A LEADING logistics practitioner will visit South Africa in April to keynote the local roundtable of the Council of Logistics Management (CLM). John Gattorna, author of The Gower Handbook of Logistics and Distribution Management, will keynote South Africa’s first Logistics Safari Series of conferences in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Mpumalanga. The roundtable is intended to stimulate the practice of supply chain management and logistics in local industry. Hailed as “the last frontier” of business, logistics management aims to cut costs, reduce order cycle time and improve service reliability. CLM members from the United States and Britain will also attend.