Capital Equipment News December 2020

Scania Southern Africa is placing a big focus on its parts logistics, the lifeblood of the organisation.

The company has created a completely new service structure

The new service structure affords Scania the opportunity to implement digitalisation and automation to streamline its processes, reduce waste and improve quality of service

Despite the lack of legislation around emission standards, Scania believes that the local market will on its own start moving from the current Euro 3 to Euro 5 technology

One of the biggest impacts has been the reduction in passenger transport demand, due to a combination of government lockdowns and fears of contracting and spreading the virus when using mass transport modes. “The bus market was largely affected by the restrictions on the movement of people, especially cross-border activity. The closure of schools and tourism also played a significant role,” he says. The impact, says Erasmus, is however “more than just a numbers game”. He

The impact is not purely a numbers game; it’s the motivation, enthusiasm, people’s lives and a whole lot more,” he says. Total solutions The total solutions approach has always been one of Scania’s key strengths in the market. The company has over the years set the benchmark when it comes to the one-stop shop approach, offering all the solutions a transport operator needs from one source, all the way from the truck and

believes the pandemic not only impacted on volumes, but the transport value chain at large, all the way from production to people and staff morale. From a production perspective, he says factories in Europe and Brazil were shut, leaving local production starved of kits to make trucks. Frome a people perspective, he says several people lost their jobs, which also impacts on the morale of the remaining staff. “The impact is massive, but at this point I don’t think we even realise the full extent.

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CAPITAL EQUIPMENT NEWS DECEMBER 2020