The AVL executive team has extensive, hands on experience in a wide range of logistics, supply chain and allied industries; including
Transportation
Bulk minerals
- Coal
- Ferro-alloys
Building Materials
- Cementitious products
- Timber
Hazardous Goods
- SHEQ systems
- Bulk Gas and Liquids
- Packed storage and distribution
Steel
- Scrap metal
General cargo
Abnormal cargo
- Rails
- Pipes
- Machines
- Structural steel
Intermodal
Fleet management
Chilled and frozen products
Warehousing
- WMS,
- Stock optimization
- Distribution centre
- Staffing and management
End to end supply chain design and implementation
Logistics benchmarking
Mentoring and training of logistics personnel
Courier solutions
Operational and financial due diligences
Business valuations
Clearing and forwarding
Forensic investigations
Materials handling and containerization
Projects
Focused on designing and managing logistics solutions on large infrastructure build contracts. Our most notable success in this division has been with the Gautrain Rail and Xtrata rail projects, where we, together with UTi, were contracted to design the supply chain and facilitate the physical land based movement of 18 meter rails utilized for the construction of the Gautrain and the Goedgevonden mine rail tracks respectively.
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Consulting Services
VALS provide advice to a variety of customers requiring assistance in supply chain and logistics related matters.
Recently in this division we have had significant exposure to the bulk minerals export and coal transport industry.
Contract Management
Managing longer-term logistics contracts.
Contracts which we are currently involved include:
- Taxi Scrapping Authority, where our business handles all logistics relating to the movement of scrapped taxis in terms …