About FreightPartner
Established in 2008, this proudly neutral consultancy supports a wide range of clients in many countries, and offers a broad range of services with logistics analysis and optimisation at the heart of each.
So, whether you wish to understand better, the efficiency of your current import and export supply chains, or need an objective and skilled hand to guide you through new ones, FreightPartner will offer the support you need to make informed decisions and that 'create value in the freight supply chain'. With an inventory of more than 45 years of knowledge and expertise, FreightPartner is able to offer personal and professional support to Importers and Exporters.
The proprietary 3 lense approach is an incredibly insightful diagnostic tool that allows Importers and Exporters to assess the level of efficiency of current supply chains and invariably opens up new avenues of exploration that will support efficient and agile supply chains.
FreightPartner has helped over 100 clients to 'create value in their supply chains' to 'know what they don't' by offering the kind of support that is indeed as rare as it is effective.
Over the years, FreightPartner has formed part of our client's core team of personnel. Our work is accurate, professional, creative, and based on deep, abiding relationships that you can count on.
About Philip Wyllie - Bio.
Philip Wyllie
Philip led Bax Global for two years before being invited to join Exel Supply Chain as MD of their Freight Management and Technology Division until their merger with DHL whereafter he accepted the post of Managing Director of the ‘Dedicated’ Business’ Unit of DHL Exel Supply Chain which Division held the dedicated contract logistics interests of DHL in South Africa. Philip was invited to Barloworld Logistics as COO of their recently acquired Freight Forwarding business in order to assist in its ‘corporatisation’ and upon conclusion of this, decided to embark on his own and FreightPartner was initiated in 2008.
Philip holds an MBA from Henley Business School in the United Kingdom and identified and evaluated the critical success factors of Integrated Logistics in his dissertation. Highly qualified in the Freight logistics business having attained two (three year) National Diplomas on the subject, one from Durban’s Technikon in the 1980's, the other through SAAFF under the auspices of FIATA, in the 1990's, where he also received a first class pass for his paper on competition among South Africa’s Ports.
Philip is a keen wine enthusiast and his passion for wine saw his enrolment and fulfilment of the Cape Wine Academy’s Diploma in Wine, a pre curser to the Cape Wine Masters program. He enjoys high altitude mountaineering and has a number of notable ascents in Africa, Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Russia, and Europe.
Philip serves a global judge of the Young Logistics Professional of the Year Award and is proud to be associated with this TT Club sponsored and FIATA endorsed initiative that is able to upskill willing individuals. SAAFF administrate locally, the South African Round.
