About Target Online Supply Chain Management (TOSCM or TOSCM Global)

TOSCM Global, is your freight broker, freight forward partners and customs clearing department working offsite. We will plan and implement the logistics plan we design for you. We use AI-powered platforms and digital systems to tackle the cost of international trade, especially of lower to medium value goods or small volumes. For many companies and enterprises when it comes to their products and commodities, the big fear and even bigger uncertainty of international trade is how to still make a profit when the cost of shipping the goods is often higher than the goods themselves.

At TOSCM Global we attack this problem head on. TOSCM Global starts with the accepted view that not every ship is full, not every truck is filled, cargo planes still have some space and insurers and clearing agents desperately want to win your business, even if it is at present still small. We then put our affiliates onto finding these surpluses and fight for price.

As a 3PL provider, basically the partner that plans your consignment from start to finish, TOSCM Global finds the cheapest most reliable intermediaries, and gets it cleared, with the tax authorities paid the correct amount, and even delivered to your door. Our plan is to use a range of digital and AI platforms and search for the best value sea freight rate, the most competitive road freight costs and aim to get you the lowest landed cost. Read that again, yes, the aim of TOSCM Global is to target the lowest landed cost. As the saying goes, cutting corners only makes you go in circles so cutting corners has no benefit and TOSCM Global will encourage you to never do that. 

Contact us and let’s have a discussion of your import and export goals, and how you do not need to cut corners to globalize and target the lowest landed cost. TOSCM Global will look after the intelligence and planning, and you look after your company’s growth. One of our specialist services may be what you are looking for so let us set up a virtual meeting and discuss. 

Background

2013

The predecessor of TOSCM Global started focused on identifying and securing critical minerals in South Africa for international markets. While operating in this space and looking for new opportunities, it soon became evident that critical mineral producers, even small-scale producers in South Africa and neighbouring countries such as Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Mozambique, and elsewhere in the wider SADC region, could not connect with buyers globally. When asked, international buyers repeatedly stated that they could not link with reliable suppliers and needed a go-between.

2015

The team at TOSCM Global was advising small-producers and small-manufacturers on business development, growth, quality control issues and assessing the global opportunities for an array of commodities and products. 

2017

The TOSCM Global team was examining product and commodity markets internationally, looked at port requirements in more than 30 countries and merging “least-cost-routing” with 3PL models to reduce transport costs to benefit producers. 

2018

In 2018 the TOSCM team launched a remote ‘outsourced’ freight broking model to improve logistics costs for a South African mine producing medium-value goods. This lead to many benefits to the mine including lowering logistics costs, securing more responsive trucking suppliers, immediately improving cashflow, receiving twice daily updates on progress and increasing road exports to other SADC countries. This model is still in place to this day for this mine.

2019

There was also a need to connect buyers in Europe and Asia with producers in the SADC region. By 2020 the ‘bridge-building’ platform to drive this low-cost advantage was developed and underwent beta-testing. Even though markets were nervous through the impact of a global pandemic, it now seemed possible to connect new and existing producers with buyers around the world with the goal of lowest landed cost. 

It is out of this history that TOSCM Global today involves itself in:

  • Least-cost-routing of import and export goods whether sea- air- or road-freight.
  • Customs clearing in South Africa
  • Identify and source critical minerals in the SADC region
  • Finding reliable lowest cost suppliers of dependable services to move goods out of and into the SADC region
  • Commission market studies to identify sales opportunities in Europe or the Americas for commodities and manufactured goods,
  • Building trust relationships, going so far as to actex parte client is to verify both the buyer and seller.