Academic Leader – Marketing and Supply Chain Management – Dr TP Mbhele is the Senior Academic lecturer (PhD-SCM) at, the School of Management, IT & Governance with over 20 years of experience in a ranked South African academic institution, the University of KwaZulu Natal, teaching and supervising students from diverse social, and cultural and international backgrounds. Certified Supply Chain Analyst (CSCA), Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP); Certified – The Fresh Connection – Instructor (TFC) (Netherlands, Holland); Inducted as Certified – Chartered Member – The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CMILT), Inducted – Golden Key International Honour Society.
He is an Academic Leader in Marketing and Supply Chain Management. He has supervised and graduated 85 honours, 32 Masters and 13 PhDs and currently has 10 PhDs and 5 Masters cohorts under my supervision. He lectures in Supply Chain Management (operations, procurement logistics and transport). He has lectured and acted as an internal moderator and external examiner in a range of supply chain subjects: FMCG, transport, procurement, operations and apparel industry looking at electronic and digital SCM, information sharing, optimisation, resilience, logistics and transportation and bullwhip effect for better supply chain performance. In 2014 he completed his PhD entitled Electronic Supply Chain Management Systems in managing bullwhip effect on the selected FMCG.
He published numerous impactful DHET-accredited papers at least forty-three, presented papers at local and international conferences (approx. fifteen) and contributed book chapters in some textbooks and scholarly books. He served in an advisory role for the Library Advisory Committee; Faculty – Ethics Committee Member; none executive – Moses Kotane Institute (Advisory Council) [Research Opportunities on Bilateral/Multilateral Agreement], [Impact in Transport Sector – Skill Development & SMEs], [Development of and Implementation of the Maritime Agenda 2030]. His current research focuses on integrating 4IR, 5IR & 6IR technologies in supply chain management, omnichannel, Cold chain, Humanitarian, sustainability (circular economy), and Data Science logistics industry.
