"The majority of suppliers will mostly not express what they truly feel and experience in their relationship with your company, its employees and specifically your buyers," Andrew Hillman, MD of Bespoke Sourcing Solutions, told SmartProcurement.
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The process of printing on large scale and in big volumes requires a substantial investment in expensive printing machines and in highly expert manpower. This has given rise to a stand-alone sector of External Print Suppliers such as CTP Book Printers, Tandym Print and the Caxton Group, to mention but a few. These organisations offer
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63% of organisations researched by The Aberdeen Group placed ‘reduced cost of processing purchase orders and cheque payments’ as their primary goal for implementing a Purchase Card Program”, Julian Curtiss, Managing Director of Transaction Technology Solutions, told SmartProcurement. Figure 1: Top Pressures Driving Purchasing Card Initiatives A further 56% of organisations, as researched in the
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In South Africa large amounts of money are presently being spent through the public sector, especially on commodities such as infrastructure. “Procurement for these projects is a key function, the integrity of which can mean the difference between millions saved or wasted, time commitments met or missed, and social development requirement compliance or non-compliance. Traditionally,
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SmartProcurement recently hosted its 2nd annual SmartSourcing Conference on the topic of ‘Strategic Cost Management in Turbulent Economic Times’ at the Irene Country Lodge in Centurion, Pretoria. The conference’s first day’s keynote address was presented by internationally acclaimed scenario planner and popular motivational speaker, Clem Sunter, on the topic of “The China Game”. In his
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This, the first in a series of 4 articles on the topic of generating and tracking output savings, with particular focus on the Managed Print Solutions (MPS) category. This series of articles will cover the 4 legs of a proven procurement-driven strategy respectively. These legs are: Benchmarks that need to be applied (as based on
“One of my all-time favourite quotes comes from what has to be one of our finest sources of brilliance and inspiration – Albert Einstein: ‘Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result.’ No wonder that so many strategies fail to be realised!”, Frank Susini, an Independent Consultant, told SmartProcurement.
This month SmartProcurement profiles Wynand Louw from Tsebo Holdings & Operations (Fedics Foods, Drake & Scull, Equality Foods, Tsebo Cleaning). Full name: Wynand Louw Position: Supply Chain Director Your organisations’ procurement spend: R1bn Who does P & SM report to: CEO Private sector OR Public sector: Private sector Core business activity of the enterprise: Outsourcing
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