SA Pork
Business intelligence
SAPPO’s Business Intelligence unit provides innovative, accurate, practical, and relevant data analysis to the South African pork industry and other role players. It also hosts a range of digital industry interventions.
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For more information, contact Rika Verwey.
Rika Verwey
Head of Business Intelligence
"You can’t manage what you don’t measure."
Rika Verwey
Rika Verwey grew up in Boksburg where she completed both primary and high school. She always had an interest in mathematics (i.e. data) and then studied econometrics at the University of Pretoria. Rika taught various subjects in the Economics Department of the Tshwane University of Technology, including economics, econometrics, macro-economics, and financial management for four years, before joining Conningarth Economists as an economic consultant. Before joining SAPPO’s Business Intelligence unit in June 2020, she worked as a senior economist at the National Agricultural Marketing Council (NAMC) for 12 years.SAPPO’s digital platform, the World of Pork (WoP) is an integrated platform that offers stakeholders in the South African pork value chain a protected environment to share information to facilitate interactions that create value and drive competitiveness, sustainability, and food safety in the pork industry.
Members of the public can access a variety of industry information, such as slaughter statistics, trade information, raw materials, and price information. The platform is currently used by SAPPO staff, Pork 360 administrators, veterinarians, producers, abattoirs, and other industry organisations and stakeholders to perform requested functions such as gaining industry intelligence, managing the business development and consumer assurance programmes, and performing national disease surveillance.
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