Your Cash Isn't Lost. It's Trapped. — Inventory Management & Working Capital Masterclass hosted by Nobathembu Dyantyi & Thuli Maelane

Key details

Date: Tuesday, 17 November 2026

Time: 09:00 – 12:00 SAST

Venue: Live on Zoom. The link is sent on registration and payment.

Early bird: R950 until Thursday 29 October 2026. From 30 October: R1,250.

B-BBEE: TENACIOUS-SC is a Level 1 supplier. Your spend carries 135% procurement recognition.

Just over a month ago, the working supply chain professionals I lecture told me the same story from different companies. Demand was slowing. Stock was overflowing everywhere: raw materials, packaging, finished goods in the DCs. Some had already started cutting back production. Containers were still queuing at the port.

That is not a logistics problem. It is cash, sitting still.

This time we are teaching it together again. Nobathembu Dyantyi and Thuli Maelane, 47 years of demand and supply planning between us.

A three-hour live online masterclass for supply planners, supply chain managers, category and demand & supply planning leads, and the CFOs who sign off the stock.

In three hours you learn where your cash is sitting, why it got there, and the stock policy that gets it moving again. It works whether you run on SAP, on a planning tool, or on spreadsheets.

You leave with

• Your inventory, split four ways: cycle stock, safety stock, excess and dead stock, each with a rand value. The number you take to your CFO.
• A stock policy you can defend: segmentation that separates the stock that protects service from the stock bought out of fear.
• The working capital conversation: how to explain a price change, a stock build or a production cut to finance, sales and production, before it becomes a crisis.
• 30-day recording and a certificate of attendance.

Agenda

AGENDA

09:00 – 09:30

Find where your cash is sitting: at the port, in raw and pack, on the shelf — Noba

09:30 – 10:15

Split your inventory into cycle, safety, excess and dead stock, and put a rand value on each — Noba

10:15 – 10:25

Break

10:25 – 11:10

Build the stock policy: segmentation, cover targets and who decides — Noba

11:10 – 11:40

The working capital conversation with finance, sales and production — Thuli

11:40 – 12:00

Leave with three actions for Monday — Noba and Thuli

Who is teaching it

Nobathembu Dyantyi, MBA — Founder, TENACIOUS-SC

Nineteen years in FMCG planning across Nestlé, Tiger Brands and Mars, most recently Head of Demand and Supply Planning for Nestlé's East and Southern African Region across 23 countries. Six years lecturing Supply Chain Management at a 98% pass rate.

Thuli Maelane — Founder, Limegrass (Marketing & Farming)

Twenty-eight years in Supply Chain Management. She started at Pillsbury South Africa in 1998. At Nestlé she moved from Demand Planner to Group Demand and Supply Planner, and later Head of Demand and Supply Planning. She led Integrated Business Planning at Nampak as Divisional Supply Planning Manager. At Tiger Brands she was Sales and Operations Planning Manager for Groceries, then Customer Interface Manager for Supply Chain, then Customer Service Excellence Director. At Transnova, she implemented S&OP and Logistics Solutions.

Teams

Want this for your whole planning, supply chain or finance team, built on your own portfolio? [email protected] or +27 79 907 6225.

Tickets: Early bird R950, sales end 29 October 23:59. Standard R1,250, sales start 30 October.