as an established researcher by the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa and has been involved in research projects in the South African fruit industry, the port sector, assessing driver behaviour in the South African road freight industry as well as projects that investigat
Vanya is a Human Capital and Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP). With over 20 years of working experience across the financial, manufacturing, logistics, and retail sectors, Vanya has acquired in-depth knowledge and skills in problem solving, analytical reasoning, conceptual thinking, project management, collaboration, leadership, and negotiating.
Committed to driving both excellence and service delivery, she strives to deliver outcomes that exceed expectations and thrives in environments where there’s a need to optimise people, processes and systems in order to achieve high levels of organisational effectiveness.
Vanya has a keen love for continuous learning and is a Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) and holds qualifications in Project Management (USB), Business Management (PGDip), Human Resource Management (BTech), and Industrial Psychology (Mcom).
Anneke is a lecturer at Stellenbosch University’s Department of Logistics, with years of experience in rail management, rail market and market opportunity research in South Africa and other African countries. As a researcher, she has been involved in work for Transtrade (a subsidiary of Transnet), freight flow modelling in South Africa and similar projects in Zambia and Botswana. In addition to consulting for various companies, Anneke’s work as lecturer is focused on supply chain strategy, change management and transformation and logistics customer service interface – specifically macrologistics change management and policy implementation.
Mandla Gwetu has an extensive career in tertiary education which spans multiple institutions, where he has gained experience in curriculum development, community engagement, scientific research and academic leadership. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of KwaZulu-Natal and is an alumni of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum and the USB-ED Senior Management Development Program. His areas of expertise include both theoretical and application aspects of Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision. He is actively seeking for self funded PhD candidates and research collaborations in Computational Data Science.
Mandla Gwetu is currently involved in the delivery of Data Science, Data Engineering and Data Analytics modules in the Faculty of Engineering. Visual Paradigm software is used as a design tool in the Data Engineering module.
As an academic partner of Visual Paradigm, Visual Paradigm is providing Stellenbosch University with their online UML software, and database design software for educational use.
