In line with its strategy to serve the industrial aftermarket through independent authorised distributors, SKF has restructured its South African retail network. BPS Bearings and Technology Solutions in Bellville, Western Cape, is the most recently appointed authorised SKF distributor. BPS started trading in July 2010 and secured the appointment as an authorised SKF distributor in the same month. A level four B-BBEE contributor, BPS has 18 employees in three branches, Bellville, Paarden Eiland and Saldanha, as well as an on-site vendor managed warehouse.
BPS Bearings and Technology Solutions – Bellville: (back row) Wynand Jurg, Peter Churchill. (Second row) Ramadan Zekeriev, Frank Pietersen, Karen Grantham, Maureen Els.(Front row) Almarie Scotsman, Berenice Zimri, Romenie Ruiters
Distributors are responsible for approximately 80% of SKF’s industrial aftermarket representation and are regarded as an extension of SKF, with full access to the company’s global supply chain, systems, and business processes as well as to SKF’s extensive technical resources.
BPS Bearings and Technology Solutions – Paarden Eiland: (back row) Nazeer Slamdien, Morris Moses, Amanda van Aswegen. (Front row) Roderick Adams, Soraya Jacobs, Richard Gebenga
BPS Bearings and Technology Solutions – Saldanha Bay: Peter-John Benn, Elicia Bonthuys, Johan Koen
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