Tulsawiz Logistics

Tulsawiz Logistics

Tulsawiz Logistics was born in 2012. The company subcontracted under different individuals that had mining rights to purchase the stockpile in Witbank. Months would go by without a single load, with things stabilising three years later. The key to keep things going was hiring staff only when they were needed, which was also a challenge when trying to secure sustainable contracts. The market wanted a fully-fledged business and we were not, but we kept on pushing until we got something sustainable.

Since 2019 we have been in partnership with the Gauteng Government Development Agency (GGDA) and we are currently doing wine exports from Cape Town to Ghana (Accra), but due to the COVID-19 pandemic volumes have gone down. We have also done transportation for Barloworld on the Corobrick contract, where we were transporting bricks from Newcastle right through to East London; this business as well has been affected by COVID-19. We have also operated our fleet on the notorious N3 between Durban and Johannesburg, where we were transporting containers from the Durban harbour to different customers in Johannesburg.

Over the years we have gained a reputation for transporting over landlocked and rough terrain. Besides transportation and freight forwarding, we are intending to move into warehousing and distribution so that we can offer customised solutions to our customers.

Our strategic intent is for our clients to rely on our expertise and experience to develop strategies and innovative solutions for all their transportation and distribution challenges.

Tulsawiz Logistics has grown substantially since its inception twenty years ago.

Founder and Senior Managing Director, Nozuko Mayeza, ran the office alone for over five years with one or two drivers, depending on what the business had available.

Our turn around came after six years, when Barloworld Logistics started to use our services in 2018. For that project we recruited eight drivers of which two were on contract, Nozuko had to get extra hands to help at the office.

COVID-19 happened and things started to move slowly again, but with our resilience and a never giving up spirit, we secured a R90-million project in the automotive industry.

Staff retention during the pandemic will always be our greatest milestone. We have been in business for ten years, and many entrepreneurs have not made it this far. To be still going post-COVID is one success we’ll always be proud of. COVID killed so many businesses and we are glad we are still standing. The new project is our greatest excitement, the highest amount we have grossed is R6.4-million and now we are going to triple that as our turnover for the next three years. We will do everything to make sure this project is a success and it gets renewed. Building on what we have achieved, we’ve given ourselves a target of acquiring R250-million in business in the next 3 years.

We celebrate gender empowerment daily, not only on the 9th of August. We do this by acknowledging the role of women in business and in the communities where our trucks operate from; we encourage women to take up truck driving, and we also commit to assisting them to achieve that dream. We’re glad this year to have started receiving calls from women in different villages wanting to take us up on this.

We also assist a few NGOs to empower the youth in many ways, depending on what NGOs need at a particular point in time.

Tulsawiz Logistics is a fully black female-owned company, B-BEE Level 1 company. The owner is also a highly involved employer so our company is not only black female-owned but blackmanaged and controlled as well.

Tulsawiz understands that when we help you save time, we also help improve your business efficiencies and productivity. We offer our customers a highly innovative, online track and trace system to improve interactions with us, giving you that added peace of mind .With our system, we intend to eliminate unnecessary administration, communication and logistical hurdles.

OUR TOP WOMAN

Nozuko Mayeza – Director

I am a passionate entrepreneur who has been in the trucking business since 2012. Before that I was a banker for seven years, starting as a receptionist at a branch level and within a year I was headhunted by a business banking unit to take over a provincial admin support role to the regional executive, and I was later approached by a leading bank’s retail divison.

Key Responsibilities

• Principal strategist, planner and funder of the business

• Responsible for strategy executionOverseer finance and accounting and client retention

• Responsible for compliance of the

• company Involved in setting up business policies and compliance

• Oversee recruitment processes

• Heading a team of Customer Service Duties, Employees and Human Resources

• Acquired a contract with Barloworld to transport bricks across South Africa, our dedicated routes were New Castle/ Gauteng to Eastern Cape and Gauteng to Mpumalanga

Qualifications

• Matric

• BCom Degree in Transport with Unisa (not complete)

MEET THE TEAM

Lumko Bangushe – Logistics

I have more than 14 years of accounts management and spent all these years in the transportation and freight industry. This has afforded me the opportunity to build an excellent record in achieving objectives and targets set. I have sound knowledge of implementing financial strategies in both the fields of debtors and creditors; thereby contributing to the maximisation of the company’s value. Added to the above is the ability to build and maintain customer relationships by maintaining high professionalism, and business and industry acumen.

