Following on from last month’s Sustainable Procurement exploration by Abrie de Swardt, IMPERIAL Logistics Marketing Director, SmartProcurement asked him to delve deeper into procurement priorities – especially when it comes to adding tangible value within the value chain. The 5th edition of an HEC-Paris/EcoVadis report, ‘Sustainable Procurement: Back to Management!’ states that if we look […]
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Transaction cost economics provides further insight into the total cost of a commodity and offers a guiding hand to any organisation struggling with a decision to outsource, Isak Marais, MD of Total Safety Solution provider Bramhope, tells SmartProcurement. Transaction cost reasoning often involves considering as “transactions” not only the obvious cases of buying and selling,
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The seasonally adjusted Kagiso purchasing managers index (PMI) recorded a second consecutive monthly increase during September, gaining four points to move back above the key 50-index point mark to 50.7, the Kagiso website reports. The PMI recovery in September was against the global trend with initial indications that the eurozone PMI declined further below 50
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Global recruitment and talent retention is changing globally, not just in SA. According to Manpower, 46% of senior human resource managers surveyed in the latest global annual survey said that their talent gap was making it harder for their organization to implement its business strategy. Only 27% said that they had the talent they needed.
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E-sourcing, global trading networks, online communities and procurement’s scrutiny into still-cloaked categories may force market pricing for goods and services to become so transparent that negotiation would be a lost art in the future, envisions a report on Ideas for Procurement in 2020, the outcome of a dialogue between Ariba and leading procurement practitioners. “We
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The B-BBEE Management Development Programme (MDP), created by the dti and Unisa School of Business Leadership (including Wits), has recently been launched. The Department of Trade and Industry (the dti) partnered with these two prominent institutions to develop a standardised national Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) Management Development Programme (MDP). The programme gives impetus to
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Supply chain specialist, and member company of IMPERIAL Logistics, Volition Consulting Services has published a book with an assortment of supply chain business improvement projects. “The case studies reflected in the book have been documented in such a way to demonstrate the scale of business transformation, and range of benefits that can be achieved by
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Business Day reports that strike-related insurance claims worth more than R100-million were lodged with the state-owned special risks insurance company Sasria in 2010. Sasria is South Africa’s only insurer for special risks such as riots, strikes, political and public unrest, civil commotion and labour disturbances. “SA has experienced escalating protests and protracted wage negotiations which
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