3 October 2012

SABC CPO Suspension points to need for employee and supplier vetting

Leave a Comment / Legal / Contract, Risk Management / Editor

With the recent suspension of the CFO of the SABC due to possible procurement irregularities and the allegations of falsifying credentials within the broadcaster, a strong warning goes out to many large corporate companies who are not taking seriously the vetting of personal information, Rudi Kruger, General Manager of LexisNexis Risk Management, told SmartProcurement.

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Managing a travel budget – who is expending how much and when?

Leave a Comment / Sourcing Strategy, Travel / Editor

Without an expenditure management facility in its arsenal a Travel Management Company (TMC) can only provide a client organisation with post-travel recommendations to improve its travel policy, rendering the ability to manage wasteful or excessive expenditure (read budget control) relatively ineffective, Tracey Shaw of Traveluxion tells SmartProcurement. Clients expect a TMC to roll out cost

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Revised B-BBEE codes open for public comment

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The revised broad-based black economic-empowerment (B-BBEE) codes of good practice have been opened for comment for a 60-day period, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) said yesterday. BEE remained an imperative in South Africa, said Minister Rob Davies speaking at the launch of the revised B-BBEE codes. “It is not just a social or

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Planning will pinch your travel penny

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The art of penny pinching – not spending money unnecessarily, rather than being cheap – is a sound policy for any corporation in tough economic times. From a travel perspective that means casting an eye over your corporate procurement policies because it is largely with forward planning that there are substantial savings to be made,

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Using purchasing cards to control company fraud

Leave a Comment / Procurement Cards / Editor

The use of purchasing cards in organisations is fast becoming the accepted method of paying for day-to-day and once-off organisation purchases. One of the questions prospective users ask is, “will we not be opening up the company to fraud and abuse on the card?” This is a valid question to the uninformed, but could not

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Reducing risk in sourcing quality SMEs

Leave a Comment / BEE, Enterprise Development / Editor

Corporate supply chain managers often argue that incorporating smaller firms into their supply chains tends to be costlier than working with larger suppliers. Furthermore, smaller companies are often perceived as having a higher risk profile. While this is perception, it is unfortunately based, to a degree, on fact: meaningful progress has yet to be seen

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What to look for in outsourced Facilities Management

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Managing an organisation’s operational environment normally involves an ‘unholy alliance’ between facilities management (FM), procurement and the users of the buildings, with pressure coming from finance to reduce costs. A common comment from many of Purchasing Index’s (PI’s) clients is that FM is a thankless task – users never thank you for getting it right

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Sourcing your way to better profits

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A report compiled by Ariba for SmartProcurement In today’s economy, a strategic approach to sourcing and procurement is critical for meeting immediate needs as well as for achieving and sustaining long-term cost reductions. “Locating a supplier and pricing an item simply isn’t enough,” says Deon Mocke, Regional Vice President, Ariba Africa. Sustainable savings come from

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Who is to blame for Procurement’s poor representation at executive level?

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Almost twenty five years on, CEOs, Government officials and policy makers are still skeptical about procurement’s formal representation on the executive and senior policy development committees In the first of four articles, Dr Douglas Boateng, SmartProcurement Editorial Board Member and CIPS Fellow, asks who is to blame for this? In 2011, Transparency International UK published

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Procurement database can now pin-point most suitable individual

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CIPS Africa and the Database of Procurement professionals have combined their recruitment efforts and created the CIPS Database of Procurement Professionals™ (The Database). The Database leverages the CIPS Competency Evaluation process and the Database of Procurement Professionals™, database operator André Basson told SmartProcurement. “The Database of Procurement Professionals™ has for the past 15 months placed

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