I am a person who is highly driven, goaloriented, self-confident, ambitious, and decisive and a ‘sponge’ of knowledge and growth.

I have led a team of twelve who ensured that the department’s goals and objectives were met. I played a critical role in helping suppliers resolve their queries on time thus ensuring an excellent working relationship is maintained.

Achievements

• Directly managing a client list of 40 and a staff complement of twelve directly reporting to me

• Managing key accounts and strategically liaising with southern African market share for various accounts management

• Consolidation of positions for key accounts operating in various countries in southern Africa

• Review of the credit control processes across the various entities

• Follow up on intercompany litigations

• Travelling to various southern African countries to assist with managing their accounts

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Commerce Finance and Management – UKZN

• CBP Leadership Certification (Innovatech Africa) Managing and Leading for Higher Performance (Bollore Africa Logistics)

Vulindlela Andries – Project Champion

I am a results-driven individual with over 20 years’ experience in the logistics industry. I’ve worked in different positions for different companies, working in strategic support positions, working collaboratively with other departments (i.e., sales, marketing, finance etc.) to reduce costs and maximise productivity. I have been involved in a variety of high profile multidisciplinary projects where I gather information on a range of topics and monitor KPIs and other reporting metrics.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage over 80 Woolworths delivery vehicles, ensuring that 260 deliveries are effectively and efficiently executed daily, in line with the budgets

• Manage and maintain over 90 vehicles and a complement of 150 employees; also ensuring that over 600 Brandhouse customers are delivered daily OTIF (On Time in Full)

• Manage KFC and McDonald deliveries in the in-land region; ensuring that quality of stock is not compromised on delivery

• MBSA/BIL – Implement, manage and coordinate delivery of parts for the Johannesburg and Durban regions. Ensure OTDs’ are met, customer liaison, and being involved in multiple projects by the MBSA team in the build-up to the delivery of the new W206 C-Class

• Crown National – oversee the day-to-day operations, including meeting with team leaders and auditing activity

Education

• Management Development Programme USB

• BTech Degree in Transport Management from UJ

• National Diploma in Logistics Management UJ

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

We are a company that is into empowerment, wherever we work we assess the needs of the poor, design a plan and execute it in order to help the poor and as Tulsawiz we carry the cost.

If the entity we have a project with has something already running, we don’t not run a parallel project, instead we join forces in helping the needy.

We have a success rate of female truck drivers that we trained from scratch, and got accredited by reputable large companies. We have partners for women in trucking here in SA and abroad. Our drivers do community engagement during weekends e.g. hosting soccer tournaments etc.

And for anyone in the community that is keen to start a business we bring all the services and training needed to start a business.

Currently, we have over ten mentees whom we are mentoring for logistics, some didn’t even have companies registered, some only registered companies but have never gone out to look for a contract. We teach them about access to the market.

For young girls, children and the physically-challenged we work with different NGOs that are experts in this field and get the department of social development involved.

CSI

Germany start-up tour 2019.

We took two of our mentees to pitch their business to a German audience.

The key thing here was to give them exposure, through this initiative one of them is about to collaborate on projects with a German company.

A small group of orphans from the Donkerhoek community in Mpumalanga.

We are assisting them to acquire much needed skills like computer literacy. In this picture they had just completed a course.

We funded this project to teach the locals basic business skills, we ran it with a local NGO.

ADDRESS:96 Marple Road, Pomona Kempton Park, Johannesburg TEL: +27 73 054 3626 EMAIL: info@tulsawiz.co.za WEBISTE: www.tulsawiz.co.za