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South African Airways (SAA) has struck a partnership with West African Institute for Supply Chain Leadership (WAISCL) to facilitate study tours of selected post graduate students and lecturers of the Business School of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi. Under the agreement, SAA is positioned as the preferred carrier of annual industrial trips of MBA students of the university to South Africa and other countries in the sub-region, to foster human capital development and institutional growth in supply chain management. WAISCL, which is facilitating the partnership, is a Supply Chain Management (SCM) focused on education, research and training unit within the KNUST Business School. It is an exclusive partnership between KNUST and PanAvest Foundation, a private grant making institution. �This is a unique win-win corporate social responsibility partnership to expose students to world class supply chain management practices on the continent,� said Gloria Akuffo Yirenkyi, Country Manager of SAA at the signing of the agreement in Accra. �SAA is proud to be associated with this initiative to develop Ghana�s and the continent�s supply chain management related human capital to boost service quality and productivity standards.