South Africa is not doing enough to combat fraud and corruption in its business sectors, said Vusi Pikoli, Gobodo Incorporated Forensic Investigations Head, at SmartProcurement World 2010.
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The business activity index, which already moved higher in October following strike-induced declines during August and September, posted a robust gain of 6.1 index points to reach 54.8 in November. One has to go back to 2010Q1 to find the index at a higher level. reports the Kagiso website. New sales orders also continued to
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The SmartProcurement World 2010 Conference brought 260 procurement and supply chain professionals from business and public sectors to Gallagher Convention Centre in November. SmartProcurement World (SPW) is a newly launched umbrella event hosting SmartProcurement’s annual SmartSourcing Conference and Public Sector Supply Chain Summit. Cees Bruggemans, Chief Economist of FNB, opened the plenary session and was
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Just as procurement officers across South Africa are starting to get to grips with BEE with its scorecards, criteria and nuances, along comes GEE (the green version). Much like in BEE, where companies are starting to be measured on the basis of whom they do business with, the green version is starting to develop in
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The global business commerce solutions provider will acquire Quadrem, the privately-held provider of one of the world’s largest supply networks and on-demand supply management solutions. With the acquisition of Quadrem, Ariba further expands the depth and breadth of the Ariba Network, its web-based trading community. “Ariba’s on-demand commerce solutions and global trading network have made
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Managers can deliberately initiate organisational change. It can either evolve gradually within the department, be imposed by specific and compelling changes in policy and procedures, or arise from external forces, Ronald Mlalazi (MCIPS), Education Manager at Commerce Edge Academy, tells SmartProcurement. In his 10th article for SmartProcurement’s World-Class Procurement Practice series, Mlalazi discusses how good
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Most organisations have experienced a supplier who committed to a deadline and then failed to adhere to it or claimed to have certain skills and knowledge in-house, which in the end it could not provide. Douglas MacGregor, MD of supplier service benchmarking company SuppDex tells SmartProcurement that contacting a prospective supplier’s other customers offers a
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Minister of Finance Pravin Gordhan outlined in his October budget speech some of government’s plans to amended poor procurement practices and combat fraud and corruption.Here follow the extracts from his speech as it relates to Public Sector procurement: 1) “We will be increasing the monitoring capability of government, aimed at early detection of fraud. Departments
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The distance your bed linen treks to be laundered is part and parcel of bushveld logistics. Glynn O’Leary, CEO of Transfrontier Parks Destinations (TFPD), tells SmartProcurement about the peculiarities of a bushveld supply chain. My heart sinks every time I have to fill in a form. Physical address? Area? Surely these are simple questions for
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Estimates suggest that the number of jobless South Africans will increase from 6,2-million in 2010 to 16,8-million in 2020, consistent with an increase in the narrow unemployment rate from 25,3% to 45,5%, Loane Sharp, a director at Adcorp, tells SmartProcurement. The projected figure of 16,8-million in 2020 includes 5,2-million students aged between 15 and 24
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